live in my own home

I would like a small home. Something between 1000-1800 square feet is plenty for me. I would like it to be open in space, but useable for living. I would like positive energy, feng shui in this space. I love those tumbleweed homes. I don’t need big, just cozy and liveable.

First, I decided that I was “at that age” – time to plant roots. Then, I started collecting toonies ($2 coins) and putting out to the universe that I needed to earn more money. Next, I started working a lot and saving more. Then it became summertime, and I started looking at houses.

Found an agent who took me to see no fewer than 30 houses. Then, I gave up – frustrated, dejected.

Then, the agent called and said “look at this last one, please” and I hummed and hawed but eventually I did look at it. And it was filthy and run down, but I knew it was the house for me. So I signed a thousand forms and two months later I moved in.

That night I cried myself to sleep, questioning my decision and the enormous commitment I’d made.

The next morning, the sun shone. And after months, years, of hard work and living in renovation dust, with more yet to come, I am so, so, so grateful every day for my wonderful cozy little piece of this earth on, under and around which I feel so home.

I’ll see about this one. The new house is not an emotional investment. I might just as well decide to let it out and keep on searching for home…

Ordinary, small, nothing unique, but I put in an offer which was recently accepted… it’s a start. And a good investment!

Worth for sure, it is a lot harder than live with parents, but, well, it is your life, take control of it.

Wood, stone, glass, lots of sunshine and light, earthy, unpretentious. And safe. Oh God, will it ever be possible again?

Every time we make a change around here, even after ten years, I feel like it’s less the previous owners’ house and more and more mine.

And it has SOOOOOO been worth it. Of course, we live in the middle of nowhere, so real estate prices aren’t impossible to surmount. The first-time buyers’ loan helped a lot also. Our mortgage payments turned out to be about $20 more a month than we were paying in rent. For a house at least twice the size, with all the good extra stuff we never had before (fenced-in yard, garage, storage shed, etc. etc.).

It does mean more responsibility also, and you have to figure in the cost of upkeep. But still, it doesn’t even compare to renting. So glad we bought.

because it’s too expensive nowadays to have your own house. But it is my dream, and some day I’ll have it.

I want to finally be able to paint my walls!