House #3

Yesterday I started a blog version of a “House Hunters” episode, but I only posted 2 houses. As you all know, the convention is 3. Here’s the third house!

From the outside, it looks normal enough for this area.

But on the inside, the paint job is crazy-amazing.

You can barely see it in this photo, but the wall to the right of the turquoise is purple.

This will wake you up in the morning. Hello! Good morning world!

There’s also a more conventional bathroom in case you’re not up to dealing with turquoise and yellow at 6 AM.

Here’s a closeup in the kitchen. Look at that backsplash.

I was taking photos of her art and rugs when I should have been looking at the house:

I think think the paint job looks great with the owner’s artwork, but I have no idea if I could pull that off. Of course, paint can easily enough be changed. Look at the enormous sliding glass doors!

So this house isn’t really southwest style either. There is a kiva fireplace. But mostly it’s just eccentric. My agent calls it “whimsical” and she’s nicknamed it “the rainbow house”.

Regardless of what you think about the paint colors, the real advantage to this house is the location is fantastic. It’s a much better neighborhood than the other two. It’s close in, within WALKING DISTANCE to my new job! It’s also within walking distance to Trader Joe’s! I could not pick two more useful places to be that close to.

Yet you think you’re in the countryside, with an enormous, tree-filled, half-acre lot that backs to open space.

As you can imagine, this house is over our budget.