We may have found our new home in Jonesboro.
Well, not quite in Jonesboro. About 5 minutes north of the city limits.
We spent yesterday looking at houses - I think it was seven or eight of them - and really really like this one. We're going out again this morning to look at a few more, but we will probably make an offer on this one. It has three bedrooms, two on the right end and the master bedroom on the back of the left end of the house, a fenced backyard for the dogs, a screened back porch and a concrete pad perfect for a hot tub, an unfinished "bonus" room upstairs over the garage (the upstairs window on the left end), and a garage that will accommodate two cars and two motorcycles.
The owners have been trying to sell it for about two years, but have had no success because their price is unrealistically high. We hope to inject some reality into their thinking and give them a chance to move on.
We also looked at an amazing little house yesterday that is like a museum of early 1950s kitsch. The couple who lived there - Mr. and Mrs. Trickey (really) - had much the same tastes as my parents, so the place felt strangely familiar.
Mr. Trickey built a huge, two-story playhouse in the back yard for his grandchildren that included a working kitchen and bathroom, with shower.
Here are some photos from it.
The Trickey grandkids' playhouse.
The playhouse upstairs bedroom.
The playhouse shower - smaller than a phone booth.
The fully equipped playhouse kitchen.
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