House Stats

It occurs to me that we haven't given you the most basic details about the house yet, so here goes....

The house is in a Seattle neighborhood called Wallingford, about a mile west of the University of Washington, three quarters of a mile east of the Fremont neighborhood, a mile north of Lake Union and a mile south of Greenlake and Woodland Park. (According to MapMyRun.com, the house is just three quarters of a mile from my current apartment -- so it's not going to be a huge move.) We'll have access to plenty of bus routes, which run on both 45th Street and 40th Street (we're on 44th Street).

Wallingford's main attractions are Gas Works Park (on Lake Union) and the main drag on 45th Street, where there is food and drink aplenty (including at least five places to get sushi). Most of the houses there are WAY out of Sam and my price range. In fact, Sam and I didn't really figure we had a chance with The Bagley Project; although the listing price was in our range, we assumed that we would be outbid (as had happened a half dozen times already). The neighborhood blog, wallyhood.org, has even been lightheartedly poking fun at Wallingford's exhorbitant home prices by trying to find the cheapest Wallingford house on the market ($350K, last they checked).

As for The Bagley Project, it currently has two bedrooms and one bathroom on the main floor, and an additional bedroom and bathroom (and kitchen) in the basement. After the renovation, we will have two bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms and a finished bonus room upstairs, and two bedrooms/two bathrooms downstairs (still with a kitchen). We figure the finished square footage will be about 2400 sq ft. The house also has a decent backyard -- bigger than the yards at most of the surrounding houses -- and a large shed.

Okay, I have to run again, but will post again soon with pictures (this time I mean it) and another list of the interesting things we found during demo today (turns out the best place to hide things is in the ceiling).