Goodbye and hello again, as always.
We finally moved out of our cramped 1-bedroom Parker apartment with the noisy neighbors. I haven’t mentioned them before? Well, regardless, we had neighbors who played loud music at all hours of the night, any night, and we had other neighbors who complained when we had our TV volume up too high at 10:30pm.
So now we’re in a very nice 1850 sqft home in Denver proper. We have a 17′x12′ loft with plenty of room for our desks and computers and bookcases and even a futon. We have a spare bedroom for guests, and even a room just for our exercise stuff. The living room is enormous, and we plan to have a 65″ widescreen HDTV in it, along with two couches and a love seat. Plenty of room for guests.
A friend of mine would call it a McMansion; I would call it our home. It’s large, roomy, and (particularly evil in his eyes) too similar to other homes in the area. Unfortunately, that’s the price you pay for capitalism. Larger vendors inevitably hold greater purchasing power and can provide a product cheaper than the smaller home builders who may have more creative floor plans. Another unfortunate fact is that in most cases you cannot build your own home cheaper, unless you can build it yourself. Unlike some people, I cannot square a wall and put up sheetrock. I cannot plumb, and I do not grout. So, we’re stuck with a McMansion.
I’m not complaining too much.
Anyway, I have a lot of projects in motion, so look forward to new things here.