{"id":16324,"date":"2013-07-12T12:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=16324"},"modified":"2013-07-12T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T18:44:58","slug":"our-new-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/07\/our-new-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/07\/our-new-space\/new_kitchen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16326\" alt=\"New Kitchen\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_kitchen-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_kitchen-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_kitchen.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bore you with a big lead up, I&#8217;ll just say that Scott and I bought a house!<\/p>\n<p>HOORAY!!<\/p>\n<p>And also, holy crap that was the most stressful buying experience.<\/p>\n<p>Stressful because the market here is really competitive and we are not competitive people when it comes to home buying.<\/p>\n<p>A bidding war?\u00a0 No thanks, you can have the house. We&#8217;ll find something else.<\/p>\n<p>Originally the plan was to just look and if we found something, awesome.\u00a0 If not we would rent for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a month and we realized we truly hated this rental (truly, madly, deeply) and we absolutely hated the neighborhood.\u00a0 Neighbors included.<\/p>\n<p>Basically we&#8217;re really miserable here.<\/p>\n<p>Plus our landlord said we couldn&#8217;t renew the lease because he was moving back into the house.<\/p>\n<p>Sooo that really added the pressure to find something.<\/p>\n<p>All other rentals in the area were pretty overpriced and really icky.\u00a0 Or geared for college kids.\u00a0 Buying was our only option and honestly, what we preferred.<\/p>\n<p>We desperately needed our own space again.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks spent looking at houses and nothing was clicking.\u00a0 Lots of frustration and emotions because time was slipping away and we needed to find a place to live.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll spare you all the details but eventually a house popped up that our realtor thought might fit our needs.\u00a0 We checked it out that night, fell in love, and put in an offer which was accepted.\u00a0 All that evening.\u00a0 (Please note, that&#8217;s the generic version. It was definitely a lot more dramatic.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/07\/our-new-space\/new_home_windows\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16325\" alt=\"1920s Windows\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_home_windows-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_home_windows-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_home_windows-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/new_home_windows.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After inspections, estimates, appraisals, and all that goes into buying a home, today it is finally ours.<\/p>\n<p>Our brand new house.<\/p>\n<p>The previous owners are still living there and will be there for a few more weeks.\u00a0 Out of respect for them and their privacy, this is why I&#8217;m only posting a few generic shots of the house.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>can<\/em> tell you that the house was built in 1920 and has amazing character, such as the original windows pictured above.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in a freaking fantastic neighborhood and it basically is our &#8220;dream&#8221; home.<\/p>\n<p>Totally worth the stress to get to this point.<\/p>\n<p>Now the countdown begins until we can start moving our stuff over.\u00a0 I cannot wait to be there and share our plans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t bore you with a big lead up, I&#8217;ll just say that Scott and I bought a house! HOORAY!! And also, holy crap that was the most stressful buying experience. Stressful because the market here is really competitive and we are not competitive people when it comes to home buying. A bidding war?\u00a0 No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}