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what style house did you growp up in?

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Kerie-is-so-very
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

Grew up in a Splanch and bought a Splanch!!!!!! My childhood house is a much different layout than the one we bought, though.

So, same style house but:

House I grew up in:
4 bedrooms, 2 of them on the small side
Current house:
3 bedrooms, all great sizes

House I grew up in:
2.5 baths
Current house:
1.5 baths (the half bath can be easily converted and we often think about it)

House I grew up in:
Very huge center hall
Current house:
Has a center hall but it's small

House I grew up in:
Living room not really in a place where it would be used
Current house:
Living room is very inviting

Both houses:
not a full basement. It's a Splanch thing. But I hate basements

Both houses:
North shore

House I grew up in is more sq. footage but I have no idea how much more. ETA: house I grew up in would not have been in our price range in 2005, when we bought.


Both houses = happy!!!!

Also in the running were split w/ more land and a different splanch more like my parents', but not as desirable b/c backing a main road.

Message edited 11/27/2006 1:53:22 AM.

Posted 11/27/06 1:51 AM
 
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VirginiaDeb
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

3br ranch.

Posted 11/27/06 7:00 AM
 

Eva Luna
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

Posted by beautyq115

Posted by Meaghan729

Posted by Eva Luna

DH and I bought a "traditional", I guess. I don't know what you would call our house. Chat Icon




Id call it a big azz house Chat Icon



Seriously...its gorgeous!



Thank you!! Chat Icon Chat Icon

And Meaghan, you're one to talk...I've seen your new house and it's...Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 11/27/06 7:31 AM
 

Kissy331
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

I grew up in an expanded ranch that was dormered. We had 3 bedrooms & 1.5 baths. No basement but a large living room attached to the dining room. My mom's kitchen was small with no space (levitt house) We had a porch that was covered & also a garage

We bought a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath splanch with 3/4 basement. I LOVE my house. All the bedrooms are on the top floor w/bathroom. Master bedroom has large bathroom. We have 2 different levels of entertaining space. My dining room goes directly into my kitchen. Have a lot of counterspace in the kitchen. Eventually our backroom will become our children's play area. The basement is strictly storage & we also have an attic & garage.

Posted 11/27/06 8:06 AM
 

leighdvm
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

I gtew up in a Cape Code house -- 4BR, 1 bath.......

Our new house is a....well, I honestly don't know what the frig it is? It was called a "transitional"......I never heard of it before....

Posted 11/27/06 9:51 AM
 

sirk1020
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

I grew up in a 4 bed colonial w/ half basement

the basement was finished so it was our play area - and I liked living in a colonial

I am thinking I would like to buy a colonial but I don't think that will be our first house. I like ranches, colonials and tudors

I agree about wanted open space for entertaining. I would love a big great room .....one day

Posted 11/27/06 11:28 AM
 

MrsSchwags
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

4 bedroom split

Posted 11/27/06 11:30 AM
 

MrsA
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

5 bedroom colonial. But my parents did have 1 bedroom on the first floor.

Eventually Id like to buy a house with the same layout.

The house we bought (which is our first) is a wideline cape.

Posted 11/27/06 3:42 PM
 

AimeeE2006
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

I believe that both my parents house and my current house would be classified as bilevels. Our main level has the living room, kitchen, dining, bedrooms & bathrooms...but downstairs, also above ground - is another few rooms and an apartment.

Posted 11/27/06 3:58 PM
 

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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

Posted by Eva Luna

My mom didn't own a house, and we moved around a lot, but I always lived in a typical PR cement house, 2 floors, similar to the first one except that ours were open in the bottom, no closed garage. That's where the laundry room was.


DH and I bought a "traditional", I guess. I don't know what you would call our house. Chat Icon

ETA: Thanks to Meaghan, the type of house we bought is a colonial, also called a traditional colonial. Chat Icon



Sasha, your house is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!! I am so happy for you Mama!!!

Posted 11/27/06 5:51 PM
 

Eva Luna
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

Posted by BellaPaige

Sasha, your house is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!! I am so happy for you Mama!!!



Chat Icon Thanks Opal!! Chat Icon

Posted 11/27/06 8:48 PM
 

CheeChee
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

First half of my life grew up in a colonial, then moved into an expanded cape, wound up buying a colonial.Chat Icon

Posted 11/27/06 10:12 PM
 

july06bride
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

Grew up in a High Ranch and we bought a colonial... I like the colonial style better, but it is a smaller house than the one I grew up in

Posted 11/27/06 11:08 PM
 

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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

I grew up in a 3 bed. colonial. When I was little, my parents extended the house to make a dining room/den and another bathroom.

Posted 11/28/06 10:43 AM
 

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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

Grew up in a 4 bedroom colonial.

Live in a 5 bedroom colonial.

Posted 11/28/06 10:56 AM
 

MichaelsMommy
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

My parents owned a 2 family house (w/ full basement) in Ridgewood, NY - then we moved to LI where we lived in a dormered cape. Three years ago DH and I bought a cape (also dormered). We hope to move in a few years and hope to get a split with garage and basement - two things our house is missing now.

Posted 11/28/06 1:58 PM
 

Jax430
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Re: what style house did you growp up in?

I honestly have no idea what kind of house I grew up in...I'm first learning the differences as we slowly start to look online at houses.

My childhood home was semi-attached. When you walked in the front door, there was a long hallway in front of you and a long flight of stairs to the right. The hallway lead back to a den. Upstairs was the kitchen, LR/DR, and up two more steps, a hallway with the 3 bedrooms and a bathroom

Any ideas what this is?

Posted 11/28/06 6:17 PM
 
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