walkthrough

da house.

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mris's photo of the house, taken when it went on the market last december.

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a google search turned up the website of a former occupant, and this was among his photos.

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for those too lazy to look it up, this is where we're talking about. if you want an interactive map for more details, you'll have to go to a map site and type in "4 lodge road 21228" yourself. :)

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here's the route to umbc.

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looking out at the back 40. note the horseshoes hanging on the fence. there are a couple of pegs in the (level and mowed part of) the yard for pitching them.

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in fact, there's one of the pegs, if you can see it. a nice flowerbed there. (like i would actually get around to tending flowers. well, who knows?) the same sort of thing stretches all the way to the sidewalk.

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storage closets in the basement.

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looking at them from the other direction. there's the heater on the right, and just past it is a small wall followed by a toilet and an area that looks as though it used to have a shower in it.

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the "family room". that wall is the front wall of the house. take a look at the photo of the outside again. herbert thinks a window could be placed to the side of the front stairs, and give this quite a bit more light. then knock out that wall on the right here and some of those closets, and you could connect to that toilet, reconstruct that as a full bathroom, and you've got a pretty good basement apartment here. rent it out to two students in the upstairs bedrooms and one in the basement, and only two of them with have to share a bathroom. better than my college rental house experience, where four of us shared one.

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the den. i'd gladly trade you that dishwasher for a microwave. to give you your bearings: as i was taking this, the door to the basement was behind me and the door to the deck was on my right. the fridge was jammed in on my left, which is not the greatest, but might be remedied.

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the opposite corner of the den. fridge on the left, door to the dining room on the right.

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the dining room. well, i guess that's what it's intended to be. this is actually a wonderfully, wonderfully bright room which i would use as my workplace. those hardwood floor are rocks; i wish they hadn't carpeted the upstairs.

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looking into the dining room from the living room. the front door is on the left, the door to the sunroom behind me, and the stairs to upstairs on the right.

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the bedroom that's at the front left as viewed from outside.

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looking down at the deck from the bathroom.

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the bathroom. the place has forced air heat now, so that radiator should go and give a little more room.

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the other bedroom.

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more of the same bedroom.

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looking down the stairs. the carpeting and green paint can go, imho, but ripping up carpeting means refinishing floors. yuck.

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looking into the house from the sunroom.

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looking at the sunroom doors.

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the back of the house.

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the back 40.

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looking at the house from the back 40.

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06/25/2001 -- i bought it! i had settlement today, and i'm leaving for dbz tomorrow, so i thought i may as well take a carload of stuff out there and drop it off for safekeeping. i took everything that was irreplaceable or fairly valuable (dvd player, etc.), and this is it! i'm very happy there's so little stuff in my life.

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