I Guess It's Really Happening...

So, our last offer on the Wallpaper House was accepted.

It looks like we bought a house in New York.

I realize I said this about the LAST house we put a contract on, too, but that one fell through after the inspection showed that it needed, well, you know, everything. This house was built in 2002 and it looks really new and not like it will need much.

Except a pool. It doesn't have one, which makes my husband a little sad.

We're having the inspection done on it in the next few days and after that we'll tell the girls about it. They will both have nice big rooms in this house -- right now, those rooms look like this:



And I will be the proud owner of THIS kitchen:

And this closet in the master bedroom (I don't know if you can tell but it's bigger than the den in which I'm sitting right this moment. It totally looks like one of those closets on the California Closets commercial where the person goes into her closet and lies down on a couch? Have you seen that one or have I only seen it because I watch too much HGTV?)

Oh, and also? this wallpaper. I think there's a woman CHURNING BUTTER on it.



So, the thing is, I would be happier about this house but I kind of feel like Coop got the short end of the stick. When we bid on the LAST house, he said, "I said this house had something for everyone but the truth is, it has something for everyone except YOU."

And now I feel that way about THIS house with regards to Coop. No pool. No gazebo. No obvious place for his recording studio. Plus, there's the fact that he said, "I like everything about this house except the way it looks from the front. And the back."