Selling the Compound...

Discussion in 'Sun City General Discussions' started by BPearson, Jun 16, 2018.

  1. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Still struggling with posting pictures but what fun would it be if it was easy eh?

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  2. pegmih

    pegmih Well-Known Member

    I didn't realize it until yesterday, but I drive by your house a couple of times a month. Usually to go to the library.
    Consequently, I have seen "your rock".
    Maybe someday I will just knock on the door and say hello. Not til weather is cooler tho.

    Let us know when the garage sale is. I sold a lot of my stuff before moving here and
    gave household items to Lutheran Church and most of my furniture to Habitat for Humanity.
    I still had to rent a truck!!

    BTW. You seem to like Native American items. Right?
    Also, that is quite a big dog!
     
  3. sussea

    sussea Member

    I love your fireplace.
     
  4. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    I get rid of most I hadn't used in 1 year. Now. Two years ago I purged 75% of the items i had collected over 25 years in the same home. Of that 25% I'm getting rid of 50% before moving in Dec. I'm only bringing stuff that will fit in an 8x7 pod. Two pieces of furniture, art work and a few kitchen appliances. And I'm determined not to recollect.

    I have a few garage cabinets but most of the originals were removed (Not by me). Anyway, I don't understand about all that garage storage. Doesn't the heat ruin the stuff?
     
  5. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Depends on what it is C. Whatever you do don't store those unworn undies with the nice elastic waistbands out there, you'll never get them to stay up, unless of course you use suspenders :p. We've used the garage storage for tools and jackets and stuff that went with our collectable village (that was in the house) and Christmas stuff we never put up. And all kinds of odds and ends as stuff broke was just stored it in the storage room. Had to do some painting in there today; damned if i can tell you why we kept half the junk we did?

    From the day we bought the place peg we started with the Southwest/Santa Fe theme. In fact on the way down here with the van filled, we stopped in like Oklahoma at a cute little store and bought the Indian Chief and Indian Maiden on the shelf in the living room. The piece above the sofa we had a local artist design for us. We're hardly art snobs, but we were at an auction at an upscale house in Scottsdale and we bought several pieces we really liked. Had some artist friends over and were shocked we owned several pieces by the artist he named.

    Virtually everything we own was bought for the house and the design. We are shifting gear's in the next house and we've told the Realtor we will sell most of the stuff after close of escrow, and if the new buyers don't want it we'll have a moving sale. Just not sure what we will be taking with us as of yet.
     
  6. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    The Castille is just under 1900 square with the pop out in the formal dining room. The reality is, who uses a formal ding room all that much? In an effort to be practical, my wife has turned it into her computer area, consequently, it gets more than a fair share of a butt in a chair. On the other side of the kitchen is the addition the folks who owned it in the 8o's added. While the kitchen is large, added space is where everyone congregates. No matter how big the party, People jam around the big round table.

    Here's a shot of it:
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  7. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    When we bought the house, the backroom was hideous. Green indoor/outdoor carpet and mismatched window finishes. We've since replaced all the windows, doors, floors and textured it and made it quite cozy. In this shot you can see how we opened up the kitchen and made it flow into the great room (for lack of a better name for it.

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  8. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    The final part of the addition is my office area. way cool because when we bought it there was a sunken whirlpool and sliding glass doors around the entire room. And of course the lingering chlorine smell. We filled it in and over the years enclosed the room. I've gotten more than my share of time here with the tv and the computer to keep me occupied more hours than i care to admit to.

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  9. pegmih

    pegmih Well-Known Member

    Nice office. That is a place you will surely miss.
     
  10. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    I will peg. By my rough estimate, i suspect i have written some million words on Sun City from this space. Hard to imagine, but with the 5 magazines, 100 blog posts on Suncitytoday, 50 to 100 newspaper articles and the countless posts on this site, even that might be light. The office has served me well.

    This thread has been a joy, once i realized my ipad was set at too high a resolution and started using my wife's which is apparently set at a lower level. There are several rooms yet to show and for starters, here is the kitchen. When we remodeled it the last time, i posted pictures, so i will just post the one to give you a quick reminder. It turned out great and the fact it it open to the great room made it all the more sweet. Enjoy:

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  11. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Moving through the house, at the heart of it is what we always called the Arizona room. The oddity of it is how folks break out each of the rooms with names that may mean something to them, but nothing to others. The living room is at the front of the house, the great room at the back. In between is where we always used to sit and watch our nightly news...at least until a couple of years back. Not sure why we changed, but we now are almost always in the great room ; though my wife when alone, watches most of her recorded tennis in the AZ room.

    Here's a couple a pictures of it. As always, comfortable is what we were shooting for:

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  12. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Just for the heck of it, here is a little different angle of the Arizona room. Funny thing is my dad always used to ask; "how many coaches do you need?"

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  13. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    As long as i am on a tare, i might as wll keep the pace up and post this picture of the "formal" dining room. As i said, we aren't formal dining kind of people so the bulk of the time spent there is by by wife where she has her office/computer. One of the options on the Castille was a bump out at the front of the dining room. It doesn't seem like much but when you walk in one that doesn't have it, the difference is more than notable. My dad once said to my wife he could envision the day where she had a massive computer monitor mounted on the wall and it would be her "command center." And while there is no monitor on the wall, ittle did he know how close to kright he would be.

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  14. pegmih

    pegmih Well-Known Member

    Are you really, really, sure you want to move??????
    BTW. I only saw one dog (big one) in a picture. Where is the other dog?
     
  15. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Nope, not sure peg, but the other house will be something quite special...if and when it finally gets done. And it will be smaller; kind of.

    Bummer, down to just one pup now. We lost Phoenix a little over a year ago. She was going on 14 which is good for a standard poodle. We had lost her sister Sedona to valley fever 7 years before that, which is when we got Sybil. We weren't sure how she would handle not having another dog in the house but she found she likes being special. She just hates when we leave her alone.

    I'll finish up this thread later today with some more shots.
     
  16. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Can't forget the rest of the house eh? Double master bedrooms and completely remodeled bathrooms top off the renovations
    Here is the original master bedroom:

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  17. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    And here is the first master bath:

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  18. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    My wife resigned the guest bedroom by re-configuring the hallways to the adjacent bathroom to create a second master suite. Pretty smart on her part.

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  19. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    And just a peak at the second master bedroom, though there are several changes you won't see. The built in closets have been made far more efficient and a window above the bed adds a wonderful touch when we hit those cool fall and spring nights and fresh air is so much appreciated.
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  20. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    While i showed the outdoor space in another thread, here is a better shot of how it lays out:

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