I should note that for better or for worse, Bachelor No. 2 is in a neighborhood that is my neighborhood; it's a three-minute walk from my current apartment. So I know it very well, and like it here very much. It hurts my feelings when people at work call it The Hood--when it is quite clear that for them what constitutes The Hood is the presence of more than one African-American family, and that they wouldn't know a real Hood if it walked up to their window at a stoplight and tried to sell them crack--but that's something I can live with, as long as I feel safe. Which, for the record, I do. And I also find shabby/decent and heterogeneous neighborhoods to be more appealing than more universally upscale ones.
A butler's pantry is a large pass-through pantry between a dining room and a kitchen, in houses of a certain age. It usually contains cabinets and extra kitchen/food storage. (This one is about six by twelve feet, and the back half has been outfitted for a washer and drier while still leaving plenty of room for the cabinets.) Because roomy kitchens are in vogue right now, a lot of people when they buy a house with one will cannibalize the space to make the kitchen bigger. (Or, as in the case of Bachelor no. 2, to make another room bigger.) But I love them and have always wanted one, and that's just one more thing to make No. 1 appealing.
Air conditioning is pretty essential for me in a climate like this, and so window a/c units at the least would be a necessity. But I happen to be the proud owner of three window units, and so could make do very nicely until such time (if that time ever came) as I could put in central air.
And hahahah, thank you for reading and offering an opinion--it's completely fascinating, reading about what other people have to say!
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A butler's pantry is a large pass-through pantry between a dining room and a kitchen, in houses of a certain age. It usually contains cabinets and extra kitchen/food storage. (This one is about six by twelve feet, and the back half has been outfitted for a washer and drier while still leaving plenty of room for the cabinets.) Because roomy kitchens are in vogue right now, a lot of people when they buy a house with one will cannibalize the space to make the kitchen bigger. (Or, as in the case of Bachelor no. 2, to make another room bigger.) But I love them and have always wanted one, and that's just one more thing to make No. 1 appealing.
Air conditioning is pretty essential for me in a climate like this, and so window a/c units at the least would be a necessity. But I happen to be the proud owner of three window units, and so could make do very nicely until such time (if that time ever came) as I could put in central air.
And hahahah, thank you for reading and offering an opinion--it's completely fascinating, reading about what other people have to say!