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By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » Ramble

Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » Ramble — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:00:52 +0000

[...] are some photos of houses I like: (as seen here) (as seen [...]

By: Steffi

Steffi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:40:44 +0000

That is a very beautiful looking house!! And the interior looks very nice and move-in ready too. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you on your continued search in the area…and perhaps even a little luck that your dream house will still be waiting for you. If not we’ll gladly still take you in Westview. :)

By: House hunt | Rusty's Blog

House hunt | Rusty's Blog — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:03:49 +0000

[...] March. Amber already documented some of the process in a couple of posts on her site. Here’s the most recent one.I’m calling this a house hunt here because dwelling hunt doesn’t have quite the same [...]

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:24:38 +0000

Thanks for your input, Karsh… it’s always good to hear from people who *actually live in* a place.

By: Karsh

Karsh — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:34:46 +0000

Adair Park — why we’d be neighbors! Well, close enough since I’m in adjacent West End/Westview. A lot of people give this part of town a bad rap, and it’s totally undeserved. I went to college down here, and after living in other, less “ghetto” parts of town (Midtown, Buckhead) — I always felt safer and more connected here. Close to MARTA, close to the highway, and we’re coming up! (I hate “in transition” too.) I’m surprised there’s not a coffee house over in the Westview area though — here in the West End we’ve got Grounds Coffeehouse and a great pizza place with free Wi-Fi.

By: duane

duane — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:29:02 +0000

That kitchen is BEAUTIFUL!!!!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:57:46 +0000

Oooh, a burnt orange kitchen! What on earth could be better? Unless it’s a doorbell playing “The Eyes of Texas.”

By: tim

tim — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:14:33 +0000

That’s a gorgeous looking house. I have no problem admitting that I live in what most people consider to be the ghetto. In our case, it really was the ghetto about fifteen or twenty years ago, but it’s going through a rather massive rehabilitation. We have a fantastic house that was flipped about five years ago, and since moving here, we’ve successfully encouraged about a half dozen friends to do the same. And, since I know of our shared love of rustic Americana, I’ll tell you that I’ve been able to add a huge number of photographs to my collection (of old wall painted billboards: http://tinyurl.com/6ny6p4), by simply walking through our neighborhood. Not to mention we live within walking distance of downtown.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:18:56 +0000

Thanks for saying that, Dacia… I was afraid it might be boring to people! You know, one of those boring “adult” things. Like for example, there’s this guy who works at the same place I do (I don’t really know him, but I know *of* him) and he’s had a blog for years and years, and it used to be all about him going to wild gay circuit parties and having lots of crazy sex and that sort of thing, but a few years ago he got a boyfriend and started “settling down” I guess you could say… and one of my friends was complaining that “now his blog is boring.” Ha.

Also, for the record, per Rusty’s comment – yes, I did say I’m fine w/ him painting the kitchen orange. But it was still the obvious joke to make in light of the photo above.

And finally, if we lived in this house, here’s how we would tell people to get to our house: “Cross over to the wrong side of the tracks and turn right by the rusty Quonset hut w/ a car on top of it.”

By: Richard Lyon

Richard Lyon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:47:40 +0000

Oh wow, that is a strikingly attractive house. Its got great use of color. I see some design techniques Susan Susanka talks about in some of her books too (Primarily that line a foot or two from the ceiling).

Hopefully it doesn’t have the neighbors from hell.

In today’s housing market it might be on the market when you go to buy. But I agree that its bloody doubtful.