What's The Plan?

In addition to the only known photos I have of our new house that I posted a few days ago, I decided to make a floor plan of the home, to better depict what it looks like.  Now, this floor plan is not to-scale and it was done strictly from memory, so I may have to update the proportions a bit when we actually get the keys.

First Floor

Second Floor

Did I mention it's not to-scale?  :-P  Especially the second floor, but it does represent the layout well.  I promise to update everything as soon as we're able to get back into the house!

The Pre-Move-In Home Tour!

The home buying process in New York (especially on Long Island), is kind of crazy.  First of all, both the buyer and seller are required, by law, to hire a Real Estate Attorney and the Closing Date means almost nothing in terms of gauging when you might actually close.  New York grants buyers and sellers a 30-day leeway period past the contracted closing date in case either the buyer or seller needs more time.  What's more is that the seller can actually remain in the home for an additional five days (penalty-free) after those 30 days.  

Basically, what I'm saying is that even though our Closing "On-or-around" Date is July 13th, 2013, we really don't have any idea when we'll actually close on the house.  We *think* the seller is ready to vacate the home quickly and if that's the case, all we're really waiting on is our bank for the "clear-to-close."  

We haven't actually seen the house in over a month, since we were last there during the inspection. At the time, I didn't think to take any pictures of the interior (blame it on first-time-home-buyer's brain) and now, of course I regret it.  I keep looking back at the MLS-listing pictures to remind myself of what it looks like, as I'm totally in full-on decorating mode in my head.  The hard part is that I don't have any hard measurements of the interior, so all I know is how big our current furniture pieces are - not whether they will fit in the rooms we're thinking of placing them in.

With all that said, here are the Pre-Move-In photos (seller's furniture) of the inside and outside of our first home.  Since I didn't take these pictures, I find some crucial elements of each room missing and some rooms are not pictured at all, but they give a good general idea of what we're working with!

The home is approximately 1800 sq. ft. on a 7,000 sq. foot plot of land.  It's a Cape Cod that was built in 1953 and it has 4 Bedrooms, 2 Full Bathrooms, hardwood floors throughout, a partially-finished basement and a 1-Car Garage.  The upstairs rear has been dormered and the front has the "Dog House Dormers," which help add square footage to the upstairs bedrooms.