I own a house

[fivemack]

All the lawyers performed their strange lawyerly rituals; I have paid the solicitors enough to buy two cases of Laithwaites' best sauternes, HMRC enough stamp-duty to fund one junior nurse for six weeks, and the Land Registry the price of a decent mobile phone. On Friday after lunch I picked up the keys. Now I have:

an end-of-terrace house with

a kitchen with tiles with rabbits on,

the most seventies hallway ever,

and an overgrown garden with both the most amazing orange flowers and an outbuilding with net curtains

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! It's hard to make out details on your wildflowers, but the color is right for California/golden poppies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschscholzia_californica) -- which grow fine in Seattle so there's no reason they couldn't in England, though I imagine they would count as an exotic invasive if anyone worries about such things.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the property-owning classes l-)

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

They are indeed California poppies, and like all poppies they grow best when they self-seed rather than when they're sown. But we had a patch of them for a few years.

Congratulations!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Congrats! (Net curtains? In a shed??)

[nojay.livejournal.com]

It rather resembles the sort of place featured in news reports after a decades-long serial killer rampage is brough to a halt. Suits you.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Glad I read the comments first or I would have been the third person to identify your flowers as my state's Official Flower. My advice would be to leave the patch strictly alone: it's clearly thriving, and it is unlikely to become invasive. It lives all over California -- from the Sierras to the coast and the edges of the desert -- and is quite tolerant of both cold and heat, drought and rain -- anything except soggy roots (it wants drainage, but cvlearly whatever you've got is fine).

What was the outbuilding used for before? In my town, iot would have been an illegal rental unit.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

It was used for storage; it's got a work-bench down one side and ought to be convertible into a very nice workshop if I can keep it from being completely consumed with such of my possessions as don't quite fit into the rest of the house.

There is a note in the covenants associated with the property saying that the outbuilding shall not be used as sleeping quarters, but I suppose the nature of illegal rental units is that they pay no attention to such covenants.

[uitlander]

Hurrah! Welcome to the the land owning classes.

[rmc28]

Hurray :-)

[kake]

Congratulations! So nice to not be at risk of someone else deciding you have to move house.

[seawasp]

Congratulations!

Now set aside any money you're making to cover house repairs.

[simont]

"shall not be used as sleeping quarters" seems a little steep. It would be one thing to say "thou shalt not let it out on a semipermanent basis to a paying tenant", but quite another to say you can't even put up a party guest or two in it now and again.

Anyway, congratulations!

[aldabra]

Our house in Bristol had a covenant saying we weren't allowed to sleep in the shed. Or have a goat. I was so cross.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Congrats. Are you going to turn your outhouse into some kind ofsekrit lair?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Yay, a hoose!

[pavanne.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That looks like a really nice house.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

*salutes*

Lots of good fortune, security and fun experiments in your shed to you!