UPDATED PROPERTY AND SALE INFORMATION
INFORMATION COMPLETE AND UPDATED AS OF JULY 22, 2008
House, Building, Barn, and 2 1/2 Acres for $23,300
Have you ever wanted to own a property in a peaceful and totally private location, with no zoning hassles of any kind? Have you ever wanted to get more property for your dollar than you can get virtually anywhere else? Now is your chance.
This web site will most likely answer all of the common questions about this property. But if and when you do have any questions that you can not find answered on this site, please email or phone me with them.
Last year I advertised this property, but I ended up not having anywhere near enough time to sell it. Now I am ready and eager to sell it, and I am working on selling it almost full time during April, May, and June of 2008. I am emailing everyone who ever expressed interest in the property, either last year or this year. I am at the property and ready to read your emails, take your phone calls, make appointments for you to see the property, give tours of the property, and sell the bargain priced property to the first buyer.
LOCATION
Visit the Map Page!
Also, to see the location of the property on printable internet maps, type “Burdett, Kansas” (KS) on any of the following map sites. The property is 3 miles south of this town. Use the zoom control to see where the location is in relation to the rest of Kansas and to neighboring states.
Expedia Maps
Mapquest Maps
Rand McNally Maps
THE BLOG FOR SELLING THE PROPERTY
I have discovered that email is a very poor and time consuming way to try to get pictures to those interested in the property I have for sale. So I have gone to plan B, which is the blog which you are reading right now. Below all the words, you will find 63 large pictures of the property for sale.
Please bookmark this page, because the link in your email may or may not work. This is one of those very strange and very annoying internet/email problems that make emails in general a relative pain in the neck.
However, if you forget to bookmark this page, and the link in your email does not work, then either of the following should work to get you back here:
1. Copy and paste the following address from your email into your web browser.
2. If that doesn’t work, simply type the address into your web browser exactly as you see it in the email:
www.kansaspropertyforsale.blogspot.com
In the days ahead, blog posts will be added that will answer all the questions that I get via emails and by phone. Look for a questions and answers post to appear by about April 25. I have already added posts that have very detailed descriptions of all of the rooms of the house, the basement, the quonset building, the barn, and the land. If you read these, it will almost be like you are touring the inside of the house and other parts of the property in person.
The longer it takes to sell the place, the more the blog will be packed with additional details. But naturally, I am selling to the first bona fide buyer. I am going to go all out to have the place sold by the end of June.
There are pictures of the inside of the house, of the inside of the quonset building, of the outside of the house, of the outsides of all of the other outbuildings, and of the land. The descriptions of the inside of the house will be at least as good as the inside of the house pictures, however, better in my opinion, due to the limitations of photography. The pictures of rooms I have seen on the internet have been largely worthless for really determining the details about that room. But for those who need the inside of the house pictures, we have them.
I am terrible paper organizer, and a poor housekeeper in general, so the pictures of the inside of the house will have some of my messes in them. Don't worry; all of my stuff will be removed before the new owner takes possession.
The inside of the house is in good, livable condition. The only room that most buyers would want to do a little work on is the kitchen. Most buyers will want to choose a new floor for the kitchen and paint the walls in the kitchen as well. For full details regarding the kitchen, see the post titled "The Kitchen." All other interior rooms are in no work necessary condition, so to speak. But work is needed if you want to update the rooms to a 2008 appearance, so to speak.
PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDED IN THE SALE
1. A good working stove/oven/range in the kitchen
2. A microwave oven that is in good working order
3. A new 6 foot ladder
4. A large 8 feet by 3 feet Costco metal folding table
5. Two very good condition upholstered reclining armchaires
6. A very large wood storage cabinet in the master bedroom
OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY
I am selling a 1180 sq. ft. house with an excellent metal roof and good siding, a 4,000 sq. fot quonset style metal / wood framed building, a 1,000 sq. ft. barn and a 2 1/2 acre plot of land in good hunting country in Western Kansas for $23,300. The location of the property is in one of the lowest cost real estate areas of the country, which is the one and only reason for why the price of the property is so surprisingly low. If this property were located in other regions of the country, the price would be higher, as much as 15 times higher in fact.
There are plentiful walk-in hunting tracts close by, in all directions. The deer. pheasant, and turkey hunting are especially good, but there is much more game to hunt. Non-hunters can use this as a 2nd home retreat on the peaceful prairie, or as a full low-cost country residence.
This property is 23 miles from the substantial sized town of Larned, home of the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility and the Larned State Security Hospital. Both of these government facilities are always looking for employees of various types.
THE HOUSE
One of the most outstanding features of this house is the full, maintenance-free metal roof, which was installed extremely securely about 4 or 5 years ago. There is also good metal siding on all sides of the house.
The house has 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, and a bathroom. There is 2/3 of a full basement and there is attic crawl space. There is a propane furnace and a propane tank outside, along with propane pipes for additional heating appliances in the kitchen and in the west end bedroom, for additional heat as desired.
The well water is excellent quality and the well and plumbing systems are in good working order. The bathroom and kitchen plumbing fixtures are all in good working order.
The electrical system is fine and there is a pantry with washer and dryer hookups. Reasonably priced DSL high speed internet service is available, with a speed of about 1.5 Mbps, and there is even T-1 ultra high speed service available as an option.
QUONSET BUILDING
This is a very close to 3,000 sq. ft. corrugated metal and steel quonset style building, which has extensive wood beam supports on the inside. The building has a large garage door along the property driveway, huge sliding doors on the back end of it, a cement floor, and electricity. Some possible uses of this building include:
1. One huge garage for the owner.
2. Storage space, some or all of which could be rented.
3. Hunting party use, such as processing game.
4. A garage for storing multiple cars or trucks.
5. A place of business, such as a tractor repair business for example, or a farm equipment storage business.
6. A place for storing inventory of a business.
THE LAND
The size of the land is 370 feet by 300 feet by 370 feet by 300 feet, so the amount of land is 2.55 acres. For much detailed information about this land, see the post titled "The Land."
THE BARN, THE CORRALS, TWO STORAGE BUILDINGS, AND THE SMALL WORKSHED
There is green barn that is about 1,000 sq. ft. in size. There are two fenced in areas off of it that could be used to keep animals such as horses or chickens. See the post about the barn for much more detailed information.
There are two circular, metal storage buildings. One of them is about 200 sq. ft., and the other one is about 107 sq. ft. For detailed information about these buildings, see the post titled "The Two Circular Storage Buildings."
There is also a small work shed type of building, at the end of a sidewalk from the south door of the house, not far from the house. The roof of this work shed needs to be repaired to some extent, but this work shed has electricity; there is an electric socket that is working in it. See the post about the small work shed for much more information about the work shed.
PEACE, PRIVACY, AND FREEDOM
The most unique thing about this property is that when you are here you have total peace and tranquility, as well as total privacy. You can do as much as or as little as you wish to the property and not have any regulatory hassles at all. For all practical purposes, there are no zoning regulations here. But there is a friendly farmer just down the road a short ways, and a very small town 3 miles away, so you are not totally isolated.
PRICE
The price to a cash buyer is $21,500! The price to a mortgage buyer would be $23,500, which is still a very fair price.
The low price I am selling for is mainly due to (1) the area has always had low cost housing and (2) my wish to sell relatively quickly.
The location of the property is in one of the lowest cost real estate areas of the country, which is by far the biggest reason why the price of the property is so surprisingly low. If this property were located in other regions of the country, the price would be higher, as much as 15 times as higher in fact.
Another fairly big reason for the extremely low price is the fact that the inside of the house is mostly updated to 1975-1985 and not to 1998-2008. Since updates would be needed to bring the inside of the house up to average among the County properties in its appraisal class, $4,800 has been deducted from the appraisal value for that purpose, which is almost certainly more than enough money to get the house up to average.
This property is appraised at $26,000. This appraisal value is supposed to be a close estimate of the fair market value of the property. Not one but two appraisals were done on this property within the last two years. Property taxes are less than $1 per day, and will not be going up substantially for at least several years.
INFORMATION FOR HUNTERS
There are maps of the walk-in hunting areas near this property on the Kansas web site. The maps of the land that is closest to this property will be numbered as follows:
Map 21: The property for sale is located in the northwest corner of this map, near Burdett. Shows areas to the east and to the southeast of the property.
Map 20: Shows areas to the west and to the southwest of the property.
Map 14: Shows areas to the northwest of the property.
Map 15: Shows areas to the northeast of the property.
Here is where you can view and/or download these maps:
http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/kdwp_info/locations/hunting_fishing_maps_by_county/2007_fall_hunting_atlas
You will see on the map of Kansas on this page that there are many maps available to view. The areas closest to this property are as indicated above, Maps 14, 15, 20, and 21.
For general information about Kansas hunting:
http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/hunting/about_kansas_hunting
For more information about the walk-in hunting program, you can go to this address:
http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news//other_services/private_landowner_assistance/wildlife/walk_in_hunting
Remember though, you by no means have to be a hunter to buy and enjoy this property. I am not a hunter, but I have enjoyed the total peace and tranquility of this property.
TOUR APPOINTMENTS
Appointments to physically tour the property can be made for any day until the property is legally sold or until I decide to discontinue active marketing of the property and to wait for buyers trying to gather funds to get that done. With each passing week, I am more and more tempted to discontinue tours and active marketing, so if you are interested in a tour, you should not delay.
I hope that you will make an appointment to tour the property and/or make an offer. Anyone needing more information, or wanting directions and an appointment time, please either email me or call me using any of the contacts above. I will try to answer emails very promptly. If you call and get no answer, please try your call again later.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions, and/or want to make an appointment to see the property, you can contact me in any of the following 3 ways:
michael_tinney1@yahoo.com
You CAN schedule an appointment to tour the property via email, or else you can do so by phone, it's your choice.
504-324-1691
Vonage Internet Line; this line is preferred because you can leave a message on this line if there is no answer because I am outside.
620-525-6654
Land Line; a message can not be left on this line and if I miss your call I will have no record that you called.
Either phone number rings at the property for sale, and I am resident on the property through at least the end of June, and I am ready to show it and sell it. I am the one and only owner. The property is free and clear of any debts, liens and so forth. I have title insurance, and the new owner will most definitely be able to get title insurance as well.
Sincerely Yours
Michael Tinney
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
The Two Circular Storage Buildings
There are two circular storage buildings made out of corrugated metal that used to be grain storage buildings. They both have metal floors. They both have metal ceilings that rise with a circular slant to a point-type peak.
Each of the storage buildings is watertight, undamaged, and structurally sound. Each of the storage buildings can be locked in the same ways that self storage units are locked. Although insurance is always a good idea, since there is essentially no crime in this very rural area, one could store items in either one or both of these buildings for, say, a year, leave the property, and have a 99.9% or higher probability of having everything still there when he or she came back! I'm not saying that would be a logical thing to do for most people; I'm just explaining that hypothetical to remind prospective buyers of the ultra low burglary rate of an area such as this.
The formula for the area of a circle is Area=pi * R*R where pi is 3.1416 and R is the radius, which in turn is 1/2 of the diameter. Using this formula, and since the radius of storage building #1 us 8 feet, the storage area available from the first storage building is almost exactly 200 sq. ft. The height along the perimeter of storage building #1 is about 11 feet. He height at the peak of the building is about 13 feet.
The radius of the storage building #2 is just shy of 6 feet, about 5 feet and 10 inches to be exact. Using the formula, we find that the area of the second storage building is about 107 square feet.
Storage building #1, the one that is just over 200 sq. ft., is about 2/3 occupied with a hodgepodge of items, about 3/4 of which are junk. Storage building #2, the one that is about 107 sq. ft., is about 85% occuped with a old farm equipment.
The junk in the storage buildings is is a small fraction of the junk that was on the property when I bought it, maybe about 10% of what was the total. This junk was supposed to be removed from the property along with the rest of the junk, but the truck of the hauling company broke down after two large truckloads were hauled off from this property. This company did not quickly have the truck fixed, and in fact completely suspended business operations for several months while they fixed the truck themselves. (There's a rural company for you.)
Since the job contracted for was not completed, the company agreed to charge me only 1/2 of what I was supposed to be charged, provided I did not demand they come out to haul off the relatively small amount of remaining junk. This was a very good deal for me, so I took it.
The remaining junk can be hauled to the Pawnee County Transfer Station, where "Transfer Station" is a fancy term for junk yard. The Transfer Station will not charge Pawnee County residents anything for depositing junk at the yard: all deposits are absolutely free unlike in many other areas of the country where there are charges for everything brought in to a yard. Furthermore, there are virtually no limitations on what can be deposited at the yard. Without any doubt, everything in the two storage buildings can be hauled to the Pawnee County Transfer Station, will be accepted by that Station, and will incur no charge at that Station.
But obviously there will be a cost associated with hauling the stuff, whether it is done by 5-6 pickup truck runs or whether it is done 1 large truck run. It has been estimated that it will cost about $300 to clear out the storage buildings and haul the junk to Pawnee County Transfer Station. Like the far larger Quonset Building, an estimate of about $2 per square foot was applied to the two storage buildings for the breakdown of the property price by component.
So the larger storage building has an estimated fair market value of about $400 and the smaller storage building has an estimated fair market value of a little more than $200. From the $600 total, $300 is deducted for the cost of removing the junk, so in the breakdown by component of the property sale price, the two storage buildings are being sold for just $300! To be exact, the larger storage building is being sold for $200 and the smaller one is being sold for $100; they are being sold for about $1 per foot!
Try to buy metal buildings for $2 a foot anywhere else; you will find that you can not do it! You can't even rent storage for $2 a foot anywhere near population centers, let alone buy storage building space for $2 a foot. Typical rental rates for metal storage building storage are $2.50 to $3.50 per foot per year around most of the country.
Each of the storage buildings is watertight, undamaged, and structurally sound. Each of the storage buildings can be locked in the same ways that self storage units are locked. Although insurance is always a good idea, since there is essentially no crime in this very rural area, one could store items in either one or both of these buildings for, say, a year, leave the property, and have a 99.9% or higher probability of having everything still there when he or she came back! I'm not saying that would be a logical thing to do for most people; I'm just explaining that hypothetical to remind prospective buyers of the ultra low burglary rate of an area such as this.
The formula for the area of a circle is Area=pi * R*R where pi is 3.1416 and R is the radius, which in turn is 1/2 of the diameter. Using this formula, and since the radius of storage building #1 us 8 feet, the storage area available from the first storage building is almost exactly 200 sq. ft. The height along the perimeter of storage building #1 is about 11 feet. He height at the peak of the building is about 13 feet.
The radius of the storage building #2 is just shy of 6 feet, about 5 feet and 10 inches to be exact. Using the formula, we find that the area of the second storage building is about 107 square feet.
Storage building #1, the one that is just over 200 sq. ft., is about 2/3 occupied with a hodgepodge of items, about 3/4 of which are junk. Storage building #2, the one that is about 107 sq. ft., is about 85% occuped with a old farm equipment.
The junk in the storage buildings is is a small fraction of the junk that was on the property when I bought it, maybe about 10% of what was the total. This junk was supposed to be removed from the property along with the rest of the junk, but the truck of the hauling company broke down after two large truckloads were hauled off from this property. This company did not quickly have the truck fixed, and in fact completely suspended business operations for several months while they fixed the truck themselves. (There's a rural company for you.)
Since the job contracted for was not completed, the company agreed to charge me only 1/2 of what I was supposed to be charged, provided I did not demand they come out to haul off the relatively small amount of remaining junk. This was a very good deal for me, so I took it.
The remaining junk can be hauled to the Pawnee County Transfer Station, where "Transfer Station" is a fancy term for junk yard. The Transfer Station will not charge Pawnee County residents anything for depositing junk at the yard: all deposits are absolutely free unlike in many other areas of the country where there are charges for everything brought in to a yard. Furthermore, there are virtually no limitations on what can be deposited at the yard. Without any doubt, everything in the two storage buildings can be hauled to the Pawnee County Transfer Station, will be accepted by that Station, and will incur no charge at that Station.
But obviously there will be a cost associated with hauling the stuff, whether it is done by 5-6 pickup truck runs or whether it is done 1 large truck run. It has been estimated that it will cost about $300 to clear out the storage buildings and haul the junk to Pawnee County Transfer Station. Like the far larger Quonset Building, an estimate of about $2 per square foot was applied to the two storage buildings for the breakdown of the property price by component.
So the larger storage building has an estimated fair market value of about $400 and the smaller storage building has an estimated fair market value of a little more than $200. From the $600 total, $300 is deducted for the cost of removing the junk, so in the breakdown by component of the property sale price, the two storage buildings are being sold for just $300! To be exact, the larger storage building is being sold for $200 and the smaller one is being sold for $100; they are being sold for about $1 per foot!
Try to buy metal buildings for $2 a foot anywhere else; you will find that you can not do it! You can't even rent storage for $2 a foot anywhere near population centers, let alone buy storage building space for $2 a foot. Typical rental rates for metal storage building storage are $2.50 to $3.50 per foot per year around most of the country.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Land
Let's start with the legal description:
So this property is an exact square whose sides are 370 feet long and 300 feet long. This means the land is 111,000 square feet, which is equivalent to 2.55 acres. The property is almost exactly square in relation to the four directions: north, south, east and west. In other words, the northern boundary runs almost exactly or exactly due east and due west, the eastern boundary runs almost exactly or exactly north and south, and so forth.
As you can see from the legal description, the northern boundary and the southern boundary are each 370 feet long, while the eastern boundary and the western boundary are each 300 feet long.
Now we will for the sake of organized discussion conveniently divide the property into 3 parts and describe what is in each part.
WESTERN SECTION OF THE PROPERTY: Approximately 30,000 square feet. The primary features of this part are as follows:
1. The House. The house is situated close to the western edge of the property, half way between the north and south edges of the property. The house is ranch style, so it is longer than it is wide. The length of the house runs almost exactly east and west. Past the western edge of the house, there is a small strip of lawn separating the west end of the house from the post and barbed wire fence marking the western edge of the property. This strip is about 15 feet wide or so and the grass grows well here.
The distance from the door on the east end of the house, which is in between the porch and the dining room, and the big garage door to the quonset building, is about 27 yards. The distance from the east end of the house door to the barn is about 30 yards. Finally, the distance from the western barn door to the quonset garage door is about 28 yards. So you can say that the eastern end of the house door, the western end of the quonset building garage door, and the western door of the barn form a triangle, and it is almost an equal sided triangle.
2. The North Lawn. To the north of the house is a rectangular lawn where grass grows nicely and generally crowds out weeds as long as the lawn is cut occassionally in the April-June period. There is a "miniature forest" of 8 relatively small trees about in the middle of this roughly 15,000 square foot lawn, 6 of which are evergreens, 1 of which is deciduous, and one of which is dead (it does not bloom in the spring anymore). Further north, there are some really small trees growing up on the northwest corner of this lawn, which is the northwest corner of the property as a whole.
There are two older, very large deciduous trees just to the northeast of the house, on the southeast edge of the north lawn.
Finally, there is a small steel beem apparatus from which a swing used to hang and could theoretically hang again, or else this could be used to hang clothes out to dry if someone didn't want to use an electric dryer.
3. The Small Workshop. The small workshop that needs new roofing to be attached to its wood roof planks is situated southeast from the house roughly 25 feet from the south door of the house, which is the door that opens to the pantry.
4. A Very Small and Very Heavily Damaged Structure. Next to the small workshop, just to the south of it, is a very heavily damaged and very small square structure, maybe 60 square feet, that may have used to be an outhouse many years ago. Fortunately, this tiny but very ugly wreck of a building can hardly be seen from the house, since it is mostly hidden by the small workshop.
5. The South Lawn. On the south side of the house, the south lawn is almost a twin of the north lawn in size, rouughly 15,000 square feet, but the south lawn takes on a somewhat rougher appearance than does the north lawn, mainly because there is a fairly large pile of tree branches about 10 yards to the south of the house from trees that were heavily trimmed and/or from an ice storm from many years ago.
There are four blooming, relatively large deciduous trees in various spots on the south lawn, and one dead deciduous tree next to the workshed, which is on the eastern edge of the south lawn to be exact. Also, the cement cap mound for the underground well service room is on the south side.
Just south of the well installation, out near the southern edge of the property, is a square roughly 150 sq. feet area surrounded by a 2 foot high cement wall, which is filled with tree branches. Like the somewhat larger one described below in the Central Part, this smaller square enclosed by cement area could be used as a safe place to burn stuff. But keep in mind that there is regular trash pickup service for ordinary household garbage from a garbage bin that is 1 mile east of the property, so you would never need to (or want to!) burn ordinary household trash. If someone never had anything to burn, these two cement squares would probably have no other useful purpose, and an owner interested in landscaping this property might want to have the low rise cement walls bulldozed away.
5. The Well Service Room (Underground). Visible on the south lawn is the cement top of the small, square, approximately 7 feet underground, cement room where the components needed for the well system in between the well water and the pipes leading to the house are situated, such as the pressure tank and the electrical.
6. Sidewalks. There is a sidewalk running from the house door and the cement mini porch on the southeast corner of the house and the doorway of the small workshop building. A connected sidewalk then runs along the eastern edge of the house to the much larger and more elevated porch, off of which is the door to the dining room at the eastern end of the house. Finally, another 5 yards of sidewalk extends from the mini porch off the southeast (pantry) house door out to the middle area where cars have been traditionally parked.
CENTRAL SECTION OF THE PROPERTY: Approximately 40,000 square feet. the primary features of this part would be:
1. The North Side of the Quonset Lawn. This relatively small lawn, maybe 5000 square feet at the most, is north of the quonset building and is an open lawn area where grass grows well.
2. The Quonset Building Itself. The Quonset building is in the north central area of the property, about half way between east and west boundaries. The quonset building, which is much longer than it is wide and is situated so that the length of it runs east and west, just as the house does. Remember that there are also the two circular grain bins, one just to the northwest of the quonset building and one just to the southwest of the quonset building. One of them is about 14 feet in diameter and the other one is about 11 feet in diameter. These make for useful specialty storage areas.
3. The Driveway Leading to the "Middle Area." The driveway to the property is dirt and it runs up a gentle incline along the north boundary eastward and then turns to the south so that it ends up in the "middle area," which is what I call the area between the three largest buildings, the quonset building, the barn, and the house. The middle area is an open treeless area. In the central parts of the "middle area" grass does not grow very well because cars have traditionally been parked in those areas when they were not parked inside the quonset building.
The driveway and, of course, the road that leads to the property are plowed during relatively rare snowstorms. The plowing is done either by the town of Sawmill, a 36 square mile area where this property is located, or by Pawnee County, I'm not sure which it is technically.
4. The "Middle Area" Itself, as described just above in (3). As a rough estimate, this is about an 8,000 square foot area.
5. The "Mini Forest". This is a stretch of about 8 relatively large evergreen and deciduous trees, and a lilac bush on the south end, southeast of the "middle area". Situated in between this tree line and a south of the barn corral fence is my favorite spot on the property, because I am a fan of tree lines and of evergreen trees in particular.
6. The "Rough South Central Area". This is a rough looking area whose main feature is a roughly 200 sq. ft. square area enclosed by a 1 1/2 foot high cement wall. This enclosed area is currently filled with tree branches and can be used to store wood for heating, or to burn wood if you don't have a use for tree branches, don't want them lying around anymore, and nor do you want to haul them off the property. Remember that you can do what you want as long as you burn safely; there are no zoning hassles here.
7. The Lawn Between the Quonset Building and the Barn. This is mostly open, grassy area, but it does have a few smaller trees near the two buildings. It forms a corridor between the "middle area" and the eastern section of the property. The grass in this area tends to have a tougher time crowding out weeds than in other areas, so it is important to cut this area in the April-June period in order to avoid weeds in this area at that time of the year.
8. The Barn. The barn is almost exactly in the middle of the property overall.
9. Corral areas to the south of the barn. Some fencing is intact and needs no repair, especially the fencing just to the south of the barn and the metal fence just off the east side of the barn. Other fencing is partially intact and needs repair, and still other fencing is heavily damaged and needs a complete do over if someone wants extensive corral space restored. For even more information see the post on this page called "The Barn and the Corrals Off of it".
10. The Spigot. The spigot is next to the largely intact corral just to the south of the barn. It works: when you pull up the handle, the water flows at a fairly good pressure.
EASTERN SECTION OF THE PROPERTY: Approximately 40,000 square feet. You might call this the "Great Plains" of this property!
At one time the southern half of this area was fenced corral area, but most of that historical fencing is heavily damaged, to the point where only remnants of it remain.
In the northern half of the Eastern Section, there are five larger deciduous trees, two pairs of twin trees whose trunks are about a yard from one another, and a separate, single tree, all relatively close to each other. These five trees are in a roughly 2,000 square foot square shaped area that is about 20 yards northeast of the barn and at the same time about 20 yards southeast of the eastern end of the quonset building, the end that has the sliding steel/metal doors.
In general, the eastern part of the property could best be described at the moment as scrub land, because it has been neither mowed, landscaped, farmed, or used for pasture for many years. Fortunately, because of the quonset building, the barn, and the fact that the Eastern Section gently slopes downward away from the house, this area is invisible from the house and so it does not need to be mowed or landscaped if the objective is simply to keep the living area grounds looking nice.
There are about 10 coils of barbed wire left from fencing work from many years ago lying on the ground in the north part of the eastern section. Each of these coils is about a foot and a half or two feet in diameter. And there is a whopper of a barbed wire coil east of the barn, roughly 4 feet in diameter.
Since this part of the property has not been mowed for many years, and probably was never mowed in the city/suburban sense of that word, the eastern section is characterized by less grass and more weeds then are the other sections of the property. However, since the climate is relatively dry, there is a limit on how bad the weed problem gets even in the "wild" eastern part of the property.
Obviously, the eastern part could be the focus of a very large gardening/very small farm operation. I'm no farmer, but I will tell someone interested in growing things here that the climate here roughly produces:
A ROUGH DESCRIPTION OF HOW FAST VEGETATION GROWS HERE
March 1-March 25: Slow growth
March 26-April 20: Moderate growth
April 21: May 20: Rapid and sometimes very, amazingly rapid growth
May 21-June 15: Moderate growth
June 15-July 10: Slow growth
July 11-August 20: Very little growth due to the heat and to the maturity cycle of the vegetation.
August 21-September 10: Slow growth
September 11-October 20: Slow to occasionally moderate growth
October 21-February 28: No growth to speak of after the first hard freeze until about the first of March
TREES AND SHRUBS
In total there is one relatively large evergreen tree, a medium sized evergreen tree, and half a dozen smaller evergreen trees. As for the approximately two dozen deciduous trees, according to a Kansas person who recently toured this property, some of the trees are "Chinese elm" trees that were imported into the prairie many years ago by homesteaders.
There used to be a rose bush on the south side of the house but I cut it completely down because I don't like bushes with thorns. I suppose you could let it grow back if you like roses. On the north side of the house next to the house, there is a row of 4 bushes that bloom with small green leaves and that have small white flowers in the spring. As mentioned above, there is a lilac bush on the south central edge of the property.
WILDLIFE
Rabbits love this property unless the owner has a dog, but don't get me wrong, the rabbit population on the property is never more than about 10 rabbits and sometimes you go for many days without seeing any of them. You occasionally see very large birds visit the property, hawks or eagles I guess. Roughly twice a year in the warm part of the year, I have had an owl pay a visit, because I heard it hooting at dusk and or at daybreak. Oh, and you might end up with a free horse if you wait long enough, because in March 2006, I had an older pony and a young pony just wander on in and start chomping on some vegetation on the southeast corner of the property!
A tract of real estate situate in the Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Section Sixteen (16), Township Twenty-two (22) South, Range Twenty (20) West, Pawnee County, Kansas, described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of said Section 16, thence East along the North line of said Section a distance of 350 feet for a place of beginning; thence continuing east along the North line of said Section, a distance of 370 feet; thence South a distance of 300 feet; thence West a distance of 370 feet; thence North a distance of 300 feet to the place of beginning.
So this property is an exact square whose sides are 370 feet long and 300 feet long. This means the land is 111,000 square feet, which is equivalent to 2.55 acres. The property is almost exactly square in relation to the four directions: north, south, east and west. In other words, the northern boundary runs almost exactly or exactly due east and due west, the eastern boundary runs almost exactly or exactly north and south, and so forth.
As you can see from the legal description, the northern boundary and the southern boundary are each 370 feet long, while the eastern boundary and the western boundary are each 300 feet long.
Now we will for the sake of organized discussion conveniently divide the property into 3 parts and describe what is in each part.
WESTERN SECTION OF THE PROPERTY: Approximately 30,000 square feet. The primary features of this part are as follows:
1. The House. The house is situated close to the western edge of the property, half way between the north and south edges of the property. The house is ranch style, so it is longer than it is wide. The length of the house runs almost exactly east and west. Past the western edge of the house, there is a small strip of lawn separating the west end of the house from the post and barbed wire fence marking the western edge of the property. This strip is about 15 feet wide or so and the grass grows well here.
The distance from the door on the east end of the house, which is in between the porch and the dining room, and the big garage door to the quonset building, is about 27 yards. The distance from the east end of the house door to the barn is about 30 yards. Finally, the distance from the western barn door to the quonset garage door is about 28 yards. So you can say that the eastern end of the house door, the western end of the quonset building garage door, and the western door of the barn form a triangle, and it is almost an equal sided triangle.
2. The North Lawn. To the north of the house is a rectangular lawn where grass grows nicely and generally crowds out weeds as long as the lawn is cut occassionally in the April-June period. There is a "miniature forest" of 8 relatively small trees about in the middle of this roughly 15,000 square foot lawn, 6 of which are evergreens, 1 of which is deciduous, and one of which is dead (it does not bloom in the spring anymore). Further north, there are some really small trees growing up on the northwest corner of this lawn, which is the northwest corner of the property as a whole.
There are two older, very large deciduous trees just to the northeast of the house, on the southeast edge of the north lawn.
Finally, there is a small steel beem apparatus from which a swing used to hang and could theoretically hang again, or else this could be used to hang clothes out to dry if someone didn't want to use an electric dryer.
3. The Small Workshop. The small workshop that needs new roofing to be attached to its wood roof planks is situated southeast from the house roughly 25 feet from the south door of the house, which is the door that opens to the pantry.
4. A Very Small and Very Heavily Damaged Structure. Next to the small workshop, just to the south of it, is a very heavily damaged and very small square structure, maybe 60 square feet, that may have used to be an outhouse many years ago. Fortunately, this tiny but very ugly wreck of a building can hardly be seen from the house, since it is mostly hidden by the small workshop.
5. The South Lawn. On the south side of the house, the south lawn is almost a twin of the north lawn in size, rouughly 15,000 square feet, but the south lawn takes on a somewhat rougher appearance than does the north lawn, mainly because there is a fairly large pile of tree branches about 10 yards to the south of the house from trees that were heavily trimmed and/or from an ice storm from many years ago.
There are four blooming, relatively large deciduous trees in various spots on the south lawn, and one dead deciduous tree next to the workshed, which is on the eastern edge of the south lawn to be exact. Also, the cement cap mound for the underground well service room is on the south side.
Just south of the well installation, out near the southern edge of the property, is a square roughly 150 sq. feet area surrounded by a 2 foot high cement wall, which is filled with tree branches. Like the somewhat larger one described below in the Central Part, this smaller square enclosed by cement area could be used as a safe place to burn stuff. But keep in mind that there is regular trash pickup service for ordinary household garbage from a garbage bin that is 1 mile east of the property, so you would never need to (or want to!) burn ordinary household trash. If someone never had anything to burn, these two cement squares would probably have no other useful purpose, and an owner interested in landscaping this property might want to have the low rise cement walls bulldozed away.
5. The Well Service Room (Underground). Visible on the south lawn is the cement top of the small, square, approximately 7 feet underground, cement room where the components needed for the well system in between the well water and the pipes leading to the house are situated, such as the pressure tank and the electrical.
6. Sidewalks. There is a sidewalk running from the house door and the cement mini porch on the southeast corner of the house and the doorway of the small workshop building. A connected sidewalk then runs along the eastern edge of the house to the much larger and more elevated porch, off of which is the door to the dining room at the eastern end of the house. Finally, another 5 yards of sidewalk extends from the mini porch off the southeast (pantry) house door out to the middle area where cars have been traditionally parked.
CENTRAL SECTION OF THE PROPERTY: Approximately 40,000 square feet. the primary features of this part would be:
1. The North Side of the Quonset Lawn. This relatively small lawn, maybe 5000 square feet at the most, is north of the quonset building and is an open lawn area where grass grows well.
2. The Quonset Building Itself. The Quonset building is in the north central area of the property, about half way between east and west boundaries. The quonset building, which is much longer than it is wide and is situated so that the length of it runs east and west, just as the house does. Remember that there are also the two circular grain bins, one just to the northwest of the quonset building and one just to the southwest of the quonset building. One of them is about 14 feet in diameter and the other one is about 11 feet in diameter. These make for useful specialty storage areas.
3. The Driveway Leading to the "Middle Area." The driveway to the property is dirt and it runs up a gentle incline along the north boundary eastward and then turns to the south so that it ends up in the "middle area," which is what I call the area between the three largest buildings, the quonset building, the barn, and the house. The middle area is an open treeless area. In the central parts of the "middle area" grass does not grow very well because cars have traditionally been parked in those areas when they were not parked inside the quonset building.
The driveway and, of course, the road that leads to the property are plowed during relatively rare snowstorms. The plowing is done either by the town of Sawmill, a 36 square mile area where this property is located, or by Pawnee County, I'm not sure which it is technically.
4. The "Middle Area" Itself, as described just above in (3). As a rough estimate, this is about an 8,000 square foot area.
5. The "Mini Forest". This is a stretch of about 8 relatively large evergreen and deciduous trees, and a lilac bush on the south end, southeast of the "middle area". Situated in between this tree line and a south of the barn corral fence is my favorite spot on the property, because I am a fan of tree lines and of evergreen trees in particular.
6. The "Rough South Central Area". This is a rough looking area whose main feature is a roughly 200 sq. ft. square area enclosed by a 1 1/2 foot high cement wall. This enclosed area is currently filled with tree branches and can be used to store wood for heating, or to burn wood if you don't have a use for tree branches, don't want them lying around anymore, and nor do you want to haul them off the property. Remember that you can do what you want as long as you burn safely; there are no zoning hassles here.
7. The Lawn Between the Quonset Building and the Barn. This is mostly open, grassy area, but it does have a few smaller trees near the two buildings. It forms a corridor between the "middle area" and the eastern section of the property. The grass in this area tends to have a tougher time crowding out weeds than in other areas, so it is important to cut this area in the April-June period in order to avoid weeds in this area at that time of the year.
8. The Barn. The barn is almost exactly in the middle of the property overall.
9. Corral areas to the south of the barn. Some fencing is intact and needs no repair, especially the fencing just to the south of the barn and the metal fence just off the east side of the barn. Other fencing is partially intact and needs repair, and still other fencing is heavily damaged and needs a complete do over if someone wants extensive corral space restored. For even more information see the post on this page called "The Barn and the Corrals Off of it".
10. The Spigot. The spigot is next to the largely intact corral just to the south of the barn. It works: when you pull up the handle, the water flows at a fairly good pressure.
EASTERN SECTION OF THE PROPERTY: Approximately 40,000 square feet. You might call this the "Great Plains" of this property!
At one time the southern half of this area was fenced corral area, but most of that historical fencing is heavily damaged, to the point where only remnants of it remain.
In the northern half of the Eastern Section, there are five larger deciduous trees, two pairs of twin trees whose trunks are about a yard from one another, and a separate, single tree, all relatively close to each other. These five trees are in a roughly 2,000 square foot square shaped area that is about 20 yards northeast of the barn and at the same time about 20 yards southeast of the eastern end of the quonset building, the end that has the sliding steel/metal doors.
In general, the eastern part of the property could best be described at the moment as scrub land, because it has been neither mowed, landscaped, farmed, or used for pasture for many years. Fortunately, because of the quonset building, the barn, and the fact that the Eastern Section gently slopes downward away from the house, this area is invisible from the house and so it does not need to be mowed or landscaped if the objective is simply to keep the living area grounds looking nice.
There are about 10 coils of barbed wire left from fencing work from many years ago lying on the ground in the north part of the eastern section. Each of these coils is about a foot and a half or two feet in diameter. And there is a whopper of a barbed wire coil east of the barn, roughly 4 feet in diameter.
Since this part of the property has not been mowed for many years, and probably was never mowed in the city/suburban sense of that word, the eastern section is characterized by less grass and more weeds then are the other sections of the property. However, since the climate is relatively dry, there is a limit on how bad the weed problem gets even in the "wild" eastern part of the property.
Obviously, the eastern part could be the focus of a very large gardening/very small farm operation. I'm no farmer, but I will tell someone interested in growing things here that the climate here roughly produces:
A ROUGH DESCRIPTION OF HOW FAST VEGETATION GROWS HERE
March 1-March 25: Slow growth
March 26-April 20: Moderate growth
April 21: May 20: Rapid and sometimes very, amazingly rapid growth
May 21-June 15: Moderate growth
June 15-July 10: Slow growth
July 11-August 20: Very little growth due to the heat and to the maturity cycle of the vegetation.
August 21-September 10: Slow growth
September 11-October 20: Slow to occasionally moderate growth
October 21-February 28: No growth to speak of after the first hard freeze until about the first of March
TREES AND SHRUBS
In total there is one relatively large evergreen tree, a medium sized evergreen tree, and half a dozen smaller evergreen trees. As for the approximately two dozen deciduous trees, according to a Kansas person who recently toured this property, some of the trees are "Chinese elm" trees that were imported into the prairie many years ago by homesteaders.
There used to be a rose bush on the south side of the house but I cut it completely down because I don't like bushes with thorns. I suppose you could let it grow back if you like roses. On the north side of the house next to the house, there is a row of 4 bushes that bloom with small green leaves and that have small white flowers in the spring. As mentioned above, there is a lilac bush on the south central edge of the property.
WILDLIFE
Rabbits love this property unless the owner has a dog, but don't get me wrong, the rabbit population on the property is never more than about 10 rabbits and sometimes you go for many days without seeing any of them. You occasionally see very large birds visit the property, hawks or eagles I guess. Roughly twice a year in the warm part of the year, I have had an owl pay a visit, because I heard it hooting at dusk and or at daybreak. Oh, and you might end up with a free horse if you wait long enough, because in March 2006, I had an older pony and a young pony just wander on in and start chomping on some vegetation on the southeast corner of the property!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
The Work Shop Building
The workshed is a small, square building that was once used for jobs not needing a lot of space. It is about 100-120 square feet in size; the walls are 10-11 feet in length. The outer walls are white and have a stucco (rough) finish. The walls on the inside are unfinished wood, with a wood framework. There is a wood work bench about 3 or 3 1/2 feet off the ground that is about 7 feet long by about 20 inches deep. There are two other much smaller racks on the other side of the space.
There are small, open windows on three of the four sides.
The roof of the workshed is currently planks of wood forming the frame of the roof only. There were sheets of corrugated metal attached to the wood planks, but they were not attached properly, and the wind gradually tore them off. So the workshed's roof needs to be finished again. Materials other than corrugated metal can be used, and I, speaking as an amateur only, would recommend using whatever can be most securely attached to the wood planks.
There is working electricity in the workshed. There is a single two outlet socket which is working. There is also an overhead light bulb fixture.
As indicated above, the size of the workshed is 100-120 sq. ft..
There are small, open windows on three of the four sides.
The roof of the workshed is currently planks of wood forming the frame of the roof only. There were sheets of corrugated metal attached to the wood planks, but they were not attached properly, and the wind gradually tore them off. So the workshed's roof needs to be finished again. Materials other than corrugated metal can be used, and I, speaking as an amateur only, would recommend using whatever can be most securely attached to the wood planks.
There is working electricity in the workshed. There is a single two outlet socket which is working. There is also an overhead light bulb fixture.
As indicated above, the size of the workshed is 100-120 sq. ft..
The Barn and the Corrals off of it
The walls of the barn on the outside are green and have a rough texture. None of the walls are damaged. the barn is structurally sound. The walls do not at all lean or sag anywhere. The inside of the barn walls are wood with a wood framework.
The barn has three doorways one every side except for the north side. The west side wood door runs along a steel rail. The south side door, which opens to the 2,500 sq. ft. corral, is the same: it is wood and runs along a steel rail. There apparently used to be the same type of door on the east side, which opens to the 1,000 sq. ft. corral, but that door is missing.
The roof of the barn consists of wooden beams and small shingles that appear to be mostly or exclusively made out of wood. These shingles are attached to the wood slats that go across the roof. The roof slopes on the east and on the west to a peak that is about 15 feet off the ground. The height of the barn ranges from about 8 feet to the 15 feet depending on where you are in the barn.
Approximately 1/9 of the total surface of the roof was lost in a storm many years ago and was never replaced. So about 1/9 of the barn is open to the sky, the northeast corner of it. However, the compartment directly below the open area happened to be one that had a flat roof over most of it, which has cut down on the moisture reaching the floor of the barn during the years that the roof has been open above that compartment.
The floor of the barn is dirt. When I bought this property, there was a substantial amount of stuff, mostly junk, stored in the barn. Almost all of that stuff has been cleaned out of the barn and trucked off the property to a junk yard. Some unused wood fencing was left.
There is a small corral, about 1,000 square feet in size, off the east side of the barn, whose enclosure is wire fence that is about 3 feet tall. This fence is completely intact and undamaged.
There is a larger corral, square in shape, and about 2,500 square feet in size, off the south side of the barn, whose enclosure is fencing made out of wood posts. One side of this corral is, of course, the south wall of the barn. The 50 foot wood post fences on the east side and on the west side need only minor repairs. The south side wood post fence is damaged in some spots and missing in other spots. It needs to be replaced with a new fence on that side. Once this approximately 50 feet of fence is repaired, the corral and barn combination would be sufficient to keep a horse.
There used to be another 2,500 square foot corral south of the one off the barn, but the fences to that one are mostly missing or damaged.
The inside of the barn consists of about 6 compartments that used to be stalls for varioius animals and farm operations. These compartments have wood fencing separating them from one another. 3 of the compartments are square, 2 are rectangular, and one is narrow and in an L shape. All of these compartments have swinging doors into them that are just as they were when the farm was operational. One of the six compartments has an intact mesh wire wall that goes almost to the roof.
Electricity is run into the barn and the electricity is still working in the barn. There is a small breaker box and a single switch near the northwest corner which operates half a dozen light bulbs and a large light at the peak. Even though the bulbs have not been changed in many years, there are three light bulbs still working right now! I could not find any electrical outlets.
The size of the barn is estimated to be about 1,300 square feet. It is square in shape, an estimate of the lenght of the walls would be that they are all about 36 feet or 12 yards in length.
The barn has three doorways one every side except for the north side. The west side wood door runs along a steel rail. The south side door, which opens to the 2,500 sq. ft. corral, is the same: it is wood and runs along a steel rail. There apparently used to be the same type of door on the east side, which opens to the 1,000 sq. ft. corral, but that door is missing.
The roof of the barn consists of wooden beams and small shingles that appear to be mostly or exclusively made out of wood. These shingles are attached to the wood slats that go across the roof. The roof slopes on the east and on the west to a peak that is about 15 feet off the ground. The height of the barn ranges from about 8 feet to the 15 feet depending on where you are in the barn.
Approximately 1/9 of the total surface of the roof was lost in a storm many years ago and was never replaced. So about 1/9 of the barn is open to the sky, the northeast corner of it. However, the compartment directly below the open area happened to be one that had a flat roof over most of it, which has cut down on the moisture reaching the floor of the barn during the years that the roof has been open above that compartment.
The floor of the barn is dirt. When I bought this property, there was a substantial amount of stuff, mostly junk, stored in the barn. Almost all of that stuff has been cleaned out of the barn and trucked off the property to a junk yard. Some unused wood fencing was left.
There is a small corral, about 1,000 square feet in size, off the east side of the barn, whose enclosure is wire fence that is about 3 feet tall. This fence is completely intact and undamaged.
There is a larger corral, square in shape, and about 2,500 square feet in size, off the south side of the barn, whose enclosure is fencing made out of wood posts. One side of this corral is, of course, the south wall of the barn. The 50 foot wood post fences on the east side and on the west side need only minor repairs. The south side wood post fence is damaged in some spots and missing in other spots. It needs to be replaced with a new fence on that side. Once this approximately 50 feet of fence is repaired, the corral and barn combination would be sufficient to keep a horse.
There used to be another 2,500 square foot corral south of the one off the barn, but the fences to that one are mostly missing or damaged.
The inside of the barn consists of about 6 compartments that used to be stalls for varioius animals and farm operations. These compartments have wood fencing separating them from one another. 3 of the compartments are square, 2 are rectangular, and one is narrow and in an L shape. All of these compartments have swinging doors into them that are just as they were when the farm was operational. One of the six compartments has an intact mesh wire wall that goes almost to the roof.
Electricity is run into the barn and the electricity is still working in the barn. There is a small breaker box and a single switch near the northwest corner which operates half a dozen light bulbs and a large light at the peak. Even though the bulbs have not been changed in many years, there are three light bulbs still working right now! I could not find any electrical outlets.
The size of the barn is estimated to be about 1,300 square feet. It is square in shape, an estimate of the lenght of the walls would be that they are all about 36 feet or 12 yards in length.
The Quonset Building
The quonset building is close to 3,000 square feet in size. The dimensions are roughly 36 feet wide by about 78 feet long. This type of building has a structure of a half circle relative to the ground. The entire outer shell, the front, and the back, are constructed from corrugated metal. The dictionary says that a quonset is a building with a semicircular roof of corrugated metal that curves down to form walls. That describes the building here accurately.
On the inside, the building is made extremely strong and flexible to the wind, as it has been explained to me, by a total of about forty 6-inch wide, gently curving wood planks that run from the ground on one side, up to the highest height, and then back down to the ground on the other side. Actually, each of the 40 bracing planks consist of 5 separate planks that are attached to each other. So in total, there are technically about 200 bracing planks running the width of the building. Each set of five planks is about 2 1/2 feet from the next set. There are also 4 curved side bracing sets of planks, and a plank at the highest point which runs the length of the building.
Aside from all the curved bracing planks, for the first or lowest 7 feet of both sides along the entire 120 foot lenght of the building, there are wooden planks that completely encase the outer corrugated metal. In other words, the bottom 7 feet of both sides are brown wood, with the outer metal behind that wood.
This type of building is more structurally sound and impervious to wind damage than the currently popular, pure metal buildings.
The peak height of the building is 18-19 feet. The height of the garage door on the front is estimated to be about 12 feet. The height of the big pair of sliding doors on the back is also estimated to be about 12 feet.
You can see a picture of this huge garage door in the pics on this site. One pic shows how big the door is, and how big and tall the building as a whole is, in relation to a compact car that is parked in front of it. The garage door is about 12 feet tall by about 10 feet wide, and it is sliding up and down smoothly. The front of the building surrounding the garage door is corrugated metal that is braced by a grid pattern of wood beams.
On the back side of the quonset building, there are two very large sliding doors that run along steel rails. Each sliding door is about 12 feet high by about 8 feet wide. If both of these sliding doors are opened to their maximum open position, the entrance way becomes about 12 feet tall by about 15 feet wide. The back of the building surrounding the two sliding doors is corrugated metal that is thoroughly braced by a grid pattern of wood beams.
Although the sides curve down to the ground, the curve is such that the height of the building (on the inside) is already at least 12 feet just a yard in from either side, and then the height rapidly goes up from that amount as you come in from the sides, reaching a peak of 18-19 feet. About 85% of the square footage has a height of 14 feet or more. So the total cubic feet of space on the inside of this building is approximately 40,000 square feet.
About 85% of the floor is concrete. The front end of the floor, about 15% of the total floor area, is dirt. The floor used to be 100% concrete years ago, but it was left partially dirt after the front was redone in order to install the oversized garage type door.
In the southwest corner of the building, which is to the right of the garage door as you are looking at the front of the building, there is a fuse box, a normal 120 amps dual socket, and a 240 amp "big prong" socket on the end of a 240 high amp caliber cord that is about 7 feet long. These sources of electricity are in good condition and the electricity is working normally. There is also a 240 amp extension cord hanging from a hook which I am leaving behind.
There is no running water in the quonset building. Nor are there any propane pipes run to the quonset building. Nor are there any interior walls; it is just one wide open area on the inside. There are numerous hooks and nails of various shapes and sizes that can be used to hang things along the sides of the quonset buildings, but there are no shelves.
The open floor space of the quonset building has already been cleared of everything that used to be stored in it and has been broom swept, so the entire area is ready for whatever the new owner decides to store in it.
On the inside, the building is made extremely strong and flexible to the wind, as it has been explained to me, by a total of about forty 6-inch wide, gently curving wood planks that run from the ground on one side, up to the highest height, and then back down to the ground on the other side. Actually, each of the 40 bracing planks consist of 5 separate planks that are attached to each other. So in total, there are technically about 200 bracing planks running the width of the building. Each set of five planks is about 2 1/2 feet from the next set. There are also 4 curved side bracing sets of planks, and a plank at the highest point which runs the length of the building.
Aside from all the curved bracing planks, for the first or lowest 7 feet of both sides along the entire 120 foot lenght of the building, there are wooden planks that completely encase the outer corrugated metal. In other words, the bottom 7 feet of both sides are brown wood, with the outer metal behind that wood.
This type of building is more structurally sound and impervious to wind damage than the currently popular, pure metal buildings.
The peak height of the building is 18-19 feet. The height of the garage door on the front is estimated to be about 12 feet. The height of the big pair of sliding doors on the back is also estimated to be about 12 feet.
You can see a picture of this huge garage door in the pics on this site. One pic shows how big the door is, and how big and tall the building as a whole is, in relation to a compact car that is parked in front of it. The garage door is about 12 feet tall by about 10 feet wide, and it is sliding up and down smoothly. The front of the building surrounding the garage door is corrugated metal that is braced by a grid pattern of wood beams.
On the back side of the quonset building, there are two very large sliding doors that run along steel rails. Each sliding door is about 12 feet high by about 8 feet wide. If both of these sliding doors are opened to their maximum open position, the entrance way becomes about 12 feet tall by about 15 feet wide. The back of the building surrounding the two sliding doors is corrugated metal that is thoroughly braced by a grid pattern of wood beams.
Although the sides curve down to the ground, the curve is such that the height of the building (on the inside) is already at least 12 feet just a yard in from either side, and then the height rapidly goes up from that amount as you come in from the sides, reaching a peak of 18-19 feet. About 85% of the square footage has a height of 14 feet or more. So the total cubic feet of space on the inside of this building is approximately 40,000 square feet.
About 85% of the floor is concrete. The front end of the floor, about 15% of the total floor area, is dirt. The floor used to be 100% concrete years ago, but it was left partially dirt after the front was redone in order to install the oversized garage type door.
In the southwest corner of the building, which is to the right of the garage door as you are looking at the front of the building, there is a fuse box, a normal 120 amps dual socket, and a 240 amp "big prong" socket on the end of a 240 high amp caliber cord that is about 7 feet long. These sources of electricity are in good condition and the electricity is working normally. There is also a 240 amp extension cord hanging from a hook which I am leaving behind.
There is no running water in the quonset building. Nor are there any propane pipes run to the quonset building. Nor are there any interior walls; it is just one wide open area on the inside. There are numerous hooks and nails of various shapes and sizes that can be used to hang things along the sides of the quonset buildings, but there are no shelves.
The open floor space of the quonset building has already been cleared of everything that used to be stored in it and has been broom swept, so the entire area is ready for whatever the new owner decides to store in it.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
The Basement
The basement runs under the house for almost exactly 2/3 of the house, or about 800 square feet. Access to the basement is via a concrete stairway that runs from the pantry down to the basement. In this stairway, above head level and along the wall to the pantry, you can see the piping that is necessary for the washer and for the hot water heater. The working hot water heater that is in the pantry is included in the sale.
Although it is unfinished, the basement has a nice smooth concrete floor that has been carefully swept. The floor has absolutely no cracks or holes in it at all.
The interior of the basement has what I think are plasterboard walls that create three rooms, in effect, each of which has it's own working light fixture. One "room" is about 400 square feet, one is about 275 square feet, and one is about 125 square feet. The smallest room has a very small and undeveloped closet.
The walls of the basement are smoothed over cement blocks. There used to be some narrow horizontal and vertical cracks in the walls, due to a very small amount of seepage, but this problem was solved in August 2007 as part of the package of repairs to insure that this property sells relatively rapidly. A mixture of water, acrilyc, and quickrete precision commercial grout was used to completely seal all the narrow cracks. There are no remaining substantial cracks in any of the basement walls, and of course there are no openings to the outside.
There are five small basement windows, two on the north side, two on the south side, and one on the southwest side. All of these windows are in good condition. These are the same type of basement windows that are common in houses everywhere; they swing down if you want to open them, and they have a hook and a latch for securing them when you have them closed.
The basement has at least one dual electric socket and at least 4 single elecric sockets. There is no running water in the basement at this time. The chimney which services the propane floor furnace that is in the dining room extends down to the floor of the basement. In the basement it appears as a square brown brick structure. There is an opening in it covered by a circular plate, so that any kind of heating appliance that requires a chimney exhaust could be installed in the basement, including a wood burning stove.
As many who own houses are aware, whether the basement walls are straight or bowed is a primary indicator of whether the house is "sliding on it's foundation" or not. Another indicator is whether the ground level floors sag or groan when you walk on them. In extreme cases, you can simply look at the house from the outside and detect that one end of it is slightly lower than the other end of it. This house has none of the indicators of any foundation problem. The basement walls of this house are straight and not bowed. None of the floors in the ground level are sagging or groaning when you walk on them. And as you can see from the pictures on this site, each end of the house is completely level with the other end.
Furthermore, this house was built on high ground relative to the immediate surroundings, which means it would not flood even in the extremely unlikely event of a massive rainfall in Western Kansas. Maybe once in 300 years the road, which is lower ground, would have some water on it, while the house would remain dry. Aside from being on the highest ground, the other smart thing about where the house was built is that it was built on a completely flat plot of land. This makes it extraordinarily unlikely that there will be any foundation or structural problems to deal with anytime within the next 50-75 years or more.
There are three storage racks: a large one, a medium sized one, and a small one. The largest storage rack is about 7 1/2 feet tall by at least 6 feet wide and about 2 feet deep. There are five shelves. So each shelf is about 6 feet by 2 feet.
The medium size storage rack is about 7 feet tall by about 6 feet wide and about 1 feet deep. There are six shelves. So each shelf is about 6 feet by 1 feet. The small size storage rack is at least 4 feet tall by about 4 feet wide by about 9 inches deep. It has 4 shelves. So each shelf is about 4 feet by about 9 inches.
Of course, there are all the plumbing pipes necessary for the kitchen and bathroom plumbing found in the basement. I think that most of the pipes are copper. If they are not copper, they are a something similar to copper. The bathroom sink drainage pipe is pvc, and the toilet pipe is probably cast iron steel. The pipes that come into the basement from underground are some combination of steel and copper. As indicated elsewhere on this site, all plumbing is working correctly in the kitchen and the bathroom. And there are no leaking pipes in the basement whatsoever.
As indicated previously, the estimated size of the basement is 800 square feet.
Although it is unfinished, the basement has a nice smooth concrete floor that has been carefully swept. The floor has absolutely no cracks or holes in it at all.
The interior of the basement has what I think are plasterboard walls that create three rooms, in effect, each of which has it's own working light fixture. One "room" is about 400 square feet, one is about 275 square feet, and one is about 125 square feet. The smallest room has a very small and undeveloped closet.
The walls of the basement are smoothed over cement blocks. There used to be some narrow horizontal and vertical cracks in the walls, due to a very small amount of seepage, but this problem was solved in August 2007 as part of the package of repairs to insure that this property sells relatively rapidly. A mixture of water, acrilyc, and quickrete precision commercial grout was used to completely seal all the narrow cracks. There are no remaining substantial cracks in any of the basement walls, and of course there are no openings to the outside.
There are five small basement windows, two on the north side, two on the south side, and one on the southwest side. All of these windows are in good condition. These are the same type of basement windows that are common in houses everywhere; they swing down if you want to open them, and they have a hook and a latch for securing them when you have them closed.
The basement has at least one dual electric socket and at least 4 single elecric sockets. There is no running water in the basement at this time. The chimney which services the propane floor furnace that is in the dining room extends down to the floor of the basement. In the basement it appears as a square brown brick structure. There is an opening in it covered by a circular plate, so that any kind of heating appliance that requires a chimney exhaust could be installed in the basement, including a wood burning stove.
As many who own houses are aware, whether the basement walls are straight or bowed is a primary indicator of whether the house is "sliding on it's foundation" or not. Another indicator is whether the ground level floors sag or groan when you walk on them. In extreme cases, you can simply look at the house from the outside and detect that one end of it is slightly lower than the other end of it. This house has none of the indicators of any foundation problem. The basement walls of this house are straight and not bowed. None of the floors in the ground level are sagging or groaning when you walk on them. And as you can see from the pictures on this site, each end of the house is completely level with the other end.
Furthermore, this house was built on high ground relative to the immediate surroundings, which means it would not flood even in the extremely unlikely event of a massive rainfall in Western Kansas. Maybe once in 300 years the road, which is lower ground, would have some water on it, while the house would remain dry. Aside from being on the highest ground, the other smart thing about where the house was built is that it was built on a completely flat plot of land. This makes it extraordinarily unlikely that there will be any foundation or structural problems to deal with anytime within the next 50-75 years or more.
There are three storage racks: a large one, a medium sized one, and a small one. The largest storage rack is about 7 1/2 feet tall by at least 6 feet wide and about 2 feet deep. There are five shelves. So each shelf is about 6 feet by 2 feet.
The medium size storage rack is about 7 feet tall by about 6 feet wide and about 1 feet deep. There are six shelves. So each shelf is about 6 feet by 1 feet. The small size storage rack is at least 4 feet tall by about 4 feet wide by about 9 inches deep. It has 4 shelves. So each shelf is about 4 feet by about 9 inches.
Of course, there are all the plumbing pipes necessary for the kitchen and bathroom plumbing found in the basement. I think that most of the pipes are copper. If they are not copper, they are a something similar to copper. The bathroom sink drainage pipe is pvc, and the toilet pipe is probably cast iron steel. The pipes that come into the basement from underground are some combination of steel and copper. As indicated elsewhere on this site, all plumbing is working correctly in the kitchen and the bathroom. And there are no leaking pipes in the basement whatsoever.
As indicated previously, the estimated size of the basement is 800 square feet.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
The Kitchen
The kitchen is the one and only room in the house where the average person would say, "I want to work on that room a little after I buy this house." However, it is technically in livable condition even as it is.
One or more of the previous owners had a carpet laid down in the kitchen. This carpet became worn out and so it was removed. I was going to install some type of floor, such as a vinyl floor, or maybe another carpet, but more than one local realtor advised me that since people have very different opinions about what makes the best kitchen floor, that I might just as well leave the floor treatment to the next owner, and pass the savings on in the price of the property. This is what I decided to do. The floor right now is the base hardwood, which unlike the brown hardwood elsewhere in the house, is black.
The kitchen walls were wallpapered, and one of the previous owners started to scrape the wallpaper and did most of the job, but never finished the job. I am too busy with my computer work to ever scrape wallpaper, so I decided to pass on that task as well. And quite frankly, I don't really know what I am doing when it comes to wallpaper, and even when it comes to paint. I spent a couple of hours not long ago looking at websites regarding painting, and it was incredible how many paints and painting techniques there really are if you get deep into the subject. So as with the kitchen floor, I decided to punt the walls to the next owner, and take a substantial hit on the price I can sell the place for.
My loss is your gain. The new owner may be able to simply paint without doing any more scraping for all I know. In any event, even if scraping all of the wallpaper were considered necessary, at least 3/4 of it has been scraped already, so it's probably a 2-4 hour job or so to scrape the rest of it. If the property has to be listed with a local realtor in the future, I will probably paint the kitchen before I move on and leave the showing of the place to him.
The kitchen ceiling is white vinyl tiles. The light fixture in the kitchen, which is hanging securely from the ceiling, is the long tube, flourescent bulb type. The fixture itself totals about 3 1/2 feet long by 1 foot wide in size, and it comes down about 1/2 a foot from the ceiling. This is the kind of fixture that has a ballast. The light bulbs are the normal sized, inexpensive tube bulbs which appear to be slightly over 3 feet long. They last an extremely long time.
The kithen sink and faucet are in very good condition; the faucet, in fact, was replaced a few months ago. The water pressure is good in the kitchen. Below the sink is a cabinet where there is space for storage, and where the drainage and incoming water piping is, of course.
To the left of the cabinets under the sink, there is a dishwasher which I am reasonably sure does not work anymore. I have never actually tried to get it to work quite honestly, but I think I was told by the previous owner that it does not work. A local handyman recommended removing it, but it certainly does not need to be removed unless you are "redoing the kitchen."
To the left of the dishwasher, and to the right of the cabinet under the sink, are two relatively small cabinets, with drawers that slide at the top and a larger cabinet below the drawers. The original brown paint and/or stain on many of the cabinet doors and door frames below the sink and on the ends is faded in spots. Many new owners will want to repaint and/or stain these wood cabinet doors and door frames. Don't ask me about whether staining them is necessary or recommended, because I simply don't know enough about stuff like that. A simple call to Home Depot will probably get that question answered for someone (like me) who doesn't know the best way to improve the appearance of these cabinet doors.
To either side of the sink, and on top of the dishwasher and the cabinets on either end, is a yellow, metal counter. The counter extends beyond the cabinet on the right to go all the way to the north wall of the kitchen, and another section of counter is installed along the north wall itself.
In sum, the counter space is surprisingly plentiful for a relatively small size kitchen. However, the cupboard space in the kitchen is even more of a surprise than the counter space is.
Above the sink, there are two two-shelf metal cabinets that are yellow. These are about 1 1/2 feet tall by about 1 foot wide. On either end of these, there are two other, larger yellow metal cabinets. Each one of these is about 2 1/2 feet tall and about 1 1/2 feet wide. Each of these larger cabinets has three shelves. In summary, there are 4 yellow, metal storage cabinets, offerring alot of storage space for food and so forth.
That would already be very subtantial storage space, but there is much more storage space than that in the kitchen. On the east wall of the kitchen, there is a huge built in storage cabinet. This cabinet is actualy 3 cabinets on top of each other, with two swing doors on each of these, so there are 6 swing doors altogether. The whole structure extends the whole distance from the floor to the ceiling, which is at least 8 feet. The lower cabinet has 3 shelves and is about 3 feet high by about 4 feet wide by about 1 foot deep. The middle cabinet has 2 shelves and is the same size as the lower cabinet, about 3 feet high by about 4 feet wide by about 1 foot deep. The upper cabinet, which you have to stretch a little to reach, has two shelves and is about 1 1/2 feet high by about 4 feet wide by about 1 foot deep. These cabinets provide a truly large amount of storage space.
There are 4 regular two-socket electrical wall outlets in the kitchen, all of which are working fine. Also, there is a high current (a 240, I believe it's called) large prong outlet for the stove (range). There is in fact a Westinghouse stove/range in the kitchen. It's in great working condition, and it comes with the property. I have been using both the oven and the range heat pads to cook for myself.
The phone and DSL internet line comes into the ground level of the house in the kitchen next to the door to the pantry. Next to the phone/DSL incoming terminal plate is the wall switch. One switch is for the kitchen overhead light (described earlier) and the other switch is for the light to the pantry.
There are two double paned windows on the south side of the kitchen, whose interior frames and sills are in very good condition and are painted white. But a particular person will want to repaint at least the interior sills, because the paint is faded in spots. Other than a tiny hairline fracture in one of the 8 window panes, that is about 3 inches long and runs along a corner of a pane, all of the window panes are in very good condition.
Some new owners will want to paint the door between the kitchen and the pantry, because the white paint is faded and discolored to some extent in spots. The doorway between the kitchen and the dining room is open, as is customary in many other homes.
The kitchen is pretty much square in size, and the estimated size of it is 130 square feet.
One or more of the previous owners had a carpet laid down in the kitchen. This carpet became worn out and so it was removed. I was going to install some type of floor, such as a vinyl floor, or maybe another carpet, but more than one local realtor advised me that since people have very different opinions about what makes the best kitchen floor, that I might just as well leave the floor treatment to the next owner, and pass the savings on in the price of the property. This is what I decided to do. The floor right now is the base hardwood, which unlike the brown hardwood elsewhere in the house, is black.
The kitchen walls were wallpapered, and one of the previous owners started to scrape the wallpaper and did most of the job, but never finished the job. I am too busy with my computer work to ever scrape wallpaper, so I decided to pass on that task as well. And quite frankly, I don't really know what I am doing when it comes to wallpaper, and even when it comes to paint. I spent a couple of hours not long ago looking at websites regarding painting, and it was incredible how many paints and painting techniques there really are if you get deep into the subject. So as with the kitchen floor, I decided to punt the walls to the next owner, and take a substantial hit on the price I can sell the place for.
My loss is your gain. The new owner may be able to simply paint without doing any more scraping for all I know. In any event, even if scraping all of the wallpaper were considered necessary, at least 3/4 of it has been scraped already, so it's probably a 2-4 hour job or so to scrape the rest of it. If the property has to be listed with a local realtor in the future, I will probably paint the kitchen before I move on and leave the showing of the place to him.
The kitchen ceiling is white vinyl tiles. The light fixture in the kitchen, which is hanging securely from the ceiling, is the long tube, flourescent bulb type. The fixture itself totals about 3 1/2 feet long by 1 foot wide in size, and it comes down about 1/2 a foot from the ceiling. This is the kind of fixture that has a ballast. The light bulbs are the normal sized, inexpensive tube bulbs which appear to be slightly over 3 feet long. They last an extremely long time.
The kithen sink and faucet are in very good condition; the faucet, in fact, was replaced a few months ago. The water pressure is good in the kitchen. Below the sink is a cabinet where there is space for storage, and where the drainage and incoming water piping is, of course.
To the left of the cabinets under the sink, there is a dishwasher which I am reasonably sure does not work anymore. I have never actually tried to get it to work quite honestly, but I think I was told by the previous owner that it does not work. A local handyman recommended removing it, but it certainly does not need to be removed unless you are "redoing the kitchen."
To the left of the dishwasher, and to the right of the cabinet under the sink, are two relatively small cabinets, with drawers that slide at the top and a larger cabinet below the drawers. The original brown paint and/or stain on many of the cabinet doors and door frames below the sink and on the ends is faded in spots. Many new owners will want to repaint and/or stain these wood cabinet doors and door frames. Don't ask me about whether staining them is necessary or recommended, because I simply don't know enough about stuff like that. A simple call to Home Depot will probably get that question answered for someone (like me) who doesn't know the best way to improve the appearance of these cabinet doors.
To either side of the sink, and on top of the dishwasher and the cabinets on either end, is a yellow, metal counter. The counter extends beyond the cabinet on the right to go all the way to the north wall of the kitchen, and another section of counter is installed along the north wall itself.
In sum, the counter space is surprisingly plentiful for a relatively small size kitchen. However, the cupboard space in the kitchen is even more of a surprise than the counter space is.
Above the sink, there are two two-shelf metal cabinets that are yellow. These are about 1 1/2 feet tall by about 1 foot wide. On either end of these, there are two other, larger yellow metal cabinets. Each one of these is about 2 1/2 feet tall and about 1 1/2 feet wide. Each of these larger cabinets has three shelves. In summary, there are 4 yellow, metal storage cabinets, offerring alot of storage space for food and so forth.
That would already be very subtantial storage space, but there is much more storage space than that in the kitchen. On the east wall of the kitchen, there is a huge built in storage cabinet. This cabinet is actualy 3 cabinets on top of each other, with two swing doors on each of these, so there are 6 swing doors altogether. The whole structure extends the whole distance from the floor to the ceiling, which is at least 8 feet. The lower cabinet has 3 shelves and is about 3 feet high by about 4 feet wide by about 1 foot deep. The middle cabinet has 2 shelves and is the same size as the lower cabinet, about 3 feet high by about 4 feet wide by about 1 foot deep. The upper cabinet, which you have to stretch a little to reach, has two shelves and is about 1 1/2 feet high by about 4 feet wide by about 1 foot deep. These cabinets provide a truly large amount of storage space.
There are 4 regular two-socket electrical wall outlets in the kitchen, all of which are working fine. Also, there is a high current (a 240, I believe it's called) large prong outlet for the stove (range). There is in fact a Westinghouse stove/range in the kitchen. It's in great working condition, and it comes with the property. I have been using both the oven and the range heat pads to cook for myself.
The phone and DSL internet line comes into the ground level of the house in the kitchen next to the door to the pantry. Next to the phone/DSL incoming terminal plate is the wall switch. One switch is for the kitchen overhead light (described earlier) and the other switch is for the light to the pantry.
There are two double paned windows on the south side of the kitchen, whose interior frames and sills are in very good condition and are painted white. But a particular person will want to repaint at least the interior sills, because the paint is faded in spots. Other than a tiny hairline fracture in one of the 8 window panes, that is about 3 inches long and runs along a corner of a pane, all of the window panes are in very good condition.
Some new owners will want to paint the door between the kitchen and the pantry, because the white paint is faded and discolored to some extent in spots. The doorway between the kitchen and the dining room is open, as is customary in many other homes.
The kitchen is pretty much square in size, and the estimated size of it is 130 square feet.
The Medium Sized Bedroom
This room can be reached only through a door from the master bedroom. Instead of a bedroom, it could be a huge closet, a storage room, or even an office, although I preferred the smaller room in the middle of the house for my office.
This room has a hardwood floor in good condition. There is no carpet on top of the hardwood floor right now.
All 4 walls have been treated the same. At the bottom, there is a large, good quality wood baseboard, at least 6 inches tall. Above that, and up to about half way up to the ceiling, there is a classic blue and white speckled pattern wall paper. As in the master bedroom, this wallpaper is sealed so tightly to the wall that I may actually be wrong that it is wallpaper. It appears as if it could be a fancy spray paint job instead. Whether or not it is wallpaper, it is nowhere discolored, faded, cracked, or peeling in the lower half. In other words, it is in like new condition.
In the uppper half of the walls, the wallpaper, or else the paint, if it's just paint, is plain white. There is no discoloration, but there are two small cracks in this paper and/or paint on either side of where the heat exhaust duct is. These two cracks, where a little peeling has started, are about 1 1/2 feet long and 1/2 feet long.
The heat exhaust duct itself, of course, is completely sealed from either the master bedroom or the medium sized bedroom. You can see the shape of it when you are in the medium sized bedroom, and it is clearly plenty large enough to handle the exhaust from any type of heating appliance that could be used.
The ceiling of this room has a unique paper on it, which has a pattern sonsisting of small stars in groups. There is a one bulb light fixture on the ceiling, whose switch is just inside the door from the master bedroom.
There are two double paned windows in this room, one on the south side and one on the west side. The dark brown interior frames and sills for these windows are in very good condition. The windows themselves are all in very good condition, with no cracks or chips. The south side outer window was replaced with a brand new window a few months ago.
There is a closet that is about 25 square feet in size off the medium sized bedroom. This closet is described in the entry "Closets."
The medium sized bedroom is almost but not quite square in shape, and is estimated to be about 140 square feet.
This room has a hardwood floor in good condition. There is no carpet on top of the hardwood floor right now.
All 4 walls have been treated the same. At the bottom, there is a large, good quality wood baseboard, at least 6 inches tall. Above that, and up to about half way up to the ceiling, there is a classic blue and white speckled pattern wall paper. As in the master bedroom, this wallpaper is sealed so tightly to the wall that I may actually be wrong that it is wallpaper. It appears as if it could be a fancy spray paint job instead. Whether or not it is wallpaper, it is nowhere discolored, faded, cracked, or peeling in the lower half. In other words, it is in like new condition.
In the uppper half of the walls, the wallpaper, or else the paint, if it's just paint, is plain white. There is no discoloration, but there are two small cracks in this paper and/or paint on either side of where the heat exhaust duct is. These two cracks, where a little peeling has started, are about 1 1/2 feet long and 1/2 feet long.
The heat exhaust duct itself, of course, is completely sealed from either the master bedroom or the medium sized bedroom. You can see the shape of it when you are in the medium sized bedroom, and it is clearly plenty large enough to handle the exhaust from any type of heating appliance that could be used.
The ceiling of this room has a unique paper on it, which has a pattern sonsisting of small stars in groups. There is a one bulb light fixture on the ceiling, whose switch is just inside the door from the master bedroom.
There are two double paned windows in this room, one on the south side and one on the west side. The dark brown interior frames and sills for these windows are in very good condition. The windows themselves are all in very good condition, with no cracks or chips. The south side outer window was replaced with a brand new window a few months ago.
There is a closet that is about 25 square feet in size off the medium sized bedroom. This closet is described in the entry "Closets."
The medium sized bedroom is almost but not quite square in shape, and is estimated to be about 140 square feet.
The Master Bedroom
The hallway leads to the master bedroom, and on the other side of the master bedroom there is a white door that leads to what I call the medium sized bedroom, which is on the far west end of the house. These two rooms, and the two closets off them, were built on to the original house some years after the original house was built.
On all 4 walls of the master bedroom, there is a high quality, classic style wall paper. This hardly seems like wall paper, because it is sealed so tightly to the wall that it seems both to the sight and to the touch as if it was paint. (At least the lower half of it may possibly be paint, actually.) The lower half is a plain olive green, and the upper half is an olive green / white speckles pattern. In between the lower and the upper halves, there is a 6-inch band of tightly sealed to the wall, very smooth wall paper that has a country flower /country vegetable pattern on it. The colors are various shades of green, beige and tan, with a little dark red thrown in. All of this wallpaper is in excellent, like new condition, largely due to how well it was installed in the first place.
The underlying floor of the master bedroom is hardwood. On top of the hardwood there is a tacked tightly, full coverage low pelt plain grey carpet. On top of this carpet, there is another carpet, which is light grey with a low to medium pelt. This carpet was tacked down to four carpet tracks, and it covers most of the room, except for borders on all sides that are about 1 1/2 feet wide, where only the lower carpet is.
There are two double pained normal sized single windows in this room, one on the north side and one on the south side. The interior frames and sills for both of these windows are in good condition including the paint. The frames and the sills are painted white. None of the interior or exterior windows are chipped or cracked anywhere.
The master bedroom has a smooth, plain white ceiling. There is a working light fixture, which takes one or two light bulbs, and whose switch is just inside the doorway from the hallway.
In the master bedroom, there is a very large, 4 shelf wood storage cabinet, about 7 1/2 feet high by 2 1/3 feet wide There is no way this is coming with me, so it is being sold with the property. There is a propane pipe in the master bedroom, so a floor propane furnace could be installed in this room if that was the selected heating option. There is a floor furnace exhaust duct as well, of course, which leads to a chimney and the roof.
There are three two-socket electric wall outlets in the master bedroom, all of which are working fine.
There is a fairly large walk in closet off the master bedroom, which is described in the post called "Closets."
Finally, there is a white door to the outside in this room, on the south side, which I never used. This door has two good locks on it. I cleaned the door, but a particular person would want to paint it, because it is still a little discolored. This door is tightly sealed to it's jamb, and there is virtually no draft from the outside coming in around any of the door cracks around this door. This kind of surprised me quite frankly, because I thought there was going to be a draft from that door in the winter, but there isn't any to speak of.
The master bedroom is almost exactly square in shape, and is estimated to be 200 square feet.
On all 4 walls of the master bedroom, there is a high quality, classic style wall paper. This hardly seems like wall paper, because it is sealed so tightly to the wall that it seems both to the sight and to the touch as if it was paint. (At least the lower half of it may possibly be paint, actually.) The lower half is a plain olive green, and the upper half is an olive green / white speckles pattern. In between the lower and the upper halves, there is a 6-inch band of tightly sealed to the wall, very smooth wall paper that has a country flower /country vegetable pattern on it. The colors are various shades of green, beige and tan, with a little dark red thrown in. All of this wallpaper is in excellent, like new condition, largely due to how well it was installed in the first place.
The underlying floor of the master bedroom is hardwood. On top of the hardwood there is a tacked tightly, full coverage low pelt plain grey carpet. On top of this carpet, there is another carpet, which is light grey with a low to medium pelt. This carpet was tacked down to four carpet tracks, and it covers most of the room, except for borders on all sides that are about 1 1/2 feet wide, where only the lower carpet is.
There are two double pained normal sized single windows in this room, one on the north side and one on the south side. The interior frames and sills for both of these windows are in good condition including the paint. The frames and the sills are painted white. None of the interior or exterior windows are chipped or cracked anywhere.
The master bedroom has a smooth, plain white ceiling. There is a working light fixture, which takes one or two light bulbs, and whose switch is just inside the doorway from the hallway.
In the master bedroom, there is a very large, 4 shelf wood storage cabinet, about 7 1/2 feet high by 2 1/3 feet wide There is no way this is coming with me, so it is being sold with the property. There is a propane pipe in the master bedroom, so a floor propane furnace could be installed in this room if that was the selected heating option. There is a floor furnace exhaust duct as well, of course, which leads to a chimney and the roof.
There are three two-socket electric wall outlets in the master bedroom, all of which are working fine.
There is a fairly large walk in closet off the master bedroom, which is described in the post called "Closets."
Finally, there is a white door to the outside in this room, on the south side, which I never used. This door has two good locks on it. I cleaned the door, but a particular person would want to paint it, because it is still a little discolored. This door is tightly sealed to it's jamb, and there is virtually no draft from the outside coming in around any of the door cracks around this door. This kind of surprised me quite frankly, because I thought there was going to be a draft from that door in the winter, but there isn't any to speak of.
The master bedroom is almost exactly square in shape, and is estimated to be 200 square feet.
The Bathroom
3 of the 4 walls of the bathroom are tile up to about 4 feet high, with a 3 inch green baseboard at the bottom. The tiles are all in excellent condition, and are not discolered or chipped anywhere in the bathroom. Above these tiles the walls have been recently painted a bright white. The 4th wall, the interior wall, has a smooth panel type surface in the lower half, with recent paint in very good condition. The upper half of the 4th wall is the same recently painted wall surface that you find on the upper halves of the other 3 walls.
The bathroom sink is in good working order, including the faucet and the drain. The sink itself is bright white and not discolored. Below the sink is a cabinet where the drainage pipes are, and this cabinet has plenty of space for storage.
Hanging on the wall over the sink is a three shelf medicine cabinet with a pair of sliding, mirrored doors on it. Over the medicine cabinet is a new lantern style light fixture that was installed a few months ago, whose switch is just inside the door to the bathroom. Below the medicine cabinet and to the left of and above the sink, there is a working electric wall socket.
A brand new toilet was installed in the bathroom just a few weeks ago and, of course, it is in excellent, new condition. The toilet was carefully and professionally installed, and it was anchored extremely well to the floor. Of course, there is a toilet paper dispenser!
The porcelain tub has been restored to white with no discoloration. The tub faucet is in good working order and has surprisingly strong water pressure.
There is a double paned window to the outside in the bathroom. The interior frame and the interior sill for this window were painted with a high quality green paint, and both the wood itself and the paint are in excellent condition. The windows themselves are in very good condition, with no cracks or chips. The interior side panels of the window opening, in between the inner and the outer window panes, could use new white paint.
I don't think that the underlying floor of the bathroom is the high quality, narrow slat hardwood found elsewhere in the house, which is normal for a bathroom. On top of the "ordinary wood" floor, there is carpet padding. On top of the padding is a well tacked down beige medium pelt carpet. This carpet has been extensively cleaned, but there are still a small number of very small carpet stains that don't want to completely come out, maybe five of them in total. None of these stains are large enough to be all that noticeable, in my opinion. But the particular person will probably want to replace this carpet when they get the chance.
The ceiling of the bathroom is, I believe, linoleum tile. This is the kind of ceiling you also commonly see in kitchens. The tile is not discolored to any extent anywhere on the ceiling surface.
In summary, the bathroom is in very good, livable condition. Everything that is supposed to be working in a bathroom is working in this one.
The estimated size of the bathroom is 75 square feet.
The bathroom sink is in good working order, including the faucet and the drain. The sink itself is bright white and not discolored. Below the sink is a cabinet where the drainage pipes are, and this cabinet has plenty of space for storage.
Hanging on the wall over the sink is a three shelf medicine cabinet with a pair of sliding, mirrored doors on it. Over the medicine cabinet is a new lantern style light fixture that was installed a few months ago, whose switch is just inside the door to the bathroom. Below the medicine cabinet and to the left of and above the sink, there is a working electric wall socket.
A brand new toilet was installed in the bathroom just a few weeks ago and, of course, it is in excellent, new condition. The toilet was carefully and professionally installed, and it was anchored extremely well to the floor. Of course, there is a toilet paper dispenser!
The porcelain tub has been restored to white with no discoloration. The tub faucet is in good working order and has surprisingly strong water pressure.
There is a double paned window to the outside in the bathroom. The interior frame and the interior sill for this window were painted with a high quality green paint, and both the wood itself and the paint are in excellent condition. The windows themselves are in very good condition, with no cracks or chips. The interior side panels of the window opening, in between the inner and the outer window panes, could use new white paint.
I don't think that the underlying floor of the bathroom is the high quality, narrow slat hardwood found elsewhere in the house, which is normal for a bathroom. On top of the "ordinary wood" floor, there is carpet padding. On top of the padding is a well tacked down beige medium pelt carpet. This carpet has been extensively cleaned, but there are still a small number of very small carpet stains that don't want to completely come out, maybe five of them in total. None of these stains are large enough to be all that noticeable, in my opinion. But the particular person will probably want to replace this carpet when they get the chance.
The ceiling of the bathroom is, I believe, linoleum tile. This is the kind of ceiling you also commonly see in kitchens. The tile is not discolored to any extent anywhere on the ceiling surface.
In summary, the bathroom is in very good, livable condition. Everything that is supposed to be working in a bathroom is working in this one.
The estimated size of the bathroom is 75 square feet.
The Office / Small Bedroom
I have used this room as my office, because it is perfect for that. It is a small room but still plenty big enough for working on the internet. It could also make a good small bedroom.
There are two dark brown classic doors to this room. One door leads to the dining room, and the other door leads to the hallway, which in turn takes you to the bathroom, the living room, and the master bedroom.
There is a single, double paned window in this room. The window frames and sill are light brown and in excellent condition. The inner and outer windows themselves are also in excellent condition. Even the white paint on the sides of the window opening, in between the inner and the outer windows, is in good condition, as is the sill in between the two windows.
Three of the four walls of this room are a wildflower theme wallpaper, where the colors are various shades of yellow and green. The other wall. the interior one, is a plain light tan panel. The ceiling is stucco, as in the living room. The underlying floor is a good hardwood, the kind with the narrow slats. On top of this floor is a medium pelt plain green carpet. There are 3 inch brown baseboards running around 3 sides of this room.
There are two sets of electric wall sockets, both of which are working fine. There is a working fine overhead light fixture that uses one bulb.
The estimated size of this room is 100 square feet.
There are two dark brown classic doors to this room. One door leads to the dining room, and the other door leads to the hallway, which in turn takes you to the bathroom, the living room, and the master bedroom.
There is a single, double paned window in this room. The window frames and sill are light brown and in excellent condition. The inner and outer windows themselves are also in excellent condition. Even the white paint on the sides of the window opening, in between the inner and the outer windows, is in good condition, as is the sill in between the two windows.
Three of the four walls of this room are a wildflower theme wallpaper, where the colors are various shades of yellow and green. The other wall. the interior one, is a plain light tan panel. The ceiling is stucco, as in the living room. The underlying floor is a good hardwood, the kind with the narrow slats. On top of this floor is a medium pelt plain green carpet. There are 3 inch brown baseboards running around 3 sides of this room.
There are two sets of electric wall sockets, both of which are working fine. There is a working fine overhead light fixture that uses one bulb.
The estimated size of this room is 100 square feet.
The Dining Room
There is a brown door to the cement porch on the east end of the house off the dining room. The door is old, but is extremely well constructed. It was fitted with a new deadbolt lock a few months ago. The door fits into it's jamb very well, so there is very little draft coming in from the outside.
The dining room opens to the kitchen on it's south side and opens to the living room via a large archway on it's west side. On the north side of the dining room, there are two sets of double paned windows. The frames and sills around and under these windows, as in the living room, are painted brown and the high quality brown paint that was used is still in virtually new condition. But a particular person will want to paint the small side panels of the windows in between the inner and the outer window panes, because there is some cracking of the white paint in that small area between the inner and the outer windows.
The window sills between the inner and the outer windows needed some repair and that repair was completed last year. They are now in good condition. Before the repairs, there were small cracks and holes leading from the outside into the space between the two window panes, the outer pane and the inner pane. These cracks and holes were all repaired, so that now there is the usual double window barrier between the inside and the outside. Although the windows are in good condition, with no cracking, someone who is eager to update or to upgrade, and/or to "make the place really nice," may want to spring for brand new windows.
On the east and north sides of the dining room, there is a light tan and white patterned wallpaper. The wallpaper has a country vegetables theme. This wallpaper is relatively old and might be considered out of style if the house was in suburban Chicago or somewhere like that, but it is still in good condition, with no peeling except for a very small section (about 1 square foot) that needed a small piece of clear tape to secure it. The wallpaper is actually also on the west side of the dining room, over and to the sides of the archway that leads to the living room. There is a dark brown door leading to the office/small bedroom right next to the archway.
The ceiling of the dining room is a plain light tan wallpaper that has no blemishes or other problems. On the ceiling of the dining room is a working chandelier style light fixture, that takes 4 light bulbs.
There is a propane floor furnace on the south side of the dining room, with propane pipes coming up from the basement and an exhaust duct leading to the chimney and the roof. Although relatively old, this furnace is still in good working order. For maximum energy efficiency though, someone would want to eventually install a new propane floor furnace that can be purchased inexpensively from Home Depot and similar stores. When I priced these, I think they were in the $150-$400 range depending on exactly what you got.
Another viable heating option for this house would be electric heat appliances of various types, such as baseboard style electric heaters. This is economically feasible, because the cost of electricity is very, very low compared with the rest of the country. Another heating option which has become more and more popular in recent years for rural residences is a wood chip stove.
The wall behind where the floor furnace, which is the north wall of the dining room, is dark brown paneling which is in excellent condition.
On the east or outside wall, there is an opening to the outside for the air conditioner. The air conditioner is installed so that there is no draft from the outside whatsoever. Next to the air conditioner, there is a swing down ironing board that is stored in a storage slot behind a door that has a latch when it is not in use.
The underlying floor of the dining room is a good hardwood floor. On top of this floor is an older, low pelt carpet that has a geometric pattern on it with a mix of colors including various shades of brown and tan. Although not new, the carpet is not heavily worn anywhere, it does not look very old.
There are 4 electric wall sockets in the dining room, one on each wall, all of which are in good working condition.
The estimated size of the dining room, which is basically a square room, is 175 square feet.
The dining room opens to the kitchen on it's south side and opens to the living room via a large archway on it's west side. On the north side of the dining room, there are two sets of double paned windows. The frames and sills around and under these windows, as in the living room, are painted brown and the high quality brown paint that was used is still in virtually new condition. But a particular person will want to paint the small side panels of the windows in between the inner and the outer window panes, because there is some cracking of the white paint in that small area between the inner and the outer windows.
The window sills between the inner and the outer windows needed some repair and that repair was completed last year. They are now in good condition. Before the repairs, there were small cracks and holes leading from the outside into the space between the two window panes, the outer pane and the inner pane. These cracks and holes were all repaired, so that now there is the usual double window barrier between the inside and the outside. Although the windows are in good condition, with no cracking, someone who is eager to update or to upgrade, and/or to "make the place really nice," may want to spring for brand new windows.
On the east and north sides of the dining room, there is a light tan and white patterned wallpaper. The wallpaper has a country vegetables theme. This wallpaper is relatively old and might be considered out of style if the house was in suburban Chicago or somewhere like that, but it is still in good condition, with no peeling except for a very small section (about 1 square foot) that needed a small piece of clear tape to secure it. The wallpaper is actually also on the west side of the dining room, over and to the sides of the archway that leads to the living room. There is a dark brown door leading to the office/small bedroom right next to the archway.
The ceiling of the dining room is a plain light tan wallpaper that has no blemishes or other problems. On the ceiling of the dining room is a working chandelier style light fixture, that takes 4 light bulbs.
There is a propane floor furnace on the south side of the dining room, with propane pipes coming up from the basement and an exhaust duct leading to the chimney and the roof. Although relatively old, this furnace is still in good working order. For maximum energy efficiency though, someone would want to eventually install a new propane floor furnace that can be purchased inexpensively from Home Depot and similar stores. When I priced these, I think they were in the $150-$400 range depending on exactly what you got.
Another viable heating option for this house would be electric heat appliances of various types, such as baseboard style electric heaters. This is economically feasible, because the cost of electricity is very, very low compared with the rest of the country. Another heating option which has become more and more popular in recent years for rural residences is a wood chip stove.
The wall behind where the floor furnace, which is the north wall of the dining room, is dark brown paneling which is in excellent condition.
On the east or outside wall, there is an opening to the outside for the air conditioner. The air conditioner is installed so that there is no draft from the outside whatsoever. Next to the air conditioner, there is a swing down ironing board that is stored in a storage slot behind a door that has a latch when it is not in use.
The underlying floor of the dining room is a good hardwood floor. On top of this floor is an older, low pelt carpet that has a geometric pattern on it with a mix of colors including various shades of brown and tan. Although not new, the carpet is not heavily worn anywhere, it does not look very old.
There are 4 electric wall sockets in the dining room, one on each wall, all of which are in good working condition.
The estimated size of the dining room, which is basically a square room, is 175 square feet.
The Pantry
The pantry is on the far east end of the house, down a couple of cement steps that are off a door separating the kitchen and the pantry. There is another door leading to the steps that lead to the basement. The door to the basement is secured by a small latch. Both the kitchen/pantry door and the door to the basement would be something a particular person would want to repaint, because the paint on these doors is faded and peeled in spots.
A third door off the pantry is a door to the outside. This southside door to the outside was replaced about 4 years ago and is a good quality door with two locks, a regular lock and a deadbolt lock. This door never needs to be painted.
The walls of the pantry are white but the paint is worn to one extent or another in some spots, so it could use a painting if you wanted to make it look nice.
The hot water heater is at the end of the long and narrow pantry and it works fine. The washer plumbing hookups are on the interior wall of the pantry. There are both the plumbing hookups and the electric sockets necessary for a washer, and they are all in good working order.
The dryer electric socket is also in the pantry, on the other side from the washer plumbing hookups. The fuse box for the high current dryer outlet is just above the outlet itself. There is also a duct leading to the outside for the dryer exhaust. In short, everything is there and in good working order in the pantry for the use of a washer and a dryer.
The fuse box for the rest of the house is on the exterior wall of the pantry.
There is a three shelf metal cabinet for storing laundry and other supplies. There is a double pane window in the pantry, with a curtain, allowing for natural light, but there is also a working overhead light fixture.
The floor of the pantry is smooth cement. The ceiling of the pantry is white and a fussy person might want to paint part or even all of the ceiling, because the paint is worn out in certain areas of the ceiling.
There are about spare 8 window screens and window panes for the house that are being left behind in the pantry.
A third door off the pantry is a door to the outside. This southside door to the outside was replaced about 4 years ago and is a good quality door with two locks, a regular lock and a deadbolt lock. This door never needs to be painted.
The walls of the pantry are white but the paint is worn to one extent or another in some spots, so it could use a painting if you wanted to make it look nice.
The hot water heater is at the end of the long and narrow pantry and it works fine. The washer plumbing hookups are on the interior wall of the pantry. There are both the plumbing hookups and the electric sockets necessary for a washer, and they are all in good working order.
The dryer electric socket is also in the pantry, on the other side from the washer plumbing hookups. The fuse box for the high current dryer outlet is just above the outlet itself. There is also a duct leading to the outside for the dryer exhaust. In short, everything is there and in good working order in the pantry for the use of a washer and a dryer.
The fuse box for the rest of the house is on the exterior wall of the pantry.
There is a three shelf metal cabinet for storing laundry and other supplies. There is a double pane window in the pantry, with a curtain, allowing for natural light, but there is also a working overhead light fixture.
The floor of the pantry is smooth cement. The ceiling of the pantry is white and a fussy person might want to paint part or even all of the ceiling, because the paint is worn out in certain areas of the ceiling.
There are about spare 8 window screens and window panes for the house that are being left behind in the pantry.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The Closets
There are two closets.
CLOSET #1: WALK-IN CLOSET OFF THE MASTER BEDROOM
This is painted bright white on all sides. There is a small window, and the window frame and interior sill is also bright white. At the back of this walk-in closet, there is a high, built-in storage cabinet, with swinging doors that have latches on them. There are two shelves, and the total size of this storage cabinet is about 3 feet long by 2 1/2 feet high.
The ceiling is smooth and white, and there is a working overhead light fixture. The floor is a low pelt grey carpet which is tacked down to the underlying hardwood floor very well.
This closet is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of this closet. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of this closet is 35 square feet.
CLOSET #2: CLOSET OFF THE MEDIUM SIZED BEDROOM
Technically this is a walk-in closet too, but you can't walk very far because it is not a large closet.
All of the walls are painted white. There is a storage shelf installed in the back, which is about 2 1/2 feet by 1 1/2 feet. Below this shelf, there are two rods for hanging clothes and so forth.
The floor is wood. The ceiling is smooth and white, and there is a working light bulb fixture.
This closet is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of this closet. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of this closet is 25 square feet.
CLOSET #1: WALK-IN CLOSET OFF THE MASTER BEDROOM
This is painted bright white on all sides. There is a small window, and the window frame and interior sill is also bright white. At the back of this walk-in closet, there is a high, built-in storage cabinet, with swinging doors that have latches on them. There are two shelves, and the total size of this storage cabinet is about 3 feet long by 2 1/2 feet high.
The ceiling is smooth and white, and there is a working overhead light fixture. The floor is a low pelt grey carpet which is tacked down to the underlying hardwood floor very well.
This closet is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of this closet. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of this closet is 35 square feet.
CLOSET #2: CLOSET OFF THE MEDIUM SIZED BEDROOM
Technically this is a walk-in closet too, but you can't walk very far because it is not a large closet.
All of the walls are painted white. There is a storage shelf installed in the back, which is about 2 1/2 feet by 1 1/2 feet. Below this shelf, there are two rods for hanging clothes and so forth.
The floor is wood. The ceiling is smooth and white, and there is a working light bulb fixture.
This closet is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of this closet. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of this closet is 25 square feet.
The Hallway
The Hallway is a short, centralized hall which has doors to all of the following rooms off of it:
The Living Room
The Master Bedroom
The Bathroom
The Office/Small Bedroom
The hallway has an orange/brown patterned wallpaper on its walls. The door frames are brown, and the doors themselves are varying shades of brown. The floor of the hallway has a slightly worn shag carpet on it. Underneath the carpet is a hardwood floor.
The ceiling of the hallway is smooth and is painted white. However, the white is discolored in spots with a tan or yellowish color, possibly indicating that there was a roof leek overhead that area years ago, before the installation of the metal roof. Thanks to the metal roof, there has not been a drop of water in the house in the 30 months I have owned the property. Also, there is a small hairline crack in the ceiling of the hallway that does NOT represent any structural problem. The hallway has a tall "body mirror" attached to one of it's walls.
This room is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of the hallway. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of the hallway is 25 square feet.
The Living Room
The Master Bedroom
The Bathroom
The Office/Small Bedroom
The hallway has an orange/brown patterned wallpaper on its walls. The door frames are brown, and the doors themselves are varying shades of brown. The floor of the hallway has a slightly worn shag carpet on it. Underneath the carpet is a hardwood floor.
The ceiling of the hallway is smooth and is painted white. However, the white is discolored in spots with a tan or yellowish color, possibly indicating that there was a roof leek overhead that area years ago, before the installation of the metal roof. Thanks to the metal roof, there has not been a drop of water in the house in the 30 months I have owned the property. Also, there is a small hairline crack in the ceiling of the hallway that does NOT represent any structural problem. The hallway has a tall "body mirror" attached to one of it's walls.
This room is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of the hallway. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of the hallway is 25 square feet.
The Living Room
The living room runs off the dining room via a large archway. All 4 living room walls are white stucco. There are 3 electric wall sockets in the living room, all of which are working. Included in the sale are two reclining armchairs in very good condition.
The north facing double windows have a frame painted brown around them.
The ceiling is white stucco, the same as the walls. There is a light fixture in the middle of the living room on the ceiling, which works good. The floor has a tan patterned slight shag carpet. Although the carpet is not new, it is in good condition, with relatively little wear and tear to it. Underneath the carpet is a good hardwood floor.
This room is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of the living room. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of the living room is 200 square feet.
The north facing double windows have a frame painted brown around them.
The ceiling is white stucco, the same as the walls. There is a light fixture in the middle of the living room on the ceiling, which works good. The floor has a tan patterned slight shag carpet. Although the carpet is not new, it is in good condition, with relatively little wear and tear to it. Underneath the carpet is a good hardwood floor.
This room is in very good condition. There are no substantial flaws to any of the walls, the ceiling, the carpeted floor, or to any other aspect of the living room. As indicated in the estimated room sizes post, a good estimate of the size of the living room is 200 square feet.
Estimated Sizes of Rooms in the House
ESTIMATED SQUARE FOOTAGE OF ROOMS IN THE HOUSE
These estimates should be accurate to within 10 square feet.
Pantry 90 square feet
Kitchen 130 square feet
Dining Room 175 square feet
Living Room 200 square feet
Hallway 25 square feet
Office/Small Bedroom 100 square feet
Bathroom 75 square feet
Master Bedroom 200 square feet
Medium Sized Bedroom 140 square feet
Walk-in Closet off Master Bedroom 35 square feet
Closet off Medium Sized Bedroom 25 square feet
These estimates should be accurate to within 10 square feet.
Pantry 90 square feet
Kitchen 130 square feet
Dining Room 175 square feet
Living Room 200 square feet
Hallway 25 square feet
Office/Small Bedroom 100 square feet
Bathroom 75 square feet
Master Bedroom 200 square feet
Medium Sized Bedroom 140 square feet
Walk-in Closet off Master Bedroom 35 square feet
Closet off Medium Sized Bedroom 25 square feet
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The Dining Room 1
Dining Room 2
The Propane Heater in the Dining Room
Dining Room and Part of Living Room
The Living Room and The Dining Room
Living Room 1
Living Room 2
Small Bedroom or Office
The Bathroom
The Master Bedroom
Master Bedroom 2
The Large Closet Off the Master Bedroom
Medium Sized Bedroom
Medium Sized Closet off the Medium Sized Bedroom
Kitchen 1
Kitchen 2
Pantry 1
Pantry 2
Steps to the Basement
Steps go from the pantry to the basement
Basement 1
Basement 2
Basement 3
Basement 4
Basement 5
Quonset Building 1
Quonset Building 2
Quonset Building 3
Quonset Building 4
