New House in Carmel!

Our last week has been exhausting as I thought it would be.  But productive!  We are under contract on a beautiful home in Carmel.  We flew to Denver Friday night, arriving after 10pm mountain time.  My parents picked us up and of course we stayed up to late talking (SO worth it!).  On Saturday mom and dad hosted a lunch with dad's slow cook short rib burritos with mole sauce as the star.  Oh. my. gosh.  They were amazing.  We got to visit with Rena, Carsten, Grant, Robin, Ross, and even Chris, Pam and Maureen who all happened to be in town.  It was awesome.

We meet our real estate agent on Sunday.  I just knew we were going to really like her and sure enough we did.  We started at a Pulte home builder rep in Zionsville and toured a already built home with the floor plan we like (though no basement which is a must for us).  We really love the house and priced out the basement and a bunch of options.  But of course we would have to wait 4-6 months for it to be built.  Plus we were not crazy about the new subdivision.  After that we headed out to look at homes for sale.

I was surprised at the condition of the places we looked at.  They were really, really dingy and none of the floor plans were very good.  I was doing my best to remember how much a little paint would help these places, but our agent was also not impressed and reminded us that it is never a good sign to see a home that has not been well maintained.  Soon we made it too *thee* house.  I already had it in mind as my favorite.  And sure enough it was!  Our house was purchased and flipped by the current owner.  He has done a really nice job on it.  Here are some stats and things I love:

Built in 1995
2700 square feet on main and upper levels
1400 square feet finished basement plus unfinished storage area (woo-hoo)
4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
2 car plus tandem garage
0.23 acre lot
Matures neighborhood and low HOA fees (It is all but impossible to find a home without an HOA in        Carmel.  Welcome to the burbs)
NO BRICK!! ;-)
Awesome wrap around porch
NO vaulted ceilings or ginormous master bedroom!
4 year old roof
All new flooring, carpet, hardwoods, tile in the bathrooms
9ft ceilings
upper level laundry
White cabinets in the kitchen
All new stainless steal appliance, including a fridge
All new cabinets and counter tops in the bathrooms
New light fixtures
New back deck
Tile backslash in the kitchen
Granite in the kitchen (not my favorite solid surface, but def a step up from laminate!)
The kitchen sink is open to the dinning and living space
The "breakfast" dinning area is big enough for our dinning table and we are making the formal dinning room an office (I don't care for two dinning areas).
Utility sink in the garage
Central air conditioning.

Um, yeah.  I like a LOT about this place.  I really didn't think we would find as many things on our wish list for a home as we did.  It is amazing.

That is all for now, we are in go mode around here.  The movers are coming on Thursday so we are busy, busy.