Eep! We’re actually going to look at houses tomorrow. I find this prospect to be mildly terrifying—my God, am I really an adult with a wife about to buy a house? How’d that happen?—but mostly really, really exciting.
In terms of what we’re looking for, we have a list of must-haves (in no particular order):
- A reasonably sized kitchen with a dishwasher—the dishwasher is especially important because we’re both sick of doing dishes three times a day.
- At least 3 bedrooms—though we’ll almost certainly turn the third bedroom into something more functional (like a craft room), we definitely need a place for guests to stay (and potentially a place for an as-yet thought about child to sleep).
- Near some type of mass transportation that will get us into and out of DC—I think we’ll probably end up somewhere in the greater Silver Spring region, though College Park/Hyattsville also look like contenders.
- A place for my grill—what can I say? I’m a male and I love grilling. Rachel has repeatedly pointed out that I’d be lost without my grill. I completely agree.
I think that’s everything that we absolutely need. There’s a much, much, much longer list of things we’d like, but I’ll save that for later.
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I like the idea of a guest room. I think I might qualify!