Our New House

Technically, it's not going to be "our" house since we'll only be renting it, and it's definitely not a "new" house. We found a cute little 3-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom house for rent in upper Cresson. Really nice neighborhood, and it's a charming little house. The bedrooms are tiny as all heck, so we're going to have to use two of them as a "suite" of sorts...one for the bed (which will barely fit), and one for our dressers and a computer desk. Paige gets the third bedroom. Unfortunately, that means no guest room, but there's a bed and breakfast a mile down the hill that looks pretty nice.

The house is in great shape, which we couldn't say for a lot of the places we looked at--some were real dumps. This place was completely remodeled about 9 years ago, and they're repainting it and replacing the carpets for us. Windows and such look good, and there's blown-in insulation plus a "new" (ca. 2000 or so) furnace, so it should be fairly energy efficient. And it's in a neighborhood where we'd seriously consider buying a (bigger) house, so this will be a good chance to try out the area. We really like that it's ~12 minutes from campus, and only ~15 minutes from Altoona's shopping district. And the fact that it's a stand-alone house is a big deal, as we're pretty sensitive to (i.e. easily annoyed by) noise from neighbors.

We didn't get any pictures of the interior, but here are some of the exterior. Click on them for a larger view. And check out Picasa for more pictures from our PA trip.