Cute little house. I wouldn’t want to live so close to a river.
Tradd, my Dad lived on the Feather River and, as an engineer, did a survey to make sure the other side was lower and would flood first. Of course, in CA the main issue is drought but he was downriver of a big dam.
'i have a really good friend whose brothers live on Cranberry. His family had a summer house there forever.
I love that house. Reminds me completely of decorated rooms in 1930's Home and Garden magazines I had when we had a 1939 house. I am pretty tired of white houses with minimalist furniture, barn doors, etc. All the flippers here must use the same decorator. But I cannot live in the country. Must have a lot of peeps around me for comfort and a lot of services near.
I agree it's an adorable house. I think the wallpaper is very much aligned with a vintage country farmhouse look (not modern shiplap and cutesy signs and galvanized metal trinkets). Not that I would choose the wallpaper necessarily for myself, but as IL said, what a pain in the butt to remove!! Sometimes it's like separating two thin plies of paper. I had that in our NJ house and I wound up covering it with a textured paper. Otherwise I would have had to replace the drywall. But beautiful features and the architecture on the outside is is great. Lovely. But there are a lot of beautiful old homes in New England, IL. Come on up!
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Friends and I fantasize about buying a compound, and that would do nicely. Waterfront--lovely!
Some parts of California have the worst of all worlds. One of the places we were once considering for retirement but have now pretty much eliminated is Guerneville in the Russian River area of Sonoma county. Being in coastal California drought is a major issue. But so is flooding. Most recently in 2017, the last year that California had a decent amount of rain. Before that the last big flood there was some time in the 70’s. Not that long ago. Yes, we could find a house that is at a high enough elevation to not personally be at risk, but I’d just rather not…. Especially since drought is also an issue. I’d rather find somewhere that neither are quite such an issue. And maybe even eliminate wildfires and/or earthquake while we’re picking locations.
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