just signed the the po on this little thing
i do realize you Ahmerikhuns in general have a master bedroom that's the size of this house, or for you Texans, an outhouse... But over here, prices are high, and the alternative in my budget would be a bigger townhouse(city centre) that haven't been updated since the 50'ies, or smaller townhouses that are updated, but have no yard and parking...
I do want room outside, and buying the bigger ones isn't an option as i would get bogged down with expenses trying to get it modernized, and insulated...
So smaller, is better... 6.5 meter wide, 7.5 meter deep, the house IS tiny, even by Belgian standards but i'm single, don't need much room (why heat and maintain rooms i don't use??)
Also, it comes with planning permission to add 10 meter in the back, the concrete slab is already there, the plot is 6.5 x 55 meters , so even after extending, i'll still have a garden, parking in front, and this here beauty...
And you know what kind of usage that will get, maybe not right away, but there will be something in it that starts with a P and ends with orsche. Oh yes!
The main point of this house, is that it is "done up" , maybe not super modern, but it has a bathroom a kitchen, and it's insulated... fresh electrics and plumbing ...that gas stove will heat the whole house, when i went viewing, it was freezing 5C below, and that single stove did the rest, it was not cold, in fact it was to warm in there...
I can move in, and not spend a cent on refurb, it's all there
It was built in 1923, which makes it one of the earliest rebuilt houses, after the War, i even have a book about the rebuild of this particular village, Boezinge, near Ypres, As it was one of the first to rebuild (Ypres itself was under discussion, Churchil wanted to preserve the ruins as a living monument , Holy Ground for hte Brits). This village was built out of the battlefield, around a priest who sort of steered a community of the early pioneers to return to these wastelands..
The house in question would be located, at 3/5ths from the left, top of the picture...