Parris Petals Designs

Archive for January, 2010

Maybe you’d like to raise a few tomatoes or plant a rosebush in that corner at the far end of the yard. Before you allow yourself to be transported by visions of bright flowers or bountiful harvests, take a look at what, if anything, is growing in that area now. What is the quality of the soil? Is it sandy or rocky, or does it seem rich and fertile? Is the corner you have in mind bathed in sunlight or hidden in the shadows for most of the day?
Ask also how well the grounds suit your life-style. Is the yard large enough for the play area you want for your children? Is it small enough to permit easy maintenance? The flower beds around the house are beautiful, but do you know what it takes to keep them up? Are you ready for that?
The smaller questions such as these wifi finally bring you closer to the big question, which is, do you like this house enough to offer to buy it? So take careful note of what you like and don’t like about the houses you see. You probably won’t find a house that has everything you’ve always wanted, but you will find the one house, among all those you see, that comes closest to that ideal.
Be careful about how much weight you attach to any particular fault. If the community and the neighborhood are right, it would be frivolous to reject a house whose chief drawback is that it has only a carport and not the garage that you want. When you walk away from a prospect, it should be because of a critical defect in the house itself.