Some quirky features about the house

You never really know what you're getting until you get into a house. So there are always things that make you go, "Really?" once you start to live in it. Here's some of the things that we found:

• There is a "window" from the kitchen into the dining room, complete with "shutters"!

• The light in the middle of the kitchen (pictured above) is so bright, that when you stand under it, it feels like you're in a tanning bed! (We call it the sun!) This is also the result of 4 - 100W bulbs - which were also in all the receptacles all over the house, heating us up.

• The shower head holder in the master bath was mounted to the wall, at knee height! (After one week of showering with one hand, this became first priority to fix!)

• There are lots and lots of switches for pretty much every light in the house - multiple ways to turn the lights off and on everywhere. Except the dining room - which has only one way to turn the light on, and it isn't in the place that even makes the most sense (from the kitchen).

• Cable and telephone lines were threaded all around the house, through windows, walls, A/C units and more, leaving long lines of cable everywhere on the first floor. Since we don't get cable now, we don't really need them either! The previous owners, however, must have had a phone and TV in every room!
• One other quirky thing about the phone - the owners had "ringers" installed on every level, so even though the phone was on the middle floor, it "rang" up in our bedroom (and quite loudly). For the first month, our phone was literally ringing off the hook, and we hadn't even told anyone our number yet - look out telemarketers!