The One

We made a decision. It is a done deal. The house has been ordered. We found the one. This is a drawing of the front of the house. We went through a long process deciding on this major purchase. Two years ago I was dead set against a manufactured home. I didn't want a "trailer". We didn't even consider it an option. I didn't like the low roof line, the flat fronts, the boxy look, horizontal stripes don't look good on anyone. We looked at log cabin kits. We searched the Internet for home builders. We talked to local contractors. We checked out Adair and Reality Homes who come and build inexpensively on your land. A place from Bend will even build a shell or a super shell and you do the finish work yourselves. We got real close with the Adair people. Gareld kept looking at trailers on line and you really could find some pretty cheap but they still look like trailers. We drove to Hermiston one weekend to tour manufactured homes. Once you step inside they are gorgeous!! It started me thinking they might not be so bad. We came back to La Grande and the dealer here. We had all the floor plans and started pouring over them. We had a dollar figure in mind that we didn't want to go over. We narrowed it down to one Adair home and one manufactured home. Then we looked at pros and cons of each option.
One day as I was driving out of the Walmart parking lot I looked over at the trailer place and they had a brand new house sitting there with the cutest front I have seen on a trailer. I drove right over and toured it. It was "tiny" but the salesman said that front could be added to any of the floor plans. He ordered us a drawing of it on the plan we had decided on. We thought we had finally found the one we wanted. Then it came down to loan papers, mortgage companies and lots of paperwork. We also wanted to get the most house for our money. I started getting an uneasy feeling about tying up the property in a loan. Or the possibility of something bad happening like losing a job or one of us dying and losing everything while waiting for an estate to settle (morbid I know but we aren't getting any younger).
AND I didn't want to be house poor. I have to go to New York a couple times a year! So we pulled in the reigns. How big of house do we need anyway? We were plenty comfortable in the Hibbert's chicken coop for two months! Plus we have a gigantic shop with an apartment in the back and a camp trailer or two sitting around. Soooo....to finish a long story, we got the "tiny" house. Two baths is more than we had for the last twenty years anyway. We are happy the deciding part is over.

Oops! I'm not going to type all that again and I don't know how to get rid of this extra one.

Here's the floor plan. One of the things we really wanted was the living room at the back of the house so Gareld could sit in his recliner and watch the mountain behind us. There are so many deer, elk and turkey that enjoy the property, too. We did splurge and get the optional master bath with the nice tub!