We officially moved out of our apartment in the Southmoreland neighborhood of KC the last weekend in May, 2014. It was a beautiful space with original 1920s charm, and it was full of great memories from the four years we lived there.
We opted to sell most of the furnishings we had owned since we moved in together in 2008 in order to purchase period-appropriate items for our new home. The nice thing about selling our old furniture is that it meant much less to move, though it still took us several days to haul everything north.
We definitely never envisioned ourselves going from Tudor-style cottages on the south side of KC to Mid-Century ranches north of the river (THE 'BURBS? US? NEVER!), but the style made sense given our propensity for cleaner, more modern designs. I wanted to share a couple of pictures of the first 60s-era house we looked at before we found our home.
The Greentree house is in our neighborhood and we thought it had a great layout and several interesting features. Unfortunately it had been neglected for many years. There were major structural issues that we would have had to deal with, such as a giant hole in the floor between the basement and the garage.
We passed on this house, but it brought us closer to finding “the one”...
...and closer to the realization that we are, in fact, the lunatics:
