Nostalgia: Photos of the Stouffville House

 Having posted about the house we are leaving in Abbotsford, I found the real estate shots of our Stouffville house that me left in 2017. We did hire a staging company for this one but keen observers will note that the stager used a lot of our stuff. To be fair, we used what the stager did as ideas to furnish and decorate in our Abbotsford house such as the paint colour and the glass top tables.

We'll start with the view from the front entrance looking towards the living room at the back of the house.

We originally had a bench seat in the hallway but we replaced that with the less practical but more photogenic glass console table.

And here is the reverse view looking back.

Here is the living room from the kitchen area.

And here is the reverse showing the kitchen from the living room.

Swinging a bit to the left, we have the dining area, which includes sliding doors to go outside to the back yard. The back yard wasn't too much to look at, basically a 40x20 foot area with a small patio and a loud air conditioner.

The landing of the stairs, which you would see the moment you stepped in the doors and looked to your left and then the stairs themselves.

The office, with a view out the front and a faked daybed. It's really just a bunch of boxes with a bed cover on them. We always intended to have a daybed in there though.

The main bedroom with a view out the back.

The ensuite bathroom, which was double in size over the Abbotsford bathroom, but nowhere near as nice. I much prefer a proper dedicated shower over the tub/shower combo.

Finally, the guest bedroom.

Maybe I'll be able to dig up the Brampton house. If so, I'll post those pix as well.

 

Gaming Stuff Packed

 Here is my miniature life reduced to a few boxes.

One big black box contains most of my Chain of Command 28mm miniatures and terrain. The only bits that it doesn't contain, trees and buildings, are in the grey box with the blue top. The other big black box contains miscellaneous gaming stuff including my lead mountain.

The white shelving unit is my bit box. It used to also contain my paints, which have been replaced by 15mm ECW figures and the forests and buildings of my 2mm board.

The yellow box and Mary Kay bag contain my 6mm figures and terrain, both finished and based and unfinished. The Mary Kay bag is seriously the best thing a miniature gamer could use for traveling to gaming events. It has 4 boxes on trays for miniatures to go in with slide out access. Rules will fit in front of the boxes. The top part (originally meant for lipsticks) can lift out and is where I put all of my trees in. I can put some tall buildings in there as well. The side pouches are nice areas to put gaming equipment in such as dice, measuring tapes, containers of tokens, and so on. The bag has both a nice carry handle and a good strap for carrying on your shoulder. 

And here is my travel boxes with reading material. Because I might not be able to get to the other miniature boxes for 6 months or so as they go into storage, I have some miniature supplies to tide me over. I packed my 15mm tanks in there, a whole bunch of toothpicks, stir sticks, and other bits of wood so that I can do some terrain crafting, especially when we self-isolate after moving. I also put my 15mm Americans in there just in case I feel like painting. Speaking of paints, that's what the tackle box contains.

I'm quite proud of how compact my collection is at the moment.

Photos of the Abbotsford House

 We're into the home stretch of packing to leave, but I thought I would post the real estate pictures of the house. Please ignore the distortions that the photographer uses to make it look bigger and brighter. I do want to point out that we really didn't stage the house too much so it does/did look like this once we finished our renovations. 

Let's start with a video. 

And here is what it looked like through photos:

It is a raised ranch style house with the entrance half way between the levels. This is the view of the upper level after you climb the stairs and look to your left.

I miss our fish but we had to rehome them. Here is the view from the living room looking into the dining area.

Here is the opposite view from the previous one. The stairs are immediately behind the sofa.

Here is the view from in front of the fireplace. You can see the kitchen.

Here is the dining area with the French doors to the deck.

This is the view of the kitchen you get if you go from the top of the stairs and continue forward.

And here is the view looking from deep in the kitchen over the island and into the living room.

Here is the opposite view of the kitchen. This is pretty much as we bought the house with the only real change being replacing the ugly tiles with the vinyl planks.  

The main bedroom.

The ensuite bathroom, which has to be the smallest but nicest bathroom we have ever had. It's not much bigger that what you would find on a cruise ship, but it does have a fantastic shower with bench, much more storage that you would think, and heated flooring.

This is the shower, which we rebuilt completely. Originally, it had a fiberglass shell that led to a 30 inch by 30 inch shower. Getting rid of the shell and moving one wall over by 8 inches (so that it actually conforms to the blueprints!) doubled its size.

The guest bedroom.

The home office.

The main bathroom, where you would hardly notice the 8" it gave up to the ensuite bathroom.

The main room downstairs, which became my hobby room and COVID office.

Behind my hobby area and office was an extra area that we used as a spill-over bedroom.

The view of the deck after stepping out onto it from the dining area.

This is the view of the deck. To the very right are the French doors in the dining area that you use to get onto the deck. The raised area where the red umbrella is is where the pool used to be. We removed the pool because it was a nasty cheap one that had not been properly winterized.

The main seating area, which we used extensively over our three summers in the house. 

The house from the back across the back yard. The deck is massive but there's still plenty of yard. This picture is taken between the pear tree on the right and the plum "tree" on the left.

This is easily the best house we have ever owned and we're a bit sad to leave it much quicker than we had planned.