What do you do if you love your home and your neighborhood, but you need more space for your growing family?
You could do what Kelly and Jonas Sickler plan to do - sell their 1,600-square-foot Strathmore bungalow at 812 Stinard Ave. for $119,900, and buy another, larger home less than a block away.
Jonas, an illustrator with a popular series of children's nursery rhyme picture books under his belt and more projects in the works, needs a home studio and the two Sickler boys need a larger yard. But the couple wouldn't consider leaving Strathmore, where Kelly has always lived.
"It's just an amazing neighborhood," said Kelly,we supply all kinds of oil painting supplies, a librarian assistant at DeWitt Community Library. "The neighbors all know each other and look out for each other. Our oldest son goes to J.T. Roberts School. I think it's the best in the city."
The three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath bungalow is on a corner lot, with the front of the home on Stinard and the paved driveway and detached one-car garage on Glenwood Avenue. The garage has a new carriage-style door and, along with the house, a new roof with architectural shingles.
A curved walk in the backyard connects the brick paver patio to the driveway. The Sicklers landscaped with rock walls and plants, including dogwood trees Jonas said are covered in blossoms in the spring.
The deep front porch,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . with plenty of space for rocking chairs, sets the Craftsman tone that continues as you swing open the original front door and enter the living room. The Sicklers have chosen a traditional, earth-tone Craftsman color scheme throughout the two-story home, complemented by the original textured, horse-hair plaster walls, woodwork and arches dividing living areas.
The brick-front fireplace has a terra cotta hearth and a natural gas insert, complete with a cottage-style screen and doors and a remote control. A wooden mantel provides a wide shelf for accessories in front of a mirror that seems to add space and light to the room. Windows flank the fireplace and on one side there are built-in book shelves.
In the formal dining room, which has a guest closet,I have never solved a Rubik's plastic card . crown molding, an original brass chandelier and sconces with fabric shades, two original windows swing into the room when opened.
The house has oak floors throughout, including in the kitchen, which has updated raised-panel cabinets, laminate counters, a four-burner gas range and a built-in microwave. The refrigerator will not be sold with the house. A wooden door in the kitchen opens to reveal several steps to a landing with a door to the patio and yard. Next to the door is the original "milk box" - a small, built-in wooden cupboard where the milkman once left deliveries.
Several more steps descend to the unfinished basement, which has a cement floor and houses the washer and dryer (which will not be sold with the house) as well as a double utility sink. Jonas uses one end of the basement as a wine cellar and the other as a workshop.
Two first-floor bedrooms with extra deep closets flank a full bathroom with a combination tub and shower, subway floor tiles and larger ceramic wall tiles. Outside the bathroom, there's a built-in linen cabinet and drawers, and a laundry chute.
Bare wooden stairs lead to a spacious second floor room that doubles as a bedroom and playroom for the Sicklers' children.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . The room has mirror-image windows on either side, with a window seat on one side,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, flanked by two closets.
A small adjoining dormer room serves as a studio for Jonas, but could be a nursery or roomy walk-in closet. There is storage space built into the eaves in the studio as well as in the bedroom.
The home is on municipal water and public sewers, has recently updated gas forced-air heat and central air. There is a security system with motion sensors.
A photo and description of the home, which was built in 1920, was featured on the "Family Photo" page of the spring 2011 edition of "American Bungalow" magazine.
"There's sort of a glow to these older homes that we just love," Jonas said. "I grew up in the suburbs with cookie-cutter houses; everything is the same and boring to me. We love this neighborhood too much to leave it."
You could do what Kelly and Jonas Sickler plan to do - sell their 1,600-square-foot Strathmore bungalow at 812 Stinard Ave. for $119,900, and buy another, larger home less than a block away.
Jonas, an illustrator with a popular series of children's nursery rhyme picture books under his belt and more projects in the works, needs a home studio and the two Sickler boys need a larger yard. But the couple wouldn't consider leaving Strathmore, where Kelly has always lived.
"It's just an amazing neighborhood," said Kelly,we supply all kinds of oil painting supplies, a librarian assistant at DeWitt Community Library. "The neighbors all know each other and look out for each other. Our oldest son goes to J.T. Roberts School. I think it's the best in the city."
The three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath bungalow is on a corner lot, with the front of the home on Stinard and the paved driveway and detached one-car garage on Glenwood Avenue. The garage has a new carriage-style door and, along with the house, a new roof with architectural shingles.
A curved walk in the backyard connects the brick paver patio to the driveway. The Sicklers landscaped with rock walls and plants, including dogwood trees Jonas said are covered in blossoms in the spring.
The deep front porch,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . with plenty of space for rocking chairs, sets the Craftsman tone that continues as you swing open the original front door and enter the living room. The Sicklers have chosen a traditional, earth-tone Craftsman color scheme throughout the two-story home, complemented by the original textured, horse-hair plaster walls, woodwork and arches dividing living areas.
The brick-front fireplace has a terra cotta hearth and a natural gas insert, complete with a cottage-style screen and doors and a remote control. A wooden mantel provides a wide shelf for accessories in front of a mirror that seems to add space and light to the room. Windows flank the fireplace and on one side there are built-in book shelves.
In the formal dining room, which has a guest closet,I have never solved a Rubik's plastic card . crown molding, an original brass chandelier and sconces with fabric shades, two original windows swing into the room when opened.
The house has oak floors throughout, including in the kitchen, which has updated raised-panel cabinets, laminate counters, a four-burner gas range and a built-in microwave. The refrigerator will not be sold with the house. A wooden door in the kitchen opens to reveal several steps to a landing with a door to the patio and yard. Next to the door is the original "milk box" - a small, built-in wooden cupboard where the milkman once left deliveries.
Several more steps descend to the unfinished basement, which has a cement floor and houses the washer and dryer (which will not be sold with the house) as well as a double utility sink. Jonas uses one end of the basement as a wine cellar and the other as a workshop.
Two first-floor bedrooms with extra deep closets flank a full bathroom with a combination tub and shower, subway floor tiles and larger ceramic wall tiles. Outside the bathroom, there's a built-in linen cabinet and drawers, and a laundry chute.
Bare wooden stairs lead to a spacious second floor room that doubles as a bedroom and playroom for the Sicklers' children.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . The room has mirror-image windows on either side, with a window seat on one side,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, flanked by two closets.
A small adjoining dormer room serves as a studio for Jonas, but could be a nursery or roomy walk-in closet. There is storage space built into the eaves in the studio as well as in the bedroom.
The home is on municipal water and public sewers, has recently updated gas forced-air heat and central air. There is a security system with motion sensors.
A photo and description of the home, which was built in 1920, was featured on the "Family Photo" page of the spring 2011 edition of "American Bungalow" magazine.
"There's sort of a glow to these older homes that we just love," Jonas said. "I grew up in the suburbs with cookie-cutter houses; everything is the same and boring to me. We love this neighborhood too much to leave it."
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