Fells Point

Matt and I visited Fells Point, Maryland (Baltimore) and I got to see his house for the first time! Well, let me talk about the neighborhood first... It's a walking around kind of place, little restaurants and coffee shops all around. No franchises at all! (well, maybe Subway, but that's ok) You can walk to the water from his house too!

Now for the house... It looks totally normal from the outside (but I forgot to take a picture of it). Once you're inside you quickly realize that it's a shell of at house and needs a bunch of work. My plan is that when we confirm that our baby is happy and healthy, that we take advantage of parent leave at work and live in Baltimore for part of April or May. The kitchen, bath and dining room are intact and livable. We can spend some money on the house then to start getting it all back together.

Here's the bedroom with 3 pretty windows and a fireplace. Remember that this house was built at the turn of the century.

Here's the other bedroom in the back with an attached full-size bathroom (which will eventually be renovated into a walk-in closet and the bathroom will be moved between the bedrooms).
A spiral stair case! (with sail boat masts in the way)
The front door and family room with fireplace (and a sailboat!).
The dining room...or the functioning bedroom of the house.
The dining room, kitchen and bathroom can be closed off from the rest of the house so workers can work and we can live.
The kitchen! It all works!

The patio which is need of some cleaning up and a privacy umbrella.
The fully functional bathroom!
Johns Hopkins is within walking distance and beginning to expand so this house will become a great rental property someday in the future. Until then I want to use it as a vacation home. It's such a fun neighborhood to hang around in. We'd have the best time walking around and being neighborly!