Here are some pics of the house we put an offer on as it is now.

Entry hall - one of the 2 rooms with the original pasta tiles. Garage (!) is through door at left. 


bedroom downstairs with only other original pasta tiles.  doors aren't original but are cedar and nice. large living room is through doors at right.  With a master suite upstairs this would become a study/guest room.



Henry and Mimi in the back yard.  Red buildings on right will be torn down. So, yard will be more than twice as wide as shown. Buildings take up more than half the width.  Behind them through doorway is the patio, same thing here as it will be more than twice as wide without newer buildings. 


half the kitchen, last old room of house.  beyond it, through doors as right, it will be demolished and replaced with covered part of patio.  Big covered patio with furniture and dining table and maybe macaw cages ;) 


other half of kitchen room with little ucky bathroom.  door goes to patio.


Current patio, building to right will go and there will be some kind of covered patio room along there, open full width of lot though.  Second floor will go on roof and terrace will be over kitchen and look down on lower terrace and pool in back in yard (behind this pic).   Bedroom will be behind it over living room downstairs and bath will be behind that over downstairs bedroom with light well towards street side of house.


Old beam style ceiling in hallway


hallway from kitchen to front door. first 2 sets of doors on left go into living room.  Arches in hallway will be reshaped to colonial shapes, rounded tops.



Mimi in back yard, big tree at left is on neighbors fence and is called an Alamo, I thought it was a Ceiba but no, it is one that grows right on the bricks of the fence. Red building goes and pool will be somewhere there.  There has to be a pond, somewhere here with maybe a few small bog ponds feeding into it. Circle of concrete in front of her is the well.   concrete thing at right is just kind of a box, I don't know what it was for but it is empty now.


>From front door down hallway, Henry and I talking in the kitchen.


Close up of pasta tiles in entry.



Close up of pasta tiles in bedroom.


I'm excited and looking forward to this, that's what life is about.  I don't think it could be a bad investment as even flip houses are priced more than cost + reno on this and they are selling. I'm not doing it to flip it though, I really want to live here, and in a city again.  This is in the colonial centro but not on a main street.   It's a one way street with parking on one side.