Loft

Here are some photos of the loft that make me happy, and keep me hopeful that we'll soon be living in this wonderful space.

Stairs leading up to the loft/living room area.  The stairs seem to be original and it seems they're being kept as is.  Yay!  We could always wallpaper them!

Will near the utility closet and top of the stairs.  The floors are fantastic up there, as are the two skylights.  I think we'll love this "room"!

You get a sense of the height, the light, and a good view of the beams.

The railing overlooking the dining room below.  Isn't the light from the window nice?

Since I saw these in old homes, and in a refurbished home belonging to some friends in Jamaica Plain, I've wanted an electrical unit IN THE FLOOR!  What a cool thing. 

Floor plans

The floor plans are showing up kind of small, but this gives a good sense of the layout.

The bottom floor of the space.  They have the living room downstairs, but we hope to put a dining room there.  We're going to take the back, right bedroom which has that great space off of it for an office.

The top floor of the unit.  They have a bedroom up in the loft, but we hope to have it as a living room.  

Fingers Crossed/Thumbs Pressed

Will & I learned last night that the seller has also signed the P&S so we're one step closer.  It seems like we should celebrate each of these little victories, but we know that this all means nothing until we have the keys in our hands.  We're hoping that will happen early to mid June. Fingers crossed, or as they say in Germany, thumbs pressed!

Here are a few more photos of 10 Union:

Some people have been asking where in Salem 10 Union Street is.  Here is it!  The image is small but as you can see we're close to the common, close the museums, and close to the water. Our awesome friends Jill & Ryan live .4 miles away, right across the common.  Google estimates that it will take us 1 minute to drive there (one minute!) but I think I'd rather walk or bike.  Maybe skip!

These are the stairs that lead to the loft area.  I kind of want them to keep them as is.  I used to live across the street from a few really cool houses in Cambridge that were featured in Dwell magazine.  The owners/architects pretty much gutted the place, except for the stairs which they kept from the original home.  That was my favorite part about the house.

View from the loft down onto the dining area.  They're going to be putting up a railing soon.  We hope to put a living room up there, with our brown Ikea couch which pulls out into a bed for guests.  The condo is a two bedroom, but the loft space and the second room off the master bedroom allow for several alternative guest spaces.  We like guests so this is ideal!

This is a good view of one end of the dining area, which as you can see has the loft above it to the left, and the kitchen just off the side.  

The other end of the dining room (and my sweet husband!).  There are two windows to the left which look out onto a nice old house, a not-so-lovely parking lot for the Hawthorne Hotel, and the beautiful Salem Common.