well Carol since today's subject is our homes why don't you tell me about yours
okay i live in Plano in a four bedroom
two bath house which is the area's dominantly three bedroom two bath
so i'm just a little bit different than typical
uh
and of course
the Plano area is basically with alleyways
so everything around here is
set up that way
which i think is little a little bit different than most areas in the houses the way they're constructed and it's a brick house with uh some wood
it's real nice i like it how about you
well i i certainly hope so we have a a classic ranch
up in Denton Ranch style home i should i would hate to think that anybody thought i
the lot we live on is a ranch uh
it's in a subdivision
and one story
it started out life as a three bedroom house and now has no two car garage and has
uh the two extra rooms enclosed i suppose we still only have three effective bedrooms but we gained a playroom for the kids and an office
out of enclosing the garage
are most of the houses in your area three bedroom two bath
almost a hundred percent
i i can't think of any four bedroom houses in the subdivision
ours is probably the closest to it
you know how realtors are they'll say oh this could be five bedrooms
yeah if you had two people that don't have any clothes it could be a five bedroom house don't need a closet
yeah me too
the only thing about mine um i think there's probably about
oh when i go down the street i can just pick out houses that are that are identical to mine and usually they are the four bedroom
um but they're spaced out
oh i'd say maybe three or two block period
because it's all different builders up here
so it's kind of hard at that point to you know classify some of the builders
but most of the builders all built three two
but the one thing my house is a little bit different and i can pick it out again because it's not typical is i've got the
oh what do you call it a uh
double ceiling double high
in one half of the house
so like the den and the living room
are all double cathedral ceilings
uh cathedral ceilings
and uh the kitchen is norm and the bedrooms are norm
so it just goes down the dining room
the family room and the living room that way
and i love the space
it just
it's uh luckily
i came from a house in Colorado which had the cathedral ceilings
and i just lucked out and walked into this one and of course i felt the same airy feeling which i liked it real well
so it's a nice thing to move into but
again it's not typical in this area
you can just spot them because the ceiling the roof is so high much higher
but uh
well i hadn't thought about it in that sense of the high roofs
we have cathedral ceilings in uh two rooms and the uh
family room and in the master bedroom
those are are pleasant
yeah
well it's like when my son goes up into the
up into the furnace area over the garage he can walk and he's six foot and he says oh come on up mom i'm not going up there i'm not going up there but he says there's plenty of room up there for a room
yeah
so that means if i knock out the wall
in my family room i could make another room overlooking my family room from upstairs
with no problem
but um i'm not that ambitious
i told maybe someday
when i feel really ambitious and then get angry i'll start poking holes up there but until that time
but uh i've noticed the houses around here are basically it's one story
and they're all basically two
uh bath two uh with three bedrooms
and we're ninety i would say about
oh about ninety five percent no i guess maybe probably a hundred percent of them all are mostly brick
uh with some wood
right
it's basically all brick the next subdivision over from me is total brick
and the one on the other side of me
is about the same as mine
but uh the one on opposite the street now they're total brick and they're basically almost all three two
they're all three two
but of course they have a little river going down their area too which is kind of nice
if it's the kind of river i'm thinking of better them than than us you know
are you talking about a real river creek
no it's a creek they've put little fountains in and such
well that's nice uh i came from Mississippi
recently and the rivers that we had there were the ones that came with the rains and
they didn't pay any any attention to banks and
oh
that kind of stuff so you're just as likely to
wake up and discover you're in two inches of water
do you have a lot of property i mean a lot of yard around your house now in Denton
uh it's a third of an acre i don't think that's a lot
uh in fact i have been real disappointed in the six years that i've lived out here about lot sizes
i'm more accustomed to a one acre lot being a standard and the two acre being
what most people have
yeah when you get down closer in to the newer track homes you find almost like there's no lot line at all they're built practically on top of each other
that's true
i know i was
and an and while while there are some advantages to that there's less time spent outside making it look nice and taking care of things uh
i just feel
hemmed in
by that
it's not as comfortable a living
for me
um-hum
well this subdivision here has got
oh there's enough to put
oh i'd say uh
what twelve feet between each house on each side well i've got more on one side than i've got on the other
but i'm like you i came down from Colorado and there was more land up there around the yard
with a big full back yard which here i look out my back yard and i can see the gate i mean the fence is right there i mean just don't run too fast or you'll hit it
and i'm not used to that either
i mean i could see people putting swimming pools in the back yard all around me but
to me you put the swimming pool in your back yard and you've lost your back yard
entirely
i mean uh sure i mean you've got a little place on one side or the other but
but to me their not that big enough for a pool but you know they're going up so
but it's uh
it's great for mowing
from from that aspect you're right and and it doesn't take nearly as long to get out there and weed it by hand and that kind of stuff
but yes i'm used to uh walking out the back yard and you can play catch across the back yard and you've got plenty of room to even play a small game of baseball but
don't do it around here
no the one that's
sort of what drove me to Denton
when i first came out here in
eighty five i started looking and it seemed like the further i got away from Dallas center
uh the more lot came with the house and and the lower the price at the same time
and it just seemed like there was a ten thousand dollar drop for each city
i hadn't thought about it that way
so
so moving up thirty five
i stopped when i got to Denton
it just well see now with our jobs mainly hitting downtown Dallas we couldn't go too much further but we we went that way it was the schools and the
cost of houses so we kept going out until we figured we hit a point where we need the traffic time to get into work and that's where we stopped it was the thing same problem
but i think Plano is so very different
you all both you all both work downtown
i got laid off by TI
oh well
this is a wonderful thing that you that you're doing here still helping them out
uh but you were working downtown
oh i
no i was working at the Dallas site
my ex-husband was working downtown
oh
but i uh uh
no TI as far as i'm concerned they've been great as far as layoffs is concerned so i have no problems problems
but as far as the housing i would like personally i would like to move out of a four bedroom house and go with something smaller but prices in Plano there isn't um
there isn't a section in Plano you can really move to without getting caught
and uh
if
my price right now for what i pay
