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Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by admin in inspiration, omaha

Another thing I really love about living in a place like Omaha is the cheap real estate. Whenever I visit the coasts or take trips to larger cities, I always have fun but I’m just reminded of how lucky I am to live in an area with a low cost of living. It’s nice to have a yard (though I hate mowing it). It’s nice to have some quiet at night. And it’s really nice to not have to spend thousands of dollars a month on rent.

A few weeks ago we found a cute little house in our neighborhood. It’s on a double lot with a *huge* yard, a big front porch, hardwood floors, and a cute little sunny kitchen. It has a finished attic with a bonus room (destined to be our bedroom + my walk-in closet!) and a finished walkout basement with tons of natural sunlight. I never wanted to be a “basement crafter,” relegated to the dingy part of the house that wasn’t totally overcome by my family’s crap, but I will enjoy working out of this bright, sunny basement with a walkout to a cute little porch! There will be such awesome photos once we finish setting everything up, and I will have about three times as much space to work as I do now.

We live in Dundee, one of the busier parts of the city, and sometimes our nights are quiet, and sometimes there are fights that spill out of the bars in our neighborhood business district, and sometimes there are loud cars speeding by on the busy street a few blocks from our house. Sometimes I see schoolchildren walking single-file down the street toward the library or movie theater, all holding tight to a long rope.

Sometimes people rip on Omaha as a flyover city, or they assume we have no cultural assets like a thriving arts community or good schools or a fun nightlife, or they think that we never travel or know anything about the rest of the world. But those people are wrong, and I’m glad I don’t have to spend 3500/month on an apartment so I can afford to live my life and get out and see the world! Small cities are the bomb dot com.

These are a few of my inspirational photos for how we’re going to do the interior design of the house. I have a surprising amount of anxiety about decorating because it’s such a blank canvas and I really don’t want to mess it up!!