The perfect blend of cottage & bungalow...

[Bungalove]

This house just came up for sale in our town:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/322-East-Beckwith-Ave_Missoula_MT_59801_M84564-90209?source=web

Click on "all 25 pictures" for some great ones. It's horribly overpriced because it's in the most desirable neighborhood in town near the University, but I think it's a perfect meeting of the cottage and bungalow styles. I love the living room, big enough but not cavernous, with great wood floors. I love the long, low built-in with louvered doors in the dining room. I love the sun porch. I'd love the kitchen if it wasn't so cluttered and if I could get rid of those hideous can lights in the ceiling. I love the built-ins near the kitchen and the staircase. Sigh.... I can dream...

[vintage girl]

What a lovely house. I liked the built-ins also. I could easily move into that house, just as it is. I love all the bright colors:)

[Bungalove]

I love looking at houses for sale, even though I love our own 1950 cottage-y house. I'm always a sucker for built-ins. Ours has built-in dressers in two of the bedrooms, and the small linen closet has a built-in laundry chute, which we didn't even discover until after we moved in! It's at the bottom of a set of drawers, and the front looks like just another drawer, but it swings down on hinges to reveal the chute. It had been blocked off down in the basement so we opened it up again and I get a childish thrill throwing laundry down it. LOL

[Gigi]

That was fun! I also LOVE looking at homes for sale... This one almost looks like something out of a magazine. Love the colors, accents, built-ins, and even the pup in the back yard too!

[shabbychick]

Very cute house. I think I'd be itching to take out some of the walls that divide up the downstairs, but the colors and all that great natural light sure make it an appealing home. The bathrooms are gorgeous.

[Breezy]

I love those old houses - it's beautiful!:)

[mac78]

Thank you for sharing...I love this house, but am totally shocked at the price....$399,000. OMG for a home built in 1913, that is outrageous. Here you can buy a brand new 3000/4000 sq ft home for that with spa tubs, new kitchens, etc. It is insane the cost of housing in some parts of the country. I noticed electric heaters in the house and that tells me the heating system isn't adequate, or else they are always cold. ;) Anyways a beautiful home.

I love the rooms, especially the living room and dining rooms. I love the yellow...I was just going to ask you ladies if "yellow" would be considered a neutral color, a very soft yellow that is. These pics answered my question. Gives me inspiration for when I am painting.

[shabbychick]

There was a time here when 400K wouldn't get you very much. I couldn't touch a house that wasn't falling apart for under 250K when I was looking a few years ago, and the only things under 200K were condos.

My entire downstairs is a soft, buttery yellow, and it works perfectly as a neutral, Marie.

[koolmimi]

The house is darling. Thanks for sharing.

My daughter and I pick up the realtor houses for sale magazines at the grocery store. We pick them up on our travels too. Neither one of us wants to move, we just like to look.

[CohenCottage]

That is such a cute house!! I went to Missoula one time when I was in college...we were on a Geology/Anthropology trek across the country and stopped at the university to listen to a discussion on bears and wildlife corridors for migration. Missoula was so charming! I think one of my friends from high school lives there now. We are in a college town too, and anything near the university is crazy $$$.

[yarborough house]

Nice house- it is sad to see that remodeled means tearing out all the moldings. There aren't any crown molding which would have been there, the moldings around all the doors and windows are cheap lowes off the shelf, the base boards would have been so much bigger. It takes time but it really is worth it to save the old moldings and clean them up and reuse them. Or have them milled again. The new moldings out there are not proportionate with older homes - too tiny.
I do love the built ins though...

[Rory Bremner]

Just do it! Buy it and sort the mortgage out later;)

[hammond39]

We live in a university town too, and housing is high in the area where you can walk to campus and town. We paid $300K for a two-bedroom one-bath 1000-sq-ft Sears kit house 3 years ago. But I wouldn't trade it for the twice the square footage anywhere else!

[Bungalove]

Yes, you are all right that the price is ridiculous. It's because of the neighborhood. Homes in the University neighborhood are at least a third higher than anywhere else in town. Also, Missoula is higher than any other towns in western Montana, unless of course you're right on a big lake or something.

Speaking of a lake, I found a cottage for sale in the little town of Polson. It's not right on Flathead Lake (largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi) but it's within walking distance. Will post about it on another thread.

Thank goodness looking online is free! :D