Wallingford: What Were They Thinking?
All houses have good features and bad features and finding the right one comes down to deciding what you can – and can’t – live with. But sometimes there’s something so wrong about a house that I’ll eliminate it from consideration immediately. The single negative outweighs every positive attribute. Such is the case with this Wallingford remodel.
There’s no upstairs hall bath.
Two bedrooms and a master suite, but no hall bath. So when the kids wake up in the middle of the night with a full bladder, where’s the outlet? Mommy and Daddy’s room? A trip downstairs in the dark?
I might forgive this if the house was still in its original 1910 state, before we fetishized indoor plumbing. But the flipper built an addition upstairs, so I know there was a chance to do it right.
Or did I miss the memo about chamber pots coming back into fashion?
STATS:
Neighborhood: Wallingford
Asking: $839,000
Address: 4213 4th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105
Square footage: 1840. Lot size: 5100 sq. ft.
Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 2.5
Last sale price: $410,000 (Jan. 2006)
MLS#: 26199068
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