yep - we have 7 bricked steps to our front door. Mostly due to land grade and we added 12" to foundation height to get the 9ft basement ceiling. I have never seen front steps like that though. Looks common in that neighborhood.

 

looks so different from htown houses

 

most of the houses in that area are like ours. the place will be ours for 5-10 years, and then will buy what we really want.


but like JB said, you can go up or down.
there is not a ton of room but there is only the 2 of us.

but the area where you go upstairs has been painted by us and now we need to paint the 3 bedrooms and 2 bath.

we have spent a ton of money in the 1st 6 weeks there.
$1000 on a fence
$1500 on the washer/dryer
1500 on new fixtures misc.

now that we have all the major spending out of the way. i may look into a wood stove to a better source of heat for the winter. we only have a heat pump so it may be cheaper to get a wood stove also