house hunting

this weekend we planned on seeing 12 houses, 10 on saturday and 2 on sunday.  right off the bat on saturday morning we eliminated three houses because they were further away (two by los gatos and one is an eichler in sunnyvale).  we decided against an eichler because we think they will require a lot more maintenance.  the first 2 houses we saw we did not like at all - one was on a busy street and one had a weird layout (a family room addition was not well done at all).

out of all the houses we saw this weekend, there was only one that we liked.  we love the layout of the house and the neighborhood seems very nice.  one thing we are unsure about is how much car traffic there will be on that street.  aaron and i will stalk the street to see if it will be busy or not. 

this is the family room of the house that we like - i love how open it is and how the room gets a lot of natural lighting.