Tulip House?

Shall we call this the Tulip house? Yesterday was scheduled for the official walk through for the purchase of the new home.  This is the front door as we stood in the family room.  The double doors are flanked with stained glass windows ~"tulips"~to match the ones in the doors.  Having done some stained glass work in the past, it seemed meant to be.  We met our realtor but the lock box had no key in it, just a note that the key was on the side garage door.  Unfortunately, there was no code for that box but we did finally receive a code.  Again when our realtor opened it, no key.  After a couple of calls, we were told that the plumbing contractors had lost it in the crawl space and they would send a locksmith over.  He spent time on the front door, the garage walk-in door and the garage overhead door and did not want to drill if it wasn't necessary and FINALLY was able to open the back door off the deck. The previous resident did not leave any keys at all. All of the repairs have been made..new roof, new carpet, new appliances, updated kitchen and bathrooms, electric upgrades and plumbing and duck cleaning.  There will still be things to do.  Above, the family room is about 6 inches below the other floors and it has lots of windows. (doesn't really qualify as a "sunken" room), but does add a little charm. Now we have all of the locks re-keyed also, but have no idea about receiving our mail, so you will not get an address until we contact the post office. Things are done a little differently here.  We will sign papers today, then this sale has to be recorded downtown, and we will receive the "key" the following day.  We have a call in to the mover and have all of the utilities in our name now, so things are progressing.  We will need washer and dryer, (those go in the garage and almost all do here) and a microwave and we will probably have too much furniture since we downsized and have one less bedroom and bath. so..........'til I know more.