[speaker001:] so what kind of a house do you live in
[speaker002:] uh I'm in a uh in a ranch a uh it was about uh sixteen hundred square feet when I bought it and uh it's about two thousand square feet now but it's one of those typical uh ranches that you find around here oh it's uh built in the probably built in the late fifties so it's not um what you would find uh uh where you live but uh for the older um ranch homes it's pretty typical I guess
[speaker001:] um-hum well our home is uh probably for our area it's probably one of the lower income homes out here um most of the the homes that they're building well I shouldn't say all of them but most of them now are up in the millions of dollars oh oh yeah there's
[speaker002:] really how many square feet do you have
[speaker001:] we have got about uh twenty I'd say about twenty four hundred
[speaker002:] four bedrooms
[speaker001:] um we've got five bedrooms because we built on to our garage a a bedroom for my mother
[speaker002:] five bedrooms uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh
[speaker002:] I made a I made a fourth bedroom out of uh I I made a fourth bedroom out of one of our out of our living room and then added a uh what we call a sunroom to get the you know when we when we added four hundred square feet to our house
[speaker001:] oh oh that's great
[speaker002:] so yeah
[speaker001:] well this this house is very comfortable we've got two living areas and that that's the thing I probably like the most about it
[speaker002:] how many stories just one
[speaker001:] it's just one story yeah it's a Fox and Jacobs home
[speaker002:] how are they built
[speaker001:] um we've been real happy with it
[speaker002:] yeah I've heard the I've heard the construction's pretty good on Fox and Jacobs
[speaker001:] course I'm not a carpenter or anything like that they could probably come in and say gee this is not straight and this is under something that
[speaker002:] but I mean it doesn't give you trouble
[speaker001:] no no we haven't had a lot of problems with it at all
[speaker002:] uh-huh no cracked slab or anything like that
[speaker001:] no we've been real lucky
[speaker002:] um and is it um uh natural gas and
[speaker001:] so yeah
[speaker002:] uh you know what I miss though basements
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] I sure I sure wish they could build basements in homes in Texas
[speaker001:] yeah I I've heard a lot of people say that that's for sure uh we have an attic that we've just put you know plywood over over the beams and things up in the attic and so that
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum so you
[speaker001:] has replaced it to some extent but certainly not
[speaker002:] can you stand up in it
[speaker001:] uh in parts I mean you couldn't you really couldn't use it for a room
[speaker002:] so you have a probably a more pitched roof than is typical around here
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] it's ours is pitched so shallow that you uh don't get much room in the attic
[speaker001:] yeah yeah we uh we've got you know I'll store all our Christmas stuff and whatever else junk up there
[speaker002:] so five bedrooms and two living two family things
[speaker001:] two living areas we have a living room and dining room at the front of the house and then we have a the uh family room kitchen and play room
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] at the rear of the house which has been really nice in fact I really enjoy the playroom that you you would think that would not be a real bonus you know to a house but of all the rooms in the house I'd say that was that was the one that's been really nice to have
[speaker002:] isn't it funny how families end up living in one room in the house most of the time
[speaker001:] I think that's true yeah probably our family room's the the biggest uh
[speaker002:] you can right some people I mean families seem to migrate towards one one room and carry on most of their activities there and uh uh some rooms uh we have one room that we never use I mean might as well not even heat and cool it
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] strange
[speaker001:] well that's kind of the way our living room dining room is but it is nice to have it because there's uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] with our size of family it's nice to know that there's one that's always straight and clean if you have someone come just on the spur of the moment
[speaker002:] right right uh-huh
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] so you've been fairly happy with it how long have you been in it
[speaker001:] seventeen years
[speaker002:] wow boy it doesn't seem that long but it is because we uh came to this area about the same time
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] we've been fifteen fifteen years in the in the house that we're living in
[speaker001:] oh wow
[speaker002:] and we the the principal feature I like about ours is that it's pier and beam
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] yours is a slab I assume
[speaker001:] yes it is
[speaker002:] yeah ours is a pier and beam which has allowed me to go under it and do a whole lot of different things that I could not have done if it was slab I've done a lot of electrical and plumbing and other work that
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] by myself and saved a lot of money that I couldn't have done if the house was on a slab
[speaker001:] well that's interesting well
[speaker002:] but that's because it's so old it's uh thirty five thirty six years old when they used to build like that and uh
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum well my husband wouldn't do that anyway that's his that's his worst thing in
[speaker002:] I know he's not handy right
[speaker001:] life is to have to repair something
[speaker002:] I on the other hand seem um
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] do a lot too much of it and uh I've gotten good at it which in a in a way is bad because then you uh you start to take pleasure in it
[speaker001:] well uh that's great uh we just kind of save everything for when Al uh for for when his uh dad comes to visit and then
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] he does all the repairing you know he does
[speaker002:] right  my dad is actually uh