Antique charm in Hopkinton

Doctors and distance runners Christine and Tim Fitzgibbons have found the location of their antique home near Hopkinton Center convenient in more ways than one.Not only has the Hopkinton address been handy for the commute to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where both work, but the couple also has been able to walk to the starting line when they have run the Boston Marathon. Well miss that, said Christine Fitzgibbons, who has run eight marathons in the past.

Fitzgibbons said she and her husband bought the 1,296-square-foot antique house seven years ago when they were starting out on their medical careers and married lives together. Its a good commuting location and a great starting home, she said. They have since welcomed two children, a son, 3, and a daughter, 1. We watched our kids take their first steps here, Fitzgibbons said. Were very sad to leave C were simply outgrowing the space.

The home, built in 1870, exudes antique charm, with window boxes, hardwood floors, a kitchen breakfast-nook and the odd quirk: watch your head under the slanted roof at the top of the stairs.At the same time the house features a number of modern upgrades: a new hot water heater installed a year ago, updated plumbing,We are professional wholesale best Cheap Outdoor Paving Stone,large LED Dome / Reading Lampwholesale order. stainless appliances and granite countertop in the kitchen, marble vanity and tile flooring the bathroom and an eight-year-old furnace.

At an asking price of $339,900, with a location close to schools, downtown and Interstate 495, the three-bedroom home offers a family just starting out an affordable entry to Hopkinton.A picket fence borders the backyard, planted with cherry and peach trees, a dogwood, a blueberry bush, and a garden where the family grows tomatoes and cucumbers.

The backyard is what we love most, especially with the kids, said Fitzgibbons. Listed as a quarter-acre, the enclosed yard is deceptively large, feeling bigger than the acreage would imply, she said. Its very private and quiet.

Upstairs, the second floor, with three bedrooms and one full bath, has a feeling of having been added onto over the years, as is not unusual in antique homes. A corridor leads to a small bedroom, with two skylights in its slanted ceiling, which has been put to use as a nursery. This room alternately might be used as an office. A few steps up, the master bedroom has wall-to-wall carpeting, a good-sized closet with sliding doors and a sitting area with windows that look out through the treetops

Off the driveway, a side-door entrance leads through a mudroom to the kitchen. A sizeable two-car garage with workbench offers extra space for storage. The white picket fence at the entrance to the backyard is made of a maintenance-free composite: another mix of old and new.The house has a nice flow to it, said Fitzgibbons. You can watch the kids while working in the kitchen. It has an antique charm, yet doesnt feel small.More than 40 traders investing in used furniture are competing to buy the contents, appliances and steel scrap of buildings to be demolished in Makkah for the development projects under way in the holy city.

More than 20,000 units in residential and commercial buildings, including hotels, shops and furnished apartments, have been demolished so far.According to industry sources,I'm looking at getting the light bar from ford racing and was wondering who sells the Cheap Marble Tiles. the returns made from the selling of the furniture, steel scrap and other contents of these buildings had reached more than SR1 billion.

The sources said the demolition of buildings in Makkah has created a lucrative business for Saudis and foreigners from inside the Kingdom and abroad. The trading hours extend from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.The sources said investors have rented courtyards on the outskirts of Makkah where they keep the furniture and scrap to sell to interested buyers.

Ahmed Khalil, a Saudi investor, said the demolition of buildings in Makkah has provided large quantities of construction material, sanitary equipment, bedroom and kitchen sets, electric appliances and other material needed by people who have buildings under construction and also by scrap traders.
He said the size of the building to be demolished and the number of its stories usually determines its price.

The prices range from SR1 million to a few thousand riyals depending on the size of the housing unit and the quality of its furniture, especially the tiles, marble, doors, windows, lifts and electrical and sanitary wares, he said.

Aljohani said buyers come from various parts of the Kingdom but the majority of them are from Taif and Jeddah. There is also demand from some neighboring Arab countries, such as Yemen,Most modern headlight designs include Cheap Packing & Loading Products. Sudan and Egypt, as well as African countries like Kenya and Guinea, he said.Aljohani said most of the demand from abroad is for blankets, doors, windows and furniture.

He said the demand for the scrap steel is very high but contractors demolishing the buildings themselves buy them. The price of a ton of scrap steel is about SR1,000, which is very cheap. This is a windfall for these contracting companies, he said.

He said the Saudi Electricity Company does not pull out copper cables from demolished buildings. African scavengers always look for these cables to extract them, sometimes subjecting themselves to the danger of electrocution, Aljohani said.
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