House of the Week: A four-bedroom Colonial in Lansdowne for $350,000
The house has an attached garage and a fenced backyard.
Buying a home often involves an element of luck. That was certainly the case for Meghan and Matt Oyen in 2014.
Their families were coming to Lansdowne to help the couple move from a Brewerytown apartment into their new Colonial.
Timewise, “It was going to be a tight squeeze,” Meghan said.
She was pregnant with their first child and would deliver within days. Then the timing got even tighter. Their new house turned out to be encumbered with liens and could not be sold.
So the families shifted gears and started helping the couple search for another new house in the borough.
They found a four-bedroom, two-bathroom stone Colonial on a Friday and became parents the following Monday. “Just under the wire,” said Matt in something of an understatement, and they liked it even more than the first one.
But now, 12 years and two more sons later, they are again on the move, to a larger home in Media that is closer to Matt’s work in financial services.
The Colonial, built in 1920, is 2,000 square feet.
Entry is through a covered front porch. On the first floor is the living room with a working wood fireplace, a formal dining room, and an updated kitchen, which leads into a breakfast room with access to the fenced backyard.
The bedrooms are upstairs and the primary bedroom has double closets. An additional room could serve as a nursery, home office, or guest room and stairs from one of the bedrooms lead to an attic with storage space.
The house has an attached one-car garage.
It is close to two Regional Rail stations and local attractions include the Lansdowne Theater, a Saturday farmers’ market, and a local symphony orchestra.
The house is listed by Jackie Langley of Keller-Williams Media for $350,000.