inheritance? or ghost protagonist? Nice twist, adding perspective at the end to guide your sequeler. The second paragraph is the strongest, though scorch marks seem just as ominous, if not tell-tale as to why the house is abandoned, let alone the stains.

I love old houses…it’s so cool to imagine what went on inside them, what they’ve seen over the years.

I agree with everything Elsha said…I’m intrigued by this. It seemed at first to be merely a description of a house, but ended up as so much more.

It seems strange that the protagonist watches his house and regards it with a sort of distance, rather than doing it up. A sort of mysteriousness surrounds him, and with its back story can we even trust that the narrator had nothing to do with its past? I love ambiguous stories like this.