by popular demand - i give you the house (at least from the outside)

people keep asking me to see The House. i suppose it's mostly because i keep talking about how it's crumbling around us and we have to tear it down and how i've generally been going on (undoubtedly to all of our dismay) about moving. this evening, it was gorgeous and sunny, so i took a lot of photos, so i give you, for now, the outside...

this would be the bit with the crumbling bricks.
made, via the miracle of lightroom, to look far more romantic than it actually is.
so much for that intentionally balkan look

the house - this is the bit we're going to keep.
it used to be the barn.

the inside of the barn/garage - where my eventual shop will be.

this bit is the barn/furnace room/garage/workshop
my new blue room will be upstairs in here. - 100m2. cool.

on the left - the garage/workshop bit
on the right - the original house.
we're tearing it down. 

this was originally a barn.
we learned from our neighbors that the owners they knew
did the improvements slowly.
which explains the 7 different ceilings.

the view from the back yard.
that middle bit will be torn down.
and we'll be building an addition instead at the end of the part on the left.
this is why it's good to have a guy you think of as your architect.

the best bit of the house as it currently is is this terrace.
however, we'll be tearing it down.
but it will make a magnificent greenhouse

the garden - loads of goodies planted here.

yes, there's a flag pole.
we're thinking of designing our own flag.

this barn belongs to the house next door, but was sold to them by the owner of our house in 1971.
we're renting it back for now. eventually we want to buy.

beautiful red maple in the garden.
it stays.

they left a dozen rhubarb plants. yay!