The house itself was built in the 1940's and is a ginger bread style home. Originally a bungalow layout with two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bathroom on the main floor, it has since had a sunroom extension and loft conversion which now acts as a huge whole story master bedroom.
At the moment the upstairs is not only acting as a master bedroom, but as kiln. No air-conditioning and 100 degree temperatures means it is currently unusable. At present we are staying downstairs in what will eventually become a lovely guest room, the other downstairs bedroom is currently being used as a study/exercise/tv room it aspires to one day become an official office.
The kitchen and bathroom are beautiful, no work necessary.
The garden is lovely but a little on the wild side. We have already removed two enormous tree stumps to make mowing a little less of an obstacle course. Ivy peeps out of just about ever crevice and the weeds grow faster than any weeds i've seen before. At the bottom of the garden we have a river, I say river but actually its more of a stream within large banks. Apparently when there are storms the banks fill to the brim so we may at some point think about building an ark. There is a shed too, full of all kinds of things left by the last owners. I haven't ventured in further than a step yet to find out exactly what there is.
There is a basement within the house too, which is not something that I am familiar with. I've kept the door locked since arriving and avoid making trips down there without company. It is basically a dark, concrete, underground lair, which still has the original coal bunker at one end. During my original house tour Nick hadn't wanted to open the door to the coal bunker, which obviously made it even more of an interest. I later found out that it was because the room is pitch black and full of a tangled mess of webs and enormous spiders. Lovely.
We have lots of projects to be working on this summer...
Pictures below taken with show home furnishings...
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