My Home

My Home

This is the front of our little cottage. It was possibly built as early as 1916, though I have also heard it was 1922 - it's certainly visible in the old black and white pictures of the area taken in the mid-20s.

This is what our kitchen looked like when we first moved in. Oh boy...it certainly dated it to the 1980's extension that it was. 

This is our lounge. In the 70's, the owners had taken all the walls out, creating an L-shaped living area which was next to impossibly to arrange furniture around. The fireplace was done by an amateur builder and would be better suited to the garden than the living room. It was built on an the inside corner of the L, and came nearly 2m out at the corner! It featured the original lead-light glass window, 1980s brown recessed lights and spotlights and orange-stained Douglas fir t&g ceilings which continued through the entire living area.

My master bedroom included a bay window which looked original but was actually added in the 80's, bless them. The little lead-light window is not original but obviously taken from another house of similar era. It did, however, feature big, round black holes in the ceiling (downlights) which were less than romantic, and the windows had never been repainted that I could tell!

Abigail's room. This did have an original window, but the lead-light fanlights had been changed to plain glass at some time in the past.

Asher's room will make a fantastic office once the kids have left home. For the meantime there is an over-abundance of shelving for a small boy. It was very dark as the windows were almost completely overshadowed with ivy growth on the bank outside.



Rafe's room is the smallest in the house, no more than 3x2m. However it has original height ceilings of 3m so a previous owner had built a generous sleeping platform which means that none of the floor space is sacrificed. The windows are original but have had their fanlights removed in favour of single casement windows.