INS and OUTS

This month´s post is for those of you who haven´t visited us yet and would like an idea of what our cottage farmhouse looks like from the inside!! We recently took lots of photos with a view to matching them with old photos of the cottage before it was renovated. Haven´t quite finished that yet as I need to take lots more most recent shots from the same position as the old ones.

For example:
The front of the house as it was...

And the front of the house as it is now...

But I can show you some then and now photos of inside just as an appetizer!

The Kitchen.. with new IKEA fitted units as it is now..

and how it was.. this is the view of the top right hand corner it was the cellar and used for storage and for making wine....

and this is the wine tank (opposite the corner in the photo above) which became the counter on the left of the column support in our kitchen now.

The Lounge.. used to be the living area which was mainly kitchen (behind the white wall) and had a fireplace in the corner. The stairway now comes up to this floor from right to left along the white wall in this photo, from the kitchen below, and the window on the right hand side is now in the upper hallway.and this is how the lounge looks now.... (well half of it anyway) in the section behind the white wall above! The patio doors replace the bricked-in windows above and lead onto the front veranda.We have got three bedrooms, one on the first floor, which is our bedroom and has a door onto the veranda..and two in the attic with a communal area in between them

There are also two bathrooms, one in the attic next to the bedroom above and one on the first floor, but we have another shower and loo in the utility room which is on the ground floor.

The attic was built onto the main granite structure and did not exist in the original house. Neither did the utility area which was built beneath the extended veranda and onto the end of the front of the house.

BARN UPDATE

Well the left-hand section now has its windows and the vellux in and has been rendered. YES!!!! and the gallery is in and boarded over......

So we are now focusing on completing the interior structure of the other side of the barn ....MORE IN A FEW WEEKS