Pictures of where you live

[Karen]

jackmilliesmom - how old is your house, do you know? And what's that wee building across from you with the steps leading up the side to the odd door?

No pictures of our house at the moment, I'll try to dig one up later.

[carole]

I just love seeing american homes, they are quite different to ours here down under, and of course the beautiful quaint stone cottages in the UK or Ireland, are always great to see,just love that history.

[jackmilliesmom]

jackmilliesmom - how old is your house, do you know? And what's that wee building across from you with the steps leading up the side to the odd door?

No pictures of our house at the moment, I'll try to dig one up later.

I just explained in an earlier post about the building at the back and what it is called. Our house is approximately 120 years old and there were 3 families reared there and they had at the very least 12 children in each but guess what we only have 4 rooms in the house upstairs would have been 2 bedrooms and downstairs would have been a bedroom and a kitchen. They would have had an outdoor toilet at the side of the piggary which is still there but has a more modern toilet in it now. We use that when my husband is working in his workshop as for him to come in and use hte bathroom upstairs he would drag plasterdust and other yucky stuff through the house. We have converted one of the bedrooms upstairs into a bathroom and the bedroom downstairs is now our sitting room.

We love it and plan to extend on to it as per our planning conditions and in keeping wiht the house. We intend to knock the piggary and use the granite stone from that in the extension.

Our house is made from granite stone and the walls from outside to in are 3 foot thick, we have replaced the old wooden windows with the nearest style of pvc windows. We love where we live as we look across at a farm on the other side of the road and pick out our lamb for easter dinner and the rest of the year, sorry lamb lovers but that is a way of life I am afraid....

[Logan]

Our home is a work in progress. I hope the yard will look much better in the coming months. I have certainly been working hard on it!







I love seeing where all of you reside. Each of you has a unique and lovely home!!! I like this thread!!!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Hey Glacier...I would like to trade houses with you.....

Logan..is that a Japanese maple??? Gorgeous...

[Logan]

Logan..is that a Japanese maple??? Gorgeous...

Thanks, Sara. It is a Japanese Maple, and the night after I took that picture, the freezing temperatures killed all of that wonderful new growth. We took a beating for 5 straight nights and most of the smaller trees and bushes were affected. I hope everything will come back!

These pictures are all terrific, you guys! I hope more people will post. And I don't think anyone ought to be ashamed or shy about showing them. After all, it is your "home", and I think all of us have an ongoing list of things we want to do to make our homes look nicer.

Logan

[Logan]

Miss Z, I think your home and garden are lovely!!! I especially LOVE all the Daffodils you have in containers and all over your yard! It is such a shame that the Daffodils can't bloom all year, isn't it? I miss mine, already!

[carole]

I agree Miss Z you have a beautiful home, and i know how expensive it is to buy in the UK, and you have one very regal and expensive home there,thanks for sharing, really lovely inside too.