Monday, April 19, 2010

It has a name

This is it ... this is ours, and without having seen the huge garden - it's about 2500m² big, with a small brush of larches, a flower garden, high beds for vegetables and a meadow with apple and plum trees, we put down a bid.
Of course, the house needs renovating ... a lot. However, the structure and roof are sound and it needs some corrections on the inside. But hopefully I can get the major things out of the way within a month (electrical, plumbing, kitchen) and the other four rooms will be done little by little.
We are now in the last stages of signing the contract.


OMG! It's scary! :)

We will have enough space for husband and I as well as our three dogs. I cannot wait to put my hands on it and re-do the whole interior. :D

The house also has a name already ... Peony Farm House. For there are peonies everywhere in the flower beds and hopefully I can already pick peonies for this Whitsun.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Is this it?

After many suitable and not so suitable houses ... we even found a house which was modern in size and style but only had a blanket of a garden ... we visited a house today which might be it. I say might because hubby and I are not too sure if we really should commit to a house that was built in 1792.
Should we? There is a lot to be done ... complete new bathroom, complete new kitchen ... complete new flooring on 90 square meters.



Its Neo-Classical exterior from the early 1800's is charming, esp. as it is a front for an older farm house from 1792.

Coming through the gate from the street, it leads you into a courtyard with a small plot of flowers and bushes and a paved ground. The Tudor style wood and plaster construction predominant.