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My house is crazy quircky! Our garage has a room built over it. Turns out that the 'garage" was actually where the animals lived,and the room above was the original house. When, after walking the 37 concrete steps [ 50 original settlers wagon wheels as rails] up the side of the mountain to reach the "new" house,you have to decide which of the doors to knock on.Most people choose correctly, as one door is pretty much at ground level and the other you have to climb a few steps to reach. If you pick the wrong door,and open it,you will be standing in front of the top half of our basement and the bottom half of our main level.
While waiting to be invited into the home. you probably won't miss the many MAPLE wood raised gardens. That is what we did with the built-in murphy beds. You also might notice the 2 seater outhouse and the old fashioned incinerator, in perfect condition,now overflowing with dried out flowers and vines [winter has hit]
When you walk through the french doors, you will be hit with the warmth emanating from the huge fireplace
and smell something cooking from a lil invention my husband built into the fireplace.
Someone will request that you open a door, any door other than the one you just walked through. That is when you will notice that all of the interior doors to our home have 6 inch thick solid doors.
The bedrooms, you will notice,have tons of windows, but the rooms are actually quite small.But we have built in so much storage that it all works.
When you walkinto the kitchen, it will feel so regular, like any other kitchen, until we tell you that the original countertops extended only 10 inches, and when you look at the faucet, we remind you that there was no running water until a bit over a year ago.
Our bathroom, until a little over a year ago, did not exist.It was a part of our huge great room. Also, if you look on the window from the outside.you will see the rope and pulley that was used to hoist in supplies without having to carry them up the many steps.
Our house is small,but people who are not familiar with it tend to get lost in it and call it a maze.
We have put so much work -our work, not a contractors, including rebuilding all 37 steps- into this quircky little house. We have had to make upgrades, like plumbing and electricity, but we have donne nothing to interfere with its' quirkiness. This has been an awesome retirement project.so, does anyone else have a quircky little house that they love?
I've rehabbed and built different homes and cabins. Nothing as unique as yours, though. But, I love refurbishing and remodeling a place, so it sounds like great fun to me :-)
I have never figured out how to put pictures up online, but when my nephew shows up on Tuesday or Wednesday I will ask if he will help me with it. Of course I'll have to throw in a few pictures of our goats and chickens too.
My house is crazy quircky! Our garage has a room built over it. Turns out that the 'garage" was actually where the animals lived,and the room above was the original house. When, after walking the 37 concrete steps [ 50 original settlers wagon wheels as rails] up the side of the mountain to reach the "new" house,you have to decide which of the doors to knock on.Most people choose correctly, as one door is pretty much at ground level and the other you have to climb a few steps to reach. If you pick the wrong door,and open it,you will be standing in front of the top half of our basement and the bottom half of our main level.
While waiting to be invited into the home. you probably won't miss the many MAPLE wood raised gardens. That is what we did with the built-in murphy beds. You also might notice the 2 seater outhouse and the old fashioned incinerator, in perfect condition,now overflowing with dried out flowers and vines [winter has hit]
When you walk through the french doors, you will be hit with the warmth emanating from the huge fireplace
and smell something cooking from a lil invention my husband built into the fireplace.
Someone will request that you open a door, any door other than the one you just walked through. That is when you will notice that all of the interior doors to our home have 6 inch thick solid doors.
The bedrooms, you will notice,have tons of windows, but the rooms are actually quite small.But we have built in so much storage that it all works.
When you walkinto the kitchen, it will feel so regular, like any other kitchen, until we tell you that the original countertops extended only 10 inches, and when you look at the faucet, we remind you that there was no running water until a bit over a year ago.
Our bathroom, until a little over a year ago, did not exist.It was a part of our huge great room. Also, if you look on the window from the outside.you will see the rope and pulley that was used to hoist in supplies without having to carry them up the many steps.
Our house is small,but people who are not familiar with it tend to get lost in it and call it a maze.
We have put so much work -our work, not a contractors, including rebuilding all 37 steps- into this quircky little house. We have had to make upgrades, like plumbing and electricity, but we have donne nothing to interfere with its' quirkiness. This has been an awesome retirement project.so, does anyone else have a quircky little house that they love?
You house sounds awesome! I love quirky.
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