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In May 2002 we moved into our new house. Roadworks hampered the
removal but the workers were all very helpful. |
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The house has 3 floors, each of which is a separate flat. We have
moved into the downstairs flat, we use the garage at the bottom of
the slope and when we have converted the former storeroom our front
door will be next to the garage. |
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At the moment the front door is on the opposite side of the house,
at the bottom of the steps. Here the former owner had an aviary that
extended initially over the pond as well. The birds remained in the
shortened aviary until he had built them a new one at his new house. |
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The south aspect will be greatly
improved when the building has been completed. Then there will
be a balcony from the new living room accessed through a door instead
of the window on the right (windows half-hidden by apple tree branch).
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The window on the left is the garage window. |
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The view from the kitchen on
the top floor shows how rural it is. The hay has been cut in the
donkey
's field and in the field to the south of the garden.
When the storeroom has been
converted it will have new windows including a pointed gable window.
The path will then be a bed for climbing plants, maybe wisteria,
clematis and honeysuckle.
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The garden has held all sorts
of surprises, such as poppies, lupins, delphiniums, thousands of
calendula, 10kgs of spuds, lots of bulbs to come up in Spring.
I have seeds of these poppies
if you're interested.
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The kitchen was partly fitted, e.g. the cupboards, oven, etc. behind
Karl, and we added the rest in a few days before moving in. It's
not easy to hang wall cupboards if there is no wall, but Karl managed
to solve it ! |
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The table has now been moved to the conservatory. I keep moving
things round to try to make better use of the available space. |
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It's
probably difficult for you to picture the layout. Well, behind the
blue curtain, above, is the hall and beyond that the bedroom. And
on the left, if you go through the archway, you come into what will
be the dining room but is now the living room: |
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The conservatory is an extension of the house, filling the space
below the balcony of the ground floor flat (as you can see from the
south view above). So two arches have been made in the outside wall
of the house and the kitchen itself has no window, but gets its light
from the living room and the conservatory. |
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There's a lot to be done to the house before it's finished. For
instance a new bathroom as the present one only has a shower and
no tub and is very cramped. However the new one is full of unpacked
removal boxes... |
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The guest room is now occupied by the computer and other office
furniture - and the wardrobe, which doesn't fit into the present
bedroom. |
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We have started to make the first alterations
: new alterations
and latest alterations
Where is Oberspeltach
anyway? |
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