room inside

This is the last of the posts on our place, from the outside. I told you already that we live on the first floor, up the stairs, and that we share the cottage with other people. There are four flats all in all in the house you see, and within one flat (unless there is a couple like us living there) there are two staff members of the community living in one room each and sharing a kitchen and a bathroom. So basically we know all our neighbours very well, working with them over at the School or the Centre, which is lucky as the walls and floors are very thin! :o)

There are entrances to the bottom floor flats on the other side of the house as seen below and our porch opens up to the field and woods. Must admit we don't do much at all to keep the flower beds tidy... It's one of my absolute favourite places of our home, that porch step when the door is open. Half inside, half outside, listening to the birds and lapping up the sunshine.

There is a small building, the annex, behind our cottage (to the right in the picture above) and it has two rooms for mature students at the School.

That's our common laundry room behind the little door to the right in the photo. The cottage is surrounded by lawn, apple trees, plum trees, raspberry bushes and of course the woods running the length of the garden to the left.

It's a lovely little wood, with oceans of bluebells covering the floor in the spring, cherry blossom petals drifting out across the field like snow early summer, copper beeches turning dark wine red in the autumn and dusky green ivy covering the trunks of the trees in the winter.

Well, that's the end of the corners of my home to show. Hope you enjoyed it - I did! I'll be away at college this weekend, so I won't see you for a couple of days. Wishing you well. May the small things in life make you happy :)

Comments

[Abbey]

This is adorable! Thank you for sharing such a lovely home.

[Angie]

That scalloped wood siding in the top two photos is so unusual- is that common in England? Thank you for sharing and I hope you have a great weekend :-)

[caroline]

Thanks!

Abbey - Thank you :)

Angie - No, it's not usual in England either as far as I know. I was surprised to see it too. It reminds me of seventies children's programs with felted animal characters :) that have their feathers made like that. Err... :")

[maddie]

It is absolutely beautiful ~ I loved the
photos you sent me ~ once I got over my
jealous fit ~ i am going to send you photos
of our house ~ but it is such an ugly color.

(sigh)

[maddie]

It is absolutely beautiful ~ I loved the
photos you sent me ~ once I got over my
jealous fit ~ i am going to send you photos
of our house ~ but it is such an ugly color.

(sigh)

[maddie]

It is absolutely beautiful ~ I loved the
photos you sent me ~ once I got over my
jealous fit ~ i am going to send you photos
of our house ~ but it is such an ugly color.

(sigh)