The New House

Since we moved to Chesham there have been requests (and nagging - the guilty ones know who they are) from certain parties to post some pictures of our new house; so we hope this satisfies. Home is now a classic two-up-two-down terraced house, c.1880's. The house is a rectangle divided by a wall crossways to create two rooms upstairs and downstairs (lounge and dining room downstairs, bedrooms upstairs) with a smaller rectangle out the back which is a kitchen downstairs and a bathroom upstairs.



The entrance is into this room, the lounge. It gets lots and lots of sun in the morning and if you're going to come and stay with us you'll be sleeping in here - so don't expect a sleep in.



Through the door is the dining room which is darker, but nowhere near as bad as the photo makes out. It's just the sun in the kitchen and outside mucking up the camera aperture. When it's really hot in summer it's a real haven. The stairs are to the left of the stereo and go up the wall shared with the lounge.



Behold the yellow kitchen, sunny and hot in the afternoon. The back door is on the right just before that first cupboard with the plant on it.



Upstairs above the lounge is our bedroom, which has this quaint view. The road can be a bit busy at rush hour as people cut through to the road to Great Missenden. It's nice and quiet on the weekends though. We get even more sun than the lounge, so it's real tough on Saturdays when you desperately want to sleep in but wake up at 7:30 as the room starts to heat up like a furnace.





Above the dining room is the second bedroom, which has become a depository for all our accumulated junk, clothes, and other stuff. In the big cupboard through that door is the washing machine and boiler (as well as a bit more stuff)



And beyond that through another door is the bathroom, which is too small to photograph. It has this view out over the garden which has undergone drastic pruning and taming since the picture was taken in spring. We have washed the windows as well (just so you didn't think we were dirty). Bottom left you can see something flowering, it is the bane of our existence here. A former resident (the landlady) planted 3 types of clematis, a jasmine and a rose thinking they would grow up an archway and cover the rubbish bins. Unfortunately it doesn't cover the bins and just gets bigger every week and excludes a huge amount of light from the kitchen. So the clematis-bane-arch is on death-row, we're just trying to think up a good excuse for it's absence next time the landlady comes by. Any suggestions please post here or email us.