73 Sandhills

Here are some more photos of the hallway. The sketch of us was done at Disney a long time ago. Click on the photos for larger versions.

What do you say about stairs? They go up and down at the same time.   This is the only place in the house we put carpet – mainly because we didn’t want any footstep noise while going up and down. Our Interior Designer, Ann Gordon, suggested a specific dark (almost black) carpet. At the [...]

Here are some photos of the dining room. You can see the double doors in the background – these lead into the living room. There is a TV socket on the wall and we have satellite cables (for SKY TV) hidden away on the right. These go through to the living room. Click on the [...]

Here are some photos of the front of the house. I’ll do an update later as to why we picked this specific house – it may interest you that there were a number of reasons why we felt this was the best placed house in Sandhills.

Here’s a picture of the main bedroom. The original design of the house was to have the bed on the other side but we preferred it this way. There is a TV socket in the room and we upgraded it to have a network/Internet socket. We have a controller for the remote control that sends [...]

By popular request – here are some pictures of the kitchen. There are a number special things about it: – The kitchen itself was made by Trade Kitchens and Bedrooms in Carlow. We’re so happy with it that we’re getting them to make the kitchen in our new house. Not only that – but we’re keeping [...]

Here’s a photo of the downstairs loo. We keep the bins outside the window so we don’t have to go out into the rain.

OK – So it’s not a swimming pool but it’s one of the beautiful beaches that’s a short drive away from Carlow. In this case it’s Kilmore Quay. I’ll be adding a few more pictures soon of things that you can do in the area.

 Wow – It’s amazing how different the old garden looks.  Everything is so small. The euclyptus to the right is now higher than the house. We’ll be moving it soon as it’s too big for a town house. The weeds are actually smaller now. The back wall looks much better in the meantime – we [...]

Here’s the garden while it was still a baby.   Notice on the right hand side I’m still painting the fence. The lawn had not been seeded as we were waiting for later in the year when there is more rain(*) and we wanted to get rid of any weed seeds. * In 2006 we [...]