73 Sandhills

This is one of my favourite rooms in the house. I just love the colour and style of the floor and how well it works with the fireplace. The fire itself is gas and on a cold winter day it’s wonderful to be able to enjoy a fire without having to clean out ashes etc. [...]

A handy feature of this photo is that you can see both sides of the hall at once. This is the area just inside the front door. We’re using a freestanding press for our shoes and polishing stuff. It’s very handy as we remove our outside shoes when we come into the house and put [...]

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.

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 [...]

Believe it or not – a full cosmetic studio fits into one of the bedrooms. We were originally going to use the main bedroom, which is even bigger, but decided to keep the en-suite bathroom for ourselves. The floor in this room actually has tiles – perfect if you have an allergy issues.

This is a picture of the freestanding bookshelf along one side of the living room. It’s just beside the double doors into the dining room. The space is perfect for this or a working desk. Sylvia often works in this area as she has easy access to a power socket and an Internet connection. The [...]

This is the upstairs bathroom – and the picture does not do it justice. A number of the special touches in the house are due to the fact that Interior Designer – Ann Gordon – was helping us when we fitted out the house. The upstairs bathroom has unusual wavey white tiles that are never-the-less [...]

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 [...]

This is the mirror I mentioned elsewhere. Note the silver tiles along the edge – we like them so much we want to do the same thing in our new home.