Casa de Meliza y Whaite

I decided to take a brief hiatus from blogging about France in order to post pics of the new pad as promised about a century ago. No snide comments from the peanut gallery.




I apologise in advance for the dubious quality. I really must invest in a digital camera.



Alright, first on the left we have the lounge, aka living room. It's actually about half again as big as what you see here (there's more to the back).

As you can see, it is graced by a very interesting, though not entirely original, fireplace. Though the fireplace IS original to the era of about 1930, give or take a couple of years. It's taken some getting used to, but I think it's grown on us. Or at least it's grown on me. Unfortunately, it doesn't actually work.



To the right you can see a rather dark image of the kitchen. Which is odd, as the kitchen is rather bright. Once again, the kitchen is actually double the size of what you see.





You can vaguely make out the washing machine and oven. Very vaguely. Everything is brand new and it's a lovely room to work in. Lot's of baking going on in there! :-)




Unfortunately, none of the pictures of the bedrooms, office or bathrooms came out properly. I don't know why. Maybe I'll shoot them again once I have a proper camera.

In any case, there are three double bedrooms. Michelle's and mine are of equal size and the smaller we are using as an office. There are also two bathrooms. The downstairs one is mine and has the shower, toilet and sink all in one room. The upstairs one is Michelle's and is actually two separate rooms, a water closet (toilet only) and bathroom (sink and tub with shower).



Here's our rooftop terrace all decked out for our housewarming party 15 September (as seen through the conservatory). As you can see, it was a lovely, warm day. We can't wait until next summer to make more use of the terrace! The plan is to put up some lattice work around the sides for privacy, and some plants for greenery. Eventually we want to put some furniture there as well... a table and chairs for coffee in the mornings and dinner in the evenings! And Michelle fancies a bit of sun bathing! :-)




And here's the party people in the conservatory! Some of our peeps from the housewarming party. From the left is Jo, Simon, Clive and Michelle! A good time was had by all, and Michelle and I feel truly blessed in our new pad! Yay, us!