I'll go to the foot of our stairs - House tour part 2

So carrying on with the house tour I'll show you downstairs, we're built into a slope so it all makes for an interesting layout. Before I start I will give you the briefest of history, the top part of the house was originally on a farm down the road, it was going to be a doer upper, they changed their minds and the previous owners put it on the back of a lorry and drove it up the road and plonked it down. After jacking the house up then balancing on 44 gallon drums, then jacking up again, adding more drums etc they they dug out underneath and built what is there now. I call it a house on a house. The house on the top was lived in by the previous owner, the house below was occupied by a family member as was the top house by another. Quite a family affair, our intentions when we bought here was to rent out the top house, which we did until recently(this created a whole lot of problems for us) and now Michael & Natasha are living there. The lower level I thought I might use for homestays, we eventually went off this idea and decided to convert both levels into one home. Renovating the upper level nearly broke us and I blogged about all that as we went. Downstairs is still a work in progress and we have, this weekend, been out and bought paint and wallpaper to start redecorating the spare bedroom. In the photos it all looks very nice and it is of course, but it's tired, still bears the marks of the previous owners and it's long overdue for a makeover. So like so many things here, it's work in progress. Without further ado let's begin........

 

Opposite the 'foot of our stairs' is the bathroom, turn left and you end up in the family room/kitchen/diner, turn right and you go to the bedrooms. 

We'll go left first....

The family room & kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kitchen & dining

 

 

 

 

  

The pink frame is where we had to remove a window when we installed the Infinity hot water system, it was too close to where the gas thingy was outside. It will no doubt be like that until I get a new kitchen, I'm not holding my breath, I do not like my kitchen but I have to put up with it.

 

 

 

Back into the hallway, first door on the left is the bathroom

 

 

At the end of the hallway on the right is our bedroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next door to our bedroom is my dressing room which I love so much it's my own space. Joe gets all the wardrobe and drawer space in the bedroom

 

 

 

  

 

 

The following are all works in progress and the bedroom is the next to do project and I'll be starting that this week and repainting all the doors from purple to a much lighter colour
Spare bedroom opposite our bedroom(to be decorated very soon)
The purple has to go, I hate it!

 

 

 

 

As we stand in the hallway and look back towards the kitchen the two doors to the left are storage and are under the stairs, the door far right is the bathroom

There is a hallway just before the bathroom, it's a mess! Nuff said!

 It leads to what would have been the downstairs laundry area, the furnace for the old hot water system is here and also another loo which I call the spider loo, as they are the only ones who use it!
On the right as you go through the door...
This was never finished by the previous owners and it's way down on our priority list too.

On the left as you go through the door,
this is the dogs room when it's not too cold.

 

We have two freezers in here, we have another in the garage but that's empty at the moment.

 

 

The up side of doing these two posts is that I've been prompted into having a bloody good clean and it's had an early mini Spring clean.
And that's it! If you've got this far then bloody well done!
You deserve a medal

And that is me done for today, I've been trying to do this blog and cook a Sunday roast and Pumpkin pie for dessert as Michael & Natasha were here for dinner.
I'll share that and other things tomorrow.
I'm going to have another glass of wine and put me feet up.
I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend