Come On In!

Since nobody has come to visit us in our tiny, little house I guess I have to break down and show it to you from here, as promised.  Hmm...where to start...

The living room is probably the best place; especially since it's what you see when you come into the front door.  This first set of photos was taken from just inside the front door.  Oh, there's no artwork on the right-hand wall because we intend to buy a sectional sofa with recliners on each end


 and the present sofa will be moved to run parallel to that back wall where you see the curtain.  (That curtain leads to our Florida room, by the way). The door on the right, next to the curtain leads to our bedroom.

 The two photos below show you  the living room from standing near the aforementioned  Florida room. There's the front door just on the right of the big window, which is entirely blocked by Rover & Polgara's huge cage.  Dorian's cage is just to the left of their cage. What looks like another room in the right-hand photo IS another room - you're looking into the guest bedroom - but I'll get to that in a moment. To the left of the bird cages is the dining room - somewhat cramped in comparison to our old dining room but somehow we fit everything in.   

 Here it is on the left.  If you peer over to the left you'll see that it leads directly into the living room - you can see the shelves on the wall.  The little shelf on the right side of the photo where my purse is sitting on divides the dining area from the kitchen and is designed to accommodate two little barstools so you can eat there.  We don't eat there - we use kitchen-y things there instead.


Speaking of kitchens, below you see my little kitchen.  The photo  on the left shows you the other half of that shelf I mentioned and leads into the left side of the kitchen itself.  
  The black things are the stove/oven and the dishwasher.  On the right is the other half of the kitchen; with the black fridge.  Eventually I'm going to replace this fridge with the white, side-by-sdie one we brought with us from California but for now this one serves the purpose.  Nothing wrong with it - I just prefer white appliances.














The two photos above show something very important to me - the view out the kitchen window.  If you've got to be stuck doing dishes every day you might as well have a nice view while you're doing it.  All the properties here run into one another and what you see is my neighbor's house and back yard but because there are no fences it provides a nice, expansive view which is very pleasant. 


Moving back into the living room you can open those curtains in the back and see the French doors that lead to my Florida room.  A
Florida room is a room mostly made
of windows, which as you can see, clearly describes this room.  I'm told that this was originally just part of the back yard and that the original owners of the house had this area made into the Florida room.  I believe this had to have been done on a strict budget, since the walls are aluminum and the windows vinyl.  It's like sitting in a room with tin foil for walls and clear plastic wrap for windows.  It feels like you could deconstruct with with a hand-operated can opener.  No, I'm not exaggerating - come visit and you'll see.  The room has its own air conditioner which we haven't tried yet but we'll get to it eventually.  It doesn't keep out the ubiquitous Florida humidity so you can imagine that we don't sit out there very often.  In the picture on the right you can see the door that leads out to our tiny patio which we use when Al smokes ribs.  Still haven't touched that barbeque out there...



 Moving back into the house, here are two photos of Al's and my bedroom.  It's about half the size of our former bedroom - probably less.  The bedroom is immediately off the living room.  Look back up at the first 2 photos.  As I mentioned, in the photo on the right there's a door next to the curtains.  That door leads to our bedroom.   In the photo to the left you can see that there's a private bathroom on the left side of the bedroom and a walk-in closet on the right.  Somehow we actually fit all our Japanese and Chinese art in the room!  At this writing we still haven't put the huge Chinese wood carving on the wall or the 4 piece fish picture but we've got to hire our handyman to do that - we'll get around to it eventually.

Jumping over to the other side of the house we come to the wing that holds the other two bedrooms.

On the left you see the lovely, bright Guest Bedroom (hint - hint) all ready and waiting for people to come stay in it.  Although it faces southwest it has 2 windows (as does the office) so it's the brightest room in the house.   On the right is the hallway that leads from the guest bedroom to our shared office.  In that picture you can peer into the living room on the right-hand side.  The linen closet is on the left side of the photo and just beyond the picture on the wall on the left is the second bathroom.  The photo looks into the office on my side.

 Here's a much closer view of my half of our office.  Buddah stands facing north,

watching over our endeavors.  Al's desk is pictured on the right and though you can't see it, our printers etc are just behind his desk.  There are 2 windows in this room also however one of them is half covered by a bookshelf.  Pity too, because there's a pair of cardinals that I think are nesting just outside that window and it's difficult to see them.

Well, that's it, really.  That's our house.  Small, compact, but designed to flow from one room to another and this airiness gives the illusion that the house is bigger than it really is.  Small though it is, it's got plenty of room for visitors to come and stay in comfort.  Your invitation is an open one.  Come take a look for yourself.