Simon bought a house almost a year ago. I’ve been intending to post pictures of it ever since… finally, here they are! Sorry for the delay, Mom—I know you’ve been curious about what his place looks like. Most of these are pictures James took in the summer. This is the view from the road, up to his garage. His house is on the right; on the other side of the house to the left is the garage where Simon works.
The chimney on the side of the house is gone now. The boys spent a couple of days in June bashing it out. They needed to get rid of it in order to replace a beam under the house there.
To enter the house, you use the back door. This is the mudroom, with the laundry straight ahead. To the right is the kitchen door, and then the door into the toilet and bathroom.
As you can see, the bathroom is pretty rough. The entire house needs to be redone.
This is the kitchen and living area. The stove is very good at heating the house, and the appliances work. The sink tap, however, does not.
There are three smallish bedrooms.
The enclosed porch faces the road, and is accessed through a bedroom.
Inside the garage. That is Simon’s Austin on the left. He stored his tractor there until it was needed here this winter for feeding cows. The white thing on the right, closest to the camera, is a Land Cruiser in pieces, I believe. (Another project!)
Another Land Cruiser Simon dreams of restoring. It’s stored in what used to be the chicken house.
Simon has a lot of fruit; these are his blueberries.
The view from the hillside above the house. That’s Simon and Mr. Sweetie mowing lawn, and Little Miss was checking out the raspberry bushes.
I went over in June to take a few pictures one rainy Sunday afternoon. This is the house from the road. Simon stores his extra vehicles there!
The backyard, looking up at his orchard.
Enough furniture has been donated to outfit the house a couple of times! I’m not sure what Simon will do with it all when he comes to gutting the house.
Simon was pleased to be able to bring two of his geese over from Canterbury. They mow the lawn for him.
This is the biggest project Simon has undertaken yet. He’s working on replacing the piles under the house right now, as a first step in renovation. He needed to level the house before starting on anything else. I think they have two out of eight “bearers” repiled so far.
Wow! This does look like a lot of work, but it should be rewarding! Thank you for sharing; it will be nice to be able to look at this again instead of trying to visualize in my mind’s eye–which is pretty hard to do.