26th January 07

By popular request.....
Everybody says ...can we have some exterior piccys of the pad !!!

So I legged it up there this morning and took some more.
I drove past at 7.00am this morning (still dark) to take the dog for a walk, and the decprators were already there working!!!!!!


The first piccy is the view facing east. You can see that the Huf gables are all glass, and in fact most of the front elevation on the ground floor is also glass. So, we have the lounge facing us at ground level and two of the bedrooms at first floor. There will be more earth placed adjacent to the retaining wall and a patio constructed there but at the moment there's a very dodgy slope that will need support if its to stay there.

And then there's the piccy on the right, and that's the front elevation of this Huf Haus. There's a full length garage on the right at basement level and a boot room, hall and one bedroom with ensuite.

At ground floor level , there is a kitchen (which faces east), study/bedroom, kitchen, dining area and lounge which is all open plan. Upstairs there's three beds and two baths. approx 3300 sq ft.

Here's the rear of the house, looking northwards!

So, you will see that we had to orientate the house round this way to maintain privacy for the older house at the back.

Please note my contribution to saving the world...apart from the actual house....Its the solar panels on the roof. These have not actually been placed in yet, but they will right at the end, when they will provide steaming hot water 24/7 at no cost to me!!!!

One problem yet to be overcome is where to put the TV aerial. I did not want it on the house. which unfortunately leaves me with a problem....I was banking on IPTV by the time this was all finished ie TV over broadband.....after all they have it in France.

But it seems that's not yet available for some time and I have yet to tell the wife that she wont be able to see anything on the telly when she switches it on in a months time!!!!

So what do we do.?.any useful suggestions are very welcome, but at the moment, it looks like either an aerial on a telegragh pole at the end of the garden or a sky dish on same said pole. I'm not sure either of these will work that well.You can buy these aerials that you put in a box on the patio which dont look like anything particular but you need a clear line of site through to the satellite and there's that bloody victorian house at the back in the way!!!! I just wish NTL or some other cable company could very quickly dig up this road and connect me up...but that's not going to happen is it!!!

Lastly this is the side of the house which has got the front door, and a balcony over (which serve one of the bedrooms and a bathroom. I can stagger out onto the balcony in the mornings and watch everybody down the road going to work.

The German decorating team leave today....there's back to Germany tonight. Next week some plumbing I think and some tiling.....oh , and some groundworks. Looks great inside!!!!!!