OUR LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRIARIES .... OOOOPS DESERT!

We have finally finished building and are now busy with the finishing touches, which is fun but I think we have both had enough for this year and would just like to take it a little bit easier. I see boxes in my dreams, boxes being packed and unpacked and still it is not the end - I do not even want to think that in a year or two we will go through the same process again, but then that is life, change is good they say!

Here are pictures of the house, the first one being the front entrance and patio, previously there was nothing here, gate into the garden was on the lefthand side, the walls were low and there was only a path from the gate to the front sliding door and if you were not careful you could fall into the house instead of walking in, it was just so impractical and a little dangerous!

The front garden was previously a cacti garden, all plants with minimum water requirements, but it looked and was a brown and depressing garden with all kinds of stones and little paths, it did not work for us, we wanted green and quickly, and roll-on lawn was the quickest we could get green. Please note the first tree we planted, hopefully it will grow quickly and you cannot see it on this picture very clearly but there are lavenders in the bed where the trees are, we look every morning to see whether they have grown at all! The scullery that we built on is in the corner where the bin is.

The lounge and kitchen, the scullery we have built on and my little office space in the scullery, the kitchen, guest bathroom, etc. It is small but cosy, warm and sunny, we have green lawns an absolute luxury and it is more than enough for the two of us. I have already told Günther that I think we will stay here and eventually rent out the house we are planning to built, this is good enough for me and is in the more sunny part of Swakopmund, closer to the sea it is damp and misty and I think I prefer the more sunny side, the plants do too.

The lounge is small but cosy, and looks out on the front garden, previously with the low walls everyone could look into your lounge and we had absolutely no privacy - the walls had to go up and quick. The lounge was repainted as the colour they had when we moved in, depending on the light had a green tint to it and I do not particularly like green walls so Günther repainted the same colour as our home in Cape Town, much softer and warmer.






The lounge and kitchen flows into each other as with most town-houses but it is nice when you are cooking you have company and can talk to whoever is in the lounge (right now mostly Gunther and Mitzi - not much of a choice!)

The Kitchen is not too bad, there is room for improvement, for example the kitchen tops not ones we would have chosen but they work and one can get used to them. The stove is a free-standing stove but it works pretty well and is basically brand new, the cupboards are not too bad and the tiles are a small grey ceramic tile, not what we would have done either but it will have to do for now.








The Guest Bathroom is quite a nice size for a second bathroom, tiles are not too bad and the accessories are all white which is what we liked about it. The main bedroom bathroom has a shower and is quite a nice size for an en suite, tiles are similar to the guest bathroom.

We had to build the scullery on, without it we would not have been able to bring in the washing machine (which was in the garage), the dishwasher and tumbledrier. The fridge, before we built on was standing in the kitchen but it made the space in the kitchen so much smaller. The fridge is now in the scullery as seen on the picture and we built in the cupboards in the scullery, which is almost the same as in the kithcen. On the left of the picture is the spare bedroom. The bedrooms are quite big, the main and spare bedroom being almost the same size with lots of cupboard space.


The scullery is nice and airy and very sunny, it is north facing so you have sun the whole afternoon. As you can see all the machines fits in perfectly and Günther made a desk for me to work at. The scullery was a must.

Photos I did not include here is of the main bedroom, spare bedroom, main en suite and the garage (Günthers pride!) and the back garden, I will update at another time, just wanted to give you an idea of where we are living!

Till next time LOL!