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…inside the barn next to the house…
This is our “home” for the next year or two, while we are renovating the house. We cleared out the dirt and rubble and hay from the barn and carried in a bed or two, fixed up a shower from a tin tub, some old ladders and basins for a bathroom corner and the old wood burning stove for a kitchen corner. It is warm and cosy, comfy and relaxing, but it still is a barn with owls coming and going through open windows, visits from lost mice and the odd bug and beetle. It sure is an experience different to the luxury of a well equipped home, but it provides a story every day, some of which we hope to remember many years to come and even one day be able to tell our grandchildren and generations after…well, hopefully not in person..!
I love these photos of life going on at Coin Perdu as well as the sketches and paintings. I feel I am such a part of it. Tokala and Ayaini have really made themselves at home? And the Longdrop (with a light! ) is a more royal “reading room” than the one I grew up with as a child.
annie
This is a charming out house…for the summer. Something might get awefully cold in the winter!!!
Do you have an out door shower?
I love what you have done to this barn in every way. Your taste is right up my alley.
What an exciting project Ronell! I absolutely love renovating and much prefer it to buying a new place – done it twice already. Good luck en sterkte.
I love these pictures. Your place is very “Little House On The Prairie” looking. So romantic as well.