Photos of our farmhoose

Some folk have been asking about our farmhoose so before I take off I'll post some photos and give you all a rundown on this awesome house I've moved into.

This hoose was built in 1922 in the classic Scottish style. We have a fireplace in the livingroom and that really cool old-fashioned stove in the kitchen. It is an oil stove and has two huge and one small hot plates on top and an oven for baking.

Our house is solid stone but Erlend had three sides of the house faced with this plaster stuff with wee bits of quartz blown on to help make the house more weather proof. We have a beautiful Welsh slate roof - with the original slates still in action!

The walls are two feet thick on the sides and three feet thick on the ends so we have these lovely deep windows!!

The inside dementions are approx 15' by 30'. We have two stories and three bedrooms upstairs. The middle bedroom is being turned into our library. (Don't we sound posh??)

On the back of the house is a small extention (built in 1922 along with the rest of the house) which we call the "Mudroom." There's a small bathroom so we don't have to take off our farm clothes, Erlend's narrow office, an small attic over his office, a utility sink and our washer and dryer.

In front of the house we have a long narrow lawn and of course...the walled garden to the left of the house. To the right of the house is the "old dairy" where we have our fridge, freezer and our winter supply of potatoes.

Here is a picture tour:

The fireplace in the livingroom

Our bright sunny kitchen!

The only time I can get a good photo of the walled garden is in winter when all of the greenery has died down. This is only half of the garden - it's bigger then the hoose!

Our lovely front yard that overlooks several of our pastures. In the background you can see the end of one of our cattle barns.

This is the rear of the house - where we have our main entry. Note the extention where our mudroom etc is located! The farmstead is directly behind the house. Erlend literally walks out of the door and onto the farm!

Here is the hoose in summer.