Day 301

Well, this is not really some work we have done today. But it gives me something to write about during the cold, workless days of winter.

We have several things in mind for the outside of the house. We are not ready for it yet, but we are wondering what color we would like to paint the house and what the tower roof and the mansard part of the roof will look like.

We are also figuring out where we want our wrap around porch. The porch would wrap around from the east (front) to the south of the house. We want to put on a conservatory room so that we can have a nice sunny spot for growing things. The conservatory would be on the south side of the house probably connected to the wrap around porch, with a door into the parlor. In the conservatory I would like to have a koi pond. We have been wondering if we can make this area 2-stories. I have been (jokingly) trying to talk Jonathan into a 2-story cylinder of fish like they have at Henry Doyle Zoo. It would be really cool. But I am sure that we don't want to have to take care of that. So I will just stick with the koi pond. ;)

North of the house we are considering putting in a garden maze. The thought right now would be mostly stone wall maze, not a hedge maze.

In the back (west side) we would have the 2-story garage. The first floor of the garage would of course be for our cars. The 2nd floor of the garage is still in question. We are thinking of using it for storage. But there is the possibility of a 'guest house' up there as well. My parents have been teasing us that we already took away their 'apartment' when we knocked down some of the walls here on second floor and took out the extra kitchen and bathroom. So maybe we have need of a guest house. :D There would be a bridge-like cover walkway connecting the second floor of the garage to the first floor kitchen. The walkway would then be a covered path connecting the 1st floor of the garage to the basement. I was considering having a swing hanging under one of the arches in the path.

There would also be some sort of play structure for the kids in the back. We took down the "space station" we were building at the old house as well as the playground. Hopefully this summer we will find a way to put them together for the kids. I think we are going to do something a little different than what we had. But we haven't thought much about that yet.

We also want some kind of tall fence or hedge around the whole property. We are unsure of what we want yet. And in the front yard I thought a fountain would be very cool. Of course I also see beautiful paths lined with different flowers and plants all around.

For now I think that is about all we have thought of. Except for the TARDIS in the middle of my stone maze. I guess you could probably see the observatory up on the roof from the outside as well.