After we finished the guest apartments and the outdoor kitchen we started
to run low on money and realized we wouldn’t be able to finish our own house.
When we bought it, our house was just a big, unfinished storage space.
Walls and a roof, that’s it. And on top of that, it wasn’t big enough. Nicolas
still laughs with this, as he says we could have managed with the available
space just fine. But I won ?
So, we started to amplify the house and renovations, until the money ran
out, which meant we got to call our house “camping Verdita” for several years as
it was at the least “rustic living”, for example we had no floors upstairs, a
temporary bathroom with no heating and bare walls …
But we managed to squeeze one other important thing in: THE wall.
As you can see in the pictures of earlier posts, the 2 houses are attached
to each other and in front of it there was one garden. But we talked to a lot
of other accommodation owners beforehand and one thing became increasingly
clear to us. Not only did we need to have a separate living space, we also had
to create enough privacy for ourselves outside.
When we came up with the idea of the wall, our geometra wasn’t very
pleased. He believed we would ruin the character of the property. But
afterwards he confessed to me that both gardens where much more cozy now.
