{ The Cottage }

I thought it about time that I posted some photos of the cottage in all it's new, freshly painted glory, seeing as though it's February and I think the painters left in September! You can view photos of the blue cottage before the paint job here, and works in progress here.

This is a view from the driveway. You can see our big rolling front lawn, the deck (which is almost as big as the INSIDE of the house) and Mr M's woodshed he built all by himself! The French doors on the left open to our bedroom, the ones on the right to the living area. The barge boards on the left of the deck hide the sunken spa.

This is the lawn area where I do most of the playing with our dogs: Tessa, Buddy, Lily, Pippa and at the moment Roxy (our friends dog we're looking after, who is Pippa's mum). You can see the driveway, a glimpse of the dam we overlook, the back porch, my garden edging around my herb garden and our very 1960's brick chimney!

This is the east facing wall - like the lovely cracked concrete?! As we don't own the cottage, jobs like this I am not making my problem! Here you can see more of the dam, the stairs on the other side of the deck, Mr M's office window and the spare bedroom/my craft studio's window.

Overlooking the dam and out the driveway - which is 4km's long. I like to put Archie in this front paddock but it's not very good pasture for him, he big fatty that he is, but it's nice having him at the front fence to talk to when we have an evening beer or morning cuppa on the deck.

More concrete, ugh. This is the rear of the cottage, which is where our 'front' door is at the back porch. Here you can see Mr M's office windows and the laundry windows. As well as a collection of my pots and looking down towards the bush that runs down to the river.

 This is a wider view where you can see the hills in the background, on the other side of that ridge is Melbourne, to the right of the picture is Kinglake and to the left is the Murrindindi valley and over to Marysville. That's all for now from the cottage @ Ythanbrae, come back and visit soon...

{ Images by Little Miss Emma }