Sorry, I don’t have a wide angle lens.
by pinkagendist
In the hopes that my new internet friend/almost neighbour, RoughSeasIntheMed, doesn’t follow through with her threat of posing as a buyer to come see the house… here are more pictures. The first picture is from google maps. We’re the big arrow and the little arrow is Villa Trianon, which used to be our guest house until we started transforming it into a full blown house which we sold in April to a nice couple from Gib. The house has been three different colours. Now it’s a very light cream (as in picture 2). It’s hard to photograph and my new camera doesn’t have a wide angle lens, but the penultimate picture shows most of the building.
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- ..for a magazine with an hd camera. The colours look artificial
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- circa 2004, before we added the new terrace area and the tent style awning
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- The render was still drying… circa 2001/2002
wow you have such a lovely house!
Thanks
A beatiful home in a spectacular setting. I now more fully understand your reluctance to move.
I’m more reluctant to let someone else have it than to move. I have the spirit of a selfish only child
Haha me too and I grew up with five older siblings.
So beautiful.. I would love to relax on that terrace with a good book!
Any time you come this way
I won’t be like our mutual friend posing as a House Buyer..I’ll just be me with a good bottle of vino!!
Truth is, your new internet friend/almost neighbour is too bone idle to carry out her threat to waste a) my time and b) yours. (See, I do have some manners after all!).
But still, some more bonus photos were worth the tease
Isn’t photo number three on one of the estate agent’s web sites?
Must be. I gave them discs with pictures for them to choose from. A few sent their own photographers but the dusk picture is ours.
They’re so incompetent it’s been hell dealing with them. Some haven’t updated the info on the house since the 1st time we were on the market in 2004. Some still have pictures of the old interiors. Each agent has different meterages. Some include two plots, others include three. Some have the price of the whole thing, some have the price of the house + half the garden. They’re a mess. Every time someone comes I have to explain everything over again from scratch. Including that community fees are paid per metre of plot size… exhausting.
We actually sold in 2006. The buyers paid the deposit over the course of three months, then they couldn’t sell their place so they backed out. We got to keep the deposit so we took the house off the market and added 100m2. That’s when we decided to reform the house next door and move there, but then the crisis hit so we sold next-door and decided to sell the bigger house and restore something in France.
The dusk one is beautiful – I would def have used that one. The garden shot is another lovely one.
So the render was drying in 2001/02 and a couple of years later you were looking at selling?
We should probably all have sold then. Good to get the deposit money. I never pay a deposit, but I’m usually a cash buyer and I’m willing to move in asap. Can’t bear those stupid chains. Far too complicated. Sell house, put furniture in storage, buy new house.
Estate agents do get money for old rope. Unfortunately.
It’s absolutely beautiful mate – I’m surprised you talk to me at all.
When I saw the post’s title I thought it was another article about overweight jibes
Beautiful. You need to hold a retreat or something there. I’ll come.
Wanna buy it?
Ha! Def outside of my price range. You can will it to me though. Better yet donate it. Lmao.
I don’t have (and don’t like) children, so eventually it’ll all go to charity.
If I have a houseboy when I’m old, he’ll probably get a little piece of it, if he plays his cards right
Every time folks like Mitt Romney start making me think yucky things about super wealthy folks, i remember people like you and get my thinking back in line. If you do ever move, you must continue to live lavishly because people like me need to know that people like you are out there.
I promise I’m nowhere near super-rich. Not even close to Romney’s stratosphere
Yeah, i guess few are that wealthy. But if you take away my idealistic notion that there are kind ones among them, what will i have left?!
Your house is so lovely, but I think it is totally unfair of Mike not to let you have a little chateau somewhere.
A man needs a castle; the proverb had it right.
Beautiful Pinky.
But where are the fan wavers and guards with scimitars? also men in turbans and long, flowing robes. Very Moorish. Was that by design or is this style of architecture ‘normal’ in Spain?
It was Moorish by design, we’re only a thirty minute ferry ride away from Morocco but it’s not a very common style in Spain.
There were a few things that influenced our choice. Mike loved Morocco. My favourite club at the time was this: http://www.oliviavalere.com/index_eng.html
We had an amazing book called Moroccan Interiors by Lisa Lovatt-Smith: http://www.amazon.com/Moroccan-Interiors-Lisa-Lovatt-Smith/dp/3822847526
and it works really well with the Spanish weather. The rest, as they say, is history
Wow… so lush, those interiors. And yes, I can see how it would work with the weather.I was too tired to check the spelling last night but it reminded me of pictures of the Alhambra with those cool airy courtyards.
We’ve been back and forth about closing in the pool area with more arches and pillars… But we could never agree on a plan so it’s staying the way it is
It works amazingly with the weather. Every time I see someone building an ultra modern all glass house around here I think to myself “idiots”- it’s going to be like a greenhouse in the summer. There’s a reason certain types of architecture develop in certain parts of the world…
Yes! It gets very hot here in Australia as well and traditionally we used to build houses with huge, wrap-around verandahs for shade and passive climate control. Now most new houses have masses of glass, no insulation and next to no eaves or verandahs. It baffles me, especially with heating and cooling becoming so expensive.
Looks like a fabulous home. Far too big for me I suspect to rattle around in all on my todd.
I’m hoping my home in London is now more or less sold, to one of my neighbour’s sisters, so I can concentrate on departing the UK shores and being a neighbour to roughseas’ other home.
You’re coming to Spain?
Nearly. My current plan is to buy a house in Gibraltar, but I wanted to get the UK sale more or less finalised first.