The Allisons

Our house, is a very, very, very fine house...

Ok, I took about a trillion pictures of the house when I was up there today. However, because they take FOREVER to upload, I've tried to use the ones that are of the most interest. To begin, right now we use the back door, so we park and go around back. The upper left is the backyard.

Middle-the property adjoining our back fence. I don't know who these belong to. Wouldn't it be funny if we "inherited" the birds with the property? There are all manner of fowl including yes, that's a peacock in the back left. Not the white chicken, but the dark bird next to the tree. Left- grapevine. I don't know if its officially ours or not, but it's still kinda fun to have a grapevine in your backyard when you live in Italy. Right-back of the house. All of that stuff belongs to the neighbor. Our side is the one with all the windows open.

The is the ground floor. Left-first room is the garage. Middle and right-laundry room and bathroom. They are the same room. Weird-we're going to have to figure something out with that. I'm omitting the storage/heater room due to lack of interest I'm sure. Because I am not as technologically savvy as I would like to believe, I don't know how to rotate this picture (and those to follow). In the house, it is actually right side up. These two pictures are of the hallway. The first is looking at the front door and the second is walking into the house from the front door. These are some of my favorite features of the house. The wooden door and the floor. The white rectangle on the bottom right of the door is the sun shining in through the other window. This is the kitchen. On the right is a close up of the tile on the kitchen walls. A rose. The criss-cross around the edge is kind of burnt orange and the rose is pink. Sounds strange, but it's really pretty. In the middle is the "kitchen". The sink is down by the window and then there are cabinets back toward me. I'm not sure where the fridge will go...

Below is the bathroom. The tile on the walls is avocado green. There is one rod for the shower

curtain, but it seems like the window will conflict with the other rod and the curtain hangs. In Italy you're supposed to shower with the door closed and window open for mold/mildew prevention. If it looks cramped, that's because it is. The smallest rooms in the house are the kitchen and the nicer bathroom. Oh well. You've already seen the living room (it's on the first blog). The next pic is of the outside entry way and front door. Notice the fresco on the ceiling. The next photo is just the fresco above the front door. "So lover-ly".
This is one of the attic rooms, the other is just like it.

These are the views from our house. All are from the third floor. The first is looking out the back and the the left (south east-ish?). The photo to the right is standing on our Juliet balcony in the front looking right (north east?).

Last is looking to the left (north west?). The picture is actually zoomed in a bit on the church and the mountains are behind it.

Lastly, these are pictures of the lion knocker on my doors (awesome!), a rose in the garden, and the crazy star blooms on the mystery tree. (Just for you Grandma). :)