Our House II

Bedrooms are all along the hallway on the south side of the house. The south side of the house gets NO sunlight in the wintertime. These rooms are COLD all winter. 

C's bedroom now with bunkbed/futon

C's room full of Legos and kids stuff--much still in disarray thanks to all the earthquakes 

C's new guitar---starting to outgrow "kid stuff" 

C.'s room--old version

Now, G's room is always a struggle. But she is keeping it clean all by herself lately.  Even making her own bed.  

G.'s room. She made her bed all by herself!! 

Barbie's are her life! Dad built the Barbie house, Mum decorated it. 

Butterflies are our "theme" at the moment

The office--always a mess like this. Sad but true. Everyone just dumps everything on my desk. Sigh

Shelves I had before the first earthquake--these nearly tore the room down when they flew  apart 

My new bookshelf in the office AFTER the earthquakes --the piles are kids artwork that needs to be cataloged and other asst things that keep falling down in earthquakes 

Kid's bathroom has bath and shower 

The house's only bathtub is in the shared bathroom 

Toilet is in it's own room 

The ensuite (master) bathroom. Tiny with just a shower stall

Most Kiwi homes have just one bathroom. We are very lucky to have two.  And the normal set up for two bathrooms is a large, shared bathroom with a tiny ensuite like we have. And notice there is NO storage. Just the drawer for Big Daddy and I to share. I have a huge basket underneath the drawer with all my girlie products and appliances. I keep the towels elsewhere. The average Kiwi just doesn't have as much "stuff" as the average American.

The toilets flush differently here as well. See the circle on the top---it has two buttons. One flushes a little, the other flushes a lot. Even the "lite" flush uses about 10x the water of the US.  Water conservation is not an issue here and we don't even pay a water bill.

The master bedroom is also very small. In fact, it barely fits our large American furniture, including a king size bed.

MoMo Poodles trying to make sure the bed doesn't float away 

Master bathroom is about 6" away