The previous owner of our house was an artist or painter - a tradition kept up by ther mouse and me.
We were fascinated to find two painting by him of the house before it was altered and extended.
You can see the 'sitting-room' as it is today and as it was some 40 years ago. It isn't possible to take a photo that sees what the artist did as I can't make the wall transparent but you will see that somehow he included my coffee mill in the painting in the exact place that it occupies today.
We had some trouble with this room at first as it was the only warm room in the house and has old-fashioned pub-like qualities so we inadvertently designated it - the Snug.
The second painting shows the original cottage with the cruck beams of the grenier and a pond outside the house. As we discovered the kitchen is sited on a pond, the sitting room has a spring in it - ole - and chai does fill up with water.
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