Small pause for a couple of housewarming parties: and for me to make some layout and design changes (thank you to The Blog Whisperer for her fantastic advice) but on to the next rooms anti-clockwise.
The sitting room from the kitchen
The sitting room was once a corridor – you can see the corridor beyond – but we’re told that there was a fire at the back of the house at one point, and the then owners took the opportunity to extend outwards. The left hand wall (where the red sofa is) backs onto the dining room wall where the sideboard is. There are two metal framed windows here; the room looks out to the back of the house, and in fact the bit of garden there is quite high and we get a view largely of the grass and a bit of fence beyond. In the evenings there are bats swooping around there, and we often see the chickens which belong to the neighbours. Charlie the cat was completely horrified when he met them: he dropped his body to very low and he slunk back into the house with wide eyes. It’s a warm, cosy room, even though it’s north facing. The ceiling is lower than in the rooms at the front of the house, which helps. It is the only room which had an aerial socket when we moved in; we’ve had more fitted since then but the drawing room really seems a bit too nice to slump in and gaze at TV.
Hillfoot House 
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