Captain Caveman!

Hope you're all well this Friday!

For this weeks Fast Five I'll spend 5 minutes talking about our new place. Lots of you have been asking to see/hear more about the house we have moved to, mostly because it's a bit different from what we're used to since it is originally a 400yr+ old cave house. We'll be staying here for the next year or so whilst we build our own house on the land we're buying.

I'll share some photos from the estate agents website since at the moment we still have bags and boxes everywhere that need unpacking, the quality isn't fantastic but I'll get some better photos and maybe a walk through video once we're settled in.

Here is what the place looks like from the outside..

..and the view from our front door

 It has been extended with a traditionally built add on but the majority of the rooms inside are carved in to the stone of the mountain itself, so the rooms are very odd shapes and locations and have really quirky ceilings.

here's a snap of the reception room inside the main entrance, notice the fairly low curved ceilings?

This is a photo of the original living room in the cave side, the rooms are a little dark because you can't place a window, and since it was built for ancient Spanish the door frames are a bit of a challenge for a 6ft bloke like myself!

Compare that to the modern living room in the extension, its all high ceilings and daylight to compensate for the cave rooms 

 The Kitchen is also in the modern section of the house so gets a good amount of light, in fact its mostly just the bedrooms that are underground

One of the things about living underground is that they are pretty dark during the day, we've started to remedy this by installing better light fittings and brighter modern energy efficient bulbs, but if you turn the lights off at night here it is DARK. In the bedrooms at night with the light off it is total dark, pitch black, not the tiniest shred of light. It's like you have fallen in to the abyss and it allows for the best sleep once you're used to not being able to see the end of your nose, let alone past it. This room is the spare bedroom which we have affectionately nicknamed "The Demon Room" since the decor is hideous and has been plastered with traditional crucifixes and pictures of Jesus, which I can only assume are there to protect us from the demons that lurk within!

This next photo will be Little Logan's room, it had a weird painting of a river with a total firehazard of a lighting arrangement made to look like a window, we've ripped that all down and put a real, safe light fitting on the ceiling. The Spanish are not known for reliable electrics!

Another thing that you notice straight away is that when you walk in to the modern section of the house there is a difference in temperature, the caves stay cooler in the day and warmer at night. Our Spanish neighbour Juan has been telling us that it's only cold for 3 months of the year here, and that in the caves we won't get cold but the modern part of the house will be very cold. Guess it's good news for us cave dwellers that are sleeping in the caves but the inlaws have a modern bedroom up those stairs you saw in the living room photo, so we might have to thaw them out in March!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, don't forget to head on over to Amy's to spread the Five on Friday love!