Décrivez votre maison

[Drew]

Je habite dans la sud ovest de l'angleterre dans un maison avec ma familie.

Who knows how much of that is grammatically right. I studied French for one year, about 5 years ago :

[slinkster]

Chez Slink...

How many rooms?
Small flat... two bedrooms but one is used as my studio, bathroom, lounge/diner and kitchen

Furnishing style?
The flat was already furnished, most of the daggy stuff I've covered with throws and the usual stuff. I took down all the flowery pictures and put up loads of funky new ones. My studio is the best room... it's awesome. Full of junk but the sort of junk that's essential to my creative mood.

Garden?
Nope. Want one though to house my future tortoise.

Location/view?
Opposite a church so quite a nice view.. but right near a main road so VERY noisy.

[jso1985]

this reminds the type of homework I had to do when I was starting to learn english

I live with my family in an old house in the noisy downtown, it was built "colonial" style with the patio in the middle and all rooms around it, it becomes very uncortable if I'm in the "computer & books" room(as we call it) and it's starts to rain heavily(wich happens very often in summer ) and I need to come back to my bedroom, anyway it has 4 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, an extra room where the computer and all books are and another extra were we basically leave anything that doesn't fit in another room.
The furniture is let's say... a whole mess...
and the location is crap, it's noisy from cars during daytime, and noisy agian in the night due all the drunk students(the School of Medicine is just 2 blocks away)

[Brown, Jon Brow]

4 bedrooms ( 2 with en suites) open kitchen and dining room, living room, study and conservatory. A double garage that contains a Jaguar Mk2 and a Jaguar XJ120 being restored.

Grassy area to side and back of house.

Isn't really a furnishing style :\ . Some old stuff some new stuff.

Rear view has some fields usually full of cows and the Bowland fells in the distance. to the front are other houses on the estate.

[Alexamateo]

The House:

I've got a nice 2300 square foot house with a split floor plan. Starting at the foyer, it opens to a large family room with vaulted ceiling. To the right is our dining room, which has no dining table and is our de facto playroom for our two children (ages 3 & 1). THe dining room connects to the kitchen, which also connects to the family room, thereby making a great circle in which to play "chase" with the kids. By the doorway between the kitchen and dining is the pantry, and the laundry/mud room which connects to the side-load garage. The kitchen is an open plan that connects to the breakfast room. Continuing right off the kitchen is the Master bedroom (also a vaulted ceiling) and the Master bath with Jacuzzi and large walk-in closet.

On the other side of the house, are the two kids rooms and their bathroom. My office is upstairs above the garage.

The Garden: (with plant descriptions for Hazel)

I've got a side-load garage, which makes a large patio-like turnaround and driveway. On either side of the front door, I have Hetz columnaris junipers cut into spirals, next to these are Burgundy Loropetelum, underplanted with Big Blue liriope, and pockets of Annual color (gold Lantana) on the far end are Emerald Arborvitaes. To the right of our drive is a large Willow Oak, and to the left is a Deodar cedar. The foundation planting along the garage consists of a Tree-form Needlepoint holly, followed by a line of Cleyera, anchored by a wintergreen Boxwood. In the curve of the drive I have a large Vitex underplanted with a single "flame Creeper" azalea, and purslane (an annual) Right next to the corner of the garage is a climbing hydrangea. The whole side has a big blue liriope border. I have two "knockout" roses planted by the mailbox. I haven't done much with the back except for one small bed. It has another vitex underplanted with variegated hydrangeas and pachysandra. A "Nellie R Stevens" holly anchors one corner of the house. I have another climbing hydrangea by the door, and the wholeback patio is shaded by a large Bradford Pear. I also have a small vegetable garden. (just tomatoes and squash, and a couple of jalepeno peppers.) Our grass is Bermuda.

The Neighborhood:

I love my neighborhood. It's a single entry off the main road onto a circle. I do back up to the main road, and have double frontage, but there's a hill and a fence, so it knocks down any noise. I have great neighbors and there are other kids for my children to play with, It's just a great place to live!

[Ian McC]

4 bedrooms, living room, dining room, study and conservatory. Double garage, only one in use at the moment as the drive is covered in bricks. Garden is a work in progress, was sloping all over so decided to put it on several levels, hence the bricks!

[Hazell B]

I have Hetz columnaris junipers cut into spirals

Nice, classy, highly fashionable and a beautiful choice

......a climbing hydrangea.

The only thing we have in common :

My place is a smallish 120 year old terrace three from the end of a riverbank row. Two bedrooms over two reception rooms, stairs in the centre going side to side - the basic Victorian terrace layout. At the back there's a kitchen and the bathroom's above that.

Outside there's a small yard with two raised shrub beds (nothing interesting except the Twisted Hazel bought for me as a comedy gift some years ago : )

Beyond the boundary it's a lane we use to park on, riverbank, row of houses opposite and then pretty much farmland. Quiet road only to our houses, though those wishing to drive off the bankside and die in the river sometimes have a bash at passing the house. They generally fail. No backbone

Inside it's a mess of styles, un-styles and doghair. The bathroom's gorgous and big for a small house, while the lounge is a jumble of my paperwork, DVDs, dogbeds and totally oversized cream leather sofa. So long as you look at the fireplace (very nice inglenook) and close your eyes to the rest, it's tidy

Saving up to biuld a better one ourselves.

[Camelopard]

House in 'burbs of Canberra, typical early eighties house, 3 bedrooms, master with an ensuite, combined living and dining rooms, faces east/west which is useless for this part of the world, should be north/south to avoid the hot western summer sun and to get all the northern light possible in winter. House is hard to heat and cool, working on both those aspects.
Looks out on to a reserve with lots of gum trees, this can't be built out as it is a nature reserve and ocassionly we get a few kangaroos in there. Lots of very noisy Cockatoos make their nightly homes here and boy can they kick up a racket.
Largish separate 2 and 1/2 car garage. 1/2 part is good as I normally have 1/2 a car in there (in bits)! My Escort Cosworths live in there, soon hopefully to be reduced by one, my wife's Nissan lives outside in the cold (at the moment). My Capri is in a seperate concreted area which is meant to be getting a roof over it some time.
Garden is my wifes area, although I think she still has too much lawn, mind you the recent drought has been taking a very heavy toll, we even pipe our washing machine water outside and have a couple of buckets in the shower to empty outside as well.
Less than 10 minute comute to work, poor car doen't even warm up, which can't be good for it. If I wasn't such a lazy bugger I'd be cycling.

I'd like to live in a house that I saw in Altes Lager in Germany, it is a former Soviet plane bunker on a disused cold war airfield that faced south and needed next to no heating or cooling as it is covered with several feet of concrete and earth, I'll try and find a photo.