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Lesson 5 Rural Architecture of Serbia
Lesson 5 Rural Architecture of Serbia
After looking to the entire homestead we gave a close look to the house and its
interior.
The house hasn't been touched since Deda Velimir (my husband's grandfather)
and Baba Jelica (my husband's grandmother) died, but it was kept always tidy
and nothing was really damaged.
A nicely decorated entrance door leads directly to the kitchen. The layout
correspond to a classical plan that is often found in the typical Moravian house
(Bondruka Style).
Directly from the kitchen there is a bigger room on the left (living room) and a
smaller on the right (sleeping room). In the back an access to a little corridor
that would lead to a bathroom and another small sleeping room...only that it
was not finished.
All the beautiful memories of the ancestor's life we found in the house could
not really hide the problems that we would have to solve if we decide to
renovate it.
With these informations in mind I jotted down a small drawing of what the new
layout could be: keeping the front as it is, amplifying the back and enlarging
the terasse.
The terasse is really nice and is covered and it makes completely sense to
make it bigger!
My husband and I decided that we would take the big work and efforts to
remodel this house: his father would support us with work and know-how, I
would make the plans and details and my husband would organize all the
building material in the surrounding and make the paperworks with the
authorities to get water, electrical power and eventually to buy the nearby
property that belongs to a cousin but would make a good place for the
vegetable and fruit garden for us.
I took a last picture of the house before we would start to transform it!