Garage and Hose Room

The garage, when we bought the house, was filled with a heap of rubbish. There is a mezzanine floor and that had baby carriages and cots in it and there hadn't been even grandchildren as babies in this house for a good twenty years or more. It was all cleared out and we could then get two cars in there if we wanted to. It seems to have low profile wheels from my car in it at the moment and just one car but in time that may change.

It is handy as it has steps from the garage up to the porch by the front door so we can drive in and get out of the car into the house without getting wet if it is raining, always a good thing on the west coast of Scotland. 

The Hose Room is a shanty built structure filling in the space between the garage and the house. It is very useful as a covered workshop/storeroom area but leaks like a seive and the swallows just love it to nest in during the summer, as they do the garage as well. It's called the hose room as it still has a huge red hose attached to the wall that was used at one time by the local ferry we guess as one of the family worked there. This room we are hoping to renovate to make it into a utility room/boot room but the costs came back as very steep. The builder reckons he can do it for much less and we are waiting for him and the architect to come and have a bit of a discussion about it all. If it can be done then that's great, it needs a new roof whatever. If it is too expensive then Bedroom 5 will remain the utility room and Ensuite 4 will be the family bathroom used by Bedroom 4.