I own a house

[fivemack]

All the lawyers performed their strange lawyerly rituals; I have paid the solicitors enough to buy two cases of Laithwaites' best sauternes, HMRC enough stamp-duty to fund one junior nurse for six weeks, and the Land Registry the price of a decent mobile phone. On Friday after lunch I picked up the keys. Now I have:

an end-of-terrace house with

a kitchen with tiles with rabbits on,

the most seventies hallway ever,

and an overgrown garden with both the most amazing orange flowers and an outbuilding with net curtains

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Glad I read the comments first or I would have been the third person to identify your flowers as my state's Official Flower. My advice would be to leave the patch strictly alone: it's clearly thriving, and it is unlikely to become invasive. It lives all over California -- from the Sierras to the coast and the edges of the desert -- and is quite tolerant of both cold and heat, drought and rain -- anything except soggy roots (it wants drainage, but cvlearly whatever you've got is fine).

What was the outbuilding used for before? In my town, iot would have been an illegal rental unit.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

It was used for storage; it's got a work-bench down one side and ought to be convertible into a very nice workshop if I can keep it from being completely consumed with such of my possessions as don't quite fit into the rest of the house.

There is a note in the covenants associated with the property saying that the outbuilding shall not be used as sleeping quarters, but I suppose the nature of illegal rental units is that they pay no attention to such covenants.

[simont]

"shall not be used as sleeping quarters" seems a little steep. It would be one thing to say "thou shalt not let it out on a semipermanent basis to a paying tenant", but quite another to say you can't even put up a party guest or two in it now and again.

Anyway, congratulations!

[aldabra]

Our house in Bristol had a covenant saying we weren't allowed to sleep in the shed. Or have a goat. I was so cross.