I was inspired by decided to totally copy Simone and give you a little peek at our home in Bali. You’ve seen bits and pieces in photos since we moved but I never did a house tour – actually I was kind of waiting until the house was ready but as we’ve been here 8 months now, I don’t think that’s going to happen. We still haven’t gotten around to buying any furniture (or rather we prefer to sit on the floor and spend the money on other things) and the only room I’ve managed to repaint is the living room. Oh well, I guess it’s good that I’ll have some “before” pictures incase I suddenly become rich and get the opportunity to redecorate.
As you can see, we’re in the rice fields which is my favourite thing about living here. We’re not as isolated as it looks in this picture though – there are lots of other houses just out of the frame and they’re building another house in the rice field to the left so we’ll have neighbours on both sides soon.
This is our bedroom where I basically live, on the computer most of the time. We all sleep in here – the kids have both co-slept from birth and it’s just easier that way. We’ll probably move them into their own room eventually (we have 4 potential bedrooms) but the stairs are kind of dangerous so i prefer to keep them downstairs for now
And this is the living room, or more accurately playroom as it’s full of toys and not much else. I really want to buy a sofa but haven’t found one I like yet (ok I haven’t been looking that hard). I never watch TV but the kids watch dvds on it sometimes (though they prefer my computer of course! Here you can see their workbench, baskets of soft toys blocks and play food, doll house, books and wooden train set in the plastic box on the right.
More toys under the stairs – more blocks, plastic animals, cars, some stacking toys, dolls and dressing up clothes. This bit gets made into a den with the addition of a sheet quite often. Oh and we have 2 cushions instead of a sofa :p
The storage/junk room where we keep our clothes and all the kids art and craft materials. I have dreams about making the spare room upstairs a dedicated art and crafting room one day but for now everything lives in here and gets brought out when they ask for it.
Our teeny tiny kitchen with no cupboards or workspace. To be honest, not much cooking goes on in this kitchen! To the back is the bathroom, which I didn’t take a photo of but it’s pretty boring. It’s a hybrid western/indo bathroom with a bath and shower but also a mandi (to bathe indonesian style you scoop water over yourself from a deep tub and also flush the toilet with this water)
Up the stairs which double up as DVD shelves!
This is the biggest and best room in the house and we don’t use it! I work up here sometimes and do yoga up here but it’s empty most of the time. I’m thinking this would make an amazing art and craft studio/homeschool room – what do you think? There’s a small shower room and toilet in the corner. Next door is Kadek’s room which is just the same as this but slightly smaller. Kadek started out working for us but is now more like our lodger… she does a little bit of cleaning in exchange for free rent and meals while she’s at high school. She’s out most of the day which suits me as I like having the place to myself!
Out the front we have a few trees (including avocado) and a porch area that I’d also like to put some seating and a table on. Sigh – one day!
and the garden round the side which used to have a lawn and loads of plants until the stupid ducks ate everything! One weird thing about this house is that it doesn’t have a temple – the owner owns the house next door and the temple is there even though technically they should both have a temple because there’s a wall between them! We still do offerings so haven’t been attacked by any evil spirits yet!
And right outside the front gate is the best bit 🙂
What an experience! looks beautiful.
This is soon cool. I’m glad I was an inspiration to you 🙂
Later before I head back to Aus, we should meet. I will have a few house things I’d like to give you.
Yes we should! Please come visit if you’re going to be in the Ubud area – where do you live anyway? :p House things? sounds interesting!
Oops so cool, stupid spell check
We have almost the same set up except my place is teeeennie tinyyyyyyy. I dont have an oven i have an electric stove top microwave and a fridge. i would love it if u posted daily meals or snacks for the kiddos. We also sleep on the floor. We love it and if mimi falls of the bed its only about 5 inches high 🙂 safety and security 🙂 I might post something like this 🙂
Yes we have toaster oven that I just recently bought – used to have a microwave but never used it. Most of our meals are cooked on the stove. Honestly our meals are so boring, I don’t think it would be worth doing a post about them! I keep meaning to get into cooking but never quite get around to it. I used to cook loads for Maya when she was a baby but I got fed up of my inlaws just giving her rice all the time and kind of gave up! They usually have rice and egg for breakfast, or sometimes toast and fruit. They’re not big lunchtime eaters and normally just have snacks like fruit and crackers, but if they don’t eat much breakfast I’ll make a veggie stirfry with rice or noodles. These days they’re usually at their grandparents in the afternoon but if they’re here I’ll cook something simple like pasta. Sometimes they request chips :p They both like their veggies – Maya loves spinach and kiran would eat a whole head of broccoli if I let him. They eat a load of rubbish too though 🙁 it’s just normal for the family to give it to kids here – i’ve really given up!
And yes, please post pictures of your place! Love nosing into other people’s houses :p