After 30 years of city-centre living, Husb and I are selling up and moving from our large inner-city Victorian terraced house to somewhere in The ‘Burbs. We’re looking for a “garden with a house attached”, more land, less house. We love our tiny urban garden and have made the most of it, but as we get older, we don’t need to be based in the centre of the city any more and we want to put our creativity into developing a beautiful and productive garden.
When Husb and I bought the house in the early 90s, there was a lot of hardboard everywhere, it was a fashion back in the 1970s and the house was still full of it. We didn’t know what was behind it until we ripped it off and found lovely original features, including 2 Victorian cast-iron bedroom fireplaces. We also have a rather plain 1950s fireplace in an anaemic pink that Husb decorated with patterned stickers as a Covid project.
All the doors were also covered in hardboard and when we took it off we found lovely glazed and panelled Victorian pine doors underneath. Some were recycled for kitchen cabinets. The rather lovely black ceramic Victorian door knob came from an architectural salvage place in Trecastell. We love rooting round in curious places for period pieces for our home. But now we’ll do it in our new house, wherever that may be.
This is a little glimpse of our Victorian Terrace and lovely garden – if you know anyone looking for a central location in Swansea near the beach, please pass it on. Here’s the brochure from our estate agents, Astleys.
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