Notice the spruces in the front. Beautiful as they were, they had to go. The house front rightly faces south (this is where the "fancy" rooms are, while for example the kitchen is situated from the north). It needs shading during summer, but it should be with deciduous trees that let the winter sun in. The Polish law allows you to cut down trees on your land without permission if they are not 10 years old.
This is how the overgrown vegetable garden looked like. This window will in the future be replaced with a kitchen door.
And here the same space as seen from the house, towards what is left of an orchard. I am a happy owner of a few wild apple and cherry or pear trees. Still bearing fruit!
The yard, overgrown, but with some very old spruces that used to host wild bees some years ago. The brick building, solid and beautiful, needs a new roof that I really cannot afford at this stage. The current one is collapsing. I've tried to rescue it provisionally, but it's just too big. They say it would be best to let it fall, cover the brick construction and wait for better times. But the farthest right part of the building houses a hydrophore plant in its huge cellars. The plant that I share with a few other neighbors. It was a village community system created before the war that has survived miraculously until today.
Finally, the view towards the forest.
And towards the lake.
I sat for many evenings on a bench in front of the cottage this last summer, watching the sky, the swallows circling, the wall of the forest, the eagles flying over, the hares and hedgehogs crossing my yard.
And decided to hire a crew recommended by the architect who'd made the project of renovation.
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