Our own Jiaojiehe House:

• Home page

• From the west

• From the north-west

• From the south-east

• Interior shell

• Breakfast room

• Master bedroom

• Wooden heart

• More of the interior

• The garden
  (updated 6th Sep 2009)

• The original house

• Adding the personal touch

Jiaojiehe environs:

• Jiaojiehe valley and the Great Wall

• More local views

• Winter to summer 2006

• Dream Village House
  (updated 6th Sep 2009)

• The Phoenix
  (updated 6th Sep 2009)

• Paradise Lost
  (10th Sep 2007)

• Money talks (2007)
  (30th Nov 2007)

• Beauty and the Beast
  (26th Oct 2007)

• Blot on the Landscape (updated 30th May 2009)

• Money talks (2008)
  (20th Nov 2008)

• Jiaojiehe Awards 2009
  (30th May 2009)

• Private Great Wall Hike
  (9th Aug 2009)

Inside the house is definitely 'non-Chinese', it is deliberately distinctively different from the dark wood style of our flat in Beijing.

Yuechiang's garden is turned into a small scale saw-mill, alas not steam powered:

The wooden ceiling of the living room takes shape but don't ask about the material used for the insulation between it and the roof::

And this is the finished article:

Fitted furniture upstairs, the floorboards are definitely of the temporary variety::

The room next door with the proper floorboards down:

The living room waits for the furniture:

The corridor linking the kitchen and living room:

Finally the wine cellar was sadly empty but we have been working on it...