One of the biggest complaints home owners have today is the lack of storage space in houses, especially those in new developments. Not everything we own is in regular use but somehow we can’t throw or give it away…it could come useful one day, who knows? But where to put it when the place we live in has no attic or cellar or even a box room?

When we bought our ‘new’ appennine farmhouse its sale description made little mention of what we would be getting apart from the rooms in the house itself: two bedrooms, kitchen, living room and two bathrooms. We were worried about how much we might have to downsize and decant our wordly possessions.

We need not have worried for we found our house had eight additional rooms which, with a little modification, could be turned into living space.

Here is the first of our three cellars in our house:

As can be seen this space, formerly used for agricultural purposes and certainly for housing animals, has already been put to a new use.

This is our second cellar. Sandra immediately saw its potential as a miniature theatre or performance space as it even seems to have a sort of stage. Our piano will get a place here and music scores, cassettes and old vinyl have found their way here.

Our third cellar houses the boiler and gas cylinders. It’s a bit smaller than the other two but could still give us useful storage space. If needs be we could even rear rabbits as there are hutches here.

At the side of the house there’s a lean-to holding stacks of tiles which could come in very useful for our project in restoring the roof of the barn which also forms part of our property.

We now come to this barn.

The building contains a wood store:

Next to the woodstore is a garage/work-room:

The first floor of the barn is occupied by a hay loft.

And by an adjoining room:

There are also a couple of shacks in our grounds which could usefully be used as timber stores:

However, I’ve said enough to believe that we won’t have too many problems with storage space.