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[N F C]

Hi @bruceha2000 hope you and yours have a nice Christmas!

I've read that years ago people used to build combined houses and barns. The livestock would help keep the house warm and it took less in building materials to have the house and barn together. It always made perfect sense to me! And think how convenient that would be to not have to go outside to take care of the animals. I'd love that arrangement!

 

[Shadrach]

Hi @bruceha2000 hope you and yours have a nice Christmas!

I've read that years ago people used to build combined houses and barns. The livestock would help keep the house warm and it took less in building materials to have the house and barn together. It always made perfect sense to me! And think how convenient that would be to not have to go outside to take care of the animals. I'd love that arrangement!

A lot of the old farmhouses here are built a bit like that. What is now the kitchen in the main house was the cattle shed. It even had a large door and a couple of windows looking into the cattle shed from the house interior. The chickens lived in another part of the building at the front of the house.

 

[Shadrach]

Very sad. So they want you there to take care of the animals they don't want to be responsible for but won't keep their hands off? Just the kind of "help" you don't need.

That's about the size of it.
I also do the fencing, the coops and sheds, the house repairs, etc etc, although I do less now because I'm getting older

 

[drumstick diva]

getting older always works as a quick excuse. Of course we are all "getting older," ever since birth.

 

[N F C]

A lot of the old farmhouses here are built a bit like that. What is now the kitchen in the main house was the cattle shed. It even had a large door and a couple of windows looking into the cattle shed from the house interior. The chickens lived in another part of the building at the front of the house.

How cool is that! When I was in Germany several years ago I saw similar houses. They were really old, they built those things to really last.

 

[Shadrach]

getting older always works as a quick excuse. Of course we are all "getting older," ever since birth.

Possibly not the right thing to write under the circumstances DD.

getting older always works as a quick excuse. Of course we are all "getting older," ever since birth.

I do hope others will forgive me for this under the circumstances.

 

[Shadrach]

How cool is that! When I was in Germany several years ago I saw similar houses. They were really old, they built those things to really last.

There are lots built like that in the mountains here. Very few people want to live in them now. I've seen some that have had extensive renovations done in the main part of the house while keeping the ground floor in particular much as it has been for years.
I like them. Some people wouldn't live in them if you paid them.

 

[N F C]

There are lots built like that in the mountains here. Very few people want to live in them now. I've seen some that have had extensive renovations done in the main part of the house while keeping the ground floor in particular much as it has been for years.
I like them. Some people wouldn't live in them if you paid them.

Heck, I'd live in one for free...no one would have to pay me!

 

[bruceha2000]

I've read that years ago people used to build combined houses and barns. The livestock would help keep the house warm and it took less in building materials to have the house and barn together.

In Spain, at least out in the Pamplona/Leon regions, where I have distant relatives the animals were in the area under the house for that very reason I suspect. I've not seen them but my Dad and uncle have. I've only been to Spain the one time 14 years ago for 2 weeks in Barcelona. I did meet up with my aunt's relatives, went to the church where she and my uncle were married in 1963 and the church where my grandmother and her mother were baptized in the 19th century.

 

[Shadrach]

Heck, I'd live in one for free...no one would have to pay me!

I'm sure you could buy one here.