Project Fenbury
I recently reinstalled TS3 and decided to start again with Project Fenbury. I am somewhat embarrassed as I am not gifted with use of CAW but I am pleased with the progress I have made so far. For ba...
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Not much to report this week as real life has been getting in the way. I did manage to get into CAW but I seem to have lost the plot on mapping out my roads and lot locations. Time for a rethink perhaps but I will be keeping my Queens Square. This is due to the fact I have almost all the lots for that area.
So this week I have been trying to build my old English cottage but it seems to have morphed into something Tudor. I have called it modernised and when I get round to doing the interior it will be light, rather than the dank, dark original interior. I am not altogether sure this is an original, during the twenties and thirties there were a great many mock Tudor homes built. The fact the gardens are to the front and to the side would indicate this building did start life earlier than the last century.
Time also to bust the myth that English cottage gardens were nothing but flowers. The average cottager would have had a large family to feed so his garden would have been mainly vegetables and if he was lucky fruit trees and bushes. Mrs Cottager would have been busy all summer long pickling, drying and bottling in order to ensure there was enough to eat during the winter months. It was only when the more affluent middle classes started buying and modernising these dwellings that the gardens started to have lawns and flowers. Mr Cottager would have contented himself with a couple of roses and sweetpeas, which smell gorgeous and take up very little growing room.
https://i.imgur.com/IIItJr1.png
https://i.imgur.com/sfTvgvu.png
Note the bay windows. This might indicate the cottage was owned by somebody in trade rather than a cottager. Somebody with a little more money to spend on his home. The building in the background is the hospital. The two lots are close because of where I am building them in Hidden Springs. The final location of the cottage in Fenbury has not been decided yet.
So this week I have been trying to build my old English cottage but it seems to have morphed into something Tudor. I have called it modernised and when I get round to doing the interior it will be light, rather than the dank, dark original interior. I am not altogether sure this is an original, during the twenties and thirties there were a great many mock Tudor homes built. The fact the gardens are to the front and to the side would indicate this building did start life earlier than the last century.
Time also to bust the myth that English cottage gardens were nothing but flowers. The average cottager would have had a large family to feed so his garden would have been mainly vegetables and if he was lucky fruit trees and bushes. Mrs Cottager would have been busy all summer long pickling, drying and bottling in order to ensure there was enough to eat during the winter months. It was only when the more affluent middle classes started buying and modernising these dwellings that the gardens started to have lawns and flowers. Mr Cottager would have contented himself with a couple of roses and sweetpeas, which smell gorgeous and take up very little growing room.
https://i.imgur.com/IIItJr1.png
https://i.imgur.com/sfTvgvu.png
Note the bay windows. This might indicate the cottage was owned by somebody in trade rather than a cottager. Somebody with a little more money to spend on his home. The building in the background is the hospital. The two lots are close because of where I am building them in Hidden Springs. The final location of the cottage in Fenbury has not been decided yet.
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