A Week in Paradise: Windy Harbour - Part 3

Windy Harbour has a range of styles of cottages these days...


Firstly I want to show you the original forestry workers cottages that date from around the 1930s...


They are all quite neat, and pretty basic.  They're usually painted in mission brown with some sort of contrasting trim.  


Mostly, they are the size of a one car garage, with a little porch added...  


Here are some that are great examples of those type of cottages - they are all still in use at Windy...

Then we have the more modern ones...


The blue one below was originally the size of a one car garage, but now is quite big.  


The original owner, Mr Carney, was an avid fisherman who woke everyday before dawn.  He revelled in talking loudly from the minute he got up.  I know this because my room was nearest to his place. 


Grrrr....


The current owners of Carney's Corner are one of the few that live in Windy... and they are tired of people driving too fast, hence the "speed camera" on the side of the road. 


I've written about this over on one of my other blogs if you are interested...

There are some very inventive and colourful cottages these days...


Firsly, my favourite cottage...  It has a very European style, and most everything around and in the cottage is yellow, blue or white...

And this one - still a sort of mission brown but with purple trims...

and it has the old 70s mustard lounges out the front....

This one is quite plain, but has a flaming red fire hutch of the rust proofing paint...

Then the creative....

which carries over to the garden...

Beautiful cool shades of green...

And then our place...

Part 4 is to follow, and in that post I want to show you all the creative things people have done to beautify and personalise their cottages and environment...