The first thing is that the house is no longer blue, it’s white. Erm… only the courtyard is blue.
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[On video only Richard: Welcome to Casa Azul, or in English, the Blue House]
Jackie: Well, Richard, 2009 is when we bought a very old house which needed a lot of work but it’s 2011 now and it’s very different.
Richard: Yes, the first thing is that the house is no longer blue, it’s white. Erm… only the courtyard is blue.
Jackie: Yes, in the kitchen we now have our new fridge and cooker and what I like is that we have a sink below the window um… and lots of shelves for our pots and pans.
Richard: Yes, and the kitchen is also the dining room so we have the dining room table and chairs.
Jackie: Mmm, and in the corner we have what we call a ‘pantry’ which is a little room for…
Richard: For storing all our food
Jackie: Yeah, that’s just great.
Richard: What about the living room?
Jackie: I think that room is the one which is most different to when we bought it.
Richard: Yes, much brighter with our two big windows there, two big window doors.
Jackie: Yeah, so much more light so it just feels so much bigger. And we have our wonderful new spiral staircase.
Richard: Yes, going upstairs.
Jackie: Yes, of course because the house… the original house, Richard, only had one staircase on the outside so you had to go outside, didn’t you?
Richard: Yes, we still have that but we don’t use it very much really.
Jackie: No, we just use the… the spiral staircase which takes us from downstairs to upstairs into our lovely er… bathroom.
Richard: Oh, yes it’s very bright, tiled all over.
Jackie: Lots of plants as well.
Richard: Very spacious with a lovely walk-in shower.
Jackie: And we also have a little room, don’t we, where the washing machine lives.
Richard: Yes, and we store towels and sheets there.
Jackie: And the ironing board.
Richard: Of course.
Jackie: The bedroom is great, isn’t it, Richard? We have a lovely big double bed.
Richard: And of course bedside tables.
Jackie: And above the bed er… a nice picture er… we bought in Thailand. And we have a nice spare bedroom, don’t we, Richard?
Richard: Yes, it’s quite small but there’s a great view over the garden and it’s quite colourful, isn’t it?
Jackie: Yes, a nice colourful bedspread. And Richard, another difference to when we first bought the house in 2009.
Richard: Yes, an additional member of the family, the hairy one.
Jackie: [laughs]
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