Our own Jiaojiehe House:

• Home page

• From the west

• From the north-west

• From the south-east

• Interior shell

• Breakfast room

• Master bedroom

• Wooden heart

• More of the interior

• The garden
  (updated 6th Sep 2009)

• The original house

• Adding the personal touch

Jiaojiehe environs:

• Jiaojiehe valley and the Great Wall

• More local views

• Winter to summer 2006

• Dream Village House
  (updated 6th Sep 2009)

• The Phoenix
  (updated 6th Sep 2009)

• Paradise Lost
  (10th Sep 2007)

• Money talks (2007)
  (30th Nov 2007)

• Beauty and the Beast
  (26th Oct 2007)

• Blot on the Landscape (updated 30th May 2009)

• Money talks (2008)
  (20th Nov 2008)

• Jiaojiehe Awards 2009
  (30th May 2009)

• Private Great Wall Hike
  (9th Aug 2009)

From the outside from most angles the house might pass as being Chinese traditional. Inside is another matter...

That's no hole, that's our wine cellar to be (very drinkable Chinese reds are about GBP 1 / U$ 2, at least for the time being):

Going up, with plenty of solid brickwork, red inside (which will never be seen) and the more attractive grey outside:

Just how non-traditional the internal shell is can be seen from the concrete beams being installed:

And the steel girders holding it all together:

It's all hidden now, just the underfloor central heating:

The kitchen takes shape, the hole is that wine cellar!