Our home in Mexico is an old adobe, roughly 150 years old. The rooms are spread across multiple separate buildings due to additions and modifications over the years.
The blue and white building has the main bedroom in the rear portion, and a living room area in front. Attached on the left (not visible in the photos because it sits further behind) is another bedroom and living area.
The building with the blue-green stripe and the reddish-brown door is the kitchen, equipped with a stove, refrigerator, seating area and storage space. To the left of the kitchen is an unpainted wooden door that leads to the backyard, which contains a large avocado tree along with lime trees, guava trees, papaya trees, an orange tree, and a storage area / workshop.
Following to the left, the building with the lime green stripe is another bedroom. In the midst of these buildings is a well, covered with a blue-green lid.
The blue-green door on the salmon-colored wall is the main entry door out to the street. When you first walk in through this door, you see a large and inviting patio area with the buildings arranged around it.
The buildings on the left, right and center are neighbors’ houses. The entry door leads to a passageway that leads to the street.
Finally, there is a bathroom, just to the right of the main house.
There are no interior passageways. In order to go from one room to another, say from one of the bedrooms to the kitchen, you have to go outside across the patio area. I don’t know if this sounds inconvenient at all, but really it works fine. Everything is close together.
There are other more modern houses in town, but when people come to visit us here they feel that it is a peaceful, welcoming and comfortable place, and I would agree with that. We are very comfortable here.