Description
CUTIGLIANO Already the arrival at the house is suggestive: a gravel road in MacAdam stone, the beech woods that open the house that appears, the view that opens onto the paved square with the ancient stones that were the floor of the house, the soft mountain grass ... I forgot to tell you that here they are at an altitude of 1000m above sea level!
A beautiful 19th century mountain house: exposed stone, a storage room, a garage, a flat garden furnished and partly paved in stone, a "hollow" with steps arranged in an amphitheater all full of grass with the cultivation of blue hydrangeas alongside ... In the valley the panorama of the Tuscan hills ... think that when the sky is clear you can also see the Tyrrhenian sea and the island of Elba!
We are just above the village of MELO, one of the many villages of our Apennines, about six kilometers from the medieval village of Cutigliano, 6 km from the Doganaccia ski slopes, 900 meters from the first shops. The Tuscan sea is only an hour away by car ...
And like the many villages of our beautiful mountain, here everything is wonderful woods and mule tracks, old stone houses and restored cottages better than any chic city house .
When I saw this house for the first time, I thought it would be perfect for me. Titty, the owners of this beautiful mountain farmhouse have done a splendid renovation work: they have made it beautiful, practical and functional and at the same time respected and valued its soul and taste for life and good living in the mountains. .
Giovanni welcomes me and begins to describe his house to me: he took care of the whole renovation ...
"The house is in the mountains" he tells me "and has the classic basic structure 10x20 meters typical of all mountain farmhouses of the municipality of Abetone and Cutigliano.The load-bearing structure is made with cycle walls pici in stone externally exposed and internally plastered. The rooms are of the right size and arranged in the right way. The ceilings are with beams, tiles and planks that make you feel sheltered and warm. And then the fireplaces, the stone on the walls, the polished wood of the ceilings and floors, the wrought iron: all this gives you a great feeling of "home". he says "the wood is all laid by hand so it is deliberately irregular and when you walk on it creaks so it conveys that rustic feeling that a glued floor will never have! It is also easy to clean.
The roof with its original and wonderful 200 year old structure is made of exposed wood and finished with slate slabs. Obviously the boards are new and the roof has been insulated. Here on the ground floor there are more accesses from the garden level. The whole plan is intended for ... a continuation on the site
