An American in paradise!

You know my recent post on building an American style house weeellll..... I think I found my man.... as in architect! I recently saw an ad in our local rag for an American trained architect in Sydney, his name is Andrew Barnyak and his web site is www.andrewbarnyak.com if you would like to check him out for a little bit of designing of your own!

But in the mean time I thought I would show you one of his beach side houses just a stones throw from here

A little bit of the US downunder!! Unfortunately these were the only photos on his web site of this house, I would have liked to explore a little more! I will be keeping an eye on Andrew to see what else he gets up to!

I am going to build myself a house one day - American style!

It is going to have shingles and stone and turrets and nooks and crannies and will look like a gingerbread cottage. I have even had this little dolls house that I bought years ago and always had in my bedroom as a reminder of that dream... I finally put it in my daughter's bedroom....

I am drawn to them and now I have saved a whole bunch of them on my Pinterest for you all to share but check out some of my favourites below.

Actually I know that I would have to either win the lottery.... marry a rich man... rob a bank or all three to be able to afford some of these gob smacking homes but  I can dream and maybe use bits of them in my one day home. Though I must say that the maintenance looks pretty high.... but it could be worth it!