Greenhouse
All houses should ideally include a greenhouse.
The greenhouse fulfils a few functions:
Firstly, it adds a growing space to the house where more tender plants can thrive, extending the growing season, and helping to make it possible to have fresh food year-round.
It is also a buffer between outside and inside space. This makes it a suitable place to take off muddy clothes and sweep the mud into the greenhouse beds. Or to sit on cooler days, surrounded by green and living plants.
And there is the important function of making the house warmer in winter. It will also serve as a place to warm up the water used in the house, in water pipes along the higher parts of the greenhouse walls.
Imagine a high glasshouse, filled with green from trees and plants, smelling slightly damp, and sweet like flowers and fruit. There are budgies and butterflies flying around, and a fountain in the pond is singing a water melody. There is a paved patio with woven chairs and a bench, all with soft colourful cushions. There is also a nice table to put your drink and snack.
There are a few paths and a patio, as well as stepping stones to get to all areas of the greenhouse garden. The greenhouse trees and plants are an extra source of, slightly exotic, foods. The beauty is that these plants look so beautiful and smell wonderful too.