Townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife.
Surprise! Surprise!
The townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife that the agent introduced us to really came as a big real estate surprise. However, it was also a real oldie. None of us would have thought of such a real estate object as a possible holiday home in Tenerife for us. And mind you, typical Canary oldies are not often for sale. Indeed, we saw the townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife with our friends Richard and Sonia for the first time together.
Here is a photo for you with a similar view that we had from the rooftop of the oldie townhouse in La Orotava. La Orotava is big. In the past, Puerto de la Cruz was the fishing port for this great town on Tenerife Island.
Looking back I call everything I am remembering in this page my Orotava adventure. Would you have that in a normal holiday in Tenerife?
Climbing a steep cobblestone street in La Orotava makes you feel like you've gone back in time which also reminds me Garachico. You almost see yourself inside a romantic Spitzweg painting.
I can't resist mentioning that I saw a similar building like our Orotava oldie in San Juan de la Rambla by the old church, much later. That one was a touch gloomy, however, and much older. It was in a building dating back to the 17th century where the woodworm dust was almost drizzling down from enormous, wooden ceiling beams. Our oldie townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife ,however, was bright and friendly. As our townhouse had amazing indoor balconies, I would like to mention that you very often get even more spectacular Tenerife outside balconies that are striking architecture details such as this one in the picture below.
Let me get to the point telling you about the townhouse in La Orotava that was for sale. You know, you set it into your head that you would love a modern villa or chalet as
they call it in Tenerife and then, all of a sudden, something so totally different comes up. Am I off point again? Pardon me... But, the modern places get handled in real estate like young models. You pay for their youth. And for top models you also pay for glamor just like with new luxury
apartments, villas and penthouses in Tenerife.
Of course, the townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife that expected us was a bit more than mature. The house front, one of many in a row of attached houses, so called casas adosadas, was rather ordinary, but with an longish and classic face. With acceptable handsome features...
Here is a photo of a typical row of such
townhouses. Our townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife was very similar to the houses that
you are seeing. Later, perhaps, I will tell you more
about "the often elegant la Orotava. The heavy wooden front door of the building in la Orotava
was opened for us. Krrr... it went. The hinges needed oiling. More first impressions: Off-white floor tiles with bleached out brown rims... More tiles on the walls... The kind you find around O Porto in the North of Portugal a lot... You know, with white, blue and yellow kind of crane flower wings... I don't remember exactly. Very nice, really antique... A small wrought iron chandelier was hanging from the high ceiling of the townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife. Tall Northern Europeans, please step sideways...
A second door... In we were. WOW... A large indoor patio, blue sky looking in from the top... An earthen pot with a large, green, fern standing in some corner. Dark brown unvarnished, wooden balconies all around the first floor... Canary pine stairways leading upstairs to bedrooms in the townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife. We climbed them. Our friends went first. "They creak", I whisper to my husband. "Shsh", he goes. "Woodworm", I say. "Shut up", he goes. "Timber wax, good smell" "Shsh!
Our lady friend was wise to leave her high heeled shoes at home. They would not have been perfect for the townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife. They might have gotten stuck in between the cobbles of some Orotava streets. They might not have been ideal for the old wooden steps either. Here on this photo, a bit of an idea what an indoor-patio of a townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife may be like. Of course, the one in the picture is the pride of Tenerife, the Casa de los Balcones. Please enjoy more photos of Casa de los Balcones, here... Lovely music comes with it.
Of course, you will find similar patios, especially in the North of Tenerife. Did you know that organized tours take you to Tenerife landmarks like the Casa de los Balcones in La Orotava which is one of the jewels of Tenerife culture?
More stairs went around a bend to the rooftop of the townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife. We discovered shingles with
a bit of moss and some decorative
weed growing on it... A tiny azotea rooftop was in between, big enough for
a half a dozen people to join for a glass of Champaign. The view over some more Orotava houses, most of them townhouses with more Spanish tiles on top, was great. The green Orotava
Valley was stretching towards the
ocean with its beaches further below. "Oh, look a garden, our garden in our townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife!" "Would
it fit a pool, Richard?". "Sure, love, we can do that!", he answered. "You will have
your Tenerife swimming pool!" My husband would have said: "Perhaps, a bit of a problem!" But, he kept silent. When asked, he replied that one could make a plan. Our oldie townhouse was great. A circular stone archway was leading around the patio fenced off kitchen, living-rooms and bath rooms.
One could see many small windows.
Here, the kind of Tenerife skylight our friends had in mind. It would have been so perfect for the townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife as a patio top.
In fact, the old house was not bad at all. The town house in La Orotava Tenerife had potential to become a very original holiday home in Tenerife, indeed. The Orotava oldie was charming like only an old lady may be. Never had our friends dreamed of an oldie townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife. Not as a holiday home, anyway... But, now, they had fallen in love with this gracious, old, lady-like-townhouse. Why worry about her wrinkles and her aches in her staircase? Sonia and Richard firmly believed that they could be helped.
A total face lift would rejuvenate the old beauty townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife.
Her rooms would get robed with oak built-in cupboards. The future kitchen would get revamped with all the gadgets and machinery, fit for the best of kitchens in Tenerife. Just like an old ailing mouth is put into working order with white, sparkling, new functioning teeth. That now, reminds me that I must go and see a Tenerife dentist. The heart of the townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife, the patio in the center, would get a glass-like roof top to protect against weather and sun. A marble fountain would be placed into the patio of the townhouse in La Orotava. Canvas, cane and some of the famous, pretty Tenerife cotton lace would be used. Oh and Sonia knew exactly where to get fantastic little ornaments as well as furniture for her holiday home townhouse in La Orotava
Tenerife. Where? In the shop that caters for the newly wed. The shop in the Casa Lercaro in La Orotava. It was in walking distance from our more modest oldie. Our townhouse in La Orotava, Tenerife could, of course not measure up with a house like Casa Lercaro. Welcome to casa Lercaro, come and see the entrance of this fabulous Lercaro patio !
One doesn't have to be an interior decorator to get the right ideas
in a townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife. By the way, the shop is to the left after you enter through the front
door. This is now one shop where
where you will think like me
that La Orotava has very good
taste, indeed.
Please, go from townhouse in la orotava tenerife to casa lercaro in la orotava.
"Oh I love it, I love it, I love this Orotava townhouse in
Tenerife and all our ideas!", exclaimed Sonia, last not least. The holiday home hunt had definitely come to and end for her. Many a holiday on the island was guarantied for her future.
"Everybody from our family must come over for Christmas. To our new townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife..." She meant the Canary part of her family.
Oh, and you know, what Richard was so thrilled about? He had discovered vines growing over a trail at the end of the slightly overgrown garden. Vines were also by the one side of the walled-in townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife property. Later, Richard made friends with a neighbor who was a wine grower himself. La Orotava wines are amongst the best in Tenerife. Richard would be happy, very happy in his renovated holiday home in Tenerife townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife..Of course, there were some "little things" to be dealt with. The townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife needed some repairs. Some new installations and may be even a change of paint here and there were necessary. Anyway, what counts is that Richard and his practical Spanish wife could organize all important steps for renovations with local artisans in the neighborhood. And everything within a week... Of course, they would never think of house flipping nor would they ever consider selling their precious home to be. They were serious about living on Tenerife Island once retired. Final documents had to be signed, taxes had to be paid and more had to be done for the townhouse in la Orotava Tenerife. No mortgage which would have taken up extra time to apply for was needed. With a big smile, of course... We were all happy. "I told you, there wouldn't be a problem", was all my husband said. He was right as usual. It was a clean deal, as well. It had no property strings attached and would would work out an excellent investment to be. Please, go here to see a photo of typical modern Tenerife townhouses and amazing patios of the kind you may also find in very similar version in La Orotava...
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