Our garden design was inspired by the early 19^th Century landscape and garden designer Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau. You might know him better for the ice cream named after hime Fürst Pückler Eis.


Well, this has to wait for later on in the tour.


First, lets have a look at the trees.

 1. Trees

a) When you get out of the garage heading towards the buildings main entrance, first at your right side, there is a large northern catalpa with large beanpods. Our bees really love to hide in this tree.


b) Then, comes an impressing weeping willow of the Salix babylonica species covering part of the natural pond. The favourite tree of my oldest son.


c) Next, there is a sweet alder-leaf birch (Betula alnoides). The birds love to make their nests in it and it gives some shadow to the swimming pool.


d) On the solarium area there is a young beech tree (Fagus grandifolia ). Another one can be found near the saddle room and one on the children’s playground.


e) Finally, there is our grey alder where we have fixed a swing. It is always full of grey weave and eatable mushrooms.

2. Party area

Our garden has a wonderful party area with a lunch area, bar and lounge for any possible occasion.

 3. Animals

You might already have know our pets; dogs and cats, the funny parrots.


Hopefully, you had occasion to admire the fish in the aquarium and the pond.


Further, there are some wild birds and our chicken. They are giving some eggs every day. If you find one, you can keep it.


In the small animal pen, there are also some rabbits.


As you might have realized, we are crazy about horses. The are in the large pen. Next to it, there is a small saddle storage and on the other side there is a large riding course.


Hedgehogs are hidden between the shrubs.


Brown, red and yellow snails can be found all over.


Some mice in the cellar.


Some frogs around the pond.



There is much more. Just luck around.

1. The attic

The attic is a very private area. If you are invited there, you belong to the inners t circle of friends.
Usually, not even our kids are allowed to go there.


It can only be accessed from the parents room’ bathroom through the wall closet. It is also the only part where the ender brick stairway is accessible. You have to crouch a bit in order to pass.

2. Roof balcony

Upstairs, you arrive at the roof balcony with view on the 1^st floors entresol and the Poseidon lounge.
This is where we store our most valuable treasure. It holds an old library and family archives.

3. End door

Going up two steps more, you arrive at a large portal to your left. It is closed and you might probably not access it with your keys.


This is the access to our End portal.

4. Enchanting room

At your right side, there is another closed door. It is the entrance to my enchanting room.
Do not touch anything, if you do not know what you are doing!

5. Home cinema

All at your right hand you will enter the area of our home cinema and guest studio.
It is great to watch a live streaming of the Bolshoi theatre or anything else, or to play a video game.


This area has two beds for guest. Just in case that the night is too long and you need some rest.


;-)

6. The gym

Yes, this estate has it’s own gym. Its quite easy to access from the outside, if you know that it’s there.


But the main entrance is hidden behind a painting in a cellar storage room.


To go there, take the elevator to the cellar, turn left and open the door. This is the storage room where we pile up all those old paintings, sculptures and books we do not know where to put. It’s always a bit dusty and full of spider webs.


If you dare to approach the large painting at the wall, just continue walking and you find yourself in front of an iron door. Open it and there you are!


The gym has its own shower and a lot of fitness machines. Have fun!

 7. Tinker and service room

Have you realized that the two of the large fermentation barrels in the winery are not the same?
This is because one of the hides a secret entrance to a service room which holds a tinker area and gives you access to the redstone mechanism of the garage door.


To access it, you have to go to the wine rack. There is one empty space in it. (You have to open both trap doors). Inside there is a level. Action it. Now, return to the wine barrel at the right side of the wine cellar and open the two dark oak trapdoors. That’s it.



Have a look at the impressively simple piston mechanism for the garage door!

Last but not least, lets visit the cellar.

1. Storage room

Getting out of the elevator, just at your left hand, there is a very dusty storage room. It’s not really worth visiting.

2. Winery

Opposite to the elevator, there is our small private winery. It is a tiny but fully functioning winery. Please, do not mind the mess. We are making some wine quite now.

3. Bodega

Just going down the stairs to the cellar you find yourself in our tiny bodega.
It holds an exquisite collection of special wines, too.


There are many good things inside the boxes. Try to open them all, even though it’s hard to reach some of them.

The first floor is the family’s private area. Please, be respectful when looking around and do not mind the mess lying around that our kids and cats are making.

1. Entresol

Just when you come out of the elevator you stop in a lovely light green and white entresol. All the decoration you can see here are very rare and valuable objects we mined ourselves during one of our adventure trips to Poseidon’s reign. A wonderful memory.


The birch plank ceiling with the elegant red stone lamp turn it into a very special place in the evenings.

2. Bathroom

This bathroom is all about luxury. The design is a copied from the Conrad Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. Courtesy of their interior designer.


The bathroom tiles are gold plated and the ceiling and part of the wall are made from black shulker boxes. The sanitary facilities are of end stone corian.

3. Office

The office is a room for work, functional and sober. We were told that putting an aquarium in it helps to enhance concentration. Well, we will see.


The ceiling of this room is a true over statement and came with the house. The end portal stone framed with dark oak planks remind that this was used as a high rank conference room in the past.

4. Kids room

When you come out of the office at your left is the entrance to our kids room. It has an old wooden ceiling and is decorated with some of the dragon eggs I achieved fighting the Ender dragon.


They have their own flat screen for gaming and watching TV.

5. The Purple Lounge

The purple lounge is my favourite place. Here, I play with my cats or read a book.
Enjoy the joyful design and admire the beautiful glass chandelier I brought from a business trip to Istanbul.

6. Parents bedroom ensuite

My husband and mine sleeping room has Japanese design and is decorated with one of the Itchiku Kubota’s master pieces. It is also an armour room. I beg your pardon for this disturbing fact, but I am a great collector of cold weapon. These on the wall are all antique collectives.


On the small gallery above our bed we have a large TV and chill out area all made out of pure end stone. Take care with the wither rose. It is not only a rare flower, it is also poisonousness.


When building this small private are, by accident we discovered this beautiful ceiling of wooden inlays.


This room has also its private bathroom.

The Mezzanine is an entresol which gives the whole design of the living room some playfulness.
But the truth is, due to the piston mechanics of the elevator, it was not possible to go up more than 5 blocks and we had to lift in two steps.

This created an additional stop in between ground floor and first floor. In order to give some meaning to this, a small glass balcony and the mezzanine where designed.


The mezzanine serves foremost as an area for map making, reading books, like this here and listen music. You can also put the music on here in order to give some ambience to the dining room.


The only problem this space gives, is that everybody forgets to water the plants.
If you pass by, be so kind to have a look at the lilly of the valley.


:-)

Let me take this opportunity and tell you something more about the room design.


All rooms have a different thematic design, sometimes given by the antique elements of its original architecture.

Ground floor

1. Saloon

This was formerly the smoker room.


The matte green glazed tiled chimney was installed in this building from its beginning. Even though, we have found some receipts that prove its older origin. Apparently, it was a 17^th Century French chimney dismantled and shipped all the way to here in order to be rebuilt.

2. Kitchen

The original kitchen was completely useless and ugly. Therefore, we had the opportunity to install a modern kitchen with a large oven island, fridge and ice machine.

3. Toilette room

This small toilette room is mostly used by the service personnel and our guests when dining here.
It is simple but elegant, fully designed in smooth quartz.

4. Dining room

The dining room consists of three areas.
The dining area holds a large table where you can sit around by right clicking the chair and clicking shift to stand up.
There is a small area with the window seat. Its charm comes from the prismarin lamps changing its colours every now and then. We brought them from one of our trips to Poseidon’s reign.
Finally, the sofa area at the fireplace. Put some music in the jukebox to make ambience.

Elevator

Given that for vertical moves between the floors, we were obliged to place an elevator in order to have an alternative option substituting the antique stairs. An alternative stairway wasn’t really an option neither. Since this would have forced us to destroy some of the old and valuable ceilings.


The solution was an elevator, which also allowed to make the home accessible for wheelchair users.


But, it must be place in the available space, and therefore, it had to use a very SMALL redstone mechanism.


There were a few demands to fulfil. It should ...


a) be multi-level, stopping on each level;
b) have an up-and-down function;
c) be tiny to fit into the architecture


This was my architects solution.


This elevator moves you between 4 different floors:
- 1 Cellar
0 Ground floor
1 Mezzanine
2 First floor