How to replace four walls in a panel with spacious mansions overlooking the forest and continue to enjoy all the benefits of civilization

How to move from city to country. Moving stories, what difficulties we had to face. On the pros and cons of suburban life in your house. Our subscriber shared her story with us.

Life in the city, especially in the capital, has a number of advantages, but the frantic pace of the city, the lack of fresh clean air largely negate them. I am an introvert by nature and strive for peace and quiet. This is what prompted me to leave the stone jungle and settle in the country.

At first, our country house was an ordinary summer residence without any benefits of civilization. My sister and I came there for the holidays. Water was carried from the well, and the shower and toilet were located outside. I moved out of town a few years ago, and my sister, after completing her studies, joined me a year ago.

Progress does not stand still, he made it to our suburbs. The first decision when moving to a country house was to dig a well to get water. I must say that the task was not easy, our soil is full of quicksand, and the water is too ferrous. I had to install a voluminous and expensive cleaning system, and the well itself was dug under the windows, having lost the flower bed. The water was piped directly into the taps, now the plumbing in the countryside is like in a city apartment.

The second drawback of life in the village, which we eliminated, was the lack of warm showers and toilets. For them, we converted an unheated closet, installed heating there and made warm floors. We were lucky in the sense that the heating in the country has always been gas, since the time of the great-grandmother, they have long since replaced the Russian stove with batteries. Also, to our delight, the relatives have significantly increased the size of the rooms from the original plan. In the house there are many antiques from the times of the USSR, for example, an electric samovar, a thermos, which is about fifty years old, vases and much more.

An important aspect for me was to move my library and place it in the house. To do this, I used old Soviet shelves from a Moscow apartment, which my parents took to their dacha after renovation.

I placed several shelves horizontally on top of one another - it turned out to be a bookcase, and one, placing it vertically, turned into a bedside bookcase.

The disadvantages of living far from the city are the lack of live communication with people, basically everyone is sitting on their own plot, and in the district there is no such variety of places for entertainment and many cafes as in the city. Yet such a life has a number of tremendous advantages.

Every day you have the opportunity to walk through a real living forest, breathe in the smell of pine needles, enjoy the greenery of age-old spruces and pines from the window.

In the summertime, living in nature is simply wonderful, watching flowering, burning a fire right in the yard on summer evenings, eating your own vegetables and fruits from the garden.

Our grandmothers always kept goats, which we inherited, my sister and I added a dog and cats to them.

With such a company, we have a fun and calm life in nature, and what beautiful sunsets we meet in our cozy corner.