The Guest House

Guest House
January 10, 2009

We arrived at the guest house Saturday morning. Pictured is the guest house where we stayed for half of our vacation and the Pontiac Grand Prix we rented for the trip. It was a new manufactured home that even from the outside did not look much like a double wide trailer. These homes certainly bring a whole new meaning to trailer park! A picture of the guest house kitchen can be seen here. The house was set on a lot backing onto one of the many small ponds on the property although this was a rather large pond. The pond itself was bordered by brush and trees on the far side. There was a lovely, screened in porch at the back of the house. The exteriour of the house was a creamy yellow, vinyl siding with white trim and dark shutters. The house itself was about 1,100 square feet consisting of two spacious bedrooms, two baths, kitchen, dining area, living room and laundry room. It was bright and airy as many Florida houses tend to be with light neutral colours. Unlike older trailers the main part of the house was drywalled and painted in neutral light taupe. The bathrooms and second bedroom walls were the older style pre-finished wall panels with strips where the panels met but they too were light, neutral colours. The baths, halls and kitchen floors were large 18" square ceramic tile in and orangish taupe colour. The rest of the floors were carpeted in a low cut, medium taupe carpet.

The guest house was a wonderful accommodation for the first part of our vacation. We drove to the club house and around the grounds only because a golf cart was not included with the guest house. It was about a 20 minute walk from the guest house to the club house. It was lovely sitting in the enclosed porch watching the waterfowl. We saw no signs of alligators in that particular pond but I didn't get too close to the water's edge just in case. It was quit dark and very quiet at night with the exception of the sounds of wildlife from the pond and surrounding woods.

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