Photographs from Lweshal

By Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>

We now live in this house we built in Lweshal village, at 1450m above sea level in Uttarakhand's Nainital district.

Here is Lweshal on a map. (Tip: enable the satellite view and zoom in. Ignore all the labels and roads, because they're all slightly wrong.)

• House from the kitchen garden
• House from the path
• House from the South
• Jasminium flowers
• Backyard
• Kitchen garden
• Front courtyard and kitchen garden
• Front courtyard from kitchen garden
• Shed from kitchen garden
• Solar inverter
• Cutting holes in tile
• Wifi relay station
• Himalayan Trinket
• A waterfall ate our road
• Backyard from the North
• A p-trap for the kitchen sink
• Preparations for the rainwater tank lid
• Steps to the back retaining wall
• Looking down into the back courtyard
• Seating in the back courtyard
• Back retaining wall nearly complete
• Partially tiled front porch
• Tiling the front porch
• Pattern on downstairs bathroom wall
• Study floor completed
• Pattern on upstairs bathroom wall
• Living room windows from the outside
• Front entrance steps
• Kitchen countertop
• The front door and study window
• The canopy in the backyard
• The living room and kitchen (again)
• The study
• Looking up from the living room
• The living room and kitchen
• View into the house from South-East corner
• View into the house from South-West corner
• Peas in kindergarten
• Peach blossoms
• House from the west with wild pear in bloom
• Back retaining wall
• Front courtyard paved
• Backyard
• Our local post office
• A first coat of paint
• Waterproofing completed
• Waterproofing of roof slabs
• House from the South-West
• Courtyard seating
• Courtyard wall
• Vegetable patch
• House from the East
• House from the South-West
• House from the South
• East retaining wall under construction
• House from the North-East corner
• North boundary wall completed
• West bedroom wall completed
• Battery room completed
• Filler slab ceiling from below
• Rat-trap bond brickwork
• Roof slabs completed
• Filler slab being poured
• Shuttering in progress for the roof
• Upstairs bathroom walls complete
• Columns rise above the first floor level
• First-level slabs completed
• Workshop and shed
• Village road (going down)
• Village road (going up)
• Shuttering in progress for first-level slabs
• View from the shed
• The main entrance
• Rainwater harvesting tank
• Phadka river
• A giant Toon tree
• Plinth beam ready to pour
• Irrigation tank
• The beginning

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