Finished – 16th July 2013 Bringing the northern England art of dry stone walls to the Blue Mountains. After many years, probably close to 100 years the dry stone wall across the front of the house had finally given up. It was time to repair it. It took three goes to repair. First I completed the right side, second the left end and half...
If you are an early riser like myself, you will be lucky enough to experience the best of the blue mountains. I love my photograph and sunrise and sunset are the best time to take photo’s at the many lookouts within a short drive of Piccolo. If you are not that keen. The veranda at Piccolo is just as good a spot. The sun is braking...
Piccolo is such a great historical building in the blue mountains we have tried to recreate it’s glory by restoring and refurbishing furniture fixture and fitting for some of our favourite eras including probably our favourite the Art Deco era. We pick up bits and bobs on our travels that we add to Piccolo. Our cocktail set has come from all different parts of Australia....
Piccolo’s main bed is a double. The bed frame has the original date stamp of when and where is was made. It was manufactured in 1908, on the 29th September, with happens to be Holly’s birthday. It this point we new that we had bought to right house in the blue mountains. Don’t worry though, we have replaced the mattress! It is a new...
Piccolo is located in the Blue Mountains. This area has been of great importance to Australia since colonisation. This is not just as a tourist destination, but to help build Sydney into the great city that is is today. Current we have large mining projects taking place further to the west of the Blue Mountains in two areas call Lithgow and Oberon. But in the early 1900’s...