Traditional Cypriot House

Typical traditional Cypriot Houses can be found in some of the old neighbourhoods. The one I was in had very narrow roads where a car could go only one direction.

The doors were along the street built into the side of a wall (which was actually the exterior wall of the house).

One knocked on the door like usual, but entered into an inner courtyard, open to the air. The house itself is built around the courtyard and all rooms are accessed from tit.

Looking back on the entranceway, you would see to the left a stairway that leads up to a bedroom.

As you follow the house around, you come to a main floor bedroom, and then the dining and living room.

Continuing to the left one comes across the outdoor patio, which is partly enclosed by glass.

Across from it is the kitchen, and the shower room, the bathroom, and laundry room. Everything is very rustic and well-used, but has an incredible charm.

If you go around the corner from the enclosed patio, you see the garden, where once a goat would be tied, along with chickens clucking about, though now it is full of flowers, and other vegetation.

Looking back from the garden and laundry area, once can again see the entrance past the bathroom and kitchen doorways on the right and the patio on the left.