This house is definitely a beauty and thanks to how big ten people can live in it without any problem, how nice that your grandparents were able to achieve that, today in very few countries people can choose to have their own homes, either in houses or apartments.

That garden has an enormous amount of plants my mother would be happy there, but as you point out it requires a lot of care, time and effort.

On the internet there are great ideas in which you can see how to take advantage of small spaces, I go crazy watching, so there is less to clean I always think about that, women never stop even if we have work outside the home, I think we work more at home than outside.