Beypazari Houses
Beypazari houses can confuse your mind because
of their appereance from far distance as they look like they were maquettes.
However as you get closer you can see how great they are. The ground floors are of stone and the upper
floors of wood. Beypazari is one of the several places in which traditional
houses are used as living areas and tourist attractions. That’s why you feel
that you are living in history.
The room growing out from the attic in these houses, gives a different speciality to Beypazari Houses when you compare them to other historical houses of Anatolia. This room is called ‘Gushgana’. This room have been used as storage room in the past.
The ground floor consists of a stable, hayloft and cellar, manservant part is also included in Big houses. You can find a drinking trough and a fireplace in the courtyard. Houses on inclined grounds have also basements. The kitchen can be reached by stairs seperated from inside stairs.Kitchens are generally positioned on 2-2.5m above the ground as mezzanine. Mezzanines are usually used as winter floors. The above stairs are the main living areas.
In some houses, toilets and service rooms like kitchen open onto long rooms like the other ordinary rooms. The long rooms are named as ‘Sofa’ in Turkish but local people named this part of the house as ‘Chardak’ in Beypazari. On some plans, long rooms finish with a balcony. However there are many construction elements which express the long rooms in different structures. Long rooms are decorated with wide and arched windows to help the expression of the Sofa from outside.
As a belief people of Beypazari used to leave a part of the house unbuilt to imply that they have a lot to do, that life goes on and that they will live for a long time. This belief was called as ‘Chandi’ or ‘Chanti’. In case of need people used to complete this unbuilt parts. You can see today these restored houses as restaurants and accommodation plants.