I think you were asking a lot of your camera by trying to expose for this image. While trying to expose for the subject it has blown all the highlights in the shrubland. I am not sure what you could hav edone to avoid this with the basic editing rules, but perhaps you could have tried shooting at a different time of day when the sunlight wasn't as strong or shooting on a cloudy day?
You have spotted a good subject to shoot though, the little house is nice and I am sure you could get a really good shot out of it.