So much more progress on our little casa!
First though, meet mani, our newest neighbor who Rob and Kent recently adopted. Evidently she is quite the little scrapper already, and only a few weeks old! We hear she loves to be right in the midst of all the action, so in this picture she is helping the guys plant a new tree. Somehow I don't think
The crew has been hard at work getting the enclosed rooms on the bodega level completed. In this picture, they have the first hard wall to the owners bodega, a dry room to hold our personal items for when we're not at home in Costa Rica. That blue Miller Generator from Appleton, Wisconsin is sitting in its permanent home. Gerardo will be building a cage structure on the three open walls. The one closest will be a sliding, locking door.
Saturday our tile/plumbing supplier delivered our order for all our tiles, sinks, toilets, faucets. That big truck is simply too large to be driven up the mountain of Alazan. Rob used his Kia worktruck to haul the load in parts to the top for storage. That little truck has done a heck of a lot of work at Alazan, hauling all sorts of materials. When one thinks of tough work trucks, Kia is not a name that typically leaps
I'm not going to try to detail out the various tiles that were delivered. But there will be a rather large amount of tile used in our casa. All floors (except shower floors) will have one tile that is both colorful and neutral if you can imagine that. I'll post a photo of that soon... The shower floors are all a nice 15mm x 15mm mozaic. The shower and bathroom walls will compliment that with nice warm tones. The vanity tops look like warm colored rocks. And the laundry counter completes this with more lighter warm tones in that otherwise dark room. The concept of 'inside' and 'outside' is blurred in a tico home. So in our place, the same tile is on the floor whether in or out.
This final photo, on this uncharacteristically sunny September day, shows the fibroleit going on the lower wall that will be along the stairway going up to the upper veranda.
While I was speaking to Rob today, it sounds as though work will begin this week on installing teak on the cupola feature ceiling. The crew will put fiberglass bats between the metal outer roof and the inner teak roof to soften the sound of rainfall.
So that's the story for now.
Thanks for reading!
Ricardo y Jeeeem
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