Work on the upper main level nearly done - Bedroom

If you've been following the few dozen posts of this blog, you'll know that the bedroom on the main (top) level is an open concept place with four rooms. The middle room is the bedroom which, as you can see from these photos is finally done! Our first night staying in our place was Tuesday, July 28th.

I also want to mention again that our design concept is upside down. The main level is the top level for the view, second level is "ground" level for the two bed/bath suites; plus the laundry. Third level is the bottom level, storage (or 'bodega').

You may recall the controversy of getting power to Alazan. At end we were required to have streetlights at every other power pole. This was quite a source of controversy amongst us owners of lots at Alazan. One thing we all hoped for were the dark nights without a lot of superflous light. But at end, we do appreciate the road lighting when driving in at night. As luck would have it, the pole closest to our casita has a light.

Now, for our bedroom on the main level, that light comes in fairly well even though there are leaves filtering it. When we return on our next trip, we will be putting curtains on the window in this first photo. We'll also add privacy curtains across the foot of the bed, and also at the bath entry so that guests can have a bit more privacy in what is otherwise a huge open room.

The redundancy of this second photo isn't lost on me. But we wanted to show the 68" fan that is over the top. This fan is totally silent, but can really move a lot of air, even at lowest speed. The second photo is a daytime photo. With the jungle out the window, you can see that we aren't flooded with daylight (save for the streetlight).


If one turns 180 degrees; and is looking towards the foot of the bed, you can see the opposite wall, door to the living room and view to the Pacific ocean to the SOUTH. My apology, my camera just isn't capable of resolving the bright distant view compared to the much darker jungle canopy.

You can also see that we drove around the color wheel in selecting the color of the common wall shared by the three "inside" rooms. That nice cool blue really adds a nice contrast the the sunrise, sunset and sun colors used on the other walls. Plus we felt that it tended to pick up more of the sky and ocean color when looking this way. That man in the bottom right is our FANTASTIC electrician Javier.

For perspective, if one walked left they would be going towards the main floor bathroom. To the right is the kitchen/dining.

So that is today's post. Thank you for reading!

Ciao!

Ricardo y Jeeeem