Bedroom 3 ready for stucco

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Hi again.

We open with this photo since, that fibrolet panel behind the fan had to be removed with some speedy electrical work by Javier done before we could leave and return to the USA.

You'll see a wall outlet behind that fan that, for whatever reason, was never roughed in prior to application of fibrolet in that room.  We wanted to be sure we had an outlet on that wall, since we "think" it will be the location of a shallow desk in the future. 

You can see in this second photo the stack of tile for Nelson to use in the bathroom.  There will be extra we're sure. 

As we've experienced Casa Torrente de Agua over the past two + years, we've decided that it will be easier if the primary bedroom were NOT upstairs in the main living area.  Jim is more typically an early riser and Dick more often stays up later.  So we've determined that Bedroom three will, at a point, become Bedroom one.  The space that is Bedroom 1 will be opened up a bit more, and made a convertable room that can serve as a sleeping space (convertable couch), but will typically be the main lounge upstairs.  In a future blog, once this space has been moved into and we begin preparing for longer stays at this home, we'll have photos and descriptions about how we see the upstairs evolving. 

 The wall behind the plywood (that we've donated to the upper guard house) adjoins bedroom 2.  We knew we wanted to remove the fibrolet, fill the wall with insulation, and reapply fibrolet to the wall.  We did that and in this photo, that work is done. 








This view simply reminds all the connection that the laundry is between this door, and outside.  If you look closely, you'll see that the transom above the door had the teak frame in place.  All that remains now is to have a louver transome put in with teak panels instead of glass.  Regrettably, that same transome detail needs to go into bed/bath 2; and will be done as a single project.  If necessary, Jim will fashion temporary fabric panels to fill that in. 

We have sort of a "wait and see" thing going on with the ceilings.  We think the bamboo will be perfect over the long haul.  But we're concerned about the ease mold has growing, and may want a different ceiling finish.  So we'll see how the other room does over the next six months, and if all well, that will become the ceiling in this room too. 

Once we were close to departure, and on one of the couple of sunny mornings for this trip, we took this photo through the glass Dick cleaned so well. 

You can see this room has a really nice view of the delta, and although hard to see in the haze, the ocean on clear days (about 5km off the edge of the veranda). 

So all this is tending to come together in the vision we had so many years ago. 

Much more to come about the other Winter project we hope to have done while we're away....

Thanks for reading!

Jim and Dick