Casa di Amore October 2015

 

2,5 month since we last visited our home. Some updating photos have been received during this period so we knew that progress was made. All done more or less to schedule and quality expected.

 

 

Walking to the house we also can walk on top of the 5 meter high man made barrier between the farms and the river passing by. Greenhouses getting ready for next year, the commune is cutting the grass so we can walk on both sides along the river, and the neighbor’s soccer field is ready to be used.  Not at least we discovered there are a lot of garden work next year.



 

We expected a building site and it is a real building site at present.

 

 

Pleased to see the roof inside first floor as well outside with the old roof tiles in the direction to our neighbors and with new roof tiles in the direction of the train line.

 

 

It was discovered that of one of the walls maybe could give old interior feelings in the family bed rooms. In addition we  discovered the story of an older house in one of the walls that we have to  cover again.

 

New proposals from the architect that maybe be accepted if we see the cost saving.  Challenges with local architects could be that they are very local minded and have not looked outside its own region or country for alternative solutions to projects or listen well enough to the clients. For anyone intending to use an Italian architect please remember they are proud of the old as they are of their new architecture style. In addition too many clients have been too tolerant with the local suggestions without having their own philosophy for the work that take place. For those who knows us, we are maybe at time to picky and have too many of our own ideas that is hard to swallow or understand for a local architect.

 

When looking at the roof we also discovered there was no chimney!! We do hope and expect it will be made together with the refurbishing of the fireplace in the living room. I have only been thinking on the fireplace as a place to have some nice dry wood light up in a winter night. Challenge could be with the chimney is safe enough. We may have to go with an extra insert either for wood (like Jøtul) or gas. Another challenge would be to hit the wood for the fireplace so when we already have gas to the house, a nice gas insert unit that will light up and keep a descent heat in a winter night, why not.

 

 

The work in progress at present was the concrete foundation in the ground floor. 3 rooms partly finished and on Friday as we were to leave, kitchen was the last room in progress. A rim around the walls to connect and stiffened before the middle section was purred on with concrete. After this it is finished with the insulation in the floor and more concrete before in some month time the floor tiling will be laid, but that must be some months still. The architect is the local project manager and he keep the schedule and do a good job.

 

"Limpresa" and their workers keep a nice clean working environment. It is important for them and it give us a very good impression of the company in addition to the nice work they do. So our dear friends Pasqual and Gianluca we are very happy still with progress and workmanship.

 

Also new challenges popped up this time. We have two doors to our ground floor bedroom, and to find a correct way doing these door. Not for this challenge but we were prepared in our mind for other places and the same challenges. Now some of the old doors we saved from first floor can come into use again as sliding doors. It should be nice, and an idea the architect, Gianluca and we expect to be a touch of the old house in a Scandinavian environment inside ground floor.

 

 

On our way back to Montecarlo we met two of the guys that guard the neighbor’s house. Yep I have heard a suggestion that we should get one too, what it will end up with I am not sure. Next visit is scheduled for December, but hope there would be some extra updates before then.

 

Last look until next time