Time doesn't just fly, it soars...

So many things have happened since the last time I wrote, I don't even know where to begin. First and foremost, the construction crew has finished!!! Now all that is left are the details that Claudio and I are choosing to do on our own...like...

laying the floors...

and painting...

The bathroom, though not completely without tragedy, is completely finished.
The shower is made up of three slabs of granite called "Marron Malambo,"
weighing in at about 250 pounds each.
You can imagine how difficult they were to hang...it took three construction workers and
Claudio, all, of course, using great care.

The contractor, however, wasn't so lucky. As they lowered the slab, placing it on top of the first slab, he forgot to move his finger. They had to then use a crow bar to lift the slab and take his completely smashed finger out. The house of course was flooded with a roar of a scream that sent me running upstairs in a panick, only to discover th small river of blood flowing from his finger. I, nurse Stephanie, cleaned his wound with peroxide and recalled a home remedy my father always swore by...

I dabbed a bit of crazy glue on the tip of his finger, looking like something out the the Flintstones, in order to close his finger up long enough to get him to the the hospital where he later received 4 stitches.

I won't go into the ethical guilt trip Claudio and I took ourselves on after this whole event, but lets just say that there is something disturbing about a man being paid to place stones he will never be able to fathom having in his own home in the home of another and getting hurt, on top of it all, while doing so. We of course offered to pay for the doctors bills, though he wouldn't hear of it. Is that what you call "macho?"

So the rest of the virtual tour looks like this:

These stairs lead you from the living room downstair to a hallway upstairs, all naturally lit. We have yet to choose a railing, but have no fear, there will be one saftly welded in place before the little one begins to move about the living space. As you leave the stairwell you approach what will be the baby's room, with our room to the right and the guest room to the left. Then there is a small laundry station (also done in Marron Malambo,) illuminated by colored glass windows that lead out to the balcony that looks over our back patio and takes you up to the rooftop terrace.



Little by little it is coming together, though I wonder if one ever truly finishes remodel projects. It seems there is always one more thing to do be done.

I can hardly wait to get to the decorating!