27 April 2008

Construction Progress Report #6

We spoke with Maritza this afternoon and she and Vinicio drove over to Atenas yesterday to check on the casita's construction progress. She says it looks like it will be finished within the next two or three weeks. The bathroom tile is in and it looks beautiful. They are now working on the floor tile for the rest of the house. The garage floor is already finished too.

Vinicio will talk to the fellow that built all the cabinetry in their house and see if he can work up a proposal for our kitchen and bathroom cabinets. He is also going to see if we can get a phone line and high speed internet installed before we get there.

We are so grateful Vinicio and Maritza have been able to help us with this project. Without them, it would have been a difficult task to coordinate everything from Houston.

Wish we had pictures....
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11 April 2008

Construction Progress Report #5 - Colors

Decisions, decisions, decisions...

John and I sat down last weekend and played around on the Sherwin-Williams web site to pick out paint colors for the casita. What fun we had using their virtual tools to visualize what the colors would actually look like.

The roof will be the color of red tile. The material is a composite made to look like tile.



The interior ceiling will be wood from the Laurel tree and it will look something like this...






The floor throughout the living room, kitchen and bedroom will be 12" tile squares and it should look something like this...




In the bathroom, we will have pale blue tile with a gray sink and toilet, so we have added accenting tile trim pieces in silver, blue and gray.

With these colors for our starting point, we ultimately decided on the colors in this swatch for the exterior and interior walls...

We can't wait to see how it looks when all the painting is done.

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