Casa de Daisy & Steve

This site is dedicated to the building of our house; we hope to share our experiences and photos with you over the coming months (and years!?)

Saturday, 18 June 2011

Pretty things




Second post today, but I was quite camera-happy.

The view out of our bedroom window is going to be pretty nice, as you can see here!

The water filters have been in place quite some time now and the plants are now looking very happy; we're looking forward to them flowering.

We often find ourselves parking at our favourite neighbour's (Hugo's!) and today we happened to notice his beautiful orchids.

How do you translate "colado", anyway?





Things are looking lovely at the moment - you can almost see the smiles on the plants when they get loads of rain and loads of sunshine in the same day. Yesterday the 4 builders and 4 helpers did the "colado" of the second floor (i.e. they put in the the second floor), as well as the reinforcing struts and arch - should look nice when those blocks are removed!

The view from the very top is great, although Daisy finds it too scary to walk to the edge! Fortunately Hector doesn't seem to get vertigo so he's been doing a lot of work perched metres up in the air as you can see in one of these photos.

There's a shot of the back of the house too; Daisy and I have been adding some earth to widen a flat space, ready for planting.

Word has it that the council is coming this coming week to start on the pavements in the street, and when they've done that they're supposed to be starting on the road... Fingers crossed!