Hopefully work will start on the house sometime this week, I believe that work is going to start upstairs first, whilst the kitchen is being made, forgive me if I start repeating myself, the upstairs, can't be accessed from inside downstairs, there is a covered walkway from the front door to the side tiled staircase,
which leads up to the lounge,
and three bedrooms, which will now be just our bedroom with en-suite, an Office, and the third bedroom will be a generous walk-in wardrobe, with dressing table for Marcela, there is also another bathroom attached to the latter, the loo will be available when using the lounge, the shower room will be redundant, and will be used as a broom cupboard. From the lounge, is also access to the balcony, which covers the front and one side of the house, but unfortunately not as far as our bedroom!
Downstairs the intention is to rip out the existing kitchette, and turn this into the dining area
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Kitchenette |
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New Kitchen space |
The side of the house outside, which we started clearing yesterday, will be concreted, brick pillars built and a canopy erected, giving us an area for the washing machine, and drying clothes,
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Former rubbish dump! |
This is our plan anyway, it will be interesting watching it come to fruition.
There are some oddities here, that I don't understand, but it does answer a lot of questions! I have commented previously about the state of the rivers here, the smell of sewerage, the disgusting colour etc. Well part of that has to do with the arrangement for disposal of household water.
Our new house has as expected, being in the country, got a septic tank, BUT only the contents of the toilets go into that, the water from the showers, hand basins, kitchen as well as rain water go via pipes down into the river, and this is official, we pay a small fee for the right to do so. I find it hard to come to terms with this, but because it is official I don't see how they can change it in the forseeable future, it would cost householders a considerable sum to re-route their pipework.
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