The first of three roofs of La Casa Grande is built. Done two days after the Easter Weekend. This roof covers the Upstairs Apartment. It will be outfitted with stucco-ed & painted walls... we are thinking of a BLUE-PETROL... a wood-plank flooring, a full bath... that means squeezing in a bidet... a kitchen of sorts... we found a stone sink tucked in a niche next to the large window overlooking the Garden. All we will add is a cabinet built within the traces of an old fireplace to the sink's immediate right to house a small cook-top & a frig... and a terrace with a wrought iron railing. This fun is slated for September. Before then, during the rest of April and all of May, the following will be efficiently tackled by The Builder...
...completing the roof of L'Esseccatoio, currently de-nuded of its rafters...
...re-constructing the other two roofs of La Casa Grande... the future Salotto e Sala da Pranzo... The Question of Which will be Which is yet TO BE DETERMINED, thanks to a structural flaw discovered yesterday with The Builder & Our Geometra concerning the rotten flooring of the Portico, precluding putting a kitchen in the little room off it. Alarmingly, the originators of expanding a rustic stone box into a mock-Baronial manse put the weight of two floors above on two overly burdened beams placed on two pilasters with too much distance between them. In essence, one side of La Casa Grande is resting on thin air... for cryin' out loud!!! But, back to The Question... I want la Cucina e Sala da Pranzo to be where someone else wants Il Salotto and visa-versa. Naturally, we will have a lengthy discussion...
...rebuild the Portico's flooring... topping it off with stone... and the sub-structure of the under-passage below it which leads from the Ramp Entrance up to Il Cortile... once we have built another arch where the Thin Air is...
...and new sub-floorings and iron rods to hold fast the walls of these stone boxes... called La Casa Grande... leaning on each other with only the help of Gravity and A Prayer!!!
So, let us pause & take a gander at the new roof...
the new copper gutters above the untouched... thank you very much... cornice of La Casa Grande's facade towards Il Cortile...
the wood overhang of the roof towards The Garden side of La Casa Grande...
more copper gutters & wood cornices over the entrance to the Upstairs Apartment. Here too will be a vine covered wood pergola... I envision eating out here under its shade on lazy Saturday afternoons in July...
and, for Compare & Contrast, a view of the Upstairs Apartment's roof to that of the Sala da Pranzo or Salotto's roof, depending on who you are talking to. Gads.
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