Facade Obsessions...

The facade of La Casa Grande two days ago under a nice coating of morning frost.

And again, the facade of La Casa Grande after we have opened up the niches & enlarged a minor window. Gosh! How clever of You & I!! 1... 2... 3!!!

You has always hankered for three windows in Our Future Salotto. I countered with A Firm... No! Too expensive. But then, while dinner was bubbling on the stove-top last night, I started to copy photos & draw up various alternatives to My Firm No. And, lo' & behold, the three windows, more or less of the same dimensions, appeared to be the nicest idea. They would let light in AND not muck up the facade. For a time there, one drawn proposal had each window of a different height & width... an un-glorious pastiche of Up-down-Up-down... previously mentioned in another posting.

I have just sent an e-mail to Our Geometra about this Request. He has... must get rid of the word "always" from My Vocabulary and in all three languages I decimate with My American Accent... always steered us away from three windows in Our Future Salotto. He has Good Reason to be concerned. The stone walls in that room are profusely decorated with cracks, crevices, fissures!!! However, Our Geometra saw to it that a re-inforced concrete cap runs around the entire room... well, and every where else there was a wall & roof joined together... right underneath the new roof, just so those same cracks, crevices, fissures!!! wouldn't get out of hand... or COLLAPSE A WALL!!! You said opening up the niches would lighten the wall. Our Geometra said... Yes, to fall apart. YIKES!!! The Solution for the three will be to ram-in an iron I-beam above them and anchor them with other vertical iron rods into the good stone-work. Something akin to building a post & lental over the window openings. SO THAT IS WHAT I HAVE COMMANDED TO HAVE DONE!!!
His ears must've been burning. Our Geometra just called me to bestow his... Si. Now, contract, $$$s-into-Euros and we're off... on Monday too. Gads.