Eureka, the granite man has come!

It is indeed a good day on the farm. Not only do we have blue sky and sunshine just in time for our party tomorrow night, but the granite man, Dino, has come and delivered our countertop. There has been a few weeks of delay and even though Dino called on Wednesday to...

Attencioni! Attencioni!!

I can barely contain my excitement as I type this. Stefan just called and….OUR COUNTER IS BEING INSTALLED ON FRIDAY!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!Just when we started to wonder if it wasn’t going to happen at all, Dino came through. He really must have been riding their...

Contractors that just don’t show

We posted about a month ago that we had gotten a bid from Macky, our general contractor, about redoing the plaster around the base of the house in the courtyard. It’s especially bad near the front door where the water bounces off the stairs and onto the wall....

And then it’s off to Italy

Our Italian tile and granite guy, Dino, came over this morning to measure the kitchen cabinet surface so we can finally get our order sent out to Italy….once we decide what to do on the wall behind the counters…which I will discuss later. Dino brought a...

The Mackmeister strikes again

Macky returned today to finish up the door to the office. And we must say it looks pretty darn good and it improves the flow of the house massively. Later on tonight we can take off the braces and enjoy our new closed off office. Macky had prepared another bid for us...