It has been quite a while since I posted a log entry. We are currently in Australia visiting our daughter and her family. Over the summer I played a lot of water polo and we took our oldest grandson to New York and DC. But more about that later.
We spent our last several weeks in Panama trying to build a house in Altos, a community in the mountains, about 40 minutes from our Gorgona casita. We feel we need it as an escape from the noise of the Panamanian holiday revelers. The advent of advanced electronics enables them to blast their music to very uncomfortable levels, and they do it at all hours.
We thought we had a good Panamanian crew with an American who understood American quality and could translate our wishes. Through building the foundation we were about 50% over budget and way behind schedule. We shut down the project and came home to Seattle.
The small are is our small bath room. We are hoping it will be large enough
Our design is for a simple 50 m house with about an additional 50 m of deck around it. We built on the bottom of our lot to gain an unobstructed view of up and down the valley. The house will have a bedroom with a walk through open air closet, living room, kitchen, bath with shower, and lots of deck space. The front of the house will be mostly glass. We are working on what type of windows to use. We have seen some bi-fold and multi-fold garage doors that could work. I don't know if we can get them in Panama.
We decided to tint our floors. If it doesn't come out well, we can always lay tile.
Above the house on the lot, we plan to build a pool among the boulders.
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