The Golan Home

It has been over a month – and so many things happened. The first layers of stucco (or is it plaster?) are finished, and the house looks very different all at once. The second layer for the inside walls is white and it transformed the house at once from the cement gray to a bright looking house.

On the outside, all the corners have been rounded. This little element gave the house a much softer look. Now, with its brand new coat (stucco/plaster), which hides all the roughness of the building blocks, the house is, well, softer…

We have ordered all the tile, and today the tile guy started with the basement. How exciting it was to walk through the house. Outside the rain was pouring and it was gray. Inside, the house was white and the floors – until yesterday exposed cement with “veins” running through it (the covered yet bulging electricity tubes) – were covered with grained whites stone (nicknamed sesame. It’s the first layer before the tile.

Seeing the basement mostly covered with the really nice tile that Gali picked put a big smile on my face. What a joy.

Also, the carpenter started to work (I think), I ordered two outside doors today (for the roof and utility room), got the covers for the “Kill Bill” light fixtures made, spoke with a lighting guy about the inner part of the light KB lights, and still need to order faucets & sinks as well as a fireplace unit.

In the meantime, during the past month I was away again for a week (this time Dubai) and I’m going away for another week in February – to cover a show in Goa, India and have a couple of meetings in Mumbai.

Life is busy.

Work on the basement floor

White walls and gravel covered floors – view of the kitchen from the stairway

A short lull in the rain