The Golan Home

“If you can show it, don’t say it,” the great Marlon Brando once said about acting. The house can do a great performance too:

Before, and after I:

Before, and after II:

One more with stucco:

We wanted to add an extra touch to the house that has a real personal touch and decided to do it with our prints. Not a silly hand print in the driveway cement, but a silly hand print taken to the next level.

This afternoon all four of us – Gali, Omri, Tallulah and me – sunk our paws into the stucco mix especially prepared for the house. It was a fun project that came out really nice:

It was great to see how excited Omri was about it. He helped me add water to the powder and mix it, poured it with me into the wooden mould, helping me smooth it, jumping all around it throughout. He even wanted to hold Tallulah when we set her right paw. Tallulah, by the way, was totally cooperative and didn’t move at all.

When we left it outside to dry, he ran out to it every few minutes to check it out.

This week we will place it into the wall as a tile below the window by the door stating “Hi, this is our house.”

Started the morning going out to buy sinks and faucets. The first place I walked into had decent prices (not cheap, but reasonable), good selection, quick service and everything in stock except the kitchen sink that will arrive Sunday.

An hour and a half after walking into the place I was already outside looking for a falafel.

Next stop was the house, where I was to meet the guy that built the ramp and driveway. As noted already, the ramp did not come out as it should and he has to fix it.

We agreed that we will test two ways of fixing it, basically removing a layer of the white cement between the stones. He suggested one way of doing it and the landscaping guy another.

We met today to try both methods and decide which is best, but unfortunately he came prepared only to try his own idea. Shimon and I thought after the Tuesday meeting that the landscaper had the better solution, and it was immediately evident, as we started the partial test, that the other method does not meet our needs.

He simply didn’t understand that we don’t want to touch the stone at all and that we have to create grooves between the stones. Instead he tried to sand it all down. Argghhhh

And here are the images of the white stucco. These images don’t do it justice, but trust me, it looks great!

Start of stucco work on the house, wide view:

A closer look from a different angle:

 June 13th, 2008  Edahn   No comments