Creating environmentally designed habitats for sustainable living in Costa Rica and beyond…
We are six months into building our new 2 bedroom 2 bath house in Northern Nicaragua at Brisas Del Alma in Aposentillo, and it's just about done! All we're missing is a few little details that should be complete within the next couple of weeks, but the good news is that we'll be moving in …
I can hardly believe it, but the house is nearly complete. Way back in February our contractor promised to have it finished by the end of July, but as anyone who has ever built in Nicaragua (or anywhere else in the world) knows, a better estimate is to take whatever they say and add at …
The whole process has been really slow, but at least it's been steady. We bought a beachfront concession lot back in April of 2012. It wasn't easy and you can read the full story here. Since then we've been working to improve the lot little by little. We hired a caretaker. We dug a well …
We have begun building up on the ridge! First project - a place to store our tools, saddles, surfboards, wheelbarrow, and the building supplies that we'll need to collect when we're ready to start building the actual house. The name for this sort of building is a bodega. We wanted it to be as cheap …
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