Creating environmentally designed habitats for sustainable living in Costa Rica and beyond…
Our wood dramas continue.... If you've been reading about the progress of our beach house construction you'll see a repeated theme - we've been delayed by the local carpenter again and again. Now, the house is pretty much finished - concrete work is done, custom window bars are installed, floor is nice and colorful, etc. …
The next step in the saga to build a beach house in Northern Nicaragua is complete. We've got a roof! When building anything in this country, you've gotta have patience. Lots of patience! A big issue has been our carpenter. We wanted to work with local people and keep jobs in this area, so we …
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 moved into our new cabana about a month prior and had yet to take full advantage of the loft because we didn’t have any stairs. We had considered several funky stair designs with notched logs and spiral things, but in the end just wanted to have nice wooden stairs finished in a reasonable amount …
When trying to figure out what type of siding we'd use for our new cabana we checked out the cabanas at the French Guys restaurant (who also have a few cabanas). They used guanacaste horizontal siding and it looks really nice even after a couple of years. Then there was a killer lightning storm!
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