One month in....

Well we have been here almost one month and are loving it! Everyday here is a gift! My favorite time on Isla is in the mornings as I have said on numerous occasions.  I take my walk down the malecon sea side to the house and see the progress.  I usually have an enormous smile on my face, the minute I see that beautiful water.  It is so uplifting!

The house is really coming along! The carpenters are there, starting to do all the woodwork for the windows, cabinets and doors.  A couple of days ago we designed the master bedroom closet. I am now looking at furniture ideas on line.  The kitchen is not big and all appliances and countertops will be along one wall.  Need to be a bit creative as the space is minimal.  I am looking into banquette seating in the kitchen area along the opposite wall.  I think it will save space and I like the look of it.  It will also provide more storage as I want drawers underneath.  I think if we do this I can than have a skinny island as well as coutertop space is at a minimum.

It is going to be so beautiful though...they are doing the finish plastering on the outside of the house and also the decorative cap all around the top of the house.  We also needed more room for the a/c compressors.  Had to give up some of the seating on the roof deck for this but Joe said we could build them into and under a countertop which will be great.  We have also decided to forgo the wooden decking on the roof.  Too much maintenance.  So we are going with the marble stone on the roof the same as what is going to be on the floor inside the house.  It will be gorgeous!  There will be a wooden pergola around the seating area with lighting as well.

The last part of the old house on the sea front is still there, can't wait for that to be gone!  They have dug out a large hole outside the kitchen to prepare for the pool and decking that will go straight out.  I went there this morning and its really big! The pool should be a decent size and also extends the living space.  We will be putting a table out there and I think there will be room for a gas bbq as well.

Really excited about the double spanish colonial front doors. Domingo the architect did a drawing for me last week which I loved.  The doors will have small windows with black iron pulls and hinges!! So excited for that.  Shopping trips to Cancun will probably start soon.  We need EVERYTHING!

Hoping that we can get alot of this delivered but we will have to see.  I want a platform bed for the bedroom and a big ass flat screen tv as well.  It also looks like I will have room for a small desk in the corner for computer.  Master bath is amazing!!! We will have granite coutertops with cupboards underneath and floating sinks.  As I said before we designed the closet as Pablo was going to leave it bare. I was like "oh no" we need to have this closed off somehow.  So we designed a cupboard for clothing with two rods one higher than the other and underneath two large drawers.  On the right of that will be open shelving for towels and kicknacks with another couple of large drawers beneath.

OH!!! and the best is we get BLACK IRON RAILINGS!!!! YAHOO! We will have decorative black iron railings on all balconys front and back....SO excited for that.  Domingo agreed that this will fit the style of the house much better than wood.  There is a maintenance issue with these but there is for wood as well.  It will just have to be sealed every year.

Thats about it for now...