Dressing room

We've been checking furniture shops lately and we've already made up our minds about some of the things that we're buying. One of those is the dressing room.

It's an independent, no-windows space, separate from the bedrooms, and it's not large but big enough for the two of us. These are the drawings that we got today from the shop.



It's got several metres of open space to hang things of any imaginable length, some open cupboards and a fair number of drawers.



What follows is a completely inadequate computer-created image. The furniture will be plain white in reality, and why they've put in that scary floor-pattern remains a mystery, but in fact the floor will be plain white tile as the rest of the downstairs floors. No, we've no intention of returning to the seventies, never liked the seventies, and there won't be any psychedelic circles anywhere, promise!

Maximilian

Good news. We haven't finished with the house yet but we're getting involved in a new project: Maximilian. That's the name of our future new dog. A Black Russian Terrier that we're bringing from Warendorf (Germany). Hopefully, that will happen in August.

Sus got an email this week from Bettina Pelkmann from Russian Pearl - the breeder -, telling us that the mother of our future dog is already in heat and that she will be mounted shortly.

The mother is Jonka. She's a 72 cm high and 53 Kg beauty.





And Yuri will be the father. Yuri is a 75 cm high and 60 Kg massive but sweet animal, winner of several championships.



With those parents you can imagine what our new "baby" is going to be like in two or three years.

The driveway and the front yard

Finally the company that we contracted to do the driveway and the front yard was in Barajuen last week so that part has also been finished.

The driveway - the steepest part of it - is made of conventional concrete, with a 10 cm deep reinforced base. The front yard and the car park area, instead, are made of deactivated concrete.



Deactivated concrete consists of a special mixture of cement and granulates in which a superficial layer of cement is washed out before it completely sets, leaving granulates to appear in relief whilst remaining secured to the assembly.





This kind of finish is widely used in rural areas and even in historic parts of cities because the visible granulates give the surface both colour and texture, thereby showing a rustic or ancient look that matches very well in that kind of surroundings.