We're getting there!!!

Last week the builders finished plastering the walls and they even started to install the floor tiles. Everything is so white... Little by little it is getting the look of the house that we want.







Sus at the centre of the kitchen and living-room area, where the roof gets highest.



The studio/guest-room at the upper floor.



The master bedroom.



The second bedroom.



The sauna room.



And the staircase. (Well. That's where the staircase WILL BE, one day).



Floor tiles at the bottom floor already being installed, seen from the upper floor.



Hopefully they'll be white once we can clean them...



The tiles at the sauna room, as well as in the two bathrooms and the laundry-room, are grey... and anti-slip, because we don't want anybody to get hurt :D

Working inside the house

Juantxo and his team have already finished the installation of the under-floor heating and have also covered it with mortar. This is the basis for the tiled floor which they hopefully will start to install next week.

Sorry for the poor quality of some of the pictures. They where taken with a mobile phone at dusk and there wasn't enough light.

Next picture shows the pipes at the main entrance.



And next, if you manage to see anything, is the installation at the sauna room.



As we mentioned earlier, all that has already been covered with a layer of a special mortar made of concrete and sand.



Kitchen and living-room area.



Our bedroom.



And the winter garden.
Presently, the walls are being plastered, and once that's done, the floor tiles can be laid. The sauna room will be finished first - the sauna is currently sitting in Barcelona, waiting to be installed.

The house hasn't got a floor yet, but it's got a name!

Lizarra = Fresno = Ash = Fraxinus Excelsior

The Ashtree (Esche) is a tree typically found in the Basque Country, it spreads right from the coast to the highest mountains. His branches protect the doors of the farmhouses in spring, and the shepards cut the smaller branches in summer to feed their sheep.

We've got at least half a dozen of them on our plot, they've sprung up wild and are growing fast.

As it's (for the moment) the main and in any case the first tree that we've got in our garden, we have decided to use its Basque name for the name of our house - as every house needs a proper name. The name is considered very important for the house.

So the name will be "Lizarrondo" - Basque for "near the ash", "an der Esche".

Now, the next tree is NOT an Ash, it's a wild maple (Ahorn), that's sprung up out of nothing. It's a very promising little tree, and we're very proud of it!