Our lives have been focused on wine lately. With the construction of our new wine cellar going on, Micha is now thinking about how he might fill it up with all sorts of vintages.
Let me give you an idea where construction has brought us to.
The main raw construction is finished. The interior walls are constructed, the supportive steel girders are in, and the electrical tubing has been installed. In the first photo above you can see an old hand-hulled stone which we have repurposed as a sink for the cellar. The guys built the walls for it yesterday out of old bricks.
We have ordered dozens of 3 inch thick pine shelves which will be built in with supporting old bricks.
But before that happens, the ceiling needs to be sand blasted and the walls need to be plastered.
10 days and the first guests arrive.
HA!!!
Oh, and we are burying a 1000 gallon water collection tank which will recieve all of the hill runoff and gutter water. The collected water will be used for watering the grounds and the orchard.
It is all very exciting and terribly nerve wracking. I am trying to stay calm and focused but it is not easy when you realize there is cement dust everywhere, including in your mouth and your nose.
Time to wash it out with something good...
18 comments:
Ohh everything looks so exciting!!!
I'd like to built, rebuilt and restore!!!
Have a nice week end and good work!
Vale
I love the stone trough -- can't find things like that over here! :-)
Your project looks fabulous and I look forward to hearing your vintage wine stories.
Wine goes well after anything.
Cameron
You shame me for my grumbling over a simple remodel of some rooms in an already together building. I have forgotten how different construction is in bella Italia. And...your photo of the wine glass was superb!
Sure hope to get back the Baur B and B sometime in the not too distant future.
Good luck with getting ready for your guests.
That glass of wine looks fab.
I can feel the stress in those photos...but it's exciting too. Those emotions just mix *so* well together, don't they?!
Just think how rewarding it will be when it is all finished and you can look back on days like today and breathe a sigh of relief and admire your beautiful new room!
Oh, that hand-hulled stone, it's just beautiful! I can see the construction moving right along, and I so approve of your water collection tank. I'll drink to your ristrutturazione in a minute (as soon as the kids are down and all is quiet)!
That looks like definite progress to me!
Are you opening in June? I guess I thought it wasn't until August, and you had a couple of months to get things done.
Filling the new wine cellar with wine will be a fun adventure for him!
Must be awful slumming it in Italy with only vintage wine to drink, ha.
Good tradespeople are worth their weight in gold.
Do you have a plan B for you imminently arriving guests?
such great progress diana... and the stone is amazing.
you've found so many treasures on that property.
dana
We learn it in music class (and I may sound like a broken record) but it is still applicable:
Un poco a poco.
Wow - what a project. Sounds like it will be amazing when all complete. And in the meantime - won't you have to sample several wines to choose some for your cellar? ;-)
I LOVE the sink and would love to know how you found it and how old you think it is. I know it's nerve-wracking to have guests so soon...you two are amazing.
Ooh, I look at these photos and I can say "We were there and saw this first hand". I am going to love keeping up with your remodeling and can't wait to see what colors you use next. Exciting. Thank you for the wonderful time you showed Harold, Linda and myself.
I love Italy. It is so beautiful there. Thanks for sharing. Heavy equipment is a good investment when doing construction work.
interesting post! thanks for sharing!
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