Arrancopelito

Arrancopelito, is an expression used by children in Uruguay many years ago meaning something like "deal!" and the chosen name for our recently completed house in Barra de Portezuelo, near Punta Negra.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

The new deck sets off the "water trough"

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The downstairs barbeque area looks bigger now that the living-room deck is laid... That's our water trough on the right, below. Sorry, c...

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Swimming pool or water trough?

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I once told Fabián that some renderings of the projected pool made it look like a water or feed trough, and he didn´t take it well I think. ...

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Digging the pool

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Views of the swimming pool excavation going on, as seen from our bedrom upstairs. We placed it to be aligned with the axis of our bedroom, a...

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Greater Punta goes upmarket

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View of Punta del Este from Punta Ballena Punta del Este and its area of influence covers mellow, long bays with island views, stretches of ...

Friday, August 10, 2007

Lights!

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Seeing the lights on would suggest that all is done already. It's very exciting (as every bit of progress seems to be when building a ho...

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Swimming pool, what color glass tiles?

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Well, it is with a great sigh of relief that I can say that the swimming pool has been contracted and digging should start Friday. For a whi...

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Water Tank

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We had kinda forgotten about the water tank issue. Initially I wanted to have a proper, wooden water tower, but budget constraints (again bu...

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