Year 2005. We have actually already done a bit of work here- because the new floor is in! The old one was long gone.
You can't make a window towards someone else's property. We didn't own the garden yet. It took some negotiations with Gertrudis and Miguel. We finally settled for maximum 50 cm x 50 cm. Today I am glad it isn't larger. It frames the mountains in the distance beautifully. And when the occational winter storm sets in with cold winds from the north, it feels good to just close up.
The table we found at a used store. We didn't have to do anything to it - except haul it up and take it in through the balcony, because it didn't fit through the stairs.
The pillows are from Tangier, Helsingfors, Rebecka, Marrakesh, homemade, Stockholm, Malaga Ikea ...
The table we found at a used store. We didn't have to do anything to it - except haul it up and take it in through the balcony, because it didn't fit through the stairs.
The pillows are from Tangier, Helsingfors, Rebecka, Marrakesh, homemade, Stockholm, Malaga Ikea ...
The baskets on the floor : one is bought at in Stockholm, the other at the weekly market in Caleta, but they originate in Senegal and are traditionally used to store food in. TV, not the fanciest one, but on the wall, on an altered stand that allows you to turn it. And the lamp you can make go up and down at any hight you want. Actually though, since this photo was taken it's moved to the middle of the table. More practical. The sofa - it is Chris' junior bed. I couldn't bear getting rid of it. It was bought in 1984 at an antique store at Puckeln,Stockholm, and once took all the money the family was supposed to live on for 2 weeks. It was an impulse buy.
Outside the living room, to the west, we made a balcony. Some said we should have made the room larger instead, but we didn't. You couldn't have bouganvillas inside the room, and you couldn't sit in the shade with open doors, or hang over the railing and talk to the neighboors.
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