A Year in Oaxaca

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Home Improvement: Una Escalera Caracol

Home Improvement: Una Escalera Caracol

Our next major project: the installation of a spiral staircase

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Jacob Dean
Sep 18, 2024
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We own, effectively, two homes—the top floor of our house, and the bottom floor.

When Penny and Victor first purchased the property it was little more than a concrete shell sitting on the side of a rather desolate hill devoid of vegetation and the original builders, as is common in Latin America, planned to have a set of parents live in the home with the…

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