While there are a great many things we love about Oaxaca and made us think we could live here, it was the house itself that anchored that fantasy and made it seem possible.
When Penny and Victor bought the house around 13 years ago it was essentially a concrete shell on the side of a rather desolate looking hill. They made a number of dramatic changes and when they sent us photos of the original shell this past year, along with the architect’s floor plans and drawings, it helped to highlight both the amount of work that has been put into the property and the vision they must have had for it. The verdant jungle they cultivated here was basically absent, and the original structure deviated from its current configuration in a great many ways. It’s so different now that in the future I’ll write a post for paid subscribers showing the before/after photos. If you’re into home renovations (who isn’t?) you’ll be blown away.
Given the age of the house and how much we loved the work they’d already done we knew we wouldn’t need, or even really want, to make major changes. But something that in our eyes did need to be changed was the upstairs floors.
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