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Category Archives: Building a house on a mountainside
Our Concept Plans Have Been Sent
It’s already been a long journey. Mike designed a dream house, had it squashed down by red tape and council rules; he then designed another (smaller) dream house, changed it (several times), repositioned it at least once and tweaked it many … Continue reading
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Whose House Is This Anyway?
Today Truffles had a visitor. A crazy, cat chasing, yappy, excited Meggy. Meggy is Riana’s dog and she has a thing about cats. She loves to chase them, harass them, torment them and most of all bark at them. Truffles … Continue reading
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Measuring Out Our Grand Design!
Today was another step towards building a house on the mountainside. It was April 8th 2016 when I first started adding information about this mammoth project on my blog. In the last 2 years and almost 4 months we have … Continue reading
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Happy Dance!
I worked for an hour and a half last night and got on top of a whole lot of admin! It meant this morning, I could head for gym and start work on my return. The biggest irritation for me … Continue reading
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Balmy Sunday Evening
It’s 8-22pm and I find myself sitting at my desk this evening….not tucked up in bed with my laptop. It’s way too hot. Today has been warm and sunny. At one stage the temperature outside was 29C – startlingly hot … Continue reading
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Buying the Echo Road Cottage Part 2
If you read this today for the first time, to get the picture you need to go and read what I wrote yesterday. So the next day dawned. I looked it up. It was 15th December 2014. Stacey and Adrian were … Continue reading
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Buying the Echo Road Cottage
For the generations that come, I write the story of how we got our cottage on Echo Rd. For a very long time, Julian had wanted a little property in Cape Town. In 2014, he began to escalate the plan … Continue reading
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When Winter Comes to Cape Town
We cannot complain that we have a particularly long or cold winter in Cape Town, but when winter does come to Cape Town, I am taken a bit by surprise. My electric blanket has been the biggest electricity gulping culprit … Continue reading
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Overslept
It was one of those nights where we ended up only going to sleep at about 1am! Mike and I were up discussing and cogitating over the design of the house. It is going to be a lot smaller than … Continue reading
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Compromise
To be a fly on the wall at our house, you will hear many conversations about what to do build, how to build and the differing options and possibilities. If Plan A doesn’t work out at Echo, we have a … Continue reading
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A Man With A Plan
Today Mike again was a man with a plan. He came up with a possibility to build what we want to build without needing neighbour’s permission. Yesterday we thought about it for a bit and concluded the two neighbours behind … Continue reading
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Moment of Truth
That was what we found out today. We had a call to say the building inspector would stop by and let us know what all the regulations are regarding our new building project. There’s good news and there’s bad news. … Continue reading
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We May Not Be Able To Build
“We may not be able to build at all.” These were the sobering words the builder said today when we met at the site along with the engineer. The plot is so steep. There is already a cottage on it. … Continue reading
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80 Steps
Mike has been spending hours designing the house on the mountainside. Today he dropped the bombshell. It will take 80 steps for us to get from the street to the front door. 80 steps. That’s a lot of steps. It … Continue reading
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Compassion and Caution
I do believe there has to be a balance in life between compassion and caution. I’ve been chatting to someone recently and I think they have got the balance right. When a stranger comes to their door, they go and … Continue reading
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