Overseas construction blog part 7: How about this color combination?
This is the seventh of a series of posts in which David Steckler shares his experiences of building a vacation home at Hacienda Iguana resort on Nicaragua’s Pacific coast. Here are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth. The goal of this candid construction blog is to reduce the anxiety levels of people who have real estate in Nicaragua and plan to build, but are afraid of making mistakes along the way.
How about this color combination?
In the last two months the construction crew has primarily been focused on welding the roof joists together so we can place our order to MetalCo. After extensive research we decided that the roof system that best met our style home would come from this company. The metal roof will be air-proof, fasteners concealed and the surface coating galvanized and enameled white for superior heat reflection. Our general contractor Tony from Horizon Group (see below) is here making a final inspection before taking measurements for the factory that will be fabricating our roof. By the end of July we should have something similar to the rendering on the right, over our heads.
While we wait for the roof to arrive decisions on tile selection needed to be made so Marcia and I hammered out, with a willingness to compromise, the color scheme for the floors, counter-tops and bathrooms. The tile floor mosaic below was created on Conipisos’s web-site and will adorn the length of our hallway with the blues and greens carried over as accent tiles in the bathrooms.
The pool getting covered with rebar in preparation for the cement pour, which will be done in concert with a natural stone deck patio surround.
For those of you who have been following my blog closely may be wondering whatever became of that “?” window on the East facing wall that we were going to cut out…..well we decided to add two for good measure.
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Kristina
Jul 17, 2011
Very nice mosaic! Can’t wait to see more updates of your ongoing project. So exciting!
Justin Weathers
Jul 31, 2011
I assume that Nicaragua does not offer the roof technology that you are looking for. Have you found that you have had to source a lot of technologies/products from abroad. The tiles are from Nicaragua I see – and they look great.
David Steckler
Aug 02, 2011
Hi Justin,
We’ve tried to use local materials for the most part, but this particular roofing material got such rave reviews we had to go with them. I bought our faucets stateside and brought them over in a very large suitcase, basically more variety at a sizable discount. In terms of outsourcing technologies I had to haul over all the materials for our drip irrigation system, but I imagine that will change in the not to distant future. From this point on I don’t believe we’ll need to purchase anything else from outside Nicaragua’s borders.
Peter
Aug 13, 2011
Love the updates. Keep them coming. I hope to visit Nicaragua next year for a surf trip.
David Steckler
Aug 19, 2011
The Tola region has phenomenal surfing…..you won’t be disappointed.
Enjoy!