our bathroom built is getting the final touches. the top of the little wall, that is hiding the piping, has been made by our marmista sergio. he is a great guy, doing high quality work on fair prices. gato and i managed to put the two pieces into place without any major yelling fits and we are absolutely in love with our bathroom. yes, we have been at it for over a year by now, if you count the "digging up the floor" part, but the slow evolving of a design has it’s merits. if we had planned a bathroom on a blank piece of paper and then stuck to that plan it would never have come out as beautiful and unique as it is. the old pizza oven would never have become our shower. the rockface would have stayed hidden behind all the old walls plus a straightened new one. the gorgeous old wood of the ceiling and for under the sink couldn’t have been found in a short time. we would never have met the tassi’s, which will provide all the aged (35year old) wood for the rest of the house. the stone steps into the shower would not have been made from old cornerstones. there are designs that are slow in the development but there are, so far, no regrets on this bathroom project. except maybe, that we didn’t buy the boat lamps at the fiera di parma for the shower part. but that will probably last only until we find the lamps that we are going to put in.
