TALES OF MAKING SPACES | AND A LIFE | IN ITALY

This journey started in 2019 when I set off to build a modern, deconstructed farmhouse in a sunflower field on a hillside on the border of Tuscany and Umbria. Follow in the adventure alongside this project as well as others we’ve embarked upon in the area.

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signed, sealed, delivered

Yesterday, after almost exactly two years of considering, dreaming, actively searching, deciding,….and lots and lots of bureaucracy, the final papers were signed.

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staking claim

As a follow up post to the previous “on my land”, the reason for walking the land that day was to make the final plot map before the final closing.

We met the geometra at the site mid-day when he did the final measuring, and plotting of the land points.

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on my land

So today I walked the span of my land.

my land (well technically I walked it 4 hours prior to it officially becoming mine).
but still…

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il plastico

quando posso venire per riprendere il plastico”? The engineer was calling to find out when he could come by and get ‘il plastico’ before the next city commission meeting.

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favorevole con prescrizioni

We have passed one of the biggest hurdles thus far in this process. A week ago today the city commission finally granted the go-head and I think a collective sigh was heard amongst the entire group of people involved.

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