Killer

This waiting is killing me. No word from the architect about the plans. Yes I trust him, but it's taking too long and I really can't wait to start construction...

The house before my very eyes

I am very excited. We visited the architect hopefully for the last time before we have a structural engineer's plan and he surprised us with lovely photos of how our house is expected to look like ( the rear view is above).





 This was the first time the construction began to look real! Right there...in front of my eyes!

I am hoping that we can make it look like this, or even better!

Now what we need is wait for the structural engineer's plan and then we can launch it at the Municipal  offices and hopefully in three weeks, we will have an approved plan.






We have to pray that all goes well, as the things we have heard about Mavoko Municipal Council are not all positive.
I shall be here talk about it though!

Greatest regret

One of my greatest regrets right now is that I didn't start this blog as soon as we decided we wanted to put up a house. I will try though assume I did. Of course the first thing to do is buy a nice piece of land- mine is a small quarter acre piece about 10-15KM from Nairobi City Centre but only about 5 Kilometers from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

From our house, we can see planes land and take off and hopefully we can capture this in the construction. We want many things for our house. We want minimal walls, plenty of light and we need to make sure that the building is as environment friendly as possible, without compromising security. Unfortunately in this part of the world, as with many others, security is big concern- we might want huge sliding windows, with no security bars, but you don't want to find half of your stuff missing, after a long day at work

Out for lunch...more next time