Casa del Artes

03/11/2021

One of the things that are most surprising about inland Spain is the diversity of the landscape and geology. This panorama always makes my heart sing. The hills come in such diverse colours - red, pale green, cream, dark grey green. The mineral content has such an impact on such a relatively small area. Plus the air is so clean and the visibility so good!

02/11/2021

To make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs. In this case, this space will become two bathrooms, one with a shower and one with a bath. Downstairs, there will be another shower room

02/11/2021

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Contrary to popular belief, we do have seasons here in Andalucia and Autumn mornings are especially beautiful up in the mountains

28/10/2021

I’m learning patience along with pottery skills. Hopefully, by the time Casa del Artes is open for business, we’ll be able to use some of my makes to dress the house

15/10/2021

Sunset over Hinojares

13/10/2021

Not much happening at the Casa whilst we get proper permissions and keep on clearing the house. In the meantime, one of us is at on a two year ceramics course

21/09/2021

The internal wall will be coming down but first we need to clear the space. Luckily we have a huge two storey outbuilding where we can store and eventually upcycle all the furniture that was left and that we’ve added too. None of the interior walls are actually load bearing which means we can configure the house exactly as we want it

19/09/2021

We are very lucky to live in such a fruitful area. The grapes are ready for picking, one of our two year old yuccas is in flower, the pomegranates are nearly ripe, there are still figs on the trees and later in the year we will have oranges and olives

13/09/2021

Green oranges anyone. Oranges ripen in winter so we will wait until they are ready and then the plan is to prune the trees as they are totally dominating the back courtyard at the moment after some serious neglect over the last few years. There are two trees which we’ll hopefully keep, if only for the delicious smell of the blossom when it comes in late spring, early summer plus as shade as the back of the Casa is south facing

08/09/2021

08/09/2021

We’ve picked up this lovely little bedroom set, in need of some serious tlc. We will restore it to its former glory and can’t wait to have it in one of our bedrooms

16/08/2021

Currently planning the changes to the interior so we can get an electrician in to rewire the house and for us to sort out the plumbing and move some walls. Having spent many, many hours pondering our options it looks like we’ll have 4 double bedroom, one twin and two bathrooms to ensure we can offer comfort and luxury.