It took most of the day, but the ground floor concrete is laid by floodlight! Its a great sight for us to see. But I get a bit ahead of ourselves! Walls cast, but the basement ceiling (top left of the shape) still not cast First of all we move on with the foundations...

As a bit of a diversion from pouring concrete and thinking about our new house, we took a week away to chill out a bit.  A week in the Amari valley – a Rough Guide “hidden gem”, is an undiscovered “away from it all” location which we love.  Peaceful and...

The inspector finally visited!  The first one turned down the opportunity, and the second didn’t have a car!  Had to brought out by our engineer.  But he came, he saw, he concurred! Here is the plot, ready for the basement foundation to be poured The...

We have at last come upon a great builder, Theo, who has cheerfully accepted our manifold requirements and eccentricities, is keen to get started, has promised us a turn key project with no cost overruns, at a price we can just about afford.  New office in Almyrida -...

The design of the house is completed.  After what for Greece is quick, we have our building permit despite the change in construction from prefabricated wood to concrete. We’d asked Eirini, our long-suffering architect/engineer, to design the house for us. She talked...

Back in February 2024 we had abandoned our search for a house in Rethymnon, having got quite far with a multi storey place on the edge of a holiday development outside the city up in the hills. We had stretched our criteria - looking at Plakoti, a house on a holiday...