Meraki Hills: secluded Corfu retreat

  • The View is ready!

    The View is ready!

    Standing for the very first time on first floor, just before dawn, made me simply breathless. Continue reading

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  • Last pouring of the concrete | #week 46

    Last pouring of the concrete | #week 46

    After a month of Greek plagues: temperatures, torrential rains, covid-19, August – Edi and his team are preparing to last pouring of the concrete for the house (except the pool and retaining walls of course). Once completed, stone masons can start the work. Now – sitting far, far away from the Island, we can’t wait Continue reading

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  • Stone walls

    Stone walls

    During a short vacation in Corfu, we took a closer look at the stone from which the walls will be built. Although the house has a concrete frame, the walls will be stone masonry. The architect says that due to potential earthquakes in the region, these are the regulations: there must be a framework of Continue reading

  • Anniversary

    Anniversary

    Today is the first anniversary of receiving planning permission.The house barely looks out from ground level, although the finances show that we are 40% advanced. Construction site is at the moment in a siga-siga phase, in fact not much has happened for most of August. Anyway, the concrete of 1st floor pillars as well as Continue reading

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  • 7 plagues of Greece: Fires

    7 plagues of Greece: Fires

    Every year the problem of fires returns. It is very media-savvy, with dramatic photos circulating the Internet every year. In the recent Attica fire, 100,000 hectares of forest burned, which is as much as 2.5% of the region’s area. Last year, a fire in the north of Corfu was extinguished for nearly two weeks.Certainly rising Continue reading

  • First floor shuttering | #week 39

    First floor shuttering | #week 39

    After the foundations were poured, which took place on 18 June, Edi and his team removed the formwork from the lower part and started reinforcing and formworking the first floor columns. All indications are that we will have the first floor on 10 August! Continue reading

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  • Windows, shutters, flyscreens

    Windows, shutters, flyscreens

    This is window. That’s what we thought until June this year, when we started to take a serious interest in window joinery for our house. We quickly realised that in a simple stone house, it was the windows and doors that could determine the final aesthetics and style of the house. Then we considered functionality Continue reading

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  • Foundations, grounding, finally. | #week 36

    Foundations, grounding, finally. | #week 36

    Work on the site has accelerated. The outlines of the foundations have appeared on the lean concrete, already clearly indicating the contours of the house. In the thicket of rebar, the electrician has installed the earthing, and this week we are still waiting for the plumber to lay some pipes.Lots of optimism. Continue reading

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  • (Lean) concrete! | #week 34

    (Lean) concrete! | #week 34

    The planning permission had to be updated as the house had to be lowered by a few tens of centimeters due to site conditions. Also, the maisonette will be slightly lower than the main house. It also turned out that the rock we had suspected for more than a year was quite formidable and underneath Continue reading

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  • First works above the ground level | #week 32

    First works above the ground level | #week 32

    There has been some progress both on site and on paper. The water tank is almost finished and insulated, just waiting for the slab. Dmitris is doing earthworks to prepare the final level for the house, so we could imagine far more, than previously. We have applied for water supply (1 month ago…) and also Continue reading

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