Thursday, May 01, 2008
Work Begins in Eliaohori

Around the 22nd/23rd April Jamie, our architect, met up with Taki the builder and Roland the electrician at the house. Jamie was expecting to be having a pre-work discussion with them. However when he arrived he found that work had already started and was progressing fast. He took these pictures.
I feel very odd when I see that something that has been in my head for so long is now actually being realised. We really are doing this! Of course now the exchange rate GBP v. Euro is hideous and only getting worse. Property prices are falling fast and the cost of our renovation has increased in all possible ways. We must be crazy. And yet, oddly, it all still feels very much the right thing to do.

I am exploding with creativity at the moment and have created an ideas book for the house. One of my better ideas is to incorporate labyrinths into the design as much as possible. I have one concrete finger-labyrinth that I will use, possibly as a wall tile or I may lay it horizontally somewhere. I intend to source more labyrinths and also create some myself. I want to have them all over the house and garden. I love the idea of people discovering them all over the place. I don’t know if there will be enough space to mark one out on the ground but if there is I will do this too. Labyrinth House! Very appropriate for Greece I feel.
My worry at the moment is that the builders have torn off the door to the wall cupboard that you can see in this photograph. This may seem



I am off out to Greece on the 18th May. I wonder what I will find?