More pictures from the first day of excavation

28 August 2013

We have began!

Here are the first pictures of the cleaning and digging stage!

On the first day we have our first challenge: apparently the land has a lot of debris from previous illegal construction... so this might mean some additional costs because the land doesn't appear to have the best quality...

Building Sign

Let the digging begin!!

Tomorrow we will start digging!!!!

More details

Here are some details of the house and different views

First Sketch

This was one of the first sketches for the house

TV Room/Museum

Here are some of the details of my room in the house. My wife and I have an understanding that the TV room/Museum is mine and the rest of the house is hers :).

The plan for this room is to have a wall dedicated to Benfica (in red below) and a wall with a large tv (at least 60''). We have also plans to include a snooker table and a poker table.

Benfica section will include some of the memorabilia I have been collecting for many years. This is off course a mock-up

The TV wall will include a large TV and some space for the additional collectibles I own.

Here is an example of the snooker table we want to buy, it's great because it will be able to be transformed in a large table.

Poker table example

Home Gym

One of the nicest things about building your own house is to be able to customize with what it's important to you. With that in mind we decided to build a home gym, the goal is to have 3 "machines" and an area for stretching/relaxing/punching. Here are the components that we are thinking of including today

Surveyor (topografo)

Today the surveyor came to finalize the measurement so that the work can start next week.