Casa della Bifora

Spring cleaning started today

Cacti - Casa della Bifora

Casa della Bifora - Salento

Tadelakt plaster/Tufo stone/Chrome/Wood/

White ceramics & Salento sunshine

Happy 5th birthday Lotus Selector Jeans

First worn in March 2010 and washed (inside out) 

9 times in the past five years.

I cut the pattern for these selvedge jeans in 2009. 

We made them in Candiani sioux red selvedge denim.

They've aged beautifully although I did a bit of 

patching under the crotch and on the pocket linings.

Peter Simon - Ramie denim Şalvar jeans

Casa della bifora, Salento - bathtub with cactus garden

Steps to the roof terrace - Casa della bifora, Salento

White form - Casa della bifora, Salento

My Home - Living here now

My home renovation - The bifora

When we removed the plaster on one

of the living room walls and this 'bifora'

was uncovered, it immediately became

the focal point of the room.

Candles warm the stone in the most

natural and timeless way bringing back

to life this 900 year old window

My home renovation - Bathrooms finished

The bathrooms in my place are finally 

finished, and today I got my gas meter

so I have hot running water too.

My home renovation - The old original doors

The original bathroom door had a thick

mantle of 12 coats of paint. It took me

a week to get all the paint of.

Now, to my mind it looks much better.

Two sides of the frame I had to have

newly made, so I'll wait a while before

I treat them with oil like the door.

The living room doors had had a two-tone paint

job, beneath which were various other colours

the last of which was a very old treatment that uses 

lead, egg yolk, pigment and resin.

This was as hard as rock and took 9 days of sanding

to get rid of, because no product I bought would

shift it.

After six days I still had a lot of the hard base layer

to get rid of in all those difficult angles.

Now the doors have been oiled and rehung.

I'm so happy I persevered, although I've poisoned

myself by breathing in the old lead paint dust.