Tag Archive 'Building'

Bohio (palapa) taking shape.

They’ve been working mostly on the bohio these last few days. You can see the progression here.

New construction pictures

I just received some more pictures of our construction project in Altos del Maria, Panama.
This one was taken from where the master bedroom will be. You can see the livingroom/kitchen module on the left, and the bohio to the right of it. You can also see the backwall of the guesthouse on the far right. [...]

Construction has restarted

Now that the dry season has finally arrived, they have restarted construction work on our Panama house. As you can see in the following picture, they are pouring the driveway to give themselves a good base to climb up our steep lot.

We basically lost two months right off the bat, but it’s good to finally [...]

Broken ground: proof!

I got proof that they have in fact broken ground! This will eventually be our driveway!

Now things are going slow because right now it is the height of the rainy season, and that is exactly what we expected would happen.  They figured another 2 or 3 weeks of excavation work. By the time they are [...]