Accidental Mexpat
  • Background
    • About
  • Things I see…
    • Family and Friends
    • In Real Time: Why not? ¿Porqué no?
    • Race Day Assen 2025
    • Amazing Assen
    • Relaxing in Amsterdam
    • Food in Italy 🥰
    • Meaningful, magnificent, and completely mental Mugello
    • 🎼My Bologna has a first name 🎶
    • Sola adventure – Milano
    • Drinking from the firehose
    • People think I am strong
    • Chilaquiles update
    • Whirlwind family tour
    • Celebrating All the Tiny Wins
    • One step closer, but no easier
    • My well-being is a house of cards
    • 30March chilaquiles – Green & Rosse
    • 23March chilaquiles – Ocean Café & a surprise
    • Sunday – not-so-funday
    • Registro Civil and a Catch-22
    • Death in a Foreign Language – Day 2
    • Death in a foreign language – Day 1
    • Restarting My Life
  • Photo Galleries
    • Oaxaca 2023
    • Expanding and improving the casa
    • The House Listing
    • Street Art
    • (Extra)Ordinary
  • All
  • Video
  • 26Nov First Cocktail in completed Palapa
  • 25Nov Palapa Roof Done
  • VIDEO: Roofing the Palapa
  • 25Nov Palapa Roof Progress
  • 24Nov Palapa Roofers
  • 23Nov Roof Progress2
  • 23Nov Roof Supports with Fronds
  • 23Nov Start Roof Progress
  • 23Nov Roof Fronds
  • 23Nov Palapa Roof Supports
  • 23Nov Making the Palapa Roof
  • 20Nov Front Pergola DONE!
  • 20Nov Palo de Arco
  • 20Nov Shadow Visions
  • 20Nov Raise The Roof
  • 20Nov Stairs Poured
  • 19Nov Pergola Progress
  • 19Nov Palapa Progress
  • 19Nov Stair Frames
  • 19Nov Stair Frame
  • 18Nov Palapa Detail
  • 18Nov Palapa Progress
  • 18Nov Stairs Progressing
  • 18Nov Stair Progress
  • 18Nov Pool Fence Gone
  • 18Nov View from the Pool
  • 18Nov Street View
  • 16Nov Building Stairs
  • 16Nov Pergola Progress
  • 16Nov Palapa Begins
  • 16Nov First Beams
  • 16Nov Main beams - perspective
  • 16Nov BIG Beams
  • 16Nov Palapa Beams
  • BBQ area - Friday 12Nov.
  • BBQ area - Friday 12Nov. (morning)
  • Roof - Thursday 11Nov.
  • Roof - Wednesday 10Nov.
  • BBQ area - Wednesday 10Nov.
  • Roof - Tuesday 9Nov.
  • Rebar for the columns, forms made by hand. 8Nov.
  • Some of what was hand hauled up to the roof. 8Nov.
  • How materials get to the roof - by hand!
  • Davit - built on-site to haul materials to the roof.
  • More cosntruction materials - 5Nov.
  • Construction materials delivery 5Nov.
The House

Expanding and improving the casa

This album will be updated weekly(ish) with clickable photos (to see them larger). Some of the photos will have been used in posts, some will be otherwise unseen. New photos will be added at the top, so to see the progression of the construction, start at the BOTTOM and work up.

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