A little bit of history… Right in the middle of a pandemic, a couple of months before Brexit, we decided to buy a house in Spain. We quickly narrowed the search to Olvera and had a short list of 4 or 5 houses. Knowing nothing about anything, we put our trust in the estate agent and bought the place based on half a dozen photos of the inside of the house. From the description, we had an idea that there was some sort of basement area but had no idea what it was like. We were told it was just a storage area. Once we’d completed, we got them to get some more photos.
This was a complete surprise. Yes, it looks shocking, but that didn’t really worry us. We had a relatively healthy contingency fund for things like this. The agent we have is brilliant. She handles everything for us through a network of trusted suppliers.
Outside space in towns like this is rare and valuable. We have a glorious roof terrace but realised that this could be a nice shady area to sit with a coffee and a spot of lunch.
And so the work began.
After a good clear up, it started to take shape.
All the render was taken back to leave a solid base, the floor was cleared and made ready to put a screed and tiles down.
A few emails with images from a catalogue an we chose some tiles.
A week and a bit later and we had this. Just a bit of a difference!
So, as well as a south facing roof terrace that gets the sun and has amazing views, we have this lovely little area a few steps down from the kitchen.
It also means that the basement is much more accessible. That will be covered later as the same guys that did this are doing a similar job on the basement to turn it into a more usable area. ok, “lower terrace” is probably a bit grand but we named it with our tongues firmly in our cheeks.