Photos

Hello,

I will be putting photos on the site at an irregular schedule - basically whenever there are some new photos that are interesting.

The first one is the view from the patio toward the north. It is late in the afternoon in mid-September, so about 1-2 weeks ago. The triangle-shaped mountain on the horizon (about 2/3 of the way from left to right) is called Monte Tezio (or Monte Triangolo - Triangle Mountain by the locals). It's 961m (3176ft) high, and is a little over 20km (12,5mi) away. If you click on the pictures, you can see the uploaded versions - they have better definition and are nice and sharp.

Hope you enjoy these pictures! :-)



New picture of a late autumn sunset (actually the afterglow):

Price Reduced !

This is just to let those of you who don't already know that we have seen the market, and the results of the "American Market Meltdown" and we have responded! Our price has been slashed (ouch - that hurt!) by roughly the equivalent of US$250'000! And mortgage rates are in a free-fall! Now is the time to buy, ask your realtor s/he knows!

One other bit of news - most of the furnishings (with the exception of the Chinese antiques in Shanghai) have been sold, and some of the Chinese items are sold - if you're interested in antique Chinese furniture (certified, imported by us, all pieces typically 100-200 years old), please contact us at +39 075 875 7015.

Your New B&B Is Flexibile

Hello,

Did you know that there is a great amount of potential flexibility in this structure? No, it doesn't wiggle when the wind blows :-) , but you can easily reconfigure it into two large apartments, one on the ground floor and one on the first and second floors. All that is needed is a door from Orvieto to the Owners' Quarters, and maybe a second one to the entry of the Room Behind the Fireplace to consolidate the ground floor, and an enclosed entry on the first floor to consolidate the three upstairs apartments into one unit.

Another possibility, allowing for more apartments if you include the potential new construction, is making the new construction a large kitchen/dining room/bar/office with storage underneath (you can build a basement that is not counted in the cubic meters allowed), and turn the ground floor in the main building into three apartments: (1) the Owners' Quarters plus Orvieto, (2) the Salon plus the Room Behind the Fireplace, and (3) the present dining room and kitchen reconfigured as an apartment (this was one of the original owners' concepts).

Most of the interior walls are brick and mortar, about 10 cm = 4 in thick (a few are massive concrete about 25 cm = 10 inches), so new doors are not a major problem. Moving or removing walls can be a little more complicated, due to electrical and communications wiring, plus water, heating, and sewage piping in some of the walls.

Another idea could be not to provide restaurant facilities, but to build two more large apartments in the new building(s). In this case, there would be a total of eight medium-to-large apartments in the complex. The sewage system was designed with this capacity in mind, and the other utility systems are easily adaptable.

Externally, there is a plot of land across the road from the house that might be available for purchase or long-term lease for parking. This would release the land inside the gate for other purposes such as recreation, formal gardening, outside living and dining, solar energy recovery, etc. The plot is being farmed as part of a larger area now, and no new structures may be built on it, but it could be used in this way.

Details of the rooms

Trasimeno
















The spectacular ceiling at Shanghai






Details from Orvieto (includes facilities for disabled persons)








The Lounge and it's fireplace








The dining room (outside and in), the kitchen, and the visitors WC.