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I love that our palazzo is 800 years old. It makes us feel safe, it is going to
be here a while longer, even if we aren’t. It has survived, wars and earthquakes and floods. Our city Foligno was the most bombed
city in Italy during world war II. It is special to think our home has already
lived through countless generations, countless stories of love have already
existed in these walls. Just think
how many times the pasta has been burnt in our kitchen, or someone yelled ti
amo from my balcony.
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I love that the walls are two feet thick, the ceilings are
tall and grand, how the light filters in, and the wind blows from one end to
the other. I love how people come
to visit and get lost, can’t remember the way out, door opening to more doors.
Oh but the California Cottage is a dream come true. I absolutely love this little cottage I
just showed you. I could grow old
here, putszing around in the garden.
The life on the porch in California is the bees knees. You sit there with a cup of tea and see
who comes by, or a cold beer in the evening, just sublime.
I love how California Cottages are warm, the floors are wood
and warm and the walls are sheetrock and warm and there are windows
everywhere. Whatever color they
are painted, that is the perfect color.
I love how there is so much wood to be painted a color or even just white. Give me white wood painted floors and I'm in heaven.
I wish you could see this better but it is cornflower blue above and more lavender under the porch - awesome paint choice! |
I'm so naive that I feel like I could build this myself |
It
doesn’t matter how small they are because there is the garden and then there is
the life played outside and you come home and leave your muddy shoes by the
front door and maybe a friend comes to visit and does the same.
Cheers,
Natalie
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Your palazzo is beautiful, thanks for sharing it. I really enjoyed this. Dawn @ We Call It Junkin.com
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Living in California, I understand your love for these cottages. You took some great photos that show them off - all different, all wonderful! Thanks for sharing - MMR
ReplyDeleteWOW - your palazzo is out of this world - how lucky for you - just amazing!
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Love your little palazzo!!! Pinned it~~~I'm gathering ideas for my ever so handy man to build me a little Garden/Play House. This one has my head spinning with ideas.
ReplyDeleteLove the Italian cottage, where is it? What part of Italy is Foligno? So cute and cozy!
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Sorry Sweet Things, but there is a confusion going on. I live in an Gothic Italian Palazzo interiors show above. The cottages are in California. Foligno is in the Center of Italy between Florence and Rome.
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