So as some of you may know we started building our very first house this year. In fact it was the one thing that kept me going after the miscarriage as it gave me a project to throw myself into and I felt/feel like I'm creating something for our future.
About two years ago we bought a piece of land outside of Marrakech. It had beautiful views of the Atlas mountains, it had 70 olive trees, some almond trees, pomegranate and carob trees too. We fell in love with it and dreamed our dreams of bringing up our little family in the house we would one day build on the land, when we could afford it. Now as you all know, life doesn't always work out as planned. The babies didn't come. The money we needed took a little longer to earn than we thought. Then our car broke down and we had to buy a new one, so that delayed things on the money front again. And still the babies didn't come. Then the money situation was looking better and we could finally build the first small house. I got pregnant and it felt like everything was coming together. When I lost the baby I fell apart. But the one
shining light that kept me going through it all was the dream of this house, a dream that was starting to become real.
The house we are building is a small house, that will eventually act like a studio/guest annex when we can save up enough to build the main house. We are trying to be as environmentally-friendly as possible and so the house is being built out of adobe brick with as little cement as
possible. (Since cement has a massive carbon footprint.) The only cement that has been used is in the footings of the house and for the roof. We have our own well for all our water needs, we will have a special waste water system that filters everything back into clean water for watering the garden - and we are looking into permanent magnet technology to help generate some of our energy needs. Anyway enough talking, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
Outline of the house.
