Mary Ann's Tropical Building Page

Welcome to my web site on building on a tropic island. The home page shows the most recent three days of progress reports - Mary Ann Green

Saturday, September 08, 2001

September Update.

Although we were gone from Anguilla much of the summer, some progress was still made on our construction. The driveway leads to the front door with the garage on the right. The empty planter to the left will be filled with some palm trees and a mango tree.

Close up view of the entry, taken from the garage. Behind the wall to the left is a walled garden and dining area with arbor.

Closer view of the front door.

The Living Room is Done!

The last step for the living room was the coral stone floor tile around the terra cotta pattern.

The front door, as seen from the inside. The windows on each side are awning windows that swing out from the top.

Here you can see the tile floor and the sliding glass doors. Each of the two openings is 12' wide with the panels sliding to the side, giving full 12' openings to the dining garden (left) and the pool (where the picture is taken from):

An Overall View.

Here is shot of the property taken from the upstairs porch of the office. The rightmost roofline is the Master Suite of the main house.The next large roof is the kitchen and two studies. In front of that is the laundry (peak roof, front) and garage (flat roof). Continuing left the next peak roof is the living room/entry and the last is the guest bedroom. (The large roof to the far left in the distance is Serenity Restaurant). The hip roofed building in the left foreground is our Guest Villa.

Solar Power, a Dining Arbor and a Special Vanity

For the main building, we have purchased a new solar power system from Solartec in St. Martin. In this picture you can see the solar panels on the roof of the garage. They provide enough power to run the main house, less the air conditioners.

The west side of the living room opens onto a courtyard and garden, with an arbor. We will use the space under the arbor for dining. . The arbor will eventually be shaded by bouganvillea. The wall on the right is the garage, straight ahead is the master garden and to the left is the kitchen and Bob's study.

The master bath is finished off with a translucent all-glass vanity.

Palms, Pool and Preparation.

As construction of the main house nears completion, we turned to landscaping. He bought 7 more coconut palms and planted them across the waterfront of the house (once again we had to bring in a rock pounder to dig holes in the rock for 5 of them):

The pool coping is in and expert tile man Emo was back to add tumbled travertine marble (4" x 4" from Home Depot) as pool edging and the overflow pool for the vanishing edge:

And as hurricane season approached, we added lexan panels to the outside of our louvered wooden windows:

Saturday, June 16, 2001

Painting - More Color!

We decided to paint the wooden shutters on the gazebo turquiose to match the shutters on the main buildings.

Painter Ashton Brookes did an excellent spray job. Here are the results:

He also painted the fan in the living room to match the purple of the wood work.

Thursday, June 07, 2001

Tile Work.

As in our other buildings, Emo from Video Dynasty is back to do the tile work. Here is Emo working in the master bathroom - you can see the walled garden outside the bath, which will also have tile work.

Emo inspects the work so far...

The finished job... looking toward the master closet.

... and looking toward the shower. The white-topped containers are for ferns. There will also be orchids hanging from the walls.

Here is a close up of the trim tile - translucent glass tile from recycled soda bottles.

Emo also tiled the powder room...

... and the center of the living room.

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