We have white paint!

By: Kathryn Rose

For a while there it felt like nothing was happening. Then, all of a sudden, all of the walls were up, there was a roof frame, and I could walk around in the “kitchen” and imagine where things would go and how it would look. We have also started planning out the new rooms and looking at new furniture. (Don’t forget to VOTE for your favorite Joel Collins photograph to help us decorate!)

Then, today, finally, we have a white wall! I literally dreamed about having white walls the other night, and now it came true! The paint man is here, working away on making the outside of the new buildings pretty and white. It will make the place looks so much better, and it made Andrea, Brandon and I so happy to see it looking like an actual building.

Sadly, we did have to cut down our gorgeous Eucalyptus tree by the pool, because it was just too big and in the way. It is also incredibly messy, and Sao and Lai (our gardeners) are constantly fishing the leaves out of the pool and sweeping them up. Getting rid of the tree makes it so that even the new rooms will have a view of our pool, and it will save a lot of work for the gardening team.

Since we were closed this month to work extra hard on the construction, we had time to repaint and fix up all of our original rooms. So now they all have a fresh coat of paint, new pillows and squeaky clean everything. They look fantastic, and we are so excited to bring guests back this weekend!