Building a Home in the U. S. Virgin Islands? Why not drop by and visit today? Home Building In The Virgin Islands: May 2007

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Sweet Master Suite




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Great, Great Room




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Green, Green Grass

FWrom the front yard at the driveway, this taken on a rare cloudy day

The Great Room, with the dining room table and some of the furniture we have purchased. Now we get to furnish the whole house, such fun!
The kitchen cabinets, from The Home Depot, in Massachusetts, fit perfectly in the space they occupy. This kitchen set-up is almost identical to our the kitchen in our Harwich home.
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The Final Electrical Hookup

This utility worker, a lineman from the virgin islands Water And Power Authority; AKA: WAPA, he is busy connecting our home to the electrical grid, permanently. Our temporary service pole is disconnected.
This means two things; the first is that before they hook up the power to your house, you must acquire a Certificate of Occupancy (CO) from the Building Department. We passed the inspections and we are cleared to move in - we needed their permission - and we got it!
The second thing is that our exhorbitant electric electric rate is going down. Seems the only way they can entice people to get their CO - and legally inhabit their house - is to charge them a higher rate for the power until they get it done!

I couldn't resist the sailboat. I took the photo from the gallery, the rock pile is topped by what looks like half a cracked egg shell, now a natural stone birdbath. We pulled the stone from the rubble of the excavation; assembled the pile with the bowl facing skyward.
Our home, as it looks from the front yard, the Papaya trees in the foregraoud are grown from seeds the workers dispersed while eating their papayas for lunch.
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