While I was travelling south to attend the Corn Party farm show in Texas, the crew was in the shop welding up the armature and tying on the lath to the fronts of the DOWNEYS letters. The crew made good progress, and the letters are looking great! By the end of the week, we should be able to get a handle on sculpting the woodgrain into the concrete facings. Stay tuned…
Travelling adventure...
I received a text at 4:00 am informing me that my first flight of the day was delayed by 4 hours. This meant my connecting flight in Denver was no longer possible. Being the first weekend of Spring Break, a new connection flight was hard to come by. After frantically trying to rebook for about an hour on my phone, yielding no success, I decided to head to the airport first thing when I woke up. I arrived there at 8:00 am, turned in my rental car and headed to the airline help counter. Thankfully, they quickly solved my dilemma and found a connecting flight for me, but I now had a seven-hour wait in the relatively small San Antonio airport. There was only one thing to do…. and that was to open a temporary San Antonio design studio at the only table I could find with an electrical plug. (It was in the ceiling by a post) During my six-hour wait, I managed to dream up and illustrate several concepts for an exciting new project. The time flew by, and I was now a little ahead of schedule with my design work. The travelling adventure now continues…
Substantial completion!
Yesterday, our crew finished grouting the lower floor of the Copper Crown of the Hazelnut Inn which signalled the substantial completion of this project. It is a milestone eight years in the making. This suite, like the Under Hill and North Star suites before it, is already breathtaking in its splendour and elegance. In the next weeks, there will be final inspections and approvals, and the housekeeping crew will do a thorough cleaning and sanitize before we begin hanging the draperies, pictures and move in the custom furniture. We are down to the exciting final details now and counting the days until the grand reveal and open house on June 6th. Stay tuned…
