Construction and Progress

Come with us on our site visits to the L’Amandier and watch the progress of the construction of the villas ...

Fencing: supporting the wild pomegranate

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on March 1st, 2010 · Leave a comment

It is on days like this that I sometimes ask myself why I am not sitting behind a comfortable desk in a clean office, with coffee on tap, logical emails to answer, and people around me that I understand.
Instead, I spent my morning in Bab el Khmis; the noisy, industrial area of the Marakech Medina.  [...]

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L’Amandier Villa 5 was styling…!

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on November 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments so far

Villa 5 was finished, so it was time to dress it up and fire the imagination a little. It can be difficult to envisage an empty house with the benefit of warmth and furnishings. We wanted to capture some images that would nudge that imagination into working and bring the villa alive.
In order to achieve [...]

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The first villa is (almost) complete…

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on September 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments so far

I’ve been slack and am long overdue for a blog post. To be fair, I have actually been really very busy, along with the rest of the team. Does that count as an excuse for the lack of blogging?
But the good news is…we have finished Villa 5! Can I tell you that, due to deadlines [...]

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Catching deadlines by the tail…

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on August 22nd, 2009 · Leave a comment

Deadlines are definitely a moving target in Morocco. If you can run fast enough to catch hold of its tail to rein it in, you are doing well. When I asked a tradesman this week, ‘which day will you be finished?’, his helpful answer was that, ‘in Morocco, one, two, or four days late is [...]

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Tadelakt

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on August 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment so far

The application of the tadelakt to the walls of the L’Amandier villas is secretly what I have been looking forward to most. To me, this signifies the transformation of the grey plastered shell into beautifully polished natural finished rooms. Not quite finished, but certainly almost there.
You may be wondering what on earth tadelakt is - [...]

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