DAY TWO-BATHROOM NO

The big surprise was the hole knocked in the living room wall. Come on, it IS on the other side of the bathroom wall, but who would have thought it was not going to sustain a direct hit from a mallet when the old drain pipes were removed? Then my nephew Matt (an architect) asked about the advisability of a weight-bearing wall on top of a sewage pipe. Now I have all kinds of questions. But I am not proficient enough in Italian to ask them! This is just a little bit scary.
The colors and the marble are a joy though. Our friend Emilio who owns a marble store, is putting a hard resin matching our darker color into the marble we picked, so it is streaked with the right color. It is called travertine and is from Rome and is the same as was used to build the Coliseum. Emilio says that it is very hard (he says it is the hardest material on earth, though I doubt it)…we shall see! I just want it to hold my sink and look pretty.