If you are looking for the perfect place to spend a few days away from the daily routine, you have many possibilities. Among the many, I want to add one that I think will amaze you.
A stable.
No, I have not gone mad.
The room you are seeing in the photo above was actually an old barn that I wanted to recover in its entirety. The wall you see behind the bed is the original wall. The style I have chosen for all the rooms in the stable is very simple and I would like the environment to do the talking.
If you literally have to ‘unplug’ for a few days, there is nothing better than turning your attention to the past and immersing yourself in what life was like in a time that is no more.
To give you a better understanding of my thinking, I would like to point out this famous sentence by DUMITRU NOVAC:
“We need to smell the past in order to value the present.”
You can only experience these sensations in an authentic environment, where the original purpose of the building had its own purpose back in the day.
Realising all this was quite a commitment because I had to interface with many professionals.
I only chose people who shared my vision from the outset and tried hard to preserve the original structure.
I didn’t listen to people telling me phrases like ‘it’s so fashionable today…’ or ‘design experts tend to…’. I wanted my guests to relive the experience of a night in an old stable.
Now that I am looking forward with great joy to the completion of the work, I realise that many choices, which at first seemed difficult, now make sense.
For example, the modiglions, I did not want to eliminate them:
As you can see from the photo, these modillions have incredible charm (yes, I know, the photo still has the wall unfinished and unfinished). They are basically ‘appendages’ on the wall that were used to support the weight of the upper floor, where the hayloft was usually located, and in which hay was stored during the colder months.
Again, recovering an element of this charm increased the beauty of the whole structure from my point of view. It is not simply a matter of having saved a piece of stone, but of having brought to life an ancient tool that gave our great-grandparents a living many years ago.
What I have set out for you in this article, however, are my considerations. I therefore invite you to visit the facility. This way you can judge for yourself the result of all our efforts.
Cecilia