The Ground Floor Interior

We've only furnished the three most important rooms. We spend much of our time (and eat when it's raining) in the living room. The floors are of stone with hundreds of coats of red wax.

[living room]

The living room from the opposite corner. The large frames contain mosaics of aerial photographs of Florence and Rome.

[living room]

I suppose you'd have to say that the ground floor half-bath has been furnished with a rose!

[half bath]

We were not actually sorry that the modern kitchen became transparent since we love the original kitchen with its stone sink and large fireplace. We did put in a dishwasher and a commercial stove and refrigerator. The microwave is new this year!

[original kitchen]

We admit the occasional inconvenience resulting from the fact that the height of the sink was calculated for a typically diminutive woman of 1790.

[kitchen with stone sink]

This completes the kitchen tour! The bread oven (five feet across) is behind the refrigerator.

[original kitchen]

Among the unfurnished rooms is a large one in the center rear in which my father sharpened his pool skills. It's now the garage for the Vespa in the winter.

[billiard room]

This lovely room, which I call the breakfast room, is in the front center; the exterior door to the left emerges under the stairs. The knealing bench and trellis-covered opening look into the chapel.

[breakfast room]

At its eastern end is this delicate fireplace.

[breakfast room]

Last, but not least is the deconsecrated chapel, here looking to the exterior door.

[former chapel]