My sister Indigo has painted most of the oil paintings which we have hung in the rooms. Some of the watercolors were painted by Laurie. Oil paintings are more durable than watercolors because the constant rainforest humidity doesn’t affect them as much with mold and the colors don’t fade as much. But mosaics are the most durable art form of all. Mosaics in Pompeii were dug up thousands of years later and still just as bright.
We decided to make a mosaic in our kitchen/living room/lounge. It wraps around the central post. We made it on plycem (brand name for a cement board product) so that Indigo could work on each panel, horizontal, on a comfortable table. She designed the panels so that when I installed them around the post it would look like the vines, sunset, waterfall, and other images wrap around the post. We glued the panels onto the concrete post using 3m 5200 and finished the corners with rows of carefully chosen glass mosaic piece.
It’s really a feature now in the room.
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Cool!
How difficult is it to start a B+B in Puerto Rico? How are the taxes? So far my experience with PR has been that the bureaucracy takes a lot of patience to work through….
The tourism department is a big help. If you plan on opening a bed and breakfast in Puerto Rico that should be your first stop.
You need a boat.
What a great project, I tried a mosaic project…too much detail…so now I leave it to professionals! But your work is really nice…maybe I will try it again.
I have a place in Rincon.
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I’m just a spam guy with a bed and breakfast in New Delhi. I didn’t really read your post but I hope my links will show up but since I did them wrong they won’t, oh well being a spam guy is hard (that’s what this guy should have said and I fixed his link).
Who knows? His place does look interesting. Believe it or not his original post was about crayons. Don’t know where that was from…
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