{"id":2103,"date":"2013-03-09T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:52:31","slug":"ill-go-to-the-foot-of-our-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"I’ll go to the foot of our stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stairs1\"<\/a>‘I’ll go to the foot of our stairs’<\/a>, literally.<\/p>\n

After almost three hundred years of existence, it is now finally possible to ascend and descend\u00a0inside the barn, using a beautiful new staircase installed by our favourite carpenters from La Roda.<\/p>\n

I arrived at the house late on Tuesday night after a fraught early evening in A\u00a0 Coru\u00f1a (more in a later blog) to check that the staircase was to my satisfaction before\u00a0 a dawn raid on\u00a0the ever dwindling bank account on Wednesday morning, to settle the bill.<\/p>\n

Despite being covered in dust, as is everything in the barn, it looks absolutely superb. There are twelve wooden steps from top to bottom and then a wide single step returning to the right (looking from the top).<\/p>\n

\"stairs2\"<\/a>The stairs are made from Iroco and\u00a0stained to the colour of walnut to match the windows. There is a small balustrade at the top, to stop a nasty accident when you walk in through the upstairs door, and another from half way down the staircase to the bottom newel.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but find a duster, in the boxes of stuff I left under a tarpaulin at the last visit, and give everything a clean.\u00a0 Does that make me obsessive-compulsive<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I know it was a totally futile exercise as the newly laid chestnut lounge floor, which can also be seen in the first photograph, needs to be sanded, stained and varnished.<\/p>\n

We’re so close to finishing now that you can almost taste it, or perhaps that was omnipresent dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘I’ll go to the foot of our stairs’, literally. After almost three hundred years of existence, it is now finally possible to ascend and descend\u00a0inside the barn, using a beautiful new staircase installed by our favourite carpenters from La Roda. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,31],"tags":[64,53,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}