Roger Hampton
18. Financial stress
Keeping a budget is always a challenge in any building project. I have made some decisions on materials that have made the project a...
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Roger Hampton
- Aug 17
- 5 min
17. Back and forth
A lot happened before the summer, not least at my everyday workplace, so let me apologise for not writing more sooner. That said other...
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Roger Hampton
- Jun 14
- 4 min
16. Ciao a tutti!
For the first time I am writing this blog post in Italy. It has been a short and very busy trip that is coming to an end in quite intense...
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Roger Hampton
- Mar 28
- 3 min
15. Spring is in the air!
Things are moving on swiftly in Belvedere. Since my last blogpost, the house has grown significantly and is now up to the headers over...
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Roger Hampton
- Feb 23
- 5 min
14. Back again!
Hi again everybody. First let me apologise for being away so long. A lot has been going on at both home and abroad. So let's catch up! A...
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Roger Hampton
- Jan 25
- 3 min
13. How smart is smart?
The new year has arrived and with this there are always new possiblities. Even though much is new, some feelings of dejavu continue to...
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Roger Hampton
- Dec 31, 2021
- 5 min
12. Italian tax credit system
As the year ends, the positive news from site is, the foundations are complete, including the terrace around the building. This is great...
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Roger Hampton
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
11. Coming up out of the ground
A week has gone by, since the pile foundations were completed. A light layer of concrete has been poured, to give a level platform for...
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Roger Hampton
- Dec 2, 2021
- 2 min
10. Bad weather and more.
Another week has gone and work continues on site. However, not as much has happened as one might have hoped. Nobody is at fault, just a...
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Roger Hampton
- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
9. Something broken, something new
Demolition is a harsh word. It brings thoughts of destruction into your mind without any meaning. However, dismantling something in many...
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Roger Hampton
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
8. Building permission and building start!
In September I noticed that I began to get a little impatient. The clock was running. The thing is, at this time the Superbonus deadline ...
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Roger Hampton
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
7. A first time for everything!
We had booked a trip to Italy, using last years tickets and followed the information intensely regarding the current covid situation. We...
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Roger Hampton
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
6. How big to go?
A little while later, I had come up with a scheme. We liked the layout and it served our purposes. I had used all of the available area....
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Roger Hampton
- Oct 28, 2021
- 3 min
5.Planning
Planning for the future… in Belvedere Ostrense (AN) Being who I am and what I do for a living, meant unsurprisingly that I started...
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Roger Hampton
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
4.Taking a risk... covid returns
The next wave of COVID struck shortly after my visit and again travel was put on hold. However the search continued. The lock down in...
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Roger Hampton
- Oct 21, 2021
- 3 min
3.Covid times
In 2020 the corona virus spread like wildfire and Italy was hit especially hard. Nobody knew what to expect and I was heartbroken whilst...
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Roger Hampton
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
2.The journey began...
Approximately five years ago, we started to believe that an apartment or house in Italy, could be something for us as a family. Before,...
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Roger Hampton
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
1.Welcome to a blog about building a dream
Dreams usually remain just that and for many years I thought also that my dream of Italy should remain a fiction of my imagination. The...
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