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ALMOST DAILY VLOG


DAY 3 — A PROJECT THAT DIDN’T FIT THE BUDGET
Square meters and reality. We arrived in Maraú with a dream, a full architectural project, and a rented car. In our optimistic timeline, we would move in within a year. The original design had two floors and over 300 square meters. That was when we understood the real cost of building in coastal Bahia. Sandy soil. High groundwater. Difficult logistics. Limited transport. Costs doubling quickly. And as we began living there, it became clear the house was too aggressive for the

Nancy Silva
Feb 281 min read


DAY 1 — DREAMING A HOUSE IN MARAÚ
Bacurau Is Here and Now. Tetéia Is Coming. It was all blueprints and wild vegetation. In this photo, from left to right: Rodris, Regina, and Alcinei. This is the first entry of the Almost Daily — and as the name suggests, it won’t be daily. Nor will it be linear. A lot had already happened. Building a house in the middle of the woods, near the sea, in a village of just over 600 people, is quite an undertaking — especially if you are coming from São Paulo, where human time and

Nancy Silva
Feb 191 min read
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