Martha Debayle's warm residence in Mexico

Martha Debayle has little time living in her new residence in Mexico City, she took to find the space of her dreams despite knowing clearly what she was looking for. “I toured entire colonies in the search for my house and when I finally found something very interesting, after a few years, I decided to offer. On Friday afternoon, navigating the network, I saw three photographs of this house, I asked my real estate corridor to make an appointment and when I stopped in the lobby, I immediately knew that it was my perfect place, that I had to be my house.

The layout was like the house of Long Island, Where I grew up: with the stairs at the entrance, the right side room and the dining room on the left. I fell in love with the house, because it is also an ancient construction that for me is a plus, because it is impossible Martha Debayle.

«The challenge, as my mother predicted me, was the remodeling, because we had to change the entire electrical system, the plumbing, we moved walls to create wider and luminous rooms and, of course, to expand the dressing rooms,» he recalled while explaining how complicated all the windows was to change and referred to the style on which he created his residence: “I wanted a classic house, I wanted a classic house in its distribution. moderately high, settled in the center of the land with garden around, with an air that would travel from English style to Californian ; A residence that felt comfortable, happy, bright, cheerful, warm, fresh and safe for all who inhabit.

«A good house takes many years to become. And books are not bought by kilo, or ornaments per meter,» Martha Debayle.

Héctor Velasco Facio