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Restoring in Venice is an art: you have to welcome and embrace what you have and try to see beyond. I recognize that this ability to “see beyond” and imagine an already finished space belongs above all to Davide. In fact, he was above all the driving force behind the restoration. We found ourselves in our hands of a pre-nineteenth-century Venetian minor residential building, to which we gave a new function (the hospitality business), attributing new energy and resources to it, while maintaining the characteristic architectural styles unchanged.
This house contains many riches that we were able to discover by working alongside expert craftsmen who helped us highlight the load-bearing structure of the roof in Cadore larch beams, as well as the original terracotta brick walls from the time of construction. We preserved the Venetian terrazzo floor made of paste of lime and parts in white “cogolo” stone, now impossible to find; we then went on to maintaining and restoring the staircase in Pietra Tenera di Vicenza, whose quarries are almost worn-out, just like the the Venetian terrace with elements in red marble of Verona which can be found at the entrance of the building.
We reinvented and imagined new functions: the internal dividers in vertical and horizontal boards called “scorzoni and catinelle” were instead inserted into the floor of the newly built Venetian terrace bathrooms, thus using them as a construction feature.
This house was love at first sight.
Closing our eyes and imagining a new space was easy and immediate.
Uninhabited for a long time, it almost seemed like it was waiting for our arrival. And step by step he revealed many little wonders to us.
It contains many “Venetian” elements that constitute its strong points and increase its charm: like the marble floor or the beautiful beams, initially hidden by a false ceiling.
What a thrill to discover their presence as well as that of the dormer window that brought light to the central room… choosing the name for the B&B was therefore natural. Al Pozzo di Luce!
The configuration remained more or less the same as in the past: a central room with 3 bedrooms around it. There was a kitchen and a single bathroom, green in color, which made us laugh a lot.
And it was precisely this configuration that inspired Davide in the creation of our logo: the B&B seen from above!
What can I say to you… welcome home, with the hope that you too can feel the beautiful energy that this home emanates.
