SeaRock: trap door

About SeaRock

SeaRock is wave-washed granite cliffs, wind-swept monterey cypress & pine, an historic granite home growing out of granite cliffs amidst trees, a few acres along the rugged Pacific Ocean coastline.

Built in the early 20th century by a renowned architect Charles Greene, the home remains a monument to an era of craftsmanship and lifestyle gone by.

Listen to the tide until pace and breath slows to match rhythm. Witness creation vibrating and realign with it.

Here I lived from Oct. 2006 through Oct. 2013 as steward and manager.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

trap door

This marble door beneath the vanity sink conceals the drain plumbing. It weighs about 60 pounds. There is a humorous story about it getting broken, twice, before our tenure here began, but I won't go into that, other than to say it has been reinforced with embedded steel bars epoxied into slots cut into the back side.

A recent unsuspecting guest mistook that latch handle for the water faucet, since the actual faucet is semi-remote from the carved marble "sea-dragon" spout. The door merely sits loosely in the opening and the latch at the top keeps it from falling outward. One rather bruised shin later, the marble door was broken 'anew'.