Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
In 2003, I fell in love with L’Aquila in L’Aquila, Italy and the country. The study experience abroad changed the trajectory of my life.
Two years later, I received a master’s degree in marketing management and marketing management and communication at the University of Bocconi in Milan. Stylish, fast-growing milan sleepy, neighboring L’Aquila and the city’s nightlife in fact, reminded me of my miami hometown.
I found out what I wanted to stay after graduation. This was the beginning of a two-year long time and the countdown, it was a business related to Italy. After marriage with the Italian husband, I was married to Diego, I always moved here in 2012.
Today, we live in Milan in Milen’s six-year-old son Lorenzo. I work a company called To do Italy To help other Americans, to help you make a house here for themselves.
How did we make a house of our own
1,227 square meters 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms rent about $ 1,850 per month in the apartment. We lived here for about three years.
We found this place when Lorenzo had three. The apartment has not changed over the past 40 years, so we have carried out repair work to feel more current and more like us.
It can be given a rent in the United States. But in Italy, the government has incentives, as Tax creditsFor people who repair their homes, even tenants. The host also gave the apartment for free eight months to repair
Updates cost us about $ 41,000, but we saved about $ 33,400 among the rental fee and rental pause.
A look inside our newly renovated Milan apartment
Bathroom
This bathroom is one of my favorite rooms, but demanded a ton of work. We completely closed it, we changed the faucets and added the hexagonal tiles I love. We won tiles from a company worthy, friendly and family in Tuscany.
The hexagonal shape looks so elegant to me.
Photo: Thea Duncan Prando
Kitchen
When I came here, the kitchen was not repaired in about 40 years, so much work is needed. In fact, we did not bring only the kitchen belongings from the old apartment, but the techniques.
My wife and I love to cook. I often say I live in Italy for food.
Photo: Thea Duncan Prando
We knocked the sink and the oven from our old apartment and set up a new place. It was an unforgettable passage. We’ve added a few new closets and a new counter.
We dismantled the existing wall plates, but we retained the ones in place. We also closed the two lateral doors used to open the kitchen.
Elegant, but still effective, storage in our kitchen.
Photo: Thea Duncan Prando
Living room
We’ve fallen all the walls to open a living space. We have the natural hard wooden floors we sanded in the living room and we added a lighter spot.
There is a seat and a cozy glass of wine.
Photo: CNBC for Andrea Mignolo Do this
The floor tile in this corridor, we got a little tree floor to fit the rest of the room.
A place to sit, work and collect my thoughts.
Photo: CNBC for Andrea Mignolo Do this
The bookshelves, gray sofa and lighting facility are entertaining focus points.
My son’s room
Details on the map are very attractive.
Photo: Thea Duncan Prando
The most loved part of my son’s room is the giant map we put on one side of the wall. It points out all the different places on it. I love it because it helps bring together a place together.
Our room
A space is a quiet oasis.
Photo: CNBC for Andrea Mignolo Do this
One of the most important additions to the apartment was the conditioning in our bedroom. I grew up in Miami and my family is from the Caribbean, so I can work a little heat. On the other hand, my husband is not so much.
The conditioner was definitely.
Photo: CNBC for Andrea Mignolo Do this
Also, in the 1800s, I love our husband in the 1800s. He needed a little job to return it again, so we restored.
Why I love living in Milan
Me Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. A significant shopping center near Duomo, Duomo
Phoan: May
When you go to the market, there are many quality items to choose from. Fresh, delicious products are relatively easy and accessible here. We belong outside the city or in the farmers outside the city, such as grass farms, milk and butter, such as milk and butter.
Me over fresh products in Milan Breader Quarter.
Phoan: May
Leisure time is also a serious business in Italy. The perfect example of this is the tradition of the evening ritual and aperitivo.
My wife Diego and our son Lorenzo lunch in a restaurant in Piedmont, an hour and a half of about an hour and a half.
Photo: Thea Duncan Prando
After working day, people will stand in a cafe for a glass of wine and food for one or two hours. When we left the park after the park, he says my son’s “Facciamo flour ‘peritivo”, despite the fact that “A” is not pronounced.
The owner of a local family named Zipo is on the farm. Slow food sells fresh dairy products and their own rice. Also, the lessons that make the cheese you eat at the end are classes.
Photo: Jessica Pepper
We will start a neighborhood point with our friends. The children get their tables with their water and chips, and the adults will sit on our table with the drink of our adults and no one will seem to adopt them.
Milan in the Abruzzo region I live only when I was moved to Italy. I’m in a super cool butcher shop you can get your meat and then chase on BBQ next to the store. I eat a typical dish from the area called the arroster (essentially the lamb disabled).
Photo: Diego Prando
I love to lift my son in Milan. Here doesn’t mean the end of your social life. There are a ton of parks, galleries and museums and various family friendly activities.
In one of my local markets.
Photo: CNBC for Andrea Mignolo Do this
On average, Italians receive a paid holiday in four to six weeks each year, and in the United States, people use holiday times. In Milan, Fasi or Genova Lake, in two hours, these are just the day.
In front of a random handsome door in our neighborhood.
Phoan: May
I grew up in a medium-level immigrant family. Now it’s not something I’ve taken for me to make regular holidays in places like Italian Dolomites and carry on weekends in Vienna. I am incredibly blessed and could not be happier than being here.
Thea Duncan Prando It is the founder To do Italy. Milan lives with her husband and son. Follow him to learn more about his life in Italy @Doingitaly
Want a higher paid, more flexible or new career? Take CNBC’s new online course Build a strong career change and a business you love. Expert teacher successfully set up a network, update your resume and switch with confidence in your dream career.
