Starting at the top left, you can see one of the buildings that I find most interesting. Maybe because it calls to mind what we expect to see in this area, but it is one of my favorite buildings. Moving to the right, you will see one of the larger villas that are located in the area, it is white with blue tinted windows. The rest of these photos are of the villas being built in our area. Villas are very interesting to me. First, they are usually three to four stories high, but can go as high as five stories, according to whether or not they have a basement. Second, some villas are single family structures and others have been divided into sublets. Third, villas can have as many as 15 bedrooms, two or more kitchens, and at least as many bathrooms as bedrooms. Usually, there is at least two extra bathrooms to accomodate visitors. Also, the basement is generally used for things such as swimming pools or game rooms. There are not really any yards as we think of them back in the states. Here the value of the property is higher if the building covers most of the property. Also there is almost always a smaller building outside of the main villa or even sometimes on the roof, that is used for dawaniya. Dawaniya is a gathering of people or friends that sit around and talk. They have coffee, tea, or maybe even smoke a waterpipe, or sheesha pipe as they are called here. The main thing is that these are very large structures with tall ceilings, 8 to 10 feet tall, they include huge open areas in the middle of each floor for the gathering of family. There are two pics here that show the buildings surrounded by scaffolding. Please take as close a look as you can at these pics. The scaffolding is made out of pieces of wood hammered and tied with rope. They are not the large metal type that we are accustomed to. And they will build these things all the way up the side of the tallest building and work off of them. I have seen them in Kuwait City as tall as twenty stories. I just don't think you would get me to stand on anything like that.
Starting at the top left, you can see one of the buildings that I find most interesting. Maybe because it calls to mind what we expect to see in this area, but it is one of my favorite buildings. Moving to the right, you will see one of the larger villas that are located in the area, it is white with blue tinted windows. The rest of these photos are of the villas being built in our area. Villas are very interesting to me. First, they are usually three to four stories high, but can go as high as five stories, according to whether or not they have a basement. Second, some villas are single family structures and others have been divided into sublets. Third, villas can have as many as 15 bedrooms, two or more kitchens, and at least as many bathrooms as bedrooms. Usually, there is at least two extra bathrooms to accomodate visitors. Also, the basement is generally used for things such as swimming pools or game rooms. There are not really any yards as we think of them back in the states. Here the value of the property is higher if the building covers most of the property. Also there is almost always a smaller building outside of the main villa or even sometimes on the roof, that is used for dawaniya. Dawaniya is a gathering of people or friends that sit around and talk. They have coffee, tea, or maybe even smoke a waterpipe, or sheesha pipe as they are called here. The main thing is that these are very large structures with tall ceilings, 8 to 10 feet tall, they include huge open areas in the middle of each floor for the gathering of family. There are two pics here that show the buildings surrounded by scaffolding. Please take as close a look as you can at these pics. The scaffolding is made out of pieces of wood hammered and tied with rope. They are not the large metal type that we are accustomed to. And they will build these things all the way up the side of the tallest building and work off of them. I have seen them in Kuwait City as tall as twenty stories. I just don't think you would get me to stand on anything like that. 
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