MENS HEALTH LIVING-
EDITORIAL JUNE 2006 

Nothing but a dreamer:
Paolo moved in the year he turned 30 - “just in time to make my 'by-the-time-I’m-30' deadline." The entire process, from buying the plot to moving his furniture in, took four years. Patience is clearly key. But Paolo admits he had added incentive to persevere: "My family thought I was mad. The most important part of realising my dream was in fact my friendship with the architects and designers. There were often times when I wondered ‘will I ever actually build this monster’ but my friendship with them - people with such passion and vision - meant that I never gave up hope. Throughout the whole long process they could envision the day they would be walking through the front door. I just knew I had to build it so that that could happen.”