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This 78-Year-Old Built Her Dream Home Inside a Cave — And the Interior Is Nothing Like You’d Imagine

The Kitchen Carved Around the Stone

Marta’s kitchen is not large, but it is the room that makes people smile first. It has the cheerful practicality of a grandmother’s kitchen and the odd beauty of something built around a secret. The counters follow the natural curve of the cave wall, which means nothing is perfectly straight. One shelf leans slightly into the stone. One corner has been left untouched because Marta likes the shape of the rock there. “That,” she tells visitors, tapping it proudly, “is my decoration.”