However, while waiting, De Santis dordle had plenty of time to analyse every little aspect. She spent a week in bed with COVID, doing things she never had time for like deciding how to mix and match over 200 different Rubelli textiles around her home. Because of her proximity to the property, her perspective changed over time. "We fell in love with this place more and more," she said. We stopped thinking of it as a hotel and began fixing it up as if it were our home.