The pila is basically a Guatemalan home staple. Normally the pila design has a water tank in the center and two sinks, one on each side of the water tank. One sink is for hand-washing your laundry and thus its surface is ribbed. The other sink is for doing dishes and the surface is smooth. There is a water faucet somewhere near the water tank to fill it up. Now, Guatemalan pilas are not as beautifully designed as the pilas found in La Antigua Guatemala; don’t you agree?
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That’s a pila you actually want to show off, not like the awful things we have in the capital and try to hide among all the plants in the backyard!
Given the fact that the home has a modern kitchen, is the pila actually used for its original purposes or is it ornamental?
I really enjoy this series, but would much rather see a typical house in Antigua. This seems like a very affluent family, not representative of the middle class (the tiny population that it is), let alone the poverty-stricken majority. Could you show us a more average, perhaps middle class, home?