As promised, a walkthrough of the other side of the house, the bedroom wing. This end is still a little up in the air and depends on if we refinish the shed for Shawn’s office right away or down the road. This is the long wood hallway of the bedroom wing: We were tinkering with […]
Author: Michelle
Welcome to The Napa Project, where I write about our five year remodel of a mid century home in Napa, California.
The Cleanup Begins!
The mess left by cleaning up/cutting down trees, brush and plants is all over the property. I mentioned previously how difficult it is right now envisioning what it could look like. Last Sunday with a bottle of champagne and 2 glasses in hand, we sat at our future lanai on a couple of purchased chairs from […]
Oh, the carnage…
The Britton Tree Services crew spent all week cutting, thinning and tending to all of the oaks, jungle, and just plain crap on the property that had not been maintained in 50 years. Great job, guys! The property is 1.18 acres and there is landscaping in both the front and back. Our opened view in […]
Walkthrough # 1
Now that the house is empty, I did a walkthrough of the entire house and took photos of each room. It’s a lot easier now to visualize how the house could look without any furniture in it. Guy, our architect has drawn up the house plan as is and I simplified it for viewing here: The […]
If A Tree Falls In The Forest…..
Guy is currently working on the architectural plans for the house so in the meantime we started right away on the trees. There are a ton of beautiful old oaks on the property and we want to keep as many as possible. Our arborist told us that approximately 3 trees had to be removed because […]