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 […]
Category: Befores
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 […]
Measuring and more measuring.
I’m am now starting to grasp just how much and how many people are involved in a home remodel. On Wednesday we had a stream of people to meet with in and out of the house. Guy Ayers is going to be our architect. Guy has a lot of experience with mid century homes and remodeling them in […]
It’s Ours
Finally! We just closed escrow this week. It’s been a long couple of months during which Shawn wanted to back out at one point. But with some gentle screaming coaxing from me we stuck with it. The septic was much worse than we thought and as it would have taken months to go through the […]
Inspectors, Arborist and Contractors, Oh My!
The last couple of weeks have been completely hectic as we arrange for various inspectors to inspect the property. Not to mention the home is currently being rented. We pretty much knew going into it we were going to have to gut the property. NOT tear it down – so you mid century preservationists out there […]