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 […]
We’re moving to Napa, baby!
Eventually….This story starts out like a lot of other people – we’ve been looking for a house for what felt like FOREVER. We had a list of wants. It seemed like every house we liked was out of our price range. Then the bottom fell out of the real estate market. California became foreclosure central. We lost out on a few ‘deals’. The […]
