Thanks to Creede at grassrootsmodern for the mention on his blog, I’ve been following it for a year now so how fun to see our blog up in lights! Looks like he is where we were last July, selling the old, buying the older. But so fun to see that others like to dismantle existing [...]
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We knew that we wanted to incorporate green into the remodel, and an easy and way to do that was with blown-in cellulose, a product that is made from recycled newspapers, magazines, etc. The texture is truly like basic recycled papers so when they do ceilings, they put a simple screen in the joists [...]
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One of my favorite parts of the house, completely encased in windows. We’re going to keep it pretty much as is with concrete floors. The bonus is there is a safe room about 6′ square that we think was used as a bomb shelter! Or a grow room. hmmm. coming from upstairs leading into the [...]
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Our lot is sort of unusual, more pie shaped than square with a large front yard filled to the brim with trees, many that we have had removed including four fruit trees, four 70′ pine trees and a huge 100′ leafy don’t know what tree that sat right next tot he house alongside another pine [...]
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Ali’s bedroom is so wonderful with it’s soaring ceilings, wonderful skyline windows that look out on the mountain above and another window that will make for easy escape once she turns into a teenager. Yeah, we’ll see if Jeff doesn’t add a little something to her bedroom by then. Regardless, she’ll have plenty of room [...]
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The dog’s first day at the house. No fence yet, so it has been there only day so far. Chewy, Ali & Gigi Ali taking it one day at a time
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The hallway from the living room area to the bedrooms actually had an awesome skylight in it. We’ve taken out the area they deemed for a closet and we’ll put one of our tansus there.
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Jerry, our Los Angeles friend, pseudo-poppa, neighbor, and messiah of anything that has to do with building, deemed that we needed to not only take Jeff’s idea of expanding the master into the living room by 42 inches, but also take the master bedroom out into the backyard another 2 feet. view with the [...]
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The master bedroom was a nicely sized room, but with a sink in the corner of the bedroom and an oddly angled doorway to the bath (which was about 4′ square and included a bidet, toilet and a spit sink) it needed a serious re-do. The master closet entered into the room as well and [...]
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Back and forth, back and forth like a tennis ball at Wimbledon. Let’s put the wall here, no, let’s not because it blocks the view. Let’s put the stove on this side and the fridge on the other. No, that won’t fit. Let’s put a window in here and french doors here. No, that will [...]
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