Over at The Eastsider Los Angeles blog, the spotlight has been shined on a residence in Echo Park being sold by a pair of apparently notable house flippers. Reeeeeeally ambitious asking price? $789,000. Number of offers made since it hit the market a couple weeks ago? None. As Susan and I continue to wrestle with …
With all the drama unfolding this week, I completely forgot to crow about an aspect of our home’s renovation that warms the very cockles of our hearts: our fancy-shmancy dual-zone central air/heating unit had its inaugural firing-up Wednesday afternoon. And for the first time when it was a little too chilly for my taste this …
I’ve been markedly lax in documenting the continuing work converting the upstairs. Now that the electrician’s been and gone and we’re at the end of the drywall installation phase, here’s an atempt to rectify that fail. A photoset taken yesterday morning is here. Next week installation of the central air/heating begins, which means this weekend …
I can remember the moment I first incurred debt crystal clearly. It was in the old The Broadway store in Sherman Oaks Fashion Square. It was April. It was 1985. I was 20 years old. It was a pair of sunglasses I didn’t need, but the lenses featured the latest in “blue blocker” technology that …
Progress. This photo’s already outdated because the contractor and his crew have taken out the space heater and framed out the landing for the staircase that will reconnect the first floor with the second inside the house for the first time in more than 58 years. We’re bringing it down into what was our bedroom …
So on my previous post I lamented large and loud and long about that dang City of Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety requiring the back half of the house to be reinforced to a ridiulously heavy-duty level if we were to dare to consider widening the dormer and adding a bathtub to the …
Sorry for the lack of posting these last few days. Part of it is do to the last bits of on-the-job stressness and another part is the shellshock I’m suffering over our latest renovation revelation. Read on… So our architect left an email message for Susan prior to this past weekend. He’d taken the plans …