A while back, Jenny and Peter stopped by with Max to take some pictures in the house. Max has created some great lamps called Lumio — both the lamps and the photos turned out well. Keep up with Max's project on the web and Facebook.
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Todd was able to snap some in-process photos during the installation of his door (and a few more that are on the way for part-2).
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Todd contacted me through the website to ask: "Have you ever done a dutch door on an Eichler?"… My answer, "No, but I don't see why we couldn't…".
Fortunately, he was patient enough to wait until the schedule cleared — and this week we tackled the project. Here's a sneak peek at the results.
After taking on one of the most unloved homes in the neighborhood, Blaine and Tom are winning the war against bad renovations and green carpet. They just had new VCT floors installed and are now living through that awkward "in between" stage in a renovation.
Blaine is our local absurdist and it is somehow fitting that a single image features a washing machine, a pair of shoes and a glass-eyed statue of a random saint. I'm helping with the window install next week and wanted to grab these shots for posterity. They'll be fun to look back on when I get a chance to shoot the "after" pictures.
Power through, Blaine and Tom — it's looking great.
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My colleague Andrew (and Paul) are renovating an A-frame in Marin. Hopefully they get to move in this weekend!
Check it out: AframeReframe
When Bhargavi contacted me last week about consulting on some design decisions for her home in Lafayette, the last line of her email was: "Our house is not a Eichler. I am sure when you see it you'll have a better idea what it is." … After "Hello", my first words upon meeting she and her husband, Devin, were… "This is fantastic". And it is.
It's also the start of a new type of service for us: Consulting (Design-consulting? Pre-build-consulting? … name forthcoming, obviously) — which we hope will be fantastic for MCM homeowners. Typically, folks contact me for design-build services because they have a specific project in mind. However, if you've just bought something and you don't even know where to start, who do you turn to? It turns out that cracking open a dozen MCM homes in the design-build process also give me some insight on that very topic. What-goes-where, what-should-be-there? or where-to-start? are elusive questions that I can help to answer.
In Bhargavi's case, her house was built in 1964 by Ralph Carlson. Whether or not Carlson was the builder or architect is still unknown, but the house definitely takes inspiration from the modernists of the era. Not much in the house has changed since 1964. Bhargavi and Devin replaced all of the single pane windows with perfectly finished dual-pane inserts (unlike mass-market retrofits, these are block fit as the originals for a seamless look); they refinished the wood flooring; solved an exterior drainage problem and have done a few spruce-up projects like painting… but otherwise, it is as the original owners left it. It seems that a wood stove and wallpaper were installed in the 80s, but otherwise, it's almost a time capsule with wonderful built-ins, paneling and laminate-counter kitchen.
Take a look.
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Many thanks to West Elm for their feature of this site and the project itself. It's always nice to see folks outside of the immediate Eichler community taking an interest in the things we wax on (and wax off) about here on RedneckModern.
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Casie is updating her shop with lots of new goodies — stay tuned. In the meantime, these gems are still available.
Vintage Royal Mercury Typewriter
How has this NOT found a new home!?
I was able to stop by 3707 Merridan Dr. today for the open house. It's rare that two homes come on the market so close to one another in timing and price, but this one is a far cry (and a good one) from the house on Lancashire. Both are flips, but this one's a bit better.
However, the photos on the site linked above are terrible. While it's a soft market, if I'm paying my agent nearly $30K to sell my house, I'd expect better photos and marketing.
Update: the above link has been deactivated, but if you were to click on it, you'd see images that look like they were taken with an old cell phone. Agents: drop me a line if you'd like better images of your properties!
Update: the above link has been deactivated, but if you were to click on
it, you'd see images that look like they were taken with an old cell
phone. Agents: drop me a line if you'd like better images of your
properties! The photos below are (c) this site.
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