Model Home
The new DWR catalog is here… and it features a few shots taken a few weeks ago. It was an incredibly positive experience and I hope they’ll come back one day.
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Yard Sale!
Rancho Del Diablo is having a neighborhood yard sale:
- Saturday, August 21st
- 8am-2pm
- Phoenix, Sacramento and Wilson Streets
…stop by for lots of goodies.
Us? I'll have things like:
- Bostitch air compressor/ (3) nailer kit
- Bostitch framing nailer
- Ridgid 3/8in-chuck power drill
- 4in Tile Saw with Dewalt diamond blade
- Ridgid wet-dry Shop-Vac with handy bottom drain and lots of accessories
- Lasko portable utility fans (2) with handy 2-plug on-board power-strip
- Milwaukee Sawz-all with blade bundle/wrap
- Ryobi Corner-cat sander (never used)
- Craftsman Tool chest with locking bearing drawers (brown hammerite finish)
- Metric and SAE sockets and wrenches
- Lots of hand tools
- Lots of painting supplies
- Lots of tile and drywall supplies
After 3 years, the renovation is coming to a close and I just don't need a Sawz-all… (which is a good thing, by the way).
All tools are 3 years old or less… some have seen minimal use… and all at a great deal. While they're not stupid-cheap, everything will be priced fairly — at least 50% off of new-retail.
Casie will also be selling and previewing stuff from her ModApple store, so there's lots of neat, vintage housewares in hand.
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Tall, light and frosty
We can now call the front of the house finished… Okay, almost finished: we still need to re-stain the underside of the eaves to return them to their original tone (the previous owners re-stained the original cement-green-stained redwood to an odd light-blue color), but that's a pretty specific painting detail.
In this case, I'm talking about a new side-light window and trim which finishes off the "construction" part of the exterior-front of the house.
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This Modern Life
Flushed
I discovered something on the toilet (literally) a few weeks ago:
The "higher power" of design can only be realized once its basic objectives are met.
(You can quote me on that).
In this case, I don't care if my toilet is designed by Philipe Starck if it doesn't flush worth a damn — and it doesn't. To the point that we have well-designed plungers by OXO next to each.
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Renovation // Transformation
Bath and Beyond
We're finishing up some of the last, lingering projects here and are close to calling the house "finished" (after which, I'm going to have to find a new project… I've a completely disassembled vintage motorcycle in my garage that might serve well there).
In this case, our friend Sean surprised us with a "mind if I crash?" note a few weeks ago. I was thrilled to see him (and I don't use that word often), but we had just had TJ and Stefan over to demo the remaining part of the hall bath which left any guest shower-less. As they say, nothing like a quick deadline to get you motivated, and we hopped into action to finish off the bath.
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Renovation // Transformation
Cover the Earth
We've done a lot of painting in the past few years — we're by no means "experts", but we've learned a lot. Of course, the old adage holds true: prep work is 90% of the job — something I learned the hard way when trying to skip wet-sanding when priming my first car for a re-spray (oh, to be sixteen again…).
Most recently, we've learned to make sure you invest in good product, choose that product wisely (the most expensive is not always the best choice) and be wary of label-claims.
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Pictorial Modernism
The House with the Yellow Door
With the help of Stefan, TJ and Jacob, we finished the grinding, sanding and painting of the exterior beams and fascia and a few coats of paint later, I think we've finally finished the front-exterior of the house (save the sidelight window replacement conveniently hidden by the cherry tree in the below photo). It's quite a transformation from where we began a few years ago.
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Pictorial Modernism
Smile for the Camera
Yesterday, our friend Michael, an art-director for DWR and an Eichler owner himself, used the house as a backdrop for a photoshoot.
(More pictures after the jump)
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Renovation // Transformation
Lock, Stock and Barrel
The locks in the house have been a bit of a mystery for a while. The original company, Sargent, isn't making home locks anymore (actually, they never really did) and the original styles are long out of manufacture.
We've found a Schlage lock/knob that's a good replacement, but the smaller bits and pieces are harder to fit together — for instance, how can my 40 year old sliding door handle lock work with this new Schlage key?
This is where Craig at Rex comes to the rescue. We worked with Rex in Berkeley for our old place and loved them and were glad to see a Rex literally "just down the street" at 3511 Clayton Road.
So, if you're a Concord Eichler owner, Craig is the one to see… he's a great knowledge of the homes and how the locking systems (and that remote entry system) work.
