Just a quick bit of maintenance on the courtyard area, by our entrance. Between each of the poured concrete panels is a thin piece of redwood. These have been untouched for nearly 60 years, and they’re showing it. Some are completely rotten. So, we decided to replace them with new redwood. This was pretty cheap, …
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Author Archives: Andy
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redwood replacement
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palette tweaks
After painting the living room wall, we weren’t happy with how the gray looked. So we started from scratch. We did some research, to find some true, pure grays. A few that came up were Sherwin Williams colors. There’s a store in East Sacramento, so we took a trip over. The people at the store …
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patio planting
Our side patio – overlooked by living area, office and master bedroom – is where we spend most of our outdoor time. And it was probably the neatest outside area to begin with. So much so, we haven’t really done anything to it…apart from battle the leaf problem. Until now. Remember those couple of shrubs …
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the claw
As you may have noticed, we’ve cut down a few trees and shrubs. We’ve also collected the odd leaf. Lucky for us, Sacramento City operates a winter street collection for leaves and trimmings, in addition to weekly pick-up of our (always full) yard waste container. And this is the pile we assembled. We were a …
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sacramento union
I ‘borrowed’ this article scan from a fellow Eichler owner’s Flickr pics –hopefully they won’t mind. It comes from a May 15 1955 edition of the (defunct) Sacramento Union newspaper, and announces the launch of our Eichler development, in South Land Park Hills. The model shown looks identical to ours. Needless to say, we paid …
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on the roof
It’s only rained twice in the (almost) three months we’ve been here, and winter seems miles off. But it’s coming. And there will be rain. So, we decided to check on the roof, for leaf build-up, standing water and downspout clogging. Ours is a foam roof –the accepted #1 choice for Eichler Homes. They’re a …
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front plant
Quick follow-up from my front yard update. Nothing to boast about here –we’re just trying to make good before winter. As I mentioned, we marked-off this area with string, then jointly tackled this project with Karen’s dad, while he was visiting. We dug the earth over and removed the roots of two shrubs I culled. …
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curb appeal
Our place was rented out for a few years before we bought it, and the occupants added some interesting personal touches. This painted curb, for example, which looks like a red-blue-white national flag…for some fictional country. We planned to add a curb number anyhow, so obscuring this little number would be a bonus. The painted …
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letter plate
This gold letter plate really stands out. And not in a good way. We wanted a simple, flat, silver replacement. Turns out, that’s not so simple. There are some okay(ish) options around, but the only one we really like is this one. But we’re not spending $225 on a letter plate. So we didn’t. We …
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