You don’t get much for under twenty bucks these days, but you can get this bird feeder, from CB2. Very much our colors too, so we had to snap it up. It just arrived, and we hung it on an existing hook by our side patio. Final destination TBD but I kinda like it there. …
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bird feeder
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getting greener
Coming from England, it feels like summer has arrived. But this is spring, and it will get a lot hotter –even hotter than the 105 (or so) degrees we got on our arrival, late last August. Anyhow, our brief winter is firmly in the rear-view, and the landscape is changing. Our cherry tree is filling …
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globe back
We inherited lots of original globe lights, as I mentioned. Having toured several neighbors’ homes, I’m thinking all the globes survived, apart from one, by our side patio. In its place, this lattice-clad monstrosity, which is more expensive than it looks. That’s not difficult. Obviously this had to go. Luckily, we also inherited a spare …
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spraying bullets
No, not those kind of bullets. These are wall-mounted exterior lights –original mid-century, and fitting for an Eichler. We bought them from a neighbor just after we moved in. They’ve been sat in the garage since then, but it’s time to fix them up. They were in pretty poor shape, all scuffed and scratched. I …
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more doors
Our lime green front door was the first, and biggest, of four external door projects on our list. With that done, we tackled the door leading from our kitchen into the garage. It’s the white one you can see in the distance below. Previously, we couldn’t unlock this door from the garage side –we had …
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door to door
The weather continues to be mild –at least to us, as we’ve grown accustomed to Boston winters. So, it seemed like a good opportunity to paint our front door, and fit new hardware. The weather’s relevant, as we’d be temporarily door-less. Et voilà… We’d love to install a new door, but budget dictated sticking with …
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door film
The glass panel beside our front door is completely transparent. People can see right into our living space, and get a good sense if anyone is home. Later Eichler models used opaque glass for this panel, so we decided to mimic that, while solving the security issue. The sunlight in the above ‘before’ shot means …
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redwood replacement
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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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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