Guess you’d call this a tease. An exciting (for us) delivery the other day –these colored cord samples relate to a series of future projects we’re plotting…or, more accurately, Karen is plotting. We need some wall-mounted lighting in a few areas. If money was no object, we’d buy Nelson sconces –but it is. So we’re …
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colored cord
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picking flooring
We plan on replacing our flooring room-by-room, to phase the cost. We’ll be installing Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT) throughout. We already have some very beige VCT in our living area, as shown below, behind some new samples we picked out. We rejected many more than these, and eventually settled on the center sample, Soft Warm …
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the bookcase
The bookcase on the right was added by the original owners, a long time ago. This pic is when we just moved in, as I didn’t take a ‘before’ shot for this post. Anyway, while useful, it interrupts the flow, conflicts with the design, and narrows the space by our entrance. It had to go. …
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be my guest
With Christmas over, and time on our hands, we decided to tackle a room that’s been bugging us –the guest room, AKA the media room (we’d like to give it a purpose, outside accommodating rare guests). It’s decently-sized, by Eichler standards, at about 13 x 11 feet. So far, we’ve just painted the ceiling beam …
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welcome to the jungle
One of our neighbors kindly shared some pics of our place, before it went on the market. In fact, this was before it had been prepared for sale. I’m thinking if it had looked like this, we may have paid a little less. It had been neglected, to say the least. We’re pleased not to …
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fireplace paint
We love our cinder-block fireplace. One problem –it’s yellow…and it shouldn’t be. More accurately, it’s smoke-stained white, but it amounts to the same. It doesn’t look too bad in this pic, but trust me on this. Anyhow, we set about re-painting it white. The texture of this cinder block makes it difficult to paint with …
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beam me up
Post and beam construction is synonymous with Eichler homes, and similar modern home designs. This is what enables walls of glass and open living space. These ceiling beams are intended to be visible, and admired, as an architectural feature. And they need painting. We’d inherited brown painted beams in the living space, shown in this …
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arcadia sliders
Our single-pane glass sliding doors are 1955 originals. Not great for efficiency, but good for a dose of nostalgia. Arcadia manufactured most, if not all, Eichler sliders –we’ve certainly seen them on models built ten years after ours. We have three sets –office (above, near), master (above, far) and lounge (below). We can’t afford to upgrade …
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halfway house
Now we’ve settled on paint colors, we’re systematically working our way through the house, painting all the trim, beams and (eventually) ceilings. We also plan to paint the odd feature wall. During this phase, the place will inevitably feel disjointed. Above, our new Cityscape gray trim (inside) butts against Oxford Brown trim (outside). Likewise, the …
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