Tag Archives: eichler siding

  • siding inspiration

    We’re famous. Sorta. Emily Henderson just included three pics of our Eichler, in a post about her exterior renovation –she wanted something resembling Eichler siding …

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  • street view

    The ‘front’ door in our model is at the side –accessed via this path, open to the street. We plan to add a secondary front door/fence, creating a private courtyard entry …

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  • back side

    Last summer, we painted most of our exterior, leaving just the back, and a small adjoining side section. And that’s how it stayed, until this summer …

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  • side steps

    Having painted the patio and front, we moved around the side. This path leads around that corner to our front door. And also back out to the street. We plan to add a fence …

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  • up front

    This blog is hopelessly out of sync. Maybe we should stop doing, so I can start posting. Either way, I need to catch you up, starting with (you guessed it) more painting …

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  • the wall

    This is the exterior of our master bedroom wall, around the corner from our side patio. It faces north, and gets plenty of shade, so should have been easy to prep. Not so …

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  • patio paint

    We’ve been doing LOTS of painting recently, as you may have seen on Instagram. Time to share some progress here, starting with the walls around our side patio …

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  • feature rich

    Our home has plenty of original Eichler features. Some we recognized instantly, and some we’ve grown to appreciate –mainly by noticing their absence in similar homes …

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  • good neighbors

    We’re regularly amazed by neighborly kindness. From tool-lending to truck pick-ups, lighting donations to dessert deliveries (you know who you are!) people are SO helpful. Just this week, our friends, Michael and Clyde, gave us three sheets of Eichler siding, following some repairs. This is expensive stuff, but they insisted we take it. How generous …

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