This shade of brown doesn’t do it for us. That’s unfortunate, as it covers our entire house. We’d love to repaint it right now, but we lack the funds. What we do have is time. Time to pore over color samples. Time to figure out exactly how we’d like the house to look. So, we …
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Tag Archives: exterior
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picking paint
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wires
We keep noticing random wires all over the place. Not live electricity, just a legacy of lazy wiring for phones, alarm components etc. No doubt typical for a property of this age, but a trend we’d like to end. So, we set about tackling some of them. The white wire above has been nagging at …
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eichler numbers
When we closed on our house (truthfully, a bit before) there was one purchase we couldn’t resist; an authentic Eichler house number, to replace the existing gold numbers, below. These are available through a Bay Area company, appropriately called Eichler Numbers. One advantage of buying before we got to California; we didn’t pay sales tax. We …
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no more curtains
We don’t like curtains at the best of times, so we reacted badly to these odd-looking specimens, attached to the beam outside our master bedroom. And when I say outside, I mean outside. Like, outside the house. Bizarre right? They do have a purpose; to block the strong afternoon sun. Actually, it seriously heats up …
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