Way before moving to Sacramento, we saw The California Museum had a Ray Eames exhibit going on. It ran for a year, six months of which we lived right here. We kept planning to go, but stuff (mostly house stuff) got in the way. Eventually we made it, on the very last day. Ray, a …
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Tag Archives: sacramento
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home search
We’re extremely happy in our Eichler, in Sacramento. But that wasn’t quite the plan. We wanted to buy in Concord, CA, home to about 175 of the Bay Area’s most affordable Eichlers. And this time last year, we traveled there (from Boston) to tour our first Eichler for sale. This was a beautifully preserved Eichler, …
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eichler christmas
With the unseasonably mild weather we’ve had in Sacramento, you almost forget it’s Christmas. Luckily, we get a regular night-time reminder, when our neighbors’ homes come to life. I took a stroll the other evening and snapped a few. The Eichler owners above switched regular bulbs with green and red, to stunning effect. I love …
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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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retail therapy
With a pretty small contingency, and a rather large (committed) purchase coming up, we could do without unexpected costs. So the leak was poorly timed. But we’re not totally broke so, to cheer ourselves up, we turned to the obvious cure. Shopping. With a very limited budget, and the dual purpose of getting to know …
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smud building
Before making the cross-country trip from Boston to Sacramento, we called ahead to setup utilities. With a large debt owing (from former renters) and us not being permanent residents (according to the USCIS) our electricity provider needed to verify our identity, in-person. When you’ve just bought a suburban house in a new city, you have …
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eichler brochure
During our extensive Eichler research, and even before we’d considered buying in Sacramento, we discovered a real treasure –the original sales brochure …
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our neighborhood
We live within a tract of around 60 Eichler Homes, in Sacramento’s South Land Park Hills neighborhood. There were plans to build many more Eichlers here …
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