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May 08, 2005
Our little piece of planet Earth.
So what do you get for $360,000 in the Bay Area real estate market ...well ..humm ...Potential!
We closed escrow on Friday, and started today to take stock of the huge task in hand.
It really is dreadful. It's so icky that you have to wipe your feet when going out into the street, but the neighborhood is great and we will love the place into submission and make it gleam once more.
We have already started to figure out where we can bust out walls and start to turn this into place of light and style. We will open up the kitchen, taking it back to the studs and place a center island and cooktop. We will expose the long hidden oak floors and bring the garden to life again. I have spent my career working on some of the finest and most beautiful homes in the world...now it is my turn. I can't wait to get started.
This would be a good time to thank some people who worked to get us into this, our first home.
Jim and Janice Judd...Great Pharaohs of World Savings Bank, who saw beyond paper risk and took a chance on us.
Peter Robertson.. My 'brotha from anotha muvva' and guru in the voodoo arts of real estate.
Our Families; Ray, Judy, Bernard, Florence for helping us over the last humps.
Our great friend Jim Pire has offered to take some shots as the metamorphosis develops, and these can be seen by clicking HERE.
Posted by Andrew at May 8, 2005 08:57 PM
Comments
Looks like great fun!
-Asa
Posted by: Asa at May 9, 2005 11:23 AM
Hi Andy,
I felt a need to look you up today on the net and found your blog. Sorry to hear about your Dad but hope he will be alright. Are you still in the UK? If so would love to meet up if possible. Send an e-mail and I will let you have our phone number so we can have a chat.
You have certainly taken on a major job with the new house. Sandra and I are planning to move to France shortly and are busy decorating and such things before putting the house on the market.
Get in touch
best regards
George Pritchard
Posted by: George P at June 28, 2005 12:11 PM
Andrew, your blog is so touching and genuine, not surprising since it is of you, but thanks for opening your heart to us all. jack
Posted by: jack allen at July 7, 2005 06:01 PM