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It's a new beginning on an old (seems long ago) project that could not proceed without the proper permits.  So one architect and five trips to city hall by my contractor, Dan, gave us the green light. It took a lot of effort on Dan's part to get this far.  He is responsible for most of the drawings which will help to give you an idea of where we are going with this project. This is the current view from of the east side facing Spring Ave. This is Dan's drawing of how the second story will look.  Although it is not obvious here, the enclosed second story will start about 5 feet back from the east edge of the lower level.  This will provide a balcony area overlooking the lower deck. Current view of the south side. The drawing shows how far back the balcony (railing) will go and what the rest of the south elevation will look like. The west side will not have any windows and is not visible from the street. My minor contribution to all this ho

An unplanned project inserted itself onto my to-do list. Speaking of lists, I have a rather long one of things that have fallen off the walls of my home.  You might remember the big disaster I wrote about in this post . There were several more but let's get on with the latest. This is what the top shelf of my bookcase in the foyer looked like a couple weeks ago. Sometime, when I was away from the house, the first big L fell from the wall.  I discovered it sometime later when I returned and walked to the front door to pick up the mail. Did it break, you ask?  Well of course it did.  It broke into two pieces and was a little dinged up but...I was sure I could glue it together and I did.  Then I confidently hung it back up with command strips and walked into the kitchen and CRASH, BANG, BOOM, it was back on the floor in three pieces. This time it ripped some paint off the wall and I decided it just wasn't meant to be. I was not Laughing out loud, that was for sure