Posted in house on January 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Carol Lloyd at the Chron wrote a second article about our fun with green building in San Francisco recently, which elicited a mention at SocketSite. The peanut gallery had a variety of comments, which I’ll quickly address here.
Someone noticed that our planning drawings were sent back to an “earlier” desk in the review process because [...]
Posted in house on October 30th, 2004 No Comments »
Shannon went to the opening of the NowHouse in San Francisco yesterday morning. Being stuck with a deadline at work, I couldn’t attend, but we went back this morning. I brought my camera along.
The October morning weather provided a uniformly dreary light, so it’s very difficult to tell from [...]
Posted in house on September 16th, 2004 No Comments »
We signed the final paperwork on the new properties last night. I remain impressed by how little my signature at the beginning of a signing session resembles itself forty repetitions later.
Shannon and I spent tonight drawing floor plans on graph paper. I thought that I was fairly indifferent to my surroundings, preferring to [...]
Posted in house on September 11th, 2004 No Comments »
On the left, we have the image that was published with the listing for the new property. On the right, a picture of the actual place. While the pen-and-ink drawing makes the property look quite attractive, the photo fails to make the place look as decrepit and sad as it appears when you [...]