That wasn’t the order I saw them in. I love the woodwork in that house.
The Evergreen house didn’t have any water views even though it was the most appealing house otherwise.
SCHEDULE UPDATE
It has been 3 weeks since we started work on the project. Here is what we have completed - doesn’t look like much on the covers
Demolition of kitchen and 3 bathrooms (except the completely disgusting small bathroom which has a new toilet for our use)
All old wiring torn out and new wiring, outlets and switches in place
Plaster torn off of all walls and ceiling in kitchen and bathrooms
Clearing out the entire basement
Tear out all cast iron plumbing and steel water pipes
Emergency repair of main water line coming into house - installed pressure regulator and new shut off valve
Survey of property boundaries
New fence along eastern edge of property
Tear out of dead trees along fence line and vegetation immediately adjacent to entire house
French drain system around house
Plaster torn off walls in dining and living area
Some old windows torn out
All ducting removed from attic and attic cleaned up to get ready for insulation
Vaulting of hall bathroom ceiling (it’s going to be lovely!!! get to hang a chandelier in bathroom)
New plumbing and drain lines from hall bathroom to main sewer line
Reconfigure closets in hall bathroom area
Closing up of some windows and cut outs for new window locations
New header and moving dining room window
Removing all vegetation of steep vertical slope area to prepare for Shotcrete
Soil Engineering Report and foundation inspection
HVAC system analysis to move into attic
Removed deck glass and posts to get ready to dismantle deck
Staked out new posts for deck location
Tomorrow is D Day… deadline for City to make historical designation or not. This will make or break the project. If historical… probably will not be allowed to add 2nd story and capture views. Unless I want to fight City Hall for about 3-4 months.
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BUDGET UPDATE
Original Budget Estimate for remodel with 2nd story = $200,000
Demolition = $3,800 (will probably run over again)
Plumbing $1,700
Electrical $1,100
Landscape, Survey, Fence = $6,500 (Yikes!!! have hardly anything to show for it)
Other = $3,200 which includes a lot of permit and plan fees so far
Total spent to date $16,300
How Not to Flip
There is a house located at 3909 Fenelon 92106 that is desperately trying to sell. Purchased for $900,000 in 3/2015 and the guy has been borrowing up to $1,055,000. On market 2/2/2016 and now he is panicking. Listed for $1,399,000 and he has been playing the game of taking it off market every 10 days and dropping price by $100k each time. Just came back out at $1,199,000 with frantic ‘Must Sell by March 31’. It’s only been listed for 20 days and the guy has dropped price $200k already. Somehow this guy must have gotten himself into a mess
It has great views
I have no idea how much all that tempered glass would cost but I’m glad you were able to save it!
It would appear the the view photos in the Fenelon house listing are not actually the views available from the house itself. The other photos seem to show good views only from the kitchen–love the kitchen–and one bedroom. Nice renovation, though.
The other thing is that it only has a 15x15 LR? With 4 beds and baths?
The house at 3309 Fenelon does have views from multiple rooms (kitchen, dining room, bedroom) but you need a very very long lens to get the pictures in the listing!
That backyard (yard being a misnomer) is awful.
Well, we might be giving up on the arched French door idea 
I am having a really hard time trying to find a manufacturer. So far I have quotes from Marvin and Jeld Wen. Can you say $5,000 per door? That would be $10k just to get two French doors, not to mention the fact that I would then have to use same manufacturer for French Casement windows which seem to be $2,500 each ??? What the hey?? $20k total to get 2 doors and 3 windows. Not exactly in the budget.
I really had my heart set on French Casement push out windows but we may have to settle for regular casement windows that have the bar in between
I sent the specs out to two custom door companies and we will see what happens.
Well it was fun to dream, but I’m sure the finished result will still be beautiful!
I have confidence that they doors and windows will look fantastic, whatever happens.
What about these two window and door companies?
http://www.eaglewindow.com/_Products/Eagle-Axiom-Casement-Windows.aspx
Kolbe & Kolbe might make arched French doors.
Maybe the “eyebrow” style is less money.
I don’t know what the eyebrow style is? Is that where you put an elliptical stationary window on top of a rectangle door? Unfortunately I don’t have enough height to do that. I am constrained by the height of the sides of the room. There are two top plates (2x4) and then a large 4 x 8 header under the top plates. I only have 84" available to install a French door. This means that the doors, including the top of the arch, have to be about 82" high only in the middle of the door.
I am currently researching and trying to get quotes from Andersen. Andersen makes an Entry Door (front door) that is the perfect style and I am trying to get a quote to see if they are prohibitively expensive. Then I could use Andersen French casements. I don’t think I can go with arched French casement windows because there are square windows on the left side of the room. It would look odd to have two square stationary glass windows and then an arched casement in between them (see living room photo)
There are several manufacturers that make French casement windows and I might even be able to get them in a vinyl or fiberglass product (which would work better close to the ocean), but I need to source the doors first so that I can try hard to have same manufacturer, style and material for everything in the living room. I can change out to regular windows as I move away from the living room.
I wish there was some online ‘window visualizer’ software where I could load my living room photo and then play around with putting different window and door styles into the room!
Eyebrow, on those two web pages, is a shallower curved top on the door or window so it’s not a half circle. It’s still a one piece door or window. The doors I saw have a shallow half curve so that as a pair they make the eyebrow curve.
Here’s a photo of the eyebrow doors. They are extruded aluminum on the outside, wood on the inside.
Those are both great photos of the arched door I am looking for (with clear glass, no grills). It can only be made in solid wood and I cannot have a ‘clad’ exterior for weatherproofing the wood.
So far this is what I’ve got:
Andersen = $4,300/door
Marvin = $5,000
TM Cobb = $5,000 door
Custom made by wood worker = $3,700
The other manufacturer mentioned above does not have any dealers on the West Coast. So, they are just too freaking expensive. I am back to doing a rectangle wood door with aluminum clad exterior in a Dark Bronze color. The interior wood would have to be stained / painted dark to get the nice contrast I am looking for against white walls. Cost = $900 to $1,200 depending on manufacturer
Now I am focusing on the French Casement windows. Once again… unbelievably expensive to have the French push out style with no bar between the two casement windows. $1,300 each in wood with exterior clad versus $500 for regular casement in same size.
Big dilemma right now… I have calls and quotes all over the place right now