Category: General
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Paint, by the numbers…
Painting the interior walls/ceilings of casa de la hermosa is now underway, with the Primary Bedroom, Guest Bedroom, and Casita closets completed so far. These three spaces happen to be the first of what will ultimately be seven spaces fitted out with our favorite closet storage system – Elfa Classic. The Primary Bedroom and Casita…
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Closet Capers
This particular adventure began because of that ridiculous 90 degree coupling you see about two-thirds down, on the left, of this first image: This is looking west from inside the Casita into the clothes closet, which also houses a utility service space for the air handler for the HVAC system, (to the left). That 90…
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Stumped [again]
Today we watched a team of experts from Nicholas Tree Removal Service wrap up the removal of seven date palm trees, thirty oleander bushes, a mammoth, albeit diseased, prickly pear cactus, and the extraction of ten Italian cypress stumps lurking below mounds of earth along the south and west sides of the house. While the…
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Stumped
Today we had the pleasure of watching a team of experts from Nicholas Tree Removal Service remove seven date palm trees, thirty oleander bushes, a diseased prickly pear cactus, and extract the remnants of ten Italian cypress stumps which had simply been mounded over at some point. In short, the 1970’s landscaping vibe, or what…
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This flipper flopped!
Let me be clear – I’m no fan of house flippers. They’re a menace… When I trekked from Scottsdale to Tucson in late February, I had a vague idea of what I would find when I stepped foot into casa de la hermosa…, (there were more than enough tell-tale signs in the photographs). Now that…
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Motivations
OK, so why on earth would two [seemingly] rational humans with plenty of home renovation experience decide to bail on Old Town in favor of the Old Pueblo? Good question – here’s our attempt at a rational answer… First, we realized how important the proximity to untamed lands – a.k.a. raw desert – was to…
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Full Circle
My wife and I attended the University of Arizona at different points in the 1970’s, and, as a result, we developed a deep affection for Tucson, (and surrounds). Although we didn’t meet here, after a serendipitous encounter at an open-air jazz festival in the 1980’s, we fell in love, married several years later, and have…