12.16.2013

operation great room - part 1

When our house was first built, there was a carport included in the design. The previous owners, clearly unphased by the 363 days of blinding sun, summer monsoons and the occasional haboob damage to your car....built it up and walled it in.


The new room sat completely ignored for pretty much the entire year of Chris' new-found ownership of the pepper house. The carport door/entrance to the house was still attached, with an odd working lock and window to the "outside". The last homeowners slapped down some cheap birch laminate, out a mint sage-y green on the walls, and called it good...we, on the otherhand, called it creepy. The door stayed closed, the lights off.

This extra spare bedroom/questionable TV room off of the dining room was fantastic additional square footage, but was going completely to waste. We began day dreaming about an idea of the wall coming down all together, which would expand our entry way/current living room, allow for a sight line from the kitchen, dining room and from the hallway to the rest of the house.


Contractors were scheduled. Our fingers were crossed. And the good news came.

This wall, even though it used to be an exterior, major portion of the house...could come down! The load bearing struts in the attic had been moved when the room was walled it, making it easily removable. Party on Garth, it's demo time!


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12.09.2013

a tour from the start

The Pepper House
Est. September 2013


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So many projects to do!

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(not pictured: guest bedroom, office, two bathrooms and a fabulously huge backyard!)

12.02.2013

cohabitants

When my lease was set to expire in September, talks of moving in together starting flitting in to conversations at random. It was my hope that it didn't become a "welp, might as well do it!" conversation when we finally made the decision to move in together. The hint was taken, and one summery day at the office I popped back in after a meeting with a big ol bouquet of flowers covering my desk. Inside the card that arrived with the florals read a note enlightening me to the fact that "peonies can articulate this far better than I could...move in with me!!"

Sold.



So memorial day weekend came, and with a few extra days away from the office I packed up my cute little bachelorette pad, hired movers, and trekked 10 whole miles across town into the pepper house. And like that, we became cohabitants.

Hooray!

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