Month: June 2022

About half of the demolition is now complete and cleaned up on the half of the second floor that faces the valley. The plan is to replace the balustrade with glass and a very sturdy aluminum rail. The beam at the top of the opening leading to the balcony is a support beam so we are working with a structural designer to find a way to remove it or, worst case, leave a 5-6 inch beam above the opening and add a long horizontal window above it. The entire opening is planned to be four sheets of thick, tinted glass. The outside two are to be fixed and the inner two are sliding doors. The bottom image is some of the stuff that was removed to open the place up.

This is one of the front doors we had made for the apartments. Excited to see what they look like when they are installed.

Work started today on the second house. It is a lot higher up the hill so it has a better view. We want to take advantage of the view by completely removing the current balcony (shown to the left). I will be replaced with a thick glass, 3 ft. high muro con barandal. The second image shows the wall across from the balcony openings. That wall will be completely removed and replaced with ceiling to floor glass walls and a doors. This glass area will have to have some thin, unobtrusive vertical stripes or hanging strings to prevent bird hits, but the idea is to open this up as much as possible both for lighting and to expose the view. This is going to go pretty slowly as resources allow. Of course, if we are able to sell the other house that we converted to apartments lower on this same hill, we can use some of the resources to speed up the changes. Lynn is planning to use the house (above) as his office, so we are hoping that will allow him to keep the focus on the changes there.