This Old House

1933 Spanish Revival

The mother of all home improvement shows, This Old House starts a new season 

and a new old house on Januray 27. 

I'm very excited about this one. The house is a 1933 Spanish Revival in the
Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

The reason why I'm so interested is that inside this house although spanish in style has similar details to
homes in my neighborhood. This home is 1,500 square feet to which they are adding an additional 750
 square feet. The addition will be a two story one on the back of the home creating a bigger kitchen,
two more bedrooms and two more bathrooms.

Here's a preview of the project -

You can go to the This Old House website to watch a webcam of the home project.

web cams updated every 10 seconds

They are ripping out the kitchen...which I think is adorable although small of course.
There is a vintage tile bathroom that I think they are keeping. At least I hope so.
Every This Old House project turns out beautiful so I'm sure this one will too.
I'd love to add a two story addition to the back of my home.
It could never be done like this one is being done.
Because of historic guidelines (rules) you can't build an addition that can be seen from
the front your home. It must fall within the roof line of the existing structure.
Which is possible since the homes in my neighborhood have such steep roofs.
But I see on this home the addition will stick up above the existing roof line.

Anyway...I'll be tuning in on Saturday. I can't wait to see how they transform this home.
I hope they don't strip away it's character.

I'm all excited about the green bathroom fixtures and tile.

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