Monthly Archives: October 2007

30 Oct

Drilling started!

They started drilling today! Jenn, Stephen and I drove up at lunch to take a look. Coming up the driveway you can see the drill is working on the lower right corner of the house.    Here you can see the outline of the house as well as our temporary fencing and power. Note the four stakes [...]
18 Oct

First Cuts

Eli Sr. and crew were up on the property this week preparing the way for the drilling machines and other equipment that needs to get up to help us with construction. They did a great job not only creating the paths we need but ensuring that we do not have a lot of erosion [...]
17 Oct

So what is this thing going to look like?

I realize that I haven’t posted any pictures of what the house is actually going to look like. So here are some shots.A rendering of the house from the bottom of the lot.  A rendering from the street level.   And here is a sketch of the color scheme   As you can see the house is [...]
16 Oct

Something to be worried about?

Last Thursday the 11th I was out at the site with Sean, our driller, and our septic guy reviewing our plan for where and how the drill rig would make it onto our property when I learned the house next to us is in escrow. The (potential) future owners seemed concerned that their agent had [...]
14 Oct

And so we begin

<br /> <p>It has been four years since we first walked onto this vacant lot in Malibu. Since then there has been Coastal hearings, catch-22’s with county and state agencies, fire department reviews, new plans, the purchase of a development credit and more than once we thought it wasn’t going to work out. Last week we [...]