A dormer is an element of a roof that’s like a mini roof inside of your roof! If you have square footage in attic space, this is how to build out space and height!

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Not just a house… our house 🥹 🤍1504 Albany Terrace, Albany 🤍offered for $925,000 🤍2 beds, 1 bath, 3 generations and 9 childhoods (including mine and my dads!) 🤍a fun place to grow up. 😭 I hope you guys love it.

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How to build a house in a slide zone

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Maybe less “I’ll just climb up there” going forward

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My thesis 🧐

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The Kip House in Berkeley, on the market for the second time ever. Circa 1952 by Donald Olson. Listed by @annabellomo at @district.homes I’ll be hosting the open house this Sunday 1-3pm… come see a piece of architectural history, and read more about the Kip House in yesterday’s NYT :)

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MOISTURE MANAGEMENT No, it’s not fun to find that significant moisture is entering your home’s subspace…but it can be solved! I recommend incremental solutions over time, if the source of the water isn’t obvious. Downspout extenders first, then more expensive and invasive solutions 💦

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A modern foundation will sit tall above grade, have a straight stem wall at both the interior and exterior, and has a spread footing - like an inverted T. Seeing the stem wall extend above grade tells you immediately that it’s been replaced

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Things are happening at the cabin with lots of help, love and swim breaks

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Fixing up the river house starting with a roof that’s seen better days. Tree is STAYING :) but roof is ready to retire!!!

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A picture rail can look like moulding or trim that has a separated from the ceiling - but it’s by design :) 🖼️ this is a feature of an old home originally built with plaster walls, to avoid the difficulty of hammering a nail into lath and making a mess of crumbling plaster!

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New York, why the stucco layering over cement?

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As a life long River Girl I can’t believe it, but I’ve been scheming and saving in secret and — I bought a house on the river 🥹 this is a vacation home for my family, hopefully for the rest of our lives and our future children’s lives. Yes, it’s been known to flood and needs a roof and maybe to be

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Hog wire is such a simple and easy to diy fence, works as a trellis and is perfect in a front yard 🫜 but not on a balcony because it can be climbed too easily!

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The number one thing buyers tell me they’re looking for is a house with two bathrooms. But sometimes, it’s more cost effective to just add your own :) - take note of the location of wet walls - map what’s on the side - consider what “fall” the waste line will have to the street, and if an eject

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Now imagine that stick is a stud in your house

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Roof trusses, a framed roof system that can be cheaper to assemble and carry a greater load between bearing walls, while being lighter weight or requiring less lumber. Sometimes prefabricated off site, but in this instance, assembled on the ground on site and then installed 🪵🪜

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You can’t just dig out a basement without supporting a foundation wall in one manner or another — hence, a bench wall, adding support in place of dirt

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Leveling a house from the INSIDE during a remodel !!

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Now you’ll never unsee em

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