Buying my first/ last house. (restoring it to time capsule)

adiffrentcity said
Congrats!

Thanks!

goldfish65 said
My first car. And I grew up in that kind of house, it was great.

Awesome. I've been on the hunt for a good plaid fabric to do some new furniture in. I found a gold weave that is ridiculously cool, that I'm going to use for curtains.

Abodybomber said
Nice find,Dave. Good luck.

Thanks, Tim. I really didn't think I'd have a chance at this place. We've been looking for about 3 years, and after bailing on the other house that Amy's great grandmother had, we thought we'd be looking a lot longer for something that we wanted to keep and would have to spend quite a bit more to get it.

72Dodge said
Beautiful house and plan! Your first post looks like something I could have written 5 years ago about our 1964 ranch. For the most part, ours was unadulterated too, except the kitchen and the flooring in 2 other small rooms, so we tastefully did what my wife wanted with that, and left the rest original including the "pink" main bathroom. So, I love that you're preserving part and trying to keep or enhance the character of the rest. So many people try to make an older house something it's not, fighting against it's character, and it usually ends up looking horrible, IMO. Let the house be itself!

Side note: pics of the 240z? I've recently developed a fascination with them, and I'm thinking one might be my next car after I get 2 out of 3 of my current projects in order.

I really wanted to get a house with an area that I could set up a larger bathroom. This place has two bathrooms that are adjacent to each other, but it's nice having two bathrooms and they both have really awesome vanity tiles and sinks, so I'm going to get rid of the 1980s tiles on the flooring and do something that goes with the original fixtures.

The master bathroom is coral pink and it will stay that way. The main bathroom is black and gold, so we're going to do gloss black steel cabinets with gold webbing/ elephant over the black. Its the same as a speckle finish, only you don't reduce the gold paint, so it strings. They used to do this in black over white Gottlieb pinball machine cabinets in the late fifties through the early seventies.

This is gold over white-

4spdragtop said
Congrats Dave! I love doing renos as well, although I might not be as good as you. I learned from my Dad who was never afraid to tackle anything. Take a look at this website, it's my Moms store up here in Toronto, but you could get some really cool ideas from it. She loves to help people come up with ideas, so you could even call her if you like. She has been doing this for almost 40 years.
Website http://www.urbanmode.com/
Cheers
Steve

Thanks for the site link! I'll be digging around there for some time. I might pick her brain on some stuff!

Louie70Dart said
And yeah, you get these in Lakewood. Near the Lakewood nursery, W Yale east of s. Kipling. Tough to see but that's an elk. When you think that animal had to cross 470 and several 4 lane streets in a high population area is crazy.

They actually have a fence on lookout, at the foot, by the highway, with a deer crossing yellow light, because they had so many issues with them coming into town.

So now, if you're headed around the back side of 6th out to lookout or coming the back way into downtown Golden, you've got to watch for them at the crossing.

The last property that I was on had a lot of fox. I was over on 10th and wads, just west of wadsworth on 10th, in that farm animal zoning. This neighborhood is old. Its the neighborhood that is just south of 6th ave, between Wads and Sheridan.

pete9857 said
Have you heard of Retro Renavations?

I think Amy is following that blog? They are also on facebook. Pretty cool stuff. They have a lot of links from people's input that help people restore their homes and link to things that companies still make, like some of the wood ceiling tiles that some of these houses had. I was hoping that Formica still made their boomerang counter top that they have, in more colors than gray/ black. I can get boomerang counter tops in multiple colors, but I don't like the patterns that are available. They don't look authentic at all, so I'm thinking some solid color polycarbonate is in order.

I can't wait to get my aluminum foundry going once we're moved, so I can make nice, decorative door handle plates and other things.

I'm also considering making my own cinder block design, so I can have a cinder block and brick post 3' fence.