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Valley street deck, patio, doors

The first three shots here are showing the site work for a new little ceramic studio. We are saving that little citrus tree and the foundation will angle around it. This will create an interesting interior space with a cozy sitting area on one end and a wider studio area at the other.  The lot slopes down to the right and we are adding a retaining wall along the property line to level the lot. The concrete walls will be board-formed and hopefully look very nice.

Formwork for retaining walls IMG_0954

This is John McBride, hard at work. Oscar and Jose behind working on the excavation for the footing.

McBride Construction at Work

Here you see a new 3/16″ thick steel awning recently installed. Gonzalvo is installing the lag screws. There will be another similar awning over the doors above. I tried to talk the owner into painting them bright blue or fireball orange to match their front door, but she chose a more conservative and very classy grey brown. Kind of like wrought iron.

This is a different job. They have just installed that 3/16" Steel Awning. Very Heavy. (Thanks for the photo Steve Coleman)

But my little cabin looks great from here.

Two New Projects 

 All that is left of the old shed is a pile of concrete rubble. (Photo J. McBride)  
A very small addition in Richmond – for now it is an open air kitchen while they sister the cantilevered floor joists. Nice coordinated outfits guys. (Photo T. Malloy)

 

Studio Project Coming Along!

Photo by J. McBride : “Angular Angles” 

Here are some BEFORE shots of my Pt Richmond project

And  few new AFTER snapshots

Tall Shelving Between Kitchen and Dining Area for All the Dishes

Tall Shelving Between Kitchen and Dining Area for All the Dishes

Efficient Pantry for all the Food

Efficient Pantry For All the Food

Built by Ron Tostenson & Company

A key part of the design was adding this door from the kitchen to the back part of the house (and future back deck)

New door to back of house

As you can see below, this also gave the bedroom a better connection to the bathroom and more privacy.

NEW FLOORPLAN

OLD FLOORPLAN

These curvy shelves and cherry peninsula were just icing on the cake.

Dark Stained Cherry Peninsula & Curvy Shelves

The homeowner is a bicycle enthusiast (and an artist)

Stained Glass by Charles Carlson

Very cool,.

More photos

Final Details Underway

New front door in time for halloween Looking back through the kitchen and dining room addition punchlist kitchen

This Berkeley addition and full house remodel is almost finished and we are all very excited.

I’ll do a full post with before and after photos soon, but I can’t resists giving you a preview. Steve Coleman is the contractor.

Here is the happy client in his kitchen:

HAPPY CLIENT IN HIS KITCHEN

John Mcbride was the builder for this project. Here are a few more photos and the floorplan: