Posted by chris | Posted in Project Updates | Posted on 20-11-2009
A mechanical dinosaur ate our house. At least that’s what it looked like when the guys from Trilennium used their giant excavator to rip down the little Cape that had stood on the lot since 1939. Look at the attached photos and you can get a feel for the scale of that monstrous machine. That house must have been sweating when they left the excavator in the driveway the night before the demo began.
I felt a little funny about it, because that house was built by its owner, and he and his family were the only people ever to live in it. It was cute as a button, and though it had some odd features like root cellars, a lawnmower garage, a bathroom that was also a hallway, and a kitchen so small you’d have to leave the room just to change your mind, in the end it was someone’s dream house. Gotta be sensitive to that when you’re building your own. Some day someone may stand in front of our house and say, “You know, we could try and remodel, but it’s probably easier and cheaper to just tear the thing down. I wonder why there are poodle footprints all over everything….”
Next up are the tree guys, who are going to take out the two biggest pine trees on the block, plus a few assorted others that are either blocking the sun from reaching the house, or are leaning over the yard and threatening us. We don’t need any more of that, thanks.
