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Tour of the Home's Remodeled Exterior

Bob takes a tour of the homes' exterior noting the attention to detail. The crowned gates are complete and a locking latch has been added to secure the pool. Bob also discusses the landscaping that has been done.
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Tour of the Home's Remodeled Exterior

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" One of the key things is the amount of preparation work that went into all this woodwork prior to pay -- All the sanding and and repairs in the caulking. If you look at the detailing above the entrance way here all those little squares were added they kind of look like dental and of course this other decorative pattern this kind of like a son. That. Color that he picked this gray green is very much in keeping with the period -- later on you'll see how it's used inside and look up here I mean all the collaborative been so beautifully. Sanded down and then here's an accident that we hadn't shown -- before these are the original little toward shutters as simple as they can get. But setting them up using the contrasting white and green really makes a difference here where the windows have been restored everything's looking pretty good this -- the side and check in with our contractor -- Now the gates over here that Courtney just putting a latch on our kind of crowned by. This kind of a pergola fact what we get a vine growing there's going to be quite as they aren't about this who experience acts like you. Now we need a -- got -- at this particular location is is a very important it is and what this is that -- that brings us to the pool so we need to have a lot at all times and won't really be any we have openings from the outside correctly you gotta go from the house to get back here that's correct good solution does it really provides lots of privacy as well security. Now the main improvement that you made to the little houses this edition on the back. Which is an outdoor living room McKenna replicate the front porch but the scale of about four times -- big what was the toughest part of building. Courtney concealing the steel. Because of the retrofitting her an earthquake yet. Each one of these columns has this steel beam inside it tied into a -- and all the horizontal members again are. Tied together with steel. It was an incredible amount and carpentry involve them. This every piece that the heat is applied layer after layer he works and looks really terrific it was all this landscaping that's been done in here really sets it up very nicely when these bamboo edges get a private community."

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