Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home than he is. Believe it or not, he’s lived in the same home for all of his 72 trips around the sun. It’s a stunning Craftsman home that was built in 1910.
This gorgeous wood-framed house is built on a corner lot in a community that is snuggled in the Crescenta Valley, just below the towering San Gabriel Mountains. His lot has about 8 feet of downward slope across its 150-foot depth. The original builder wanted a fairly level front yard. A 4-foot tall retaining wall was built along the south side of the lot to achieve this goal.
