The Desk in Pat Garrett's Garage

This will become our new bathroom and laundry room          I moved back to San Diego after a 30 year absence to spend time with and help my Mom. I found the man of my dreams and married him. My Mom asked if we could be closer to her so we all decided that building an ADU in Fallbrook would be a great idea.   As this adventure moves along I have found some things a bit challenging. Mom's storage buildings, mature trees and cacti. We have to work around all of them, if possible.  In the previous blog I mentioned we had to make some changes. We have had to adjust our plans and plot layout for the  ADU because of emergency power lines. Then I realized that now the garage layout, footprint will not work, unless we want a 4 foot wide backyard. That's not happening. New layout for our ADU       A renovation is about to happen.   Success, garage has been moved over 15 feet. The huge Cactus will have to be removed,...

              My head is filled with numbers, new information, schedules, names of contractors and my dear mom's garage is filled with windows, doors, sinks and more for our new home.        We have designed our home and redesigned it several times over, for one reason or another. The drafter, Ed loves us. He is making some money. I wanted to save some money on the construction part in any way we could. While securing the mortgage an issue with an unforeseen bill popped up that had to be dealt with. That sent me into cost saving mode even further. My idea was to keep the existing secondary garage, use it as part of the home and add onto the back of it which is currently a shed that was once where Mom and Dad's RV was housed. Dad built it years ago. The garage has the same terra cotta tile roof  and stucco siding as the house, a toilet and sink that I was hoping was permitted for the property and would allow me to not have t...

Why this whole adventure started: Mom and me in WIlliamsburg around 1964                After a 30 year (I will call it an) adventure to the North Carolina coast, I decided it was time to go back home to San Diego. My Mother has been on her own for a few years now since the passing of my Father, and my son had already moved back to San Diego years ago. I wanted to be there for them, spend time with them and be closer to the rest of my family. (most of my immediate family lives in So Cal)               Plenty of events have happened in the year that I have been back home. One of them is I found the perfect man, and married him. We found a place to rent, which is not the easiest with 2 big dogs. (my kids, Zeus and Yin-Yang came back with me from Carolina as well)  Rental prices are not cheap in San Diego County and with me restarting my business here there is a bit of a lull in my income, leaving our in...