New Charmer Listing in Chico CA
Check out my newest listing in ChicoCA; its a fabulous cottage style home on over 1/2 acre with over 3100 square feet. Unique that its such a big home and on such a great lot within the City limits don’t let this one slip by without checking it out in person!
Originally built in 1939, it has a beautiful barrel ceiling in the living room, coved ceiling in the formal dining room, remodeled to period style kitchen, hardwood floors and much more.
There are 3 bedrooms downstairs, large arts and crafts room or a artist studio with a dark room, and then upstairs you’ll find another bonus room that can be used as a master retreat or playroom or a den and office. Upstairs there is a deck overlooking the great newer patio and lawn area. The mature trees offer a wonderful sense of privacy!
Call me for your private showing!
4th of July update LATE :))
Hello All- I didn’t get the camera to give you visual updates so waited until Chris came home this weekend for an update on the ALMANOR cabin progress. Wish I could come up with different words for progress, amazing, etc but I can’t so I’ll just let you know that from foundation on this is what 22 days of solid work gets you! New this week are windows and siding. To let you know some of the intimate details of this cabin- we have HURRICANE hold downs on the roof trusses- at $11 each-, we have over 80 earthquake hold downs on the “top plate” or highest horizontal boards which are also over 10 each, and the “ladder framing” took 2 days to notch each board twice and put in place over the stairwell, besides climbing byPHIL up and down the ladder and scaffolding for EACH BOARD!
Check out the new siding which goes to the top of the “GABLE” roof line at 32 FEET above the ground level!! Chris, Cody, MASTER CARPENTERS Dennis and Phil are kicking butt!!
I did throw in a few Bryant/Prater photos of 4th of July CAMP CLAMPETT, it was a sight with trucks, cars and trailers and tents in the house! BUT we did have festive decorations, even though we figured out no view from our deck for the fireworks over Lake Almanor- darn it, its to the lake next year!
Almanor Cabin- growing up, growing strong
HAMMER SOUND
Wow- another week of incredible progress- So proud of Chris, Cody and company for stairs, loft floor, trusses up and more!! Check out these new pics, I didn’t make it up this week so I’m suprised like everyone on the progress. Chris was lamenting that the “hats” didn’t get up, which are the tops of the trusses ( to big/wide to ship in one piece) but then as he started telling me everything else they got done I was IMPRESSED!!
They had the excellent addition of “Phil” from Red Bluff, another contractor who is helping out for a few weeks. Phil built the staircase, looks awesome, the rest of them blocked, shocked, whatever else needed to be done to the walls. They sheared almost the whole house and got the front wall up which was a BIG, heavy challenge ( check out all the headers and huge picture windows). Next the shear will be finished, windows cut in and the DECK will be ready by the 4th of July- they promised!!
Check out the last picture of the view from the loft and through the front windows. We added some neat features like wrapping the front posts with timber so they’ll look like big timber posts out front and I got a really cool sink for the hall bath that Kyle can wheel right up to and it looks pretty great too, no gas station sinks here 
As always there’s alittle good gossip as well, lumber jacks showed up and then there was some sort of “discrepancy” on marked trees so forest service police were called in and as Chris tells it a 3 day “Confab” to figure out which trees can go and which trees can’t. Espionage will be next and they’ll fell the trees over 4th of July when everyone is at their cabins to watch probably?? Its a mystery at Almanor, which by the way is the name of our little community. Oh and a reunion of baseball players with Danny Wilson, Chris’s old teammate only 3 doors down, calls were even made to Gary Nolan!!
We’ll all be there starting 7/1 so stop by- look for the trailers and the top new cabin and stop by for a celebration G&T!
Walls and Loft at Almanor, CA
HAMMER SOUND
Whooooohoo what a big step- literally! Hammers and boom trucks were flying, as the walls were stood and the roof trusses went into place at the Prater cabin at Almanor, CA!! We officially have walls and a loft, ceiling heights, rooms sizes are done, closets tweeked and it’s starting to look tall!! I know that was a run on sentence, but the excitment is building, along with the progress and bills.
This morning the truck showed up with the roof trusses and a new worker on site- PHIL!! He’s helped us in the past, knows what he is doing to help Dennis Richardson, master carpenter, and between them all look at the progress!
Our 2nd “Owner’s Meeting” was held tonight with progress report from Chris, along with injury list ( lots of duct tape for fingers smash outs, cuts and bruises) and more decisions made for ceilings, doors, etc. You forget how many decisions there are in building and how many choices to spend more money on!!
We WILL HAVE deck for 4th of July, so anyone around, come join in for the best seat (off Lake Almanor) and we’ll be ringing in this nations great birthday! The new mayor of Almanor is usually around, so drop in to say hello to Chris if you’re in the area or heading to Plumas Pines for a snack and/or drink! That really is the best seat at Almanor.
Cody Prater is now a bartender 2-3 nights a week at Plumas Pines, so you can belly up and try and stump his drink knowledge! See you in Almanor soon.
Almanor CA Prater/Bryant cabin
BIG Progress on the cabin, Cody, Chris and Dennis are kickin butt on the framing. The floor is now done, the joists are ready to be put up for the deck and look we almost have water! Steve’s Wells was here yesterday and today and got the well done, 65 feet deep and great clear, cold water. The picture of the soil/rock is the story board of our well, I’m pointing to the perfect depth. Walls start on Tues, wohoo!
We went to dinner last night at Plumas Pines, as always a great meal on the deck overlooking Lake Almanor and then walked home- livin!!
We tried fishing this morning, cold and the fish weren’t biting what we had but it was my maiden voyage on the new patio boat. Fun and great nap taking boat .
Can’t wait to have the 4th there and have you all up!!
