Got the copy of the plans today! Thanks Monique Lombardelli!

Retro Phone

I picked up this retro panel phone on eBay to go in the house. I saw a similar one in the "People in Glass Houses" documentary.

Fixture Shopping

Been looking around the internet for the various Eichler-compatible lighting fixtures for the house. Found these:

Eichler house seen in a TV commercial

Just saw the latest commercial for the WD My Cloud and it centers around what looks to me like an Eichler home.

Books

I picked up a couple books on Eichler houses from Amazon.com.

Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream

Eichler Homes: Design for Living

Plans - original vs updated

I've been chatting with my builder more about costs and stuff. There's only so much we can do without the actual plans but the estimate is still coming in a lot higher than I want it to be. We may end up building in North Carolina instead of Virginia to save some money on construction costs.

I also got a quote for all the glass from Palo Alto Glass. To do the entire house the glass cost is around $60k. Glass is very expensive. That's my new motto.

Also the builder said he'd rather work with the original Eichler plans than the updated plans because the updated plans are for building in California and apparently there are a lot of additional considerations when building a home in Virginia like snow loads and such. His thinking is we might as well start from scratch with the original plans.

I've been working with the very kind and helpful Monique Lombardelli of Modern Homes Realty for the updated plans we wanted to purchase. I'm trying to find out if I can get a copy of the original unaltered historical plans from her. Fingers crossed!

Today I spoke with a local builder at length about the project. The numbers are looking pretty high right now. Hopefully once he actually sees the plans and does his calculations the numbers can come down a bit. He did say to just go ahead and order the plans which are currently drawn up for California building codes and he would update them for Virginia building codes.