House quandary

Yesterday afternoon we walked again into one of these realtors open-house, as we often do. The one we saw that time was built in 1981 and was still in its original state, wear and tear excepted. This meant that it was frozen in time in terms of style and a nightmare in terms of what to do with it. The key question was an alternative between leaving it the way it was, remodeling it or tearing it down. The problem is with a price tag of $589,000 none of these second and third options is affordable. Short of not selling the home, the solution is to lower the price to no less than $400,000, but ideally $300,000.

The eighties-style contemporary design of the residence comes with an atrium with a large skylight area, a no-no in our harsh mountain environment, and unrelated to it, the home has no views. This dual liability can be turned on its feet by redesigning the exterior shape of the atrium and “capturing” the views, a great creative idea of mine that I can explain to those interested... Yes, there's a solution to every problem, even the diciest ones!