285 Martin Drive On The Home Stretch It has been a month since I last posted about 285 Martin Drive. Why? WAY too busy! At the end of July I began the unenviable task of packing up the current digs in Longmont. There was 2000 square feet of Mark’s and my stuff, 18 months of …
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Boulder New Construction gets Waterproof Hat! Well poo! The weather guessers are calling for copious quantities of rain, a wee bit of snow and general crappiness for the rest of the week. Sure, we might get a little reprise over the weekend but sandwiching it, we are expecting clouds and grayness for the next 5 …
Martin Acres Pop-Top with View – That’s the goal! It was a dripping, snowy, cold and miserable weekend. Tarps did their thing but inevitably, water got into the house. I arrived Monday morning to find Joe in charge of carrying water. Just when he thought transporting water by the bucket was a third world country …
Martin Drive Pop-Top Gets New Walls! A quick walk around the house this past weekend revealed that framing had indeed begun. “Walls” were laying around everywhere, in anticipation of being stood up pretty soon. Then voila! Monday I was driving by incidentally when I noticed a hole torn in the roof. Just like that, Storm Form …
285 Martin Drive: A Slice of Martin Acres History Hot on the heels of announcing my pop-top plans, I thought I’d take a moment to walk down Memory Lane; revisiting the projects, improvements and changes that 285 Martin Dr has undergone in the last 60+ years. 285 Martin Drive was built in 1955 and the owners …