Descanso Gardens

With the summer season quickly approaching, it's time to start thinking about outdoor living spaces and gardens.  If you happen to be in the Southern California area, one place to check out for some great ideas and inspiration is the Descanso Gardens.  Of course, it's hard to compete with 150 acres of land; nonetheless there are pockets of small garden settings that would be fitting for a more modest-sized home.

Here are some ideas we liked:

Stuccoed Column Entrance with Exposed Brick and rough-hewn lumber on top for the trellis.  This would look great as an entrance into a garden.

Simple wood garden bench with canopy. 

Railroad ties as a garden bed border.

Another idea for a garden bed border - rough sticks tied together.

Cemented river rock for a patio. 

Iconic red Japanese bridge.  Perfect for Japanese-themed garden settings.

Also, the original mansion that the founder of Descanso Gardens built back in the 1930s showcases fine regency-styled architecture.  Here are a few pictures of the front and side of the mansion.  Just love the elaborate fretwork framing the side entrance and the arbor!

Good Home Construction, CA Lic. #852240 333 El Camino Real, #101, Tustin, CA 92780 714-743-5053 info@goodhomeconstruction.com www.goodhomeconstruction.com

2010 Anaheim Beautiful Award for Historic Preservation

Congratulations to our clients who recently won the 2010 Anaheim Beautiful Award for Historic Preservation.  When they purchased their classic 1920's California bungalow a few years back, the original siding had been stuccoed over, all the pillars had been removed and replaced with 1970's brick columns, and a 1980's-era wood door with a fan-shaped window served as the front door.

Photo Taken Circa 1970s

Since then, we have helped their preservation goals by reconstructing the exterior with wood pillars, concrete bases and caps, replaced missing cedar shingle siding to match what was original there (hiding under the stucco), constructed wood screens for the doors and windows, and reconstructed the front door window to have a period-appropriate look.

Luckily these efforts have not gone unnoticed.  Neighbors and community members had voted for their house to win this year's prestigious award.


To see more pictures of the exterior work we have done on this house, click HERE to go to the previous post.


Good Home Construction, CA Lic. #852240 333 El Camino Real, #101, Tustin, CA 92780 714-743-5053 info@goodhomeconstruction.com www.goodhomeconstruction.com

Room Addition for a 1940's Bungalow

Here are some Before and After pictures of a room addition at the back of a 1940's bungalow we recently completed (see previous post).  This room addition included a cathedral shiplap ceiling, warm natural slate floors, built-in coat closet, laundry center, and water heater closet, and skylights to allow more natural sunlight to filter in.

BEFORE and DURING Pictures of the Room Addition

This is what the bungalow looked like before, without the addition in the back.

Here's one of our crew members breaking up the existing concrete pad.

Here's the new concrete foundation being poured.

Here's the framing going up.

Almost at the finish line - drywall and painting almost complete.

AFTER Pictures of the Room Addition

To see more work we've done, click here to go to Good Home Construction's blog site.

Good Home Construction, CA Lic. #852240
333 El Camino Real, #101, Tustin, CA 92780
714-743-5053
info@goodhomeconstruction.com
www.goodhomeconstruction.com

Concrete Driveway with Brick Herringbone Center Strip

Just completed!  A new concrete driveway with a brick herringbone pattern ribbon strip down the center of the driveway and a brick side door step for an adorable vintage home in Floral Park.  The driveway came close to a whopping 90 ft.

Below are a few IN PROGRESS and AFTER pictures.

A few IN PROGRESS Pictures 

A few AFTER Pictures
(concrete is still curing)

To see more exterior work we've done, click here to go to the Exterior under the Project Photos section.

Good Home Construction, CA Lic. #852240
333 El Camino Real, #101, Tustin, CA 92780
714-743-5053
inf@goodhomeconstruction.com
www.goodhomeconstruction.com

Room Addition in Progress

Happy Thanksgiving to all!! We have so much to be thankful for this year - in spite of a continuing downward trend in construction and a future of uncertainty for all, we have been blessed with great projects, wonderful clients, and slow but steady growth.

These last few months, we've been busy wrapping up a couple of projects, one of which is a room addition to the back of our clients' home.

Here are a few sneak peeks below...check back for final pictures once the addition is completed:







To see more of our work, go to goodhomeconstruction.blogspot.com.

1940s Bungalow Renovation

We recently had the wonderful opportunity to work on a classic 1940's bungalow. This bungalow has been in the same family since 1946 (see Deed of Trust dated 1946 in the office picture below), and our scope of work encompassed renovating the kitchen and bathroom, restoring the original hardwood floors, updating the baseboards, installing a new front door and building custom hallway cabinet doors to match the original.

The homeowner was very instrumental in the whole renovation process, picking out the right paint colors and doing all the interior painting (what a great job!), and adding special mementos that display some of her family life and history, making this bungalow a very special place.

Below are a few pictures of the front of the house, living room, office and hallway. More pictures of the bathroom and kitchen will be forthcoming...

Front of House

Front of House with New Front Door

Homeowner Edie and Sadie in Front of House

Living Room - View Towards New Front Door

Living Room with Refinished Hardwood Floors

Office/Back Bedroom with Refinished Hardwood Floors and New Baseboards

Close Up of Desk with Deed Of Trust Dated 1946

Hallway Closet Doors - BEFORE

Hallway Closet Doors - AFTER (to match the original Shaker-style cabinets above)


To see more interior work we've done, click here to go to Interiors under the Project Photos section.