Comments on: before & after: jeremy’s eagle rock reno

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:38:14 +0000

Why? Why? Would you buy a beautiful old bungalo filled with charm and history and turn it into something with out a heart.
It should have been restored alterted. If you wanted to do modern then why not buy a 50′s ranch style house and update it.

By: Sky

Sky — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:23:38 +0000

Gorgeous!!! You have done the Rock well, and we all appreciate your efforts. Can you come over to my house and help?

By: aisa

aisa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:18:06 +0000

i love this house. i want to make an exact duplicate!

By: Sus

Sus — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:22:18 +0000

I grew up in Eagle Rock during the ’80s and ’90s and have recently returned to the area after several years away. For people saying the NYTimes article is b.s., I have to disagree with you. Eagle Rock was a major dump of a town 20 and even 10 years ago. It may have been earthy and working class or whatever, but there were no good restaurants, nowhere to shop besides the hardware stores (which I actually really love and still patronize) and the Eagle Rock Plaza. It was basically a great place to live if you never wanted to leave your home. Coming back, I was shocked at how much cooler and more livable it was. There were suddenly good restaurants like Fatty’s and cute shops like Regeneration. The Plaza is still awful, but at least it has a Target. It isn’t a booming hipster sanctuary (and I don’t think that’s what the article was saying it was), but it had come a LONG way. It is a bummer that a lot of those cool new places are being hit so hard by the recession. I really hope it can keep some of its good new businesses.
Regarding this house, there are a lot of crappy stucco houses in Eagle Rock with a lot of hodge-podgey 1980s “updates” and very little in the way of “character.” That’s what this looks like to me … the after is amazing and a definite improvement. Though I am scratching my head over the 400-sf measurement. I’d like to see a before and after floorplan.

By: Food Woolf

Food Woolf — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:01:36 +0000

Holy moly! What a renovation! I like the open floor plan that was created…But I have to ask, how much would a revamp like that cost? That couldn’t have been a cheap overhaul.

By: jade

jade — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:42:21 +0000

i hate it. they ruined the original house, like so many have said.
this is not progress. this is destruction and it does look like a prison.