TOH in da house!
Three days after we signed our purchase and sale, we got the following mail from a friend:
“This Old House is eagerly looking for a homeowner, in Boston or the surrounding suburbs, who is about to embark on a major renovation of a house ready to start work in the next few months. The house should be a pre-1950’s structure with an eager homeowner.”
We responded with a link to our home, and 24 hours later I outlined our bigger vision to Tom Silva and the production team, Jeff Ruhe, Deborah Hood, and David Vos. They liked what they saw but wanted to meet Maddy and Treff.
So two days later, everyone was back, along with Richard Trethewey, to meet us and to listen to our vision.
Treff outlined some of the key elements of our design that would
convert the home, and plus walked
approval process. The following week we saw what a great job TOH did with George Mabry’s home in Cambridge, where we additionally met Roger Cook.
We realized that was a great opportunity to do a more significant
renovation, get great quality work done on instance, and leverage the
team’s expertise for great ideas and the latest technology.
All we had to do was buy and sell houses two months earlier than
expected, arrange our finances to do a much more significant project,
find a place to live, complete the plans and move!
It was not easy, but as fate would have it, we found a buyer who
wanted our home earlier, an apartment down the street from school, and
all the other pieces fell in place. Right place, right moment, and we
were off to the races!
Original post by Paul Friedberg
