4460 Bodega Avenue came to fruition in 2005 when I decided to build on what had been part of our family egg ranch from 1949 until Dad closed his business,“The Eggery”, in 1980: traffic to the Pacific Coast slowed during the gasoline shortage. Planning and building this very special home was no small feat. I had three, two hundred foot long chicken cage houses bulldozed in preparation for its planning, cage by cage. Three 200’ long x 3’ thick concrete pathways through the middle of each cage house were busted and hauled away for grinding. Lath panels that hung the length of each cage house on both sides were unhinged and stacked, corrugated aluminum roofing, steel water troughs and v-shaped aluminum feed troughs were disassembled and removed. I had perk tests done, pulled permits with the county, a 265’ deep well was drilled, the property graded and the driveway rolled and laid with base rock and then road rock: I laid out water hose delineating the rooms, moving the hose and measuring to perfect the layout, “walking through”, feeling the imagined spaces. I sat in a folding chair in the field and moved facing different directions to determine the angle of the house: I looked at all views: Sunrise to the east out the back sliding glass door and picture window, spectacular sunsets to the west.
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