 Restoration and improvement projects  Summer 2014
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 Winter 2015 Plastic tub/shower enclosure in guest bathroom replaced with Mexican Talavera tile 
Weathered adobe steps on West side of house Satillo tiled
Summer 2015 Front door landing and planter re-tiled with Mexican Talavera accent tile (plain terracotta tile removed)
Rotted redwood and glass deck rail replaced with properly flashed rustic treated-wood deck rail, with hot galvanized cable and hardware
Fall 2015 Mexican Talavera tile added to bricked-in courtyard window (The other side of this feature frames the master bedroom's bed headboard)
Winter 2016 Waterwise garden, Baja cresta red-rock edging, and compacted decomposed granite pathway added in West yard. (turf replacement) Landscaping and sprinklers moved away from adobe retaining wall.
Summer 2016 West retaining wall and steps coated with "Mission style adobe plaster"
Plastering the steps was like icing a six layer chocolate cake
21 custom tiles by a local Escondido Artist adorn the wall, depicting all the wild animals seen in our yard
tiles set on the scratch coat
The BEFORE pictures, showing slow erosion of bricks from previous owner's sprinklers spray on wall and steps
More restoration, Fall 2017: A formed concrete gutter was cut into the courtyard's Satillo tile, to prevent rainwater
It's the little things like this that must be done to preserve the long term integrity
of the home's adobe bricks
Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 Eroding courtyard walls plastered with a thin, brushed on coating of Masterseal 581 (A cement based product)
The exposed concrete foundation of the house, and the first two courses of adobes were also painted, to protect against long term "rainwater bounce" erosion
Winter 2019
Replaced old, termite eaten fence with Redwood picket and pressure treated beam fence. Flipped the pickets on the beams and added a middle beam. Stained with a semi transparent stain. Added planter mounts and wrought iron plant hangers  Old fence  Summer 2019 Stripped and repainted the Adobe wall master bath shower with proper pool paint, and retiled the floor.
Before pictures below showning old latex paint and stained/uncleanable grout.
Winter 2020 New Mission tile roof (This was too big of a job to do myself.)
The old roof was a mess (see below)
I rebuilt the turret top masonry, and did the finish Talavera tile work. The roofer did the flashing and turret inside membrane. After the old tile was stripped, I took off the old adobes. A guy drove all the way from Anza Borrego to get them! Note how there was no flashing. This was a source of leaks.
On goes a slump block course.
And the tourch down.
And the flashing and Talavera tile.
Setting the bullnose tile on my 63rd birthday
Finished! All that for only $700. Amazing how huch you can save when you do your own work. The bulls are for good luck and prosperity (it's a Cuzco, Peru tradition).
The drain detail inside the turret floor. Other pipes are: gas heater stack, gas water heater stack, gas pipe in, drain vent, and a/c lines (not shown).
Spring 2020 Shoring up a graden wall with a concrete and re-bar buttress wall. Vertical pipes were driven 3' into soil.
Winter 2021 Added a dual faucet basin in the master bath
Spring 2021 Faux Black Walnut stained garage doors
Summer 2021 Larger Guadalajara wrought blown glass & iron lamp installed over front door, Tijuana iron lamp moved to back balcony
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