The Beginning

The “Farmette” project started back in 2015 when I wrote to the listed owner of 5813 Bellona in SDAT. My wife and I lived around the corner at that time and walked by the house imagining the owner was sunning somewhere on a warm beach.

That wasn’t the case, however. I soon found out that the house was very much occupied. After a bumpy introduction lasting about 10 minutes when Rebecca called and yelled at me non-stop, we found we had a shared love of movies and that created a bond between us.

Here is the house around that time

Farmette circa 2017

It took a while but we got the house uncovered. No sooner did we than the city required us to paint it.

Initially the idea was to take it down, but I soon found that doing something like that in the city is not easy to do.

And so, here it is, with a fresh coat of paint.

Freshly painted