As Icarus found out the sun is a powerful source of energy. And so from the beginning we intended to have a renewable energy source and as most of you know we started the process of clearing land to make space for a large array a while ago (look at this […]
On June 20, Ramon and I attended a TAC (Technical Assistance Committee) meeting with the El Dorado Planning Department. This was the next step in our process to obtain a special use permit for Reverie Retreat. The way it was supposed to unfold is that each department would present their requirements for
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As Tamara mentioned in our last blog entry we are busy planning the expansion of Reverie. One of the first things that we both feel is needed is an alternative energy system and so we have decided that solar is a priority. As some of you have seen while at Reverie we
As happy as I am with the colder weather and rain it has halted the progress on renovating the guest house somewhat. But I have been able to make some headway. I have been able to finish almost 2 sides of the house with the custom siding that I create as I’m working on it
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Before the rain started we (my dad and I) were able to finish putting “tarpaper” on the building to prevent water from getting to the frame of the building. We received the wood we purchased from which we are going to make the new siding and chose some different stain colors to give the
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A bit of news this week: we finally, FINALLY, submitted our application to the County of Eldorado for our special use permit for Reverie Retreat. The day we submitted it, October 9, was almost three years to the day that we first met with county planning staff while we were in escrow on the Reverie
Slowly but surely we are really starting to create the Reverie we are envisioning. And so we decided to renovate the guest cottage on the property. This is not just necessary due to a bug in the siding and so that we have a better place for our friends and family to stay when they
We’ve had some difficult decisions to make lately. To raise the capital we need to develop Reverie, we were trying to refinance the Spanish Flat property on which Reverie Retreat is situated. After going through an inordinate number of hoops and getting right down to the wire, we were told by the lender that they
We have to submit designs for cabins as part of our permit application to the County, so Ramon and I have been scouring the internet and ogling design magazines to find cabins we like *and* think we could build (or at least that *he* thinks he can build – I’m not particularly useful in that
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As many of you know, one of the big projects Reverie completed this year was having the area leveled, which is now home to our fire pit. What was once a lumpy hillside amazingly transformed into the perfect place to host meals and gatherings with the help of bulldozers, backhoes, and men stacking huge
5760 Spanish Flat Rd
Garden Valley, CA 95633
