It started so small, a tour on a whim, seeing the market overprice “tear-downs” in a neighborhood we loved and endless searching for a little bit of modern in this Western town. It’s in this way, with small steps like these, that our journey to build a house in Denver began.
We heard from people who have experience with this sort of thing that making all of the pre-construction decisions is the hardest part. We actually had no problem knowing what we wanted; it was finding room in the budget for what we wanted that was the problem!
Now we are getting very close to the first day when our dusty lot will become a home. As the neighborhood sprouts up around us we also wanted to document what it looks like now. Kind of like those black and white pictures you see at the State Fair of old streetscapes from years back with trolley cars and women in long dresses.
See below for some vistas of our Stapleton neighborhood, Central Park West, before the masses arrive!
Our block! Five houses will go in a tidy row, we are the second lot from the corner.
The view of our block from the west end. You can barely see the old control tower in the center distance from when this land was an airport.
Our lot! There will be an alley between the garages you see and ours.
The corner intersection. Google Maps actually calls it 32nd Avenue Parkway so we'll have to figure that out.
The next block down, also yet to be filled with homes.
The panorama from the nearby Central Park (New Yorkers: don't laugh!)
So here you can see the control tower and the parkway on the right side of the picture leads to our block. In the background is downtown Denver with a lovely mountain backdrop.
Another nearby park which we'll walk along to reach the shops and restaurants nearby.
Finally, the end goal! This is our neighbor's house which ours will look like.
Signing off until the next step...
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