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VIDEO: CSA in Sunnyvale CA – How It Works & What You Get

October 20, 2010 By The Look Team 2 Comments

This is the first video in a series The Listing Look (Silicon Valley realtor professionals) is working on called “What The Look Team Loves About The Silicon Valley.” In this video we feature a local CSA (Full Circle Farm) in Sunnyvale CA and Kelsey Lane walks you through what it is, and what a membership gets you. To go with the video, here’s a bit of what Full Circle Farm has accomplished in the last year & what they are hoping to do in 2011:

Grew 50,000 lbs. of produce and donated over 12,000 lbs. to local safety net organizations
Delivered “farm fresh” produce to SCUSD for the children’s lunch program and 100’s of CSA members and Farm Stand customers
Hosted over 3,000 local friends and family at their Earth Day Fest, Harvest Feast and Halloween Hoedown celebrations
Worked with over 1,500 volunteers in their Education Garden
Provided 1,500 kids from across the Bay Area with educational field trips and tours
Taught garden-based education to all 700 sixth and seventh graders at Peterson Middle School in Sunnyvale CA, and recently connected with the eighth grade Culinary Arts students
Provided workshops on everything from gardening and composting to chicken care, bee keeping and cobb building to our community

Their goals for 2011:

Build an outdoor Education Kitchen
Plant an Edible Landscaped Fence Row
Build a wheel-chair accessible raised bed garden
Construct a 2nd chicken coop – for their Student Garden
Create a “Play in Nature” zone
Design and plant a Cultural Diversity Education Garden

For more information, please visit www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org

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Remodeling Construction Techniques: Ideas from a Friend’s Listing, a Sunnyvale house

October 5, 2010 By Kelsey Lane 4 Comments

We loved the doors in this Sunnyvale house!

Sunnyvale house features remodeling construction idea for getting your house ready to sell

I was really impressed by what they did with this Sunnyvale house. I loved these interior doors! One of my Realtor friends has this listing and I loved how they had prepared the home to go on the market. I found these doors to be particularly exciting from a remodeling construction standpoint –typically what you will find are either flat interior doors or the 6-panel type. The style of these is 2-panel, with beadboard insets. I am such a huge fan of beadboard that they actually elevated my heart rate a bit! Thinking outside the box and choosing some unique materials when you are doing remodeling construction or getting your house ready to sell is definitely the way to go. Check these out. They can be purchased at Lowe’s, found online by doing a search for “2-panel interior door”–or ask a contractor (we have a list of recommended remodeling construction contractors).

Love how different these inexpensive doors are!

Two panel interior door and closet doors with beadboard

Closer up view of interesting two-panel doors with beadboard, Sunnyvale house

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Sunnyvale house in Birdland area gets pre-housing market makeover

July 29, 2010 By Kelsey Lane 3 Comments

AFTER: Nuthatch Sunnyvale house- Front Exterior

This Sunnyvale house, a Lindsay-built home in Birdland is a perfect example of a good, solid house that needed to re-invent itself before going on the housing market. Getting your house ready to sell is completely different from actually living in a home. So, there’s usually tweaking to be done – our Silicon Valley realtor team puts together a list of recommended changes and then our clients authorize how much they want to spend for the home selling process. We take it from there and manage the budget, the project, and the construction contractors. In this case, we did oversee the painting, new tile entry, new granite in the kitchen, new lighting, and a gorgeous tiled shower enclosure in the master bath. We got bids and then stayed on top of the construction contractors throughout the process. Plus, we also coordinated the cleaning, inspections, powerwashing, window-washing, and carpet cleaning. Check back in a few weeks and we’ll have the full before-after story of the house. For now, take a peek at the “end product” and let your friends and family know this Sunnyvale house is for sale! It’s $839,000 and has Laurelwood Elementary and Peterson Middle School.

Related Links:
MLS Property Report for 1540 Nuthatch Lane, Sunnyvale CA