This Old House
Our "New" old house with a fresh coat of paint! We moved to our Colfax property in January 1977. We began looking for Placer County foothill property some months earlier. We wanted a house on a few acres and had looked at a couple of properties with a realtor before making an offer on this one. We had made a previous offer on another property not too far away, but someone had out bid us. That property was referred to as an oak woodland. I remember when our realtor called us about the one we did buy, she referred to it as an "old" farmhouse situated in a pine woodland on 4 acres. The house had just two bedrooms, and we already had three children at the time, but there was plenty of room to add on to the house that was originally built in the 1940s, and had already been added on to to a couple of times. In 1981 we were in the process of adding a large upstairs bedroom when on August 1, a fire originating near the hot water heater quickly burned the "old&quo