With All Your Faults I Love You Still
With All Your Faults I Love You Still (to the tune of “It Had to be You”) All things Eichler! I knew when I downsized, I wanted to again live in a quintessential mid-century home. And………..voila! there was an Eichler townhouse available! This complex has the only Eichler townhouses he ever built. I had lived in an Eichler single family home before moving to a pre-war home close to my son’s school. The plaster walls and hardwood floors in a home on a tree-lined street had its charm, however it wasn’t my true love. For those of you who don’t know about Joseph Eichler, he came from he east coast and was actually a “butter and egg” man working for his father-in-law. He landed in Burlingame, renting a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It took no time for Joe to conclude that “indoor/outdoor” California living was far superior to living in boring traditional boxes. No training in architecture nor design, but he was creative. He hired the best architects. And the “Eich...