Now I find myself in a similar situation to Ken and Michael. We'll be neighbors. I won't be in Portland but just across the river in Ridgefield, WA. Our home is swarming with contractors as we pack up our California home, which we've sold. The new home has an area that will be a coffee bar. It's across from the kitchen and formal dining room.



It already has a water line and an electrical circuit, although I guess it will need more electrical than this.



There's a laundry room behind it that will shrink, but it needs space. I expect we'll move the wall back about a foot and the coffee gear will sit against the wall. That's where I'll plumb in the Conti Prestina and install a 240v outlet for the Caravel and who knows what else in the future? The counter will be black granite to match the kitchen.

We have our own well water, and there's so much scale we can see it in the bathroom faucets. I'm now contacting people who can test our water and recommend a right-sized system, one that sufficiently purifies our drinking water and the espresso machine water supply; we'll have to see what's needed for the whole house.

Here's the hallway with the kitchen to the right.



This is the kitchen.



It gets better. My North TJ-067 1 Kg propane roaster will live in here, where there's already a workshop for doing restorations. There may be some shop equipment in my future.



We won't start on the coffee bar project until we're actually living there, but for sure I'll be asking your advice and meeting fellow Portland area coffee hobbyists. I also plan to host some get-togethers.

Maybe we can host you for a Portland area coffee crawl and a roasting workshop. Just let us know. The house will have a guest bedroom and there's a large office and guest space on the second floor of that outbuilding.

We loaded up, roaster and all. This is our wonderful mover Stu Miller about to put the North TJ-067 onto the large shipping container that's on its way up here. He packed it tight so it's held as firmly as if it's crated.



He's about six feet tall and all of 165 lbs, but able to pull feats like this. He just picked up our washing machine and carried it over to the trailer.



We've finally arrived in WA after two days' drive towing a large trailer behind my new Forester. It was a long journey through amazing scenery and some hairy mountain passes we shared with large trucks. Now that we've unpacked our first kitchen boxes, here's my "basic" setup. My vintage machines all were in tow and will be set up again when their display area is built out. But now it feels like we're home.



We're in a small area of very nice houses but have moved from a tight-packed development into this neighborhood.* Life here will be different. We love it!




* Photo is courtesy of our friend and traveling companion, Louella Santobello.