Great work and smart investment concept…Bravo!
Boxed in, he crafts house that stacks up nicely
By Edie Lau - Bee Staff Writer
Published 12:00 am PST Monday, January 1, 2007
From a second-story window in his brand-new house, Milton Carlson is so close to traffic climbing a Highway 50 overpass that he can see faces of drivers as they speed by.
Someone else might reject the scene; not Carlson.
"I like it!" the trim 63-year-old man says with an emphatic grin. "It's kind of like activity is going by all the time. ... You feel like you're centered where something is happening."
Besides freeway traffic, something else is happening in this peculiar space near east Sacramento -- something of Carlson's doing.
He's built a house in an impossible spot: a triangular lot backed against a Caltrans maintenance yard and under the nose of a congested freeway.
With this house, the retired structural designer is helping to give life to the concept of environmental efficiency.
"Infill gone bonkers" is what Carlson cheerfully calls it.
"I'm looking for odd-shaped lots that nobody else wants, and make them work!" he says.
