Lovermore

Rich and I had talked for some time about wanting to create a community home where we could host events and parties, both our own and other people’s. We wanted this home to be a place of higher consciousness, healing, energy, and love.

One day after I had moved into Rich’s rental house in Livermore, Rich was texting me. I don’t remember what the text conversation was about, but it was something mundane. In one of his texts he mis-spelled Livermore as Lovermore. He noticed it, but let the mis-spelling go as we are all lax about spelling via text. But as soon as I saw the word Lovermore in his text, I knew it was something special. It immediately hit me that Lovermore should be the name of our new home! It’s the perfect combination of Love and Livermore, which is what we’re about.

When I told this story to my Feng Shui consultant, Linda Lenore, she responded, “Get the URL!” Great thinking! I snapped up lovermore.org even before I made an offer on the house.

We took possession of Lovermore yesterday! Besides being the primary residence for me, my partner Rich, and my son Connor (with regular visits from my younger son, Nicholas), it will also be Rich’s office for his business. But most importantly, Rich and I intend that it will be a community home dedicated to our mission which is to spread the universal energy of love to all mankind.

We don’t know exactly how this will manifest. We do envision holding parties and events, hosted by ourselves or others, and being a place where friends can drop by and hang out and share. We want it to be a gathering place for people who are likewise interested in building a community of spiritually aware, sex-positive people, dedicated to making the world better, both on this plane and the next.

The house itself has a lot of potential but needs some updating to really bring our her full potential. I liken it to an attractive girl with a self-confidence problem, wearing her hair in her eyes! With a haircut, a little makeup, some well-fitting clothes, and a good dose of loving confidence she will really shine. It’s the same way with this house. There are trees and shrubs in the front yard that seem to me to block the energy going into the house. Now I’m not a Feng Shui expert, but fortunately I will be working with one. More on that later.

As for our plans for the house, here are the things we are currently planning on doing. It will be interesting to compare this to what we actually do.

Remove small trees blocking entrance to the house and blocking exterior light
Raise the canopy of the redwood trees in the front yard (so the house is more visible from the street)
Add exterior walkway lighting
Install nice address curb sign
Commission a custom wood carving that says Welcome to Lovermore and includes symbols important to us
Remove upper kitchen cabinets between kitchen and family room, also between kitchen and breakfast nook
Install one new kitchen cabinet bar-height with microwave oven, install raised granite bar
Reface all kitchen cabinets with shaker-style beech (or is it birch) wood doors with a medium red-brown stain called cider
Replace wine lattice in bar area with wine refrigerator
Install crown molding throughout
Paint interior (color on walls, white on trim only!)
Reface white brick fireplace, maybe paint grey fireplace insert, new mantle
New and replacement lighting fixtures including efficient LED lighting and automated controls
Install solar PV on the roof
Install solar hot water heater for the pool
Build shade structure over deck, possibly including fans and portable heaters
Buy furniture for family room and outdoors
Install hanging porch swing under pergola

Whew, that seems like a lot! We certainly do have a lot to do but Rich and I are both really excited about making this into our dream home.

How the name “Lovermore” came to be

It’s Ours!