A lot has happened in the 11+ years since the last Koi Garden post.

We have sold the Seattle house with the Koi pond and moved to an alternate home that needs work.  It is actually almost exactly one year since starting moving into this new house.  It has been a full year of effort & fun.

The idea of a Koi Garden from the previous house remains, and this house has provided the opportunity to expand the thinking from the Koi pond to the whole house along with a technology and knowledge upgrade.

Previously, our focus was exclusively on the Koi Garden.  But this expansion of the Koi Garden blog will be broader than before.  The focus of this version will be the entire house and the garden.  Sort of a view of how the Koi Garden Guy, leveraging all we have learned from the original Koi Garden, would modify and update the house. 

The house we chose is not a new house.  It was not built to our needs or picked off an architect's or builder's offer sheet.  It is a 1985 2400ft2 house that has been minimally updated, if at all, in its whole life.  There are many things we want to do from a modernization, efficiency and just livability point of view.  

It will be using the basis of "How would the Koi Garden Guy change this?".

It will be fun.