Losing our view of the Bay Bridge

First things first:

File this under: "First World Problems". I know there are much worse problems to have than this.

That being said...

Sadly, we are about to lose our wonderful view of the Bay Bridge from our bedroom.

We knew this was coming. There's a house behind us which has been in disrepair for many years. When we bought our house, we knew that someday (probably soon) someone would buy that house and renovate it, and that the renovation would likely extend the house to it's furthest point, which would block our view.

...and it's happening now.

They demoed the top floor a couple of weeks ago, and have been building the framing for the last two weeks. At first, I was very optimistic that the back part of the house would have a lower roof line than the rest. If this were to happen, we'd be golden. Up until this morning, that looked like what might happen. They had been building up the peaked roof frame all the way from the front to the back 3/4 of the house. The part that was in the back had a slightly shorter wall height, and I was hopeful that perhaps that meant that the peaked roof wouldn't go all the way back.


here's a photo from last year showing the house in disrepair. It's the house close to the right side, just to the left of the blue house. You can see there was an uncovered floor, with no roof above it. This is what I was hoping may be built with a lower roof.


A photo I took this morning. You can see how the rest of the peaked roof is framed out, but not going all the way back. You can also see that their neighbor, two doors down to our right, has a room in the back of their house that has a lower roof than the rest of the house. This is how I was hoping it would be.


Alas, this went up around Noon today. Suddenly, the frame for the back of the house was put up, peaked roof and all

Luckily, it doesn't block out quite as much of our view as I thought it would. We can still see two of the Bay Bridge towers, which is certainly better than nothing.

Again, there are worse problems. I'm just a little bummed to lose that view.

In case you're wondering: in San Francisco, you don't have any rights to views, which I totally understand and agree with.

We were lucky to have that view for a couple of years. :)