"Sycamore House" is an ongoing renovation project built around blighted property acquisition methods, hands-on construction education, phased construction, and salvaged materials. The end goal for the house is mixed-use public meeting space (library/classroom, bicycle workshop, music practice space and instrument/sound equipment repair workshop) on one side of the first floor, with the remainder of the building serving as collective-living residences. Alternative property acquisition methods relying on less capital than traditional home purchases have allowed residents and participants at Sycamore House to directly shape the space they inhabit through work-trade relationships and "sweat equity".
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| screen security door with leaf-themed decoration constructed out of 100% salvaged material. |
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| Rear corner of the house had fallen onto neighbor's property during Hurricane Katrina and had to be rebuilt. This repair coincided with Warren Easton High School's renovation, turning an little-used outdoor walkway into a screen porch as over 300 square feet of large, historic, well-conditioned screens were rescued from the Warren Easton's waste stream. |