Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss and his wife of three years, Svetlana, bought a 4,830-square-foot "fixer" house in Encinitas last year. They are now preparing to renovate the 1970s structure with state-of-the-art technologies to save energy and water.
San Diego Gas & Electric has chosen the innovative renovation project as one of three case studies so far for its countywide Advanced Home program.
With mud-colored shag carpeting, nondescript shingled roof and a too-small swimming pool partially full of green muck, it hardly qualifies as a dream house.
The Dreyfusses plan to strip it down to its studs and beams, then build it up with technology, such as computer-monitored solar panels and foil insulation, in the hope of generating its energy on site and minimizing water use.
Cutting the electric bill to zero won't be easy for a home that will include a new guesthouse, a trellis of grapevines and a Jacuzzi the size of a swimming pool with heated waterfalls.
There will be a two-story library for Dreyfuss'15,000-volume book collection, with a hidden panel leading to a secret room. The renovation also will add a master bedroom and bath, and private offices, making it a total of 6,000 square feet.
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SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
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