Inside Antioch homes
This city grew fast and in one direction. Everything south of the freeway, out past Deer Valley and Lone Tree and the streets behind Prewett Family Water Park, was grazing land in 1988 and is now thousands of two-story houses on curving streets, built to four or five repeating plans. Once a crew has done one, the next one moves quickly, and that shows up in what we charge.
North of the freeway is the older city. Rivertown near the water has small single-story houses from the 1940s and 1950s, some beautifully kept, some carrying eighty years of paint on the trim. Heat is what connects both halves. From June to September the air conditioning runs day and night, filters load up, and the dry ground out toward Black Diamond Mines sends a persistent gray powder onto sills, ceiling fans and the top edge of every door.
The housing stock in Antioch
The modal home is a 1995 to 2006 two-story with four bedrooms, a loft, tile downstairs, carpet upstairs and a slab underneath, running 1,900 to 2,800 square feet. Those clean predictably, though the staircase and the upstairs laundry add time. The river-side stock is another animal entirely: 1,000 to 1,400 square feet, single level, frequently with a converted garage and original mid-century bathroom tile that wants a gentler product than a modern surface would tolerate.