Joyce's Home Sweet Home

“What's to discuss, old friends?”  

Time to give back. 

Do we really need to talk? Joyce Murray and the home her father built in 1945  need our HELP.  If you don't know Joyce, we should remedy that. If you do, you know that Joyce is a force of nature, a selfless blaze of happiness and boundless energy.

If there's someone ailing, someone struggling,  in our theater community, Joyce is keeping an eye on them. She's seen every show, she knows everyone, if there's somebody you haven't seen in 15 years, she can find them in her amazing Little Black Book.  She has impeccable comic timing. She sends handwritten thank you notes. 

And she has been dealing with a daunting challenge all by herself.  Her little house has come on hard times. It needs a lot of TLC. We need money. We need people. We need people to paint and spackle, people to contribute, people to find supplies, people to brainstorm and network, to cheer us on, spread the word, and then some more people to paint and spackle.

A GoFundMe page is about raising cash, and the list below will give you some idea of where it'll go: doors, paint, plumbing, drapes, tile. We need people too.  Whatever your interest,  please join Joyce's Home Sweet Home FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/JAMhome/

For all she has given to her friends and to her theater community, we launch this GoFundMe page to cover the material and labor to lovingly restore her childhood home.

The plan is to start with the projects we can do ourselves to make the house safe and comfortable. We'll do 4 work calls over a couple of weekends and then see where we can go from there.

Phase 1 is prepping and painting.  Move furniture, put down drop cloths, scrape paint, sand, patch cracks in the sheetrock, replace sheetrock if necessary, give the whole place a good coat of Kilz. This might be 2 or 3 work calls. 

Someone works with Joyce to come up with a plan and a budget for new drapes/blinds/shades for 10 windows, and then you go shopping.

Install drapes/blinds/shades

Replace front door and lockset, install a peep hole for someone 4'10"

Install security doors, back and front.

Replace tileboard in the bathroom. (It's plastic, grooved to look like tile.)

Install a window A/C unit. (Project claimed by Mike Lopez)

Phase 1 Project for which we might need a professional:

Install a pedestal sink in the bathroom and resolve whatever caused the previous sink to fall off the wall.

Phase 2 Projects

Paint the rooms

Tile the bathroom and kitchen floors. (Professional?)

Bonus projects, Skills Division: 

1) repaint the front of the house. (It's tiny.) 2) install a backsplash in the kitchen

Bonus Projects, $$$$ Division: 1) Install a shower and 2) replace the electrical panel, circa 1968

Tons of little projects - light fixtures, install bathroom cabinet, etc etc etc