Local Air Guitar Expert Finds Adulthood in an Echo Park Remodel

Writer Dan Crane writes about how buying and then remodeling an Echo Park cottage changed his life in a recent New York Times piece.

Crane, the author of a the much-beloved memoir on being a competitive air guitarist, met his wife on the circuit about six years ago.

He settled in Echo Park with her and began work on the home.

Their remodel ended in divorce, but notes Crane:

I never pictured myself living alone at 41, but then again, I also never imagined I would have the vision or the ability to transform a fixer-upper into a home, handling almost all of the decision-making on my own.

I was a divorced homeowner. An adult.

Crane's also the owner of a second cottage, he told us, on the same property that he leases to short-term renters.

From the looks of things, it's also quite lovely as you can see in the airbnb.com listing he passed along.

And get ready: Crane plans to follow up his article with a whole book about the remodel.

Will it help Echo Park shine even more brightly than it does now in the national spotlight?