Judy cutting wire strips (this was two summers ago, 2005)
Starting to stucco the front of the house (also two summers ago)
Maria on the roof filling in where the stuccoer wasn't able to reach ( you got it, two summers ago.)
the driveway
library window, bedroom door and window
music room windows, alan's dad's window and the living room. These are "my walls", the ones I sewed.
front doors
entire front with Alan's truck
working on the front veranda
closer shot
the veranda roof will come out from the wooden section
this gray was being the painted the week after we left.
music room window
there will be a back veranda someday too
the back door
view from the living room doorway, sisters in the background
Sisters on another day we were there.
another desert view
the bird bath and joshua trees in the front of the house
yep, more desert!
inside art rom/guest room door
the bedroom, door paper will be replaced with window coverings
shot from the outside bedroom doors
the library framed in - looking towards the bedroom, same doorway as the next picture but from the other side.
these aurobeds are quite nice for sleeping on
looking down the hall from the bedroom, other library door on the left.
livingroom, black wall hasn't been painted yet. There are radiant heat pipes under the floor in the entire house, wood stove for instant heating.
great room framed in - taken from the front doors
kitchen, 2006
shot taken from almost the same spot of the framed in shot, 2006.
hallway from the other end and the door to the guest room, 2006
the grand piano didn't used to look so small, 2006.
the "truth window", this will be covered so it can be opened to show that this really is a straw house.
the wind power source
the solar source of power & lights, those round things are tubes that bring light into the room- a bathroom without windows is lit during the day with one of them, 2006.
Front of the house, with veranda finished taken April 2009
shot of the bedroom doors, 2009
2009
back courtyard with firepit, finished in 2009, shot taken April 2009
back veranda, 2009
inside the music room, 2009
filling the bird feeder, April snow on the ground, 2009
side retaining wall by the master bedroom, April 2009
