Pictures of our house
We can't move in
till February--the current owners are building and wanted to stay until their new home was
ready.
In this view you see some of the plants in the rose garden area, to the right. They look like the obscure the view of the water, which is behind you and to your right as you look at this picture, but they don't.
Here you
see the lawn on the south side of the house, and the Japanese-style garden that surrounds
it. I have always wanted to have Japanese maples, the reddish low plants you see here, and
this yard has two mature ones. The back of this garden is full of various colors of greens
from the mixture of evergreens. To your left is a wall of rhododendrons. (And the lawn is
small--not too much to mow!)
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Behind the house is the rose garden, overlooking the bay. From here you follow the path to the lawn, above, past lavender and more rhodies. |
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| The house, inside, is surrounded on the south and east by a sun porch. This provides incredible year-round views of water and mountains, lots of light, and natural solarium heat. (We won't have the nice white wicker furniture.) |  |
Where, you may be asking, will they ever put those 3,000 books? Well, the only place is the inside walls of this solarium. As you will see, the rest of the house has too few walls for many books. |
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When you turn and enter the house, this beautiful curved staircase to the sleeping loft, above, greets you. The banister, and other built-in storage, is all in natural cherry. The floors, too, are a cherry tone. |
| And here, in the living room, is one of the natural gas stoves that heat the house on those cloudy Washington days. |  |