Some pictures of the new place...


Hey all, we have yet to adorn the walls with art but here's some in progress pics of the new place.


Waking up to let the doggers out I catch the sun breaking through the peaks of the McDowells

Still need to look up the names of these purple flowering bushes (view of house from front entrance looking east)


We found this cool woven fiber pendant lamp from the great indoors. We're trying to sell all the exisiting fixtures on Craigslist, we'll see how well that goes.


Dining room table, this room is still pretty cluttered with boxes we're hoping to get these cleared out today.


We really like this lamp we found to replace the kind of coutry iron chandelier they had... and we found these vases on sale that match the chairs we found at Pier 1.


Here is the old lamp, and we are still debating whether to paint this blue wall but not sure of color. I like it on camera but it is normally very dark and looks too navy. (Table modeling by Cheri Najim - Steve's mom)


Steve's dad, Ed and sister Suzanne modeling our chairs for the front nook.


This is the kitchen/family room area. Dogs and cat have christened the new rugs already, must be some right of passage... new rug has to be puked on.


Steve adjusting the TV speaker while Venus cleans herself.


We wanted to be able to see the TV from the kitchen so we got a swivel mount, it looks precarious to me but Steve says it's made strong. That wall repair is the electrician's work he had to rewire the outdoor fan.


This is the main guest room, my computer is in there now but will probably move.


This is going to be my paint room, as you see there is no room for a computer yet.


We'll have a futon in here, but for now it is the ice cream/doggie room. The stripes remind me of an ice cream store, we're hoping to have this painted by the time Heidi is here.


Guest bath, not too exciting :-)


Master bedroom, modeled by Niko.


Master bath.


My favorite part... the pool. It's saltwater so it's not as rough on the skin, or the dog's bellies when they drink it. There's a little round spa in the back we need to figure out how to turn the jets down as they are now set to volcanic forces.



We just put the rest of the patio together today so I'll get pics in the next update, but here's half.. we got chocolate colored cushions for these.

Skyscapes
Rest of the shots are skies. We're not as far up in the ountains as Suzanne, but we see some great skyscapes....


Storm coming in over McDowells. Steve and I grabbed a beer one Friday and just sat and watched the clouds wrap around the peaks, was pretty relaxing.



Then we get the monsoons... that person is our neighbor, Jeff and his toddlers.


...shirtless and storm watching.


This was last nights cloud show.



We'll post more when we're more done. So far it's been a lot of work but very rewarding.