Just wanted to wish everyone a happy and well-balanced Autumnal Equinox 2012! It actually happens at 10:49 A.M. tomorrow, Saturday Sept 22nd.


On our equinox, Grant will be rowing crew and I will be teaching a weekend SAT prep course and Derek will be driving Grant places and working out and doing science.

The house purchase is trundling along with a solemnity of pace befitting the Space Shuttle aboard the Crawler, inching its way toward the launch pad. There have been a few calls for pictures... OK, the overall layout of the house is a "U" facing SW with the entrance at the bottom of the U and arms to L and R from there. The arms bracket a large screened-in pool area with two separate covered lanai/patio areas and a passthrough window and counter from the kitchen to the pool deck. Here are a few pictures we took during the inspection:

There is an entrance courtyard, small, with a wooden door into an arched space. The owners put a small wrought-iron cafe set there:


Once you are inside the front door, if you turn back to look at the entryway, this is what you see. The armoire is actually a cleverly-camouflaged secretary desk. We will probably put one of our more overtly desk-like antiques in that spot, if all goes well with this purchase:


Then if you turn and look from the entryway into the house, you see a fireplace on the left with a travertine wall, and an open-plan living room with glass pocket slider doors out onto the pool/lanai:


And this is the view from that living room:


You may be getting the same idea we were: this place would be great for get-togethers! It certainly does not harm matters that the owner is a design professional. And I think she has a really nice sense of color, even if she is very fond of green :-)

If you stand by the right-hand (northern) wall of the LR and look left (South), you see the entrance to the rooms on the south side of the U -- there is a guest BR that will be an office to the left, with a half-bath and storage, and to the right is the master bath, walk-in closet, and MBR, with another fireplace (the backwall twin of the one in the LR):


Here's the half-bath by the possible-office. It's actually awfully large and square, not easy to photograph in one go from anywhere:


That wall color is sort of avocado most of the time.

Turning to the right (toward the end of the U arm), you see the master suite -- no flash in this photo, but you can see the fireplace to the R:


With a flash:


Then to your left as you stand in the little MBR hall, there's the master bath, which is a separate twin vanity area and, in a room off that, a walk-in large shower. There is no tub in the MBA.




Time to walk back out through the LR and see what's in the other arm of the U...

oops, later...