Glass House

Ok, so I finally got around to those pictures of the house I've been promising. It was a beautiful day today, with the knee-high grass blowing in the spring breeze.... Okay okay! Our lawn man's most basic tool was in the shop this week. He'll be by soon, I promise!

As you can see from the south side, it is a house of windows. And windows. And more windows. There are even (as you will see below) windows inside the house. I think the architect owned stock in Windex. The short-wide windows near the top are what we call the clear story windows, and they provide the bulk of our daytime light throughout the house. Starting on the left side of the house, the first set of windows (behind the weeds lush tomato garden) is the master bedroom, the next three (behind the green barrel composter) are the office, and the three beside that is a storage room that used to be a bedroom. The six tall windows that look black are the sunroom windows (if you squint you can see some plants). Just to the right of the sunroom, you can see the corner windows of the kitchen, and then farther over is the last room of the house, another bedroom. Currently it's storage, but eventually it will be a game room.

This next picture is from the northwest corner, off the back of the master bedroom. It shows the curve of the house, and the flat garage roof on the left. Not much to see here.

Here is a shot of the longest hallway in the world. This is the most dramatic view of the house's curve. The clear story windows on the roof above the sunroom are on the wall on the right, above the ones you can see on the left, which let light into the rooms behind that left wall. Here's a better shot. (Hey! You! Stop zooming in to look at the cobwebs!) The exterior clear story windows are higher than their interior pals so as to not be blinding all the time: there's plenty of indirect light to go around. Some of the interior windows are paned, some are open--in this case, that's a bathroom window, and it's open to let the steam out. The master bedroom is behind the camera, and we're facing toward the game room at the end of the hallway.

If you'll walk with me down this hallway, to your right you will see our living room, which is between the sunroom and the hallway. I had to include a picture so y'all wouldn't think I cheated on putting the kitchen back together. ;) Yeah, the fridge is still in there, but that is only until we get the grout in the kitchen sealed, because John put his foot down on moving the fridge more than once.

Well, that's our house! Um... the clean parts anyway. Maybe I'll clean the other rooms and take more pictures. Hah!

PS: Does anyone know anything about this? It's hanging in the hallway, and it's such a curiosity, but neither John nor I know anything about it. There's another one in similar colors and matching frame, but it is of a donkey instead. Drop us a line or leave a comment!