Last Peek In The House in Cedar House

I hope you all aren’t too bored with hearing and seeing the new house in Cedar City, Utah. I promise this will this be the last posting until the outside landscaping happens.

The kitchen was interesting to work with, and I wished I had thought more thoroughtly about the design of the cabinets “internals”. The actual cabinet space was limited so we added a buffet built-in to one wall in the great room. The advantage was more cupboard space – the disadvantage was less wall space for art work.

We enjoyed working with the local granite contractors who gave us some good ideas and were helpful with their suggestions. We ended up with granite window sills, which I’m really happy about since the window wells are about 10-12 inches deep because of the type of construction. The kitchen island is another favorite with the rough cut edge, which you can see in the photo.


Bob’s bookroom has alder bookshelfs and desk. For Christmas I gave him a Tiffany style desk lamp that picks up the warm tones of the wood. The books shelves that he finished for our LV home wouldn’t fit in the new bookroom, which was a shame. But the new ones are pretty, kind of empty right now though.


That completes the tour for right now. The Murphy bed is still in pieces downstairs and we have to decide how to furnish the other guest bedroom. But we have plenty of time for that.

Next we will revisit second Christmas in Salt Lake City with Carlee & Tom’s family.

I'm Finally Back, Did You Know I Was Gone?

As Susan W. said "Your guilt is gone!" Well, I don't know if it is really all gone, but it is somewhat dinimished. Melted enough that I can announce that the new house in Cedar City is finally finished, and print a photo of the house as it appear Dec. 14, 2009.

I've made several trips to Cedar City with the car jammed full of "stuff", mostly things from my workroom--books, and yarn. Now the the good dishes and the nick-nacks from Bob's bookroom are up there too. Over Thanksgiving we rented a U-Haul and took the Murphy bed, some livingroom chairs, patio set, wicker chairs and my big floor loom up to Cedar City. We stayed over night for the first time sleeping on mattress on the floor in the basement. Bob calls it camping out since we don't have TV service and therefore no ESPN. So we missed the Packer-Lion game on Thanksgiving Day.

The house is really pretty snug and I enjoy driving up and messing around with this and that for a few hours. The shades were put in this past week and the shutters will be finished up this weekend. The bar stools came in today so I will probably haul them up next Monday.

I'll finish off with some nice pictures of Carlee's family that were taken in October when Dustin, Erin and Paige visited, just before Jack's 6th birthday. Only Paige is pictured though. Dustin and Erin are expecting the 4th member of the family to arrive March 17th, a younger sister for Paige. Hopefully my next blog will before that.