Finally finished!

Here are the guys that designed and built our house. Steve Martin and
Mike Parker, our builders, are on the left and center. Kevin Reed, our
architect, is on the right.

View of the front of the house. Notice all of the rocks.

The front entrance.

One of the neighbors wandering by. This is a bobcat.

The view out of the great room windows from the hall in front of the
entryway. .

Turning around, here is the front entrance. The door is
actually fiberglass.

The entrance from another angle. This shows the tile flooring
that is in the halls, entrance, dining room, bathrooms, utility
room and kitchen. Notice the knotty alder door on the entry
closet.

The dining room which is next to the entrance.

Fireplace and the great room. The ceiling is aspen with fir
beams. There is a wood pellet stove in the fireplace. The
stone is actually man made engineered stone with natural flagstone on
the horizontal surfaces. This is the same stone that is on the
exterior of the house. The floor is a maple laminate - which
wears better than wood and is better for the environment.

Turning around, here is the view from right in front of the fireplace.
Through the doorway is the kitchen on the left and breakfast
nook
to the right.

Breakfast nook.

We have a finished kitchen. It was amazing to see how this
space seemed to grow larger as the project progressed. The
counter tops are Silestone, a man made quartz product. The
cabinets are maple.

Other side of the kitchen. The chair is in front of a small
desk.

The final view of the bathtub.

Master bathroom. The vanities and sinks are Corian.

The mini-master bedroom.

Here is the back concrete deck. We went with a wire railing to
minimize
impacts to the view. These are the La Plata mountains of
Colorado..

The view down canyon from the deck. Farmington New Mexico is just over the
ridge in the distance.

Since minimizing the energy use and carbon footprint of the house was
important to us, we had the house tested for air tightness using a
blower door test. Here is Mike Frisoni, the energy consultant
in
the area..