View of the House from the Outside, part 1.

I went out this morning and shot some pictures. This will give you a little tour of the house from the outside. The house is 23 years old. This was the third and last house I built; this is the one I wanted my family to grow-up in. The first picture is shot from the front of the driveway. It has 80 feet road frontage, 5-10 feet on the left and ~ 60 feet on the right. My children used the field on the right to play soccer, baseball, kickball, etc. with the neighborhood kids. It opens-up into the 18 acres just in front of the Douglas Fir trees on the left. There's a line of 25 pine trees running from south to north on the right. The second picture is shot from the middle of the driveway. You can barely make-out the two outside light poles on the right. This is a circular driveway. The center is a flower garden which is beautiful from mid-Spring to mid-Autumn. This area also has our 100' plus drilled well that pumps ~ 11 gallons a minute. The house is on city water, however the outside spigots are connected to the private well (no chlorine on our gardens!) It is 333 feet from the road to the corner of the house where you see the rain gutter. There is 400 feet of asphalt driveway that was paved in 2006 and resealed in 2007. There is 4" thick concrete in front of the garage which doubles as a basketball court (see right side of third picture.) The main entrance is behind the car. This is the splint entry to the house. The entrance is an 11' X 14' room with a 6' X 2.5' closet. To the left is what was originally a greenhouse that was converted into an 11' X 14" bedroom / sewing room with attic storage. To the right is an unheated 11' X 12' room connecting the entranceway to the garage; it also has a third door that leads out back to a 13' X 14' concrete slab. This outside area is where a back-up generator connects and is where one of the three sets of stairs lead up to the 14' X 50' wooden deck. A new roof with 50-year asphalt architectural shingles was installed in 2007 on all structures. Part 2 of A View of the House from the Outside, later.