Master Bed room

If you like color this bedroom and the door particularly should catch your attention.  This room is in our home we design and built along First Street in Oro Valley,  This community is just north of Tucson and actually, we have returned and live here again.  We sold this bigger home as a down-sizing move and have consequently down-sized our next home and returned to Oro Valley to our current home which is just right for two senior citizens.  That sounds like a lot of moving but we are used to it with our passion to build, landscape and decorate new homes we have moved every five years on average.  Even though our current home was built in a housing development we had choice of most aspects of the home starting with the design model, interior options and ending with the landscaping.

This home has 6000 sq. ft. which includes a guest house, small gallery, an art studio and a shop.  The party that purchased it from us added and modified to meet their needs so it possibly is a larger home than when we left it.  This bedroom had a fire place in the corner where the picture is being taken from.  The house is built in a U shape.  This bedroom was on none side of the U with a bathroom and walk-in closet.  We enjoyed this home which was designed and built to be our final ultimate home.  The building costs kept escalating as them housing market raced towards the bubble.  We found we couldn't afford to keep it up and managed to sell it for our asking price not too many months before the bubble burst and houses were being practically given away.  We lucked out and that was when our down sizing began.

Just a final word about the door.  JoAnn designed all of the doors in this home except several purchased with mostly glass interior.  I did the woodwork and assembly plus some of the painting. The the door was built from scratch with a fur frame and a solid interior panel.  The design pieces were fastened to the center panel.  the design was was repeated on both sides with one side being the mirror image of the opposite side.  That made it possible to conceal dowels that penetrated the center panel and went into the design pieces only part way.  When glued this made a secure and concealed way to fasten the design in place.  Many of these processes have been used on other doors we have built for our homes or doors we have built and sold.

*More detail on my art can be found at my website <www.apatchablue.com>