These are the BEFORE photos of our new house, the Hacienda! AFTER photos will be forthcoming in the new year!
Date(s): June 19, 2004. Album by AQW. Photos by AQW. 1 - 27 of 27 Total. 1721 Visits.
1 The house from the street. Large window on right side is living room; patio is behind wall; front door behind arches. Driveway extends length of house to detached garage in back, driveway is gated at wall.
2 View of front patio and porch. Front door is hidden by arches here. Window is side of living room.
3 Front door taken from inside the house (facing street). In this photo, living room is to the left of the door (down two steps) and dining room is to the right of the door. Note cute built-in to the right of the door... several such touches throughout house make it so charming!
4 Same orientation as last photo, now shooting down hallway towards back of house. In this photo the dining room is to the left (not visible), living room to the right (not visible). Down the left side of the hallway are two closets (one not visible), stairs to basement, and entrance to kitchen. Down the right of the hallway is master bedroom, linen closet, primary bath, and second bedroom. Straight back is third bedroom.
5 Living room - you can see the stairs going down into the room, as well as the small decorative glass window and the high ceiling.
6 Living room - this is the large front window visible from the street. I love the built-ins on either side of the window! Beams on ceiling also visible, and a bit of the fireplace mantle on the left hand side.
7 Living room fireplace (and my dear mother-in-law, and my husband's better side! LOL)
8 Kitchen - shooting from the hallway straight into the kitchen.
9 More kitchen, shot from hallway - from left, shows counter/cabinets on sink side of kitchen, pantry (door closed), entry to service porch (door open), and stove area.
10 Close-up of same kitchen area... pantry door (closed) and entryway to service porch. Open door on other side of service porch is back bathroom.
11 Other side of kitchen, standing at sink shooting back towards hallway/center of house. Cabinets and refrigerator.
12 Kitchen opens into informal dining area (hardwood), which in turns opens into formal dining room (carpeted in this photo).
13 Informal dining area - more beautiful built-ins. Opens to kitchen (left of photo) and formal dining room (right of photo, not visible).
14 Under the lovely 1970's gold carpet throughout the house... surprise! Beautiful hardwood floors!
15 Primary bath. This bathroom is long and narrow, with the pictured vanity area at the back (shooting from main hallway, zoomed in). The imp in the flowered shirt is of course DexterPony, looking for trouble.
16 From the hallway, the orientation of the bath is: left side, toilet, then tub, then vanity at the back... right side is shower. Here is a look at the tub with the awesome tilework.
17 Another view of the tub.
18 Another view of the bathroom (door opens to the main hallway of the house; green arch on right is toilet enclave and green arch on left is shower entry). I shot this to show the curves of the ceiling... there are no angular cornered ceilings anywhere in the house. All ceilings are built like this.
19 Toilet/bath side of main bathroom.
20 Another view of the toilet enclave, shows arch styling and tilework
21 Exterior side of house, standing in front of detached garage and shooting down driveway towards street. Place where carport covers driveway is next to front porch steps, to give an idea of how long the house is.
22 Backyard - the orange tree (left) will stay, the avocado tree (right) will go.
23 Straight-back view of backyard from rear of house. We will put grass in.
24 More from front of house - shows a bit of the patio (green, right forefront) and the steps to the front porch. Window in center of shot goes to dining room. Detached garage (white) visible at very end of driveway.
25 Side of house from farther down driveway - detached garage visible in back. Side entrance leads to service porch; from service porch you can reach back bathroom to the left or kitchen to the right.
26 View of back bathroom from third bedroom. If you enter the bathroom, the toilet is to the left, as is the door that leads to the service porch.
27 Second door of back bathroom, showing how it leads to service porch then directly outside to side entrance of house. Entry to kitchen is to the left of the door that leads outside.
