Echo Reservoir...

Drew had a Saturday off! Wahoo! It was amazing! We planned on taking full advantage of this luxury and we did... We woke up early and gathered some supplies from Wally World... And headed up to Echo Reservoir... If you have dogs in Utah you know that it can be places few and far between that are dog friendly... Echo is super dog friendly! It was perfect. We pulled the truck right up to the sandy beach... Unloaded our cooler and chairs... Unpacked the chuck-it for Mac and had the best afternoon. We floated, fetched, drank, read lounged and slept.... It was perfect.

After a nice afternoon in the sun we packed up and headed to the drive in for World War Z. Perfect outdoor day.

 

 

 

Facelift...

Oh this was a fun one! We got a call for a porch remodel... And we sort of ran away with it... Here is the before....

The homeowner after purchasing the house painted the house grey.... Brick.... By... Brick.... Did I emphasize that enough? Blew my mind...

Ripped off the awful precast post and cheap guardrail....

Definitely an improvement! We were set up to take it away from there... We wanted a new porch foundation, what they had was an old wood frame that was wrapped with a trellis, and what looked like left over vinyl fencing on the ground... Eww... Also the original soffit, or the ceiling was a loud, overly vented aluminum.... It had to go...

 

So this was my design.... I wanted to keep it true to the original style and accentuate the scalloped shake gable ends by adding some board and batten. Some shaker panel posts. With a little extra detail to fit closer with some ornate posts they have in the home. Add some posts and a large header to the garage to provide balance and strength to the structure. And wrap the windows with a simple stile and apron.

And here is the after...

I'm in love.... It was hard to drive away from it at the end of the day...

When we removed the ceiling we found that they had dropped the ceiling for no known reason. We were able to lift the ceiling and really trim it out with a coffered tray ceiling. We did a three strep crown. We did a 3/4" flat piece, 4" crown, and then another 3/4" flat piece. It's in the details...

The posts we used a flat cap, cove mould, small shaker panel, pencil mould then a large shake ended with a cove mould and plinth block.

Oh that ceiling! That ceiling! I love!

 

You can't stop at a beautiful porch can you? So you see how we had to keep going. We trimmed out the windows to creat balance and added the board and batten to add some interest.

And they did.

As much as I loved the porch and gable ends... My favorite part was the garage. What was once a massive looming structure we trimmed and cut angles enough to make it look balanced and fit the rest of the house. By adding the board and batten we cut the steepness of the pitch. Making it not looks so giant.

 

Then we added the header to give the illusion of support. And that delicate pencil mould for more interest... Then double posts on either side. Love!

Especially in Utah the land of the overgrown, over pronounced, cheap garage it was so rewarding to design a garage with a lot of detail.

Double your pleasure...

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Great Room Install...

It all came together...

We had an install for a great room we designed...

Here is the before... Not a bad place to start!

Here is the board I put together to see how the items we liked fit together...

The table showed up, looked nice but wasn't finished or sealed so that went back... We got a larger yellow medallion chair... And as it turns out not all ikea hemnes items are the same white... Huh.... After all that... We got this... We have a few more pillows, tables and details we are waiting on, but I couldn't wait to share...

Love it!

 

(Before)

(After)

(Before)

 

(After)

 

 

Seriously? That table... Those legs? I died!

So happy with how it all came together.

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The Charm...

And to wrap up the Oysterville tour we'll see some of the charming houses I fell in love with.... The yellow house with the single dog house dormer, lined with moss covered fence...

The detail of the facia was one of my favorite features...

And these windows.. What a fun way to add character to a house... Not your average window design...

This is an inspiration picture for a house Drew and I want to remodel... Complete with shed dormer that runs the length of the top floor.

The out door living that is above the second story addition, and the wall to wall window room.... Beautiful!

I loved the whitewashed shakes and the white lap siding addition on this house.... But what really caught my eye was the fence...

Darling!

And now the bell of the ball was this house...perfect patina... The long cupola on the roof...

The all glass pass through and entrance to the garden was the one that stopped me in my tracks...

Look at that! Pictures can't do it justice, but they will do. Again for a design field trip... Add Oysterville, Washington to the list...

 

Here is the Church....

And here's it's steeple...

Oh the church in Oysterville... With it's unique shakes, ornate balustrade, detailed frieze board, elegant corbels, moss lined roof, and salmon accent color... Made me swoon...

I mean just look at the barge blocks, that subtle swoop? Yes please!

The above picture shows the crown that sits on top op the frieze board, which is the flat board that rises to a peak.... Ya get what I mean? No? Well google it....

I developed a real "thing" for corbels! I want them every where! And the detail in these corbels was magnificent!

Just look at that! As my mechanics Wayne would say.... "It's exciting..." In a real non excited tone and in situations that didn't quite warrant it...

Well if the outside didn't get you going.... The inside probably won't either.... If it did, follow along little one.... Because I'm about to squeeze your mind grapes... (A la 30 Rock...)

Lets start with the wallpaper! Oh my! The prettiest sage with the warmest creme... Perfection... Next up on the eye candy treasure hunt.... I almost said trail but that would be innappropriate... Look at that fluted chair rail? It was about 5" wide and it was amazing! Then the 3" tongue and groove wainscot.... Mind. Blown...

I mean even the door knobs.... The sign on the door said please keep door closed.... My mom opened it.... She don't curr... She's awesome...

The chapel... I wish I could finish up the nursery rhyme I started at the beginning if the post... But there are no people... But you can imagine my fingers braided together going all wiggly... Open the doors, here's all the people!... Good enough? Good.

The chapel.... Oh where to begin? Anywhere? Okay...

The dimension of the ceiling... The wallpapered ceiling, the band going across the wall to divide the wallpaper that the tall windows overlapped.... I. Love. It. All.

Close up of the wallpaper.... Peeling, yet still amazing!

Wrapped up with the detail on the pulpit...

Terrific... A design eyes heaven...

Amen.