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The following are pictures of my home and car.The pictures were mostly taken one sunny day when we did the property inspection - all the furniture is that of the previous owners.

Click on the thumbnail images to see full sized JPEG pictures.

The pictures were taken with an Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera (and as you can see I'm not a good photographer), transferred to hard disk and touched up (mostly the pictures were lightened) using the QuickTake software, thumbnails were created using Adobe PhotoShop 4.0.1, and finally the web pages were created using Adobe PageMill 2.0 and Claris Home Page 3.0.

Entry and Conversation Area

This is the "conversation pit" just inside the front door - where you would typically watch TV, have drinks etc. This area, the hallway and the kitchen are all tiled - elsewhere it is carpeted.

Living Room

This is part of the formal living area, on the opposite side of the "conversation pit" as you enter the front door. The big window will show up in later pictures.

Another view of the formal living area taken around the corner.

Formal Dining Room and Third Bedroom

This is part of the formal dining area and part of the spare bedroom/office/whatever space (I'm thinking of either putting an office there or a pool table).

This is the same from the other side (leading off from the hallway).

Foundations; Heating and Water System; Sprinkler/Drip System

This is under the home - it uses a pier and post system for the foundation. This is where the furnace/heating ducts and water tanks are ( there is a 1200 gal. tank hooked up for use with active solar panels, but it is not being used as it is not needed). At the far end are 2 gas fired heaters (only 1 needs to be used). The water comes from a private water company (who probably buys it in bulk from San Jose Water Co.), and the pressure may be a little low - there is a water softener and other doodads. The lot is covered with an automated irrigation sprinkler system, but all the bushes etc have grown now, and there is no need for it, but it could be used in the future.

More of under the home - showing the piers and posts, and the outside lattice work. The previous owners have suggested this where an additional 2 rooms could be built - they would be directly under the spiral staircase you see in a later picture.

Laundry Room; Downstairs Bathroom

This is a view of the downstairs bathroom and laundry room from the hallway.

Geodesic Dome Design; Staircase

This is a view of the ceiling as seen from the ground floor. The spiral staircase is on the right of the picture.

This is the ceiling again (perhaps taken from the upstairs bedrooms - I must have lost a picture of the actual bedrooms, which are very open plan, but have nice built-in dressers). The lights are low wattage bulbs that are supposed to last 50 years - giving you the starlight effect.

Kitchen, Dining Area and Pantry

This is the kitchen looking from the dining area towards the pantry. The tiles you can see on the wall are expensive Italian tiles - the ones on the floor are less expensive.

Staircase

The spiral staircase - the furnace filters are just underneath a trap door in the floor.

Views; Geodesic Dome Design; Roof and Exterior Siding; Decking; Landscaping

This is the outside looking from the top part of the driveway. You can see the 360° view top deck. Some of the bushes in the picture are rosemary.

This is just another view from the top driveway, which leads to the lower deck. There are stairs from the lower deck to the top deck to get to the front/back doors.

This is not a good photo - it shows the stairs leading down from the 180° view lower deck to the garage and lower part of the driveway (the batteries in the camera were fading, and I didn't get time to get a shot of the garage). There are 53 steps, the owners had counted many a time - good exercise.

Views; Geodesic Dome Design; Roof and Exterior Siding; Spa Area and Storage Area

This is the outside looking from the top of the ridge that is my property line towards the back door. The spa pool and gazebo is on the right of the picture.

Views; Decking

This is the view of the valley from the top deck (outside).

This is the view of the valley from inside the home (that large window).

Views; Sunset

This is the view of a sunset during summer.

Garage

This is the view from the bottom of the driveway. My car is shown in the picture.

This is my car in front of the garage. This is a much better picture than the original I had - still I had to touch it up slightly with PhotoShop.

This is a view of the home from the garage.

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