Mountain Home Tour~ Part 2

Taken at the Continental Divide

 I had so much fun sharing our Colorado Mountain Home 

with you last week.  

It's so interesting to see the rooms in the eye of the camera, 

it makes me realize 

that I really need to step up the decorating there. 

 It's just one of those difficult situations, I guess.

  I can never really spend enough time up there to get it done.  Anyway, on with the second part of the tour.  

 The Basement level of the house holds the second living area that the kids mostly use 

for game playing and lounging around.

  How BIG is that TV? 

 The previous owners left it there and if we ever decide to get rid of it we are going to need an army to move it!  

You can see the hallway that leads upstairs. 

 There are three bedrooms downstairs and a laundry room that actually sleeps two! 

 Hey, I say squeeze'em in!  

We figured out that the house can comfortably sleep 13 people.  That's not counting couches either!  

The first bedroom has a Queen bed that used to be in the Master.  The Master Beaux likes to sleep in a King sized bed.  So, we put the old bed down here and it's great for a second couple to sleep downstairs with their kids.  

I love this JCP bedding.  

It's from the American Living collection. 

 I'm sad now that they have changed their store.  

The home department is really lacking.  

Do you agree?

The middle bedroom has two sets of bunk beds for the kids.  Miss Beaux always chooses this room with her friends and my niece.  It doesn't matter how old they get there is usually a FORT made in this room by the end of the trip!  We bought these beds up in Breckenridge one year on sale. 

 We wanted as much sleeping room as possible.

The last bedroom is my favorite.  

I love the log beds. 

 I usually change the bedding out in the summer

 to a lighter pattern.  The hollywood bath connects to the other bunk bed room leaving 

the hallway bathroom for the Queen room.

The Master Suite is upstairs all by itself. 

Our private little getaway! 

It's very bright and airy up here even though I had it painted in Latte by Sherwin Williams which is a pretty dark color.  The new King headboard is leather and wood with nailhead trim.  All of the other furniture was left to us.  But, hey I'm keeping it!  It is all mostly from Ethan Allen and very nice.  

I love all of the interesting architectural angles in the roof lines.  There is a beautiful wood beam that runs across the top that you can't see in the picture.  The room has wood floors with a custom rug that was made to span the length of the room.  It keeps it warmer in the winter. 

 We actually have radiant heat flooring all through the house and it gets pretty toasty. 

 There is my little Alpine Cutie chest that I repainted. 

 It finally made it's way up the mountain.

  Now I just need to accessorize it with a lamp and a painting!  I'm really beginning to feel Amish with my minimal decor when I look at these photos!  No offense to the beautiful Amish people of course!  We have two huge closets up here.  One in the Master Bath and the other is the door that you see here.  We keep most of our things locked up in the closet while we are gone.  

 But here is my favorite part of the room!

  The view when I wake up!  

I never get tired of looking out through the trees.  

It's beautiful all through the year!  

My favorite pastime is to play with my camera.  

I don't think you can take a bad photo up here!

Especially when your subjects are this CUTE!!!

Thanks for coming along on the second installment of our Mountain Home Tour.

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

XO Cindy
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Home Tour~Our Mountain Home

I recently told you all about our Labor Days - 

yes, I mean days laboring,

 up in Colorado at our Mountain Home this past weekend.

  I thought you might like a tour of my favorite place on earth!

  Our second home isn't perfect, it isn't brand new, and it doesn't have all of the finishes, hardware or appliances that I might want, but to me there is something magical about the location and the view that never ceases to captivate my soul.

 I feel that I am truly blessed to even

 own a second home at all!   

Whenever we are there we all have such a peaceful and relaxing time as a family.  There are lots of laughs over the games that we play together and lots of puzzles that get assembled.  The TV rarely goes on unless we are all sitting down for a movie.  It is a hard place to leave!

 I shared this picture with you earlier in the week.  
The Great Room is where we spend most of our time. 
I love the open concept of this house. 
The Great Room, Kitchen and Dining Room all flow together.  The heart of the great room is this floor to ceiling River Rock fireplace with a stone mantle.

I've placed a few large vases and jars up by the Quatrefoil mirror.  We fight over who gets the chair on the right as it is the most comfortable. 

 I really would like to find and ottoman to go with it to put your feet up. 

When you walk in through the front door there are stairs leading to the Master Suite and a Library/Office to the right.  The Library has a chair/pull out bed that can sleep one.  There is a small bathroom that has a shower which makes it nice when you have a full house. 

I don't have a lot of accessories or extra furniture in this home.  It's funny because my home here in Kansas is overflowing!  It just seems that we are always too busy just having fun to spend a lot of time decorating. 

 And to be honest the simplicity is refreshing to me.

Here is a look at the whole Great Room.  You can see that there is an overabundance of light wood in the house.  Besides the floors, all of the doors and trim work is light wood also.  At first I didn't care for it AT all.  But after a while I got used to it and last year we had the floors redone (we had a little water damage) and they actually look really beautiful and not as yellow as they used to be.

  The two large windows overlooking the trees provide a spectacular view of the mountains.  We have two sets of french doors that lead out onto small decks.

 Here is one of my cute new benches that Mr. Beaux and I refinished last weekend.  Look Here to see how I made my own chalk paint out of desperation.

And here is the other one flanking the left side of the fireplace.  A basket of throw blankets is very necessary up here to snuggle up and keep the chill out. 

There is a small area under all of the arches that holds a card table and a built in bookcase.  We took out the built-ins that were on the media wall last year.  We bought a new flat screen and the old cabinet was not made for that size.  Besides it was kind of 80's and not my style. 

Mr. Beaux and I hauled this cabinet up one weekend and put it together ourselves.  I love the slate insets on the cabinet.  I don't mind mixing different kinds of woods together in the same room.  I feel like it gives it an acquired instead of bought to match look.

Here is the new print that I found at Habitat for Humanity Restore.  It looks great with my checked chair in a soft green color.  I just found this spectacular set of three mounted antler horns on OKL that I ordered.  I can't wait to get them and hang them over this print. 

Aren't they cute? 

On top of the Media Cabinet I have a wood box that I filled with fall flowers.  This is actually a fall wreath that I cut apart and placed in the box.  Hey, you have to get creative with what you can find up here.  Antlers and a pretty landscape print rest upon the top.  Since we have been renting out the house some of my things have been broken.  Now, I try to keep it simple and keep the breakable things put away or out of reach.

From the other side of the room you can see the kitchen and dining room.  It really is a great big open concept!  When we first bought the house I waited until my local design center was having their annual 50/20 sale (that means my usual 50% designer discount PLUS another 20% off) and bought all of the furniture.  I selected everything that I wanted to buy and had the girls keep a sharp eye out for other people trying to buy things on my Wish List.  I wanted to buy very durable furniture like this leather sectional that will last forever.

This little niche with the game table and chairs is the perfect place for our Skip-Bo and Uno challenges.  It gets pretty cut throat with the kids and don't get me started on how competitive their Nana is!  One problem we were having was that the chairs were scratching up the wall quite a bit.

 You can see in this photo how scratched it is.  Mr. Beaux came to the rescue and put up some chair rail.  Brilliant idea!

You can see a hint of a Brick Red accent wall on the left.  This is the only place where I have changed the colors in the room.

I love the warm red against all of the wood tones.  We have also painted this color in our Library. It's called Bold Brick Sherwin Williams SW6327.

This chest is one of my favorite pieces of furniture.  The leaves are handles and wind all down the front.  It's a very unique piece.  

C'mon into the Kitchen and Dining Room.  We bought the house from a good friend of ours about eight years ago.  They were building a newer home in Breckenridge.  We had been fortunate enough to use the home a few times and had fallen in love with the area and the house.  When they offered to sell it to us we jumped at the chance.  They were so sweet to leave a lot of things in the home for us.  All of the dishes and most of the beds and mattresses and this dining room table and chairs.  This isn't my favorite dining set, but it seats a lot of people and it was so nice not to have to furnish the whole house.

Mr. Beaux bought the antler chandy for me for Christmas one year.  It's hanging high I know, that's so renters won't swing from it after too many drinks!    There is a nice sized stainless steel fridge and a smaller drink fridge that we fill up with water!  You have to drink a LOT of water in the high altitude.

The Kitchen is easy to maintain with Corian counter tops and a great professional Thermador cook top.  The double oven, microwave and dishwasher are next on the list to be replaced as the home is about 15 years old now. 

So there it is!  

My second home in the Colorado. 

 My dream is to live here full time some day. 

 Or, to build another home nearby

 and keep renting this one out.  

I hope you enjoyed the tour.  

Next time I'll show you around the Master Suite Loft and the Lower Level.

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

XO Cindy 

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Sherry at The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Take A Hike!

~Welcome to Dillon, Colorado~ 

My favorite place on earth.  

I love our Mountain home and wish 

we were able to spend more time here. 

This is Lake Dillon where we hiked today.

  C'mon with us on our hike.

We start out in a meadow that is about four houses down from our house.  The dogs LOVE walking with us and they zig zag on the trail sniffing the whole time.  

You can see a corner of lake off to the right of the photo.

How beautiful is that?  

The lake is really quite large. 

 There is a marina nearby where lots of sailboats are docked.  The lake is actually man-made.  It was a small finger-lake until they built a Dam in 1961 and flooded over the original town.  They saved a few of the buildings and one is a cute breakfast restaurant. 

 The surrounding land is all a preserved state park so no houses are built directly on the lake.  The girls are heading up the mountain to the lookout point.  

It's about 1.5 miles up the hill.

I love being surrounded by all of the trees and the brilliant blue sky.  It's nice and cool up here, temps in the 

low 70's and mid 50's at night.

  Ahhhhhhhh, it's the perfect respite to the scorching heat we have been experiencing.

Unfortunately, the Japanese Pine Beetle has killed a lot of trees in the last few years.  It's sad to see so many dead trees.  Where we live they try to control it but you can't control a whole forest.

It's certainly worth the hike to see this view!

On this side the Snake River feeds into the lake.  

Some folks take life a little too seriously. 

 Here's my baby always on guard and protecting her brood.

While some are just happy for a short break from the hike.

Time to head down the trail. 

 We have hiked a total of about 4 1/2 miles.  

Thanks for tagging along with us  on our hike.

We'll be here enjoying life for the next week!

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves,

XO Cindy