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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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