A Few Early 3-D Drawings

We got some very cool, very early, drawings done by our architect's intern in a program called Google Sketch-up. We can look at the house from all angles. This is when it starts to get FUN & EXCITING!!!

These are obviously very rough & early, but we think pretty cool, as you can start to get a better feel for the space.

& you can CLICK on the images to make them bigger, too :D

Here are a couple of the Front of the house:

& the Back of the house:

Travel Trailer Colors

We picked out the colors for the exterior of the travel trailer last night, which was really FUN!!

The dominant color will be white, with stripes & design done with these.

Seaside Green - from the 1956 Studebaker Line:

For the Pink, my first choice is "Elvis Rose", which is the color that was created for Elvis' Pink Cadillac.  This is my back-up color.  The refrigerator will also be this color.

Sunset Glow Pink from the 1957 Oldsmobile line:

And, finally, the Yellow - from a 1961 Rambler - Waikiki Gold:

Back to the house plans...now with furniture!

We're inching closer, with some revisions to the floorplan & starting to add in how furniture would fit into the spaces of the main part of the house.

It's starting to feel a bit more "real" at this point - yeah!! :)

& Zoomed-in.....

More meetings with the architect next week to refine things even more, and we should also be seeing new drawings for the exterior & tiki bar soon as well.

Stay tuned!

A fun side project

We've got a little project going on the side, which is re-habbing a vintage 50's DeVille travel trailer.  A company in Erie, CO is doing the restoration, directed by your truly.  DeVille trailers were very well made, which provides a great start of the restoration.

The overall look & feel will be 50's Pink, Aqua & Yellow, but that's getting a bit ahead of ourselves, as here is the "before" of the outside of the trailer - on it's way from New Mexico to Colorado

& a couple weeks later, this is what it is looking like today, as the restoration has begun!

There was a fair amount of wood rot once the skin was removed, which is not surprising given the age.  All of that rotted wood will be replaced with new wood.

& disassembled even more - ready to start!!

No More Living Off The Grid!

I went by our land yesterday - since neither of us had been out that way in a couple months - just to check on things.  Previously, if we were telling people how to get there, it was something like - don't take the left turn after the RR tracks - go straight-ish down the road to the end.  Now, we're all official & stuff with a street sign for our road.  I'm thinking the sign might have happened 'cuz the woman from the county who had to come out & find our land so that we could get a proper street address had to make 3 tries before she found it - haha!

Our good 'ol fried Mr. Donkey was also there to greet me upon arrival, but this time with our fence in place between he & I:

And - I also found piles & piles of mysterious animal poop!  I wasn't sure what it was at first - I thought maybe the Wild Hogs that we hear are around.  But these piles were BIG.  So I took some close-up shots so I could look them up online (don't worry - I'll spare you all the close-ups).  I ID'd 'em last night as just boring old COW poop, so apparently there's a spot back by the creek where cows can get through.  That doesn't both us one bit, as when the tax man decides to come by & he sees cow pies, he'll be leaving our agricultural exemption in place, which saves us many $1,000's in tax $$.  WIN for us!!

MOO!!!!!!!!