A Higher Place - Part III The Great Room

Aah, yes, the Great Room. Kings and Queens from Arthur and Guinevere down to Siegfried and Roy have always had a Great Room for entertaining and ordering around their serfs. Or in later ideals, for training their tigers. Luckily, we only have the one big scary cat, so our Great Room doesn't need to be quite so medieval in size.
As we look out around the room, having just exited the pantry area, we can see the stairs directly in front of us, and the master bedroom entry to the right of the frame. Also, a good detail here is that little built-in platform by the stairs where a silver pot and big white flower are sitting is the future residence of our San Pedro. We are very excited about his new featured home.

Then, if you turn a little bit to the left, you can see the actual living space. We plan to have a piano where that enormous TV is now. For the present, we'll just have some sofas up here -- the TV will be downstairs. It'll be a visiting and relaxing area.
Also, the dining table will be exactly where this one is. It separates the living room from the kitchen.

Turning a little more to the left, you can see the edge of the dining table again, and part of that vast expanse of counter that makes up our kitchen. I like the two windows here. These builders do an excellent job of creating a lot of light without creating a lot of heat -- no small feat here in the desert.

Even this guy wanted to take a moment to enjoy the beauty of these windows. To your right is the living room -- to your left the kitchen.

And there's one last parting look at the kitchen before we head downstairs. It really is great. Sigh.