Roccochi Ridge

Our second stop at the Parade of Homes was #21 - Roccochi Ridge in Ivins. Another low slung home with beautiful picture windows to take in the brilliant backdrop of red cliffs, Snow Canyon and black lava. This home featured 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms and was a total of 6,970 square feet of gorgeousness with a hefty $3.2 million dollar price tag.

This time Becca was a little more brave with the camera and took a lot more pictures. We're sorry to any innocent bystanders who may have inadvertently ended up in our photos--with so many people at the shows, it was sometimes hard to avoid them in our shots.

Courtyard entrance:


Living room:

Kitchen:

Kitchen island:

Range:

Dining:

The six lucious bedrooms, three of them master suites.

Some of the nine bathrooms:

A few of the bathroom details:

This faucet type was hot, hot, hot!

They were in several of the Parade Homes. And the river rock backsplashes were also common in several of the homes.

The Study:

The Theater in the basement with lighted marquee

and leather inset doors.

The basement kitchen:

Artwork throughout the home:

Gorgeous views:

Thanks for continuing the tour with us!

Stay tuned for even more!

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Architect: Talbot Architects / Rob McQuay Architects and Associates

Builder: Split Rock Fine Homes

Interior Designer: Split Rock Interiors / Jill Jones Interior Design / S Gallery - Jill Jones, Mandy Irwin, Joyce Johnson

Terra Spiritus

The first house we went to at the St George Parade of Homes was #20 - Terra Spiritus in Kayenta. It was a 3232 square foot home with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms priced at $775,000.

The home featured large view windows in nearly every single room to take advantage of the breathtaking red rock views.

The home featured stained terra-cotta concrete floors laid out in a giant diamond pattern.

The homes are nestled into the ground and surrounded by native desert landscape.
I hope you enjoyed our first stop with us! There's much more to come!

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Architect: Gulch Design Groups, Inc. - Kayenta
Builder: J2 Construction, LLC
Interior Designer: Gulch Design Group, Inc. - Matt Marten

St George Parade of Homes

Oh my goodness! Where has this month gone? Last week we traveled down to sunny St George to attend the St George Parade of Homes which is always fun. We are excited to share with you the fun homes and design trends we encountered while down there and will be doing some virtual open house tours so that you too can be a part of it.

Stay tuned while we organize and download the hundreds of photos we took!

Salt Lake Places Eighth For Most Improved Commute

According to the latest report in Forbes magazine, Salt Lake City ranked as the number 8 most improved metropolitan city with an improved commute. However, it looks like the statistics were only pulled up until 2007 which means I don't think it was taking into account the latest improvements like FrontRunner and Legacy Highway that has Davis county residents singing hallelujah every morning! If it had, I think we would have ranked even higher on the list. Here are a few of the specific statistics:

8. Salt Lake City, Utah

Improvement in road construction versus traffic since 2000: -1.6% (20th best)

Commuters using public transit in 2000: 2.4% of metro residents

Commuters using public transit in 2007: 3.94% (6th best increase)

Traffic delays, per commuter, per year, due to congestion: 27 hours

To read the full report and see how the results were determined, click here.

Winter Isn't Over Yet

"At 7:30 AM EST on February 2, 2009 the world discovered that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow - predicting six more weeks of winter!"


We are just about as sick of winter (and smog) as most of you, but don't fret there are still reasons to enjoy the season!

Warm winter hugs
from our family to yours!