Room With A View!

What an exquisite birthday gift!  Yesterday, our dear contractors installed windows and screens in our new lanai.  August is one of the hottest months here in Puna on the Big Island, but with the additional screens on the north side where most of the trade winds blow, we will have great circulation.  (There is a charming pair of french doors that open out from our dining room onto this lovely room - not pictured.)

The round window is five feet in diameter and is framed by cedar -- the same wood as our five foot diameter cedar hot tub which is on its way to us right now.



The pair of windows (shown above) are two of three screened windows that, again, face north.  I managed to catch the late afternoon sun for these photos, so that light brings out the colors perfectly.

This last window is very special to Phil, particularly.  Many years ago, his mother Margaret (who died in May) gave this window to him.  We had it installed in our Eureka Victorian home and enjoyed its lovely light in our dining room for 20 years.  It came from the original family home (built by Phil's grandpa) where his mother was born -- a place where young Phil spent afternoons on his grandparents' big bed.  He remembers the sun coming in through the window making rainbows on the bed.  It is such old leaded glass, Phil took it all apart to clean, and install plexi-glass on both sides and a wooden frame.

Today work began on a handmade Humboldt County  redwood screen door that will feature pieces of curly redwood we collected while we were in Eureka.  (The dogs will have their OWN door installed as well.)