[speaker001:] what kind of a house do you live in is it typical of the area
[speaker002:] the uh house I live in is fairly typical of the area it's one that uh my wife and I designed ourselves
[speaker001:] how neat
[speaker002:] and we've been living in it now for thirty years so it must be okay
[speaker001:] oh we moved into our home about thirty three years ago and at the time it was a small ranch style it had two bedrooms on the main floor and then the basement wasn't finished but we have since finished the basement we've added a car port and we've added a big family room
[speaker002:] well in Texas we don't have basements very often I'm surprised you do in Utah
[speaker001:] oh most most I would think most of the homes in Utah do we live uh up against up by the mountains
[speaker002:] so it's cold
[speaker001:] yes we got about uh three inches of snow last night the snow plows have been out and my husband's been out shoveling the snow
[speaker002:] ah
[speaker001:] so uh but ours is is typical for the neighborhood but
[speaker002:] it is it air-conditioned
[speaker001:] no I have arthritis
[speaker002:] so you're cool enough you don't need the air-conditioning
[speaker001:] no in the summer time for about oh a month we could use air-conditioning but I have arthritis and I don't I don't like air-conditioning
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] but we
[speaker002:] well in Texas you can't hardly live without it
[speaker001:] I know I've been to my son's in August and I hated it
[speaker002:] yeah we designed our house so the western exposure has a minimum number of windows so that the air-conditioning bill will be cheaper
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh we had uh we have had six children and so our house was small to start with but uh we added three basement three bedrooms in the basement and like I say added on to it so uh it's pretty typical did you have help designing it or was that part of what you do
[speaker002:] no actually uh it we we just started and we didn't like any of the houses we saw uh built they tended to have at the time we were building very large uh bathrooms which I consider a waste of space since you spend so little time in the bathroom
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh also too much hall uh space we saw a home plan in Better Homes and Gardens about five years before we built this house that we liked except uh we wanted it a little bigger than uh uh it had two bedrooms that you could add on another bedroom
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and we wanted it arranged slightly differently I think if you looked at the floor plan now uh you probably wouldn't recognize where we started from
[speaker001:] that's kind of the way ours is too
[speaker002:] but uh my wife likes a lot of cabinets in the kitchen and the original architect tried to talk us out of that and thank goodness we didn't let him talk us out of that
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh we wanted an entry way so that the living room did not have to be walked through
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the previous place we had lived in you always walked through the living room to get any place in the house and it was a traffic flow problem all the time
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so we have an entry way and I uh spend quite a little time in uh both when I was working and also even now retired in the study where I have a computer so we wanted a separate study and we have that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and it has uh three bedrooms and we wanted it since our son we raised my wife's sister as our daughter so in effect we had two children but uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] we wanted it so that we could leave the house to them uh when they had friends over and the normal noise that goes with such things so we have the
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] master bedroom is arranged so that it is basically basically a separate apartment in itself it has its own bath has its own patio porch type thing sliding doors and a very large room with
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] a TV set so you could live back there by itself if you wanted to uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh that sounds lovely I've always wanted uh another bedroom upstairs and then I we've never had a bathroom off the master bedroom and I would like that
[speaker002:] oh that's I don't know uh with our previous house didn't have it and uh now that we've got it we we think we couldn't live without it you know
[speaker001:] yes well those are two things that I would definitely I would add another bedroom on the main floor I quilt a lot but
[speaker002:] yeah my wife does also
[speaker001:] oh does she
[speaker002:] yeah and now with the kids gone well she has a room reserved for her junk and I have one for my junk you know
[speaker001:] well that would be the way to go
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh but like I say our children live a long way away and so our family room I quilt in there a lot
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's big enough that uh we it was eighteen by twenty when we added it on
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so uh it's big enough for that but