'70s Twist on French Provincial

I would like to say that we purchased our 1973 French Provincial Modern style home for the mostly wooded lot (extremely wooded compared to our home in Las Vegas). However, there is some sort of strange charm that a '70's take on French Provincial evokes. From the two-story entry on the main floor to the slanted walls on the second level, our new home (now two months since our move from Las Vegas) is really starting to grow on us. The resident deer have been an absolute delight to the children and to Andrea and myself as well.  It's easy to imagine being in a rural mountain cabin as we look out our windows.  All this in the midst of an urban suburb of Salt Lake City, called Bountiful.

Maybe it's just because of the season, but the house, at least on the outside, has an evil haunted aura. Our nine-year-old son Sawyer has been the most scared of the home, but he tends to scare easily. There are four large sconces on the outside of the home (two by the front door and two on each side of the garage) that came from the original Trolley Square in downtown Salt Lake.  The previous owner converted them from gas to electric. I wish that he would have left them as gas lamps and plumbed the home for gas, but, being the early '70s, I'm sure that electricity was preferred. I've been searching for a flickering bulb that actually looks and acts like a flame.  Instead, I've found flickering bulbs that emulate Frankenstein's laboratory, only to further the haunted Halloween look.  I guess I'll leave them in the lamps until the end of October. If anyone knows of a bulb that looks (and most importantly acts) like a flame, let me know.

Woods on the west side of our home.

This view is from the staircase to the front door. The block retaining wall in the background is along our driveway to the garage.

The above 3 photos are all in the front of the house (on the right side) covering the portion of the home you can't see in the first photo of the house.

This is a real French Provincial style home.  We use this as our inspiration.

We had planned to renovate the home over the next five years, however an overnight leak from the master bathroom toilet turned our new home into a mess of wet floors, ceilings and walls on all three levels. We now find ourselves in a hurried version of our previous five-year renovation plan.

Kitchen renovations. The wood floor was totally destroyed and is now plywood.

Installing new ceiling and lighting.  Previously there was a beautiful flourescent light box.  I wanted to install 3-inch can lights, but they were twice the money as the 5-inch.

More ceiling and floor renovations in the kitchen.

A portion of the master bathroom.  This is where the sink vanity was located. Note the slanted walls which are prevalent on all of the second story outside walls.