Kozmic Dreams Virtual Home Tour

Virtual Home Tour

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I have lived in the same 1061-sqare foot bungalow home since the summer of 1994 and have had plenty of time to decorate it exactly the way I want. Most people describe it as similar to a museum. The photos shown here are from the summer of 2004.

Before we go inside, check out the backyard. Notice the hood from the Kozmic Dream Machine, my first airbrushed art-car creation. It's the only piece I have left, but it was definitely the best part.

If you head toward the park bench and turn to the right, you will enter my garden through a gate. In 2004, I grew strawberries, boysenberries, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peas, dill, basil, oregano, sage, and rhubarb to eat. I also grew zinnias, cosmos, cobra gourd and trumpet vine for looks.

I normally don't use the front door, due to convenience, so you would be entering from the side door. If you head up a couple stairs to the left, you would enter the kitchen, which is pictured from several angles below. Most houses in my area have a wall between the kitchen and dining area, but I was lucky enough to have a former owner who decided to remove it. The first view is if you were to turn around 180 degrees and face the way you just entered through the side door.

If you were to stand in front of the refrigerator and look to the left, you'd be looking into the dining room, pictured below. The cabinet on the right of the first picture contains many of my favorite bottles, pictured below. Click here to see individual photos of my favorite bottles.

You can then choose to enter the living room from either the dining area or the kitchen. Below are a couple views from the dining room entryway. Further information is available about the Vine Sculpture on the wall and the Wooden Pyramid on the table by clicking their names. The family tree sculpture above the sofa is explained and pictured in detail on the Acrylics and Papier Maché Page. Hanging on its branches are my Pysanky. My best buddy, Darwin the Amazing Border Collie, also appears in the photos.

Here is the view from the kitchen entryway. Notice the trilobite collection in its former location on the table under the lamp. They are now in cases, not pictured. The second and third photos show my Rootstein mannequin created in the likeness of Yasmine LeBon, wife of the lead singer of Duran Duran, Simon LeBon. I purchased her in August 2004.

If you were standing in front of the grandfather clock, this is the view you'd see. Notice the tall fish tank on the left. It contains my two parrotfish. There are photos of them on the Fish Page. Click here to see a movie of my parrotfish swimming. The large cabinet used to contain my collection of ephemera. Now, only the bottom shelf displays ephemera. The other shelves display my rock collection.

Next, you would head down the hallway. Click here for a close-up of one of my favorite cypress knees, at the end of the hall.

The first door on the left is the bathroom. The fountain above the toilet provides acoustic tranquility.

The second door on your left is the den. This is the room where I spend the most time. It is where I watch T.V., read, work on my laptop, etc. The majority of my cypress knee collection is kept here, along with my most treasured watercolors. If you're wondering what that weird thing is hanging on the wall to the left of the T.V., it is my Vegetanimal from Space. A sunny day is extra special in this room because I have three solar-powered rainbow-makers attached to the window. When sunlight strikes the solar panel, it turns gears that make a prism rotate, surrounding me with rainbows. It's absolutely spectacular. I tried to capture it in a video on my digital camera, but the rainbows don't appear as bright as they are in real life. My dog, Darwin is in the movie too. Click here to see a movie of Darwin with the rainbow-makers in action. If you don't have a movie player, you can download a free one at Quicktime.com. There are more pictures of him on Darwin's Page. In the last photo, you can see part of the door to the den, which is also a piece of artwork, woodburned and adorned with other natural objects. You can see close-ups of the door on the Pyrography (Woodburning) Page.

Across from the den is my guest bedroom, pictured below. I store a lot of my art materials in here. It is decorated with an animal theme. Each piece of artwork on the wall is of some type of creature. The creature drawings by the mirror in the last picture can be seen in detail on my Drawings Page. I also keep my Hagen-Renaker Ceramic Animal Figurines in the glass-paneled secretary, which is my grandmother's first piece of furniture.

Next, we'll head upstairs. I live in a bungalow, so it's just one bedroom upstairs. The stairs are right across from the bathroom. At the top of the stairs, you will see a ceramic head sculpture that usually has a flickering flame bulb inside but at the present time, it is burned out. Instead, there is a photo of it with a toad inside. There are more pictures of my clay creations on the Ceramics Page. Above the head sculpture is a dizzying spiral I made out of Color-Aid paper, a very highly-saturated paper that gives incredible "vibrating" effects when colors of the same hue are placed adjacent to one another. So be careful you don't lose your balance on your way up!

The first thing you will see is my aquarium on the right and a desk on the left that displays my diplomas and favorite books. Click here to see what fish are in the aquarium. A promo display for my favorite guitarist, Steve Vai's album "Passion and Warfare" leans against the wall.

Walk past the aquarium and desk and you will enter the main part of the bedroom. Different views are pictured below.

Now let's head back downstairs. On the way down, notice that some of my favorite watercolors are displayed in the stairway and we will enter the main part of the house through a beaded curtain.

Had we not turned left and entered the kitchen when you came in, we would have walked right downstairs into the basement, which my parents helped me finish into a nice living area. Here are some pictures of the main room which is used as the music and entertainment area. If you are curious about what CDs are stacked up in the background, click here. In the background of the fourth picture, you can see my terrarium which used to house my amphibians, but now is used by my tortoises.

Here is the other half of the room, part of which contains a wet bar.

Here is a closer view of the bottles.

I use the bar counter to display my autographed CD booklets and other music memorabilia. My three Xenopus (African clawed frogs) live in the aquarium on the right.

Ok, let's head back out the way we came.

Had you gone to the left of the steps instead and entered through the beaded curtains, you would be in the laundry room. If you made a quick right after going through the curtains, you'd be in my "office/computer room." Neither of these rooms is particularly interesting, which is why I left them out. So this concludes the tour. Hope you enjoyed it.

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