The master bed sits on a platform above a "garage" large enough for three bikes.
TAXES: $8,827 a year PROS: There is a large den and deep yard, and the master bed and bath are on the first floor.
"I don't go out that much" — and finally stopped in the master bed and bath, which included a claw-footed bathtub the size of her current office.
Hello Kitty had grandparents?' " Some things, like the revamped 19th-century master bed and the enormous farm table, are not so easily moved.
Just in case you forget where you are, Mr. Turner has hung a signed Warhol print of Marilyn Monroe over the master bed.
What is not apparent is that some of the most interesting parts of this home — the stained concrete kitchen counter and floors, the curving wood bathroom vanities and kitchen cabinets, even the master bed — were made by the couple.
The gourmeting of pet food arises from some of the same cultural shifts that have catapulted Rover from the doghouse to the master bed -- part of an "our pets, ourselves" mentality.
Or a master bed whose headboard doubles as a fish tank, like the one Clinton Portis, the former Washington Redskins running back, installed (at a cost of more than $100,000) after he bought his home in McLean, Va., in 2004.
Harouni, of course, became familiar with this ubiquitous man, who not only accompanied him on his tours of inspection but could be found morning and night standing on the master bed rewiring the light fixture or poking at the water heater in the bathroom.
Mr. Planken, who shares it with his wife, Macarena, and their daughter, Nicole, admits the quarters can seem tight — the master bed is a pull-out couch — but compared with the tent they camped in for years in the field that doubles as the hang-gliding landing site, their house is downright capacious.
A spin through the house becomes a trip of discovery: a dining table of irregular-shaped wood in trestle form, chairs in delicate organic forms, a master bed with a Shaker hymn carved into the headboard, the front board, a gospel song "Seek, Seek and You Shall Find".
