Foyer

When you open the astounding copper double doors to enter the home, you step into a lovely foyer.

Welcome to Monarch Manor!

East Wall

The west wall has an antique pocket door that opens into the wall. Behind it reveals a staircase that leads to the lower level.

The east wall is a perfect place to put a hall tree or lovely bookcases, such as the antique ones that now stand there.

West Wall

Now you look down and see a delicate mosaic. Surrounding the mosaic are unusual octagonal tiles that came from Israel. These surround a lovely mosaic of butterflies in flight. The mosaic is made of 100% natural marble, all 22,700 pieces were hand cut. The butterflies are different colors and hues, but all very subtle. They are almost mesmerizing as they fly silently in the floor of the foyer. Butterflies on the crosses outside. A butterfly on the entrance doors. Now, butterflies scurry around your feet. Why the butterflies? The designer says she has two sons. One helped build the home and the other, who has “moved to Heaven”, helped design it. Rumor has it that he loved butterflies and that she has put a butterfly in every room.

Here, what you see are not commonplace machine-made tiles rolling down from an assembly line. They are artistic pieces from the ingenious hands, creative minds, liberated souls, and passionate hearts, with careful detailing and full attention to scale and proportion; they are vivid demonstration of the mosaicists' relentless pursuance for beauty and perfection; they are eloquent testimony of their devotion, dedication, and determination to carry on one of the oldest human crafts.

As your eyes come back up, movement catches you from above. You look up and see the movement came from you. An oval mirror is in the center of the ceiling, reflecting and enhancing, the movement of the butterflies below. Surrounding the mirror you can see where a different type of artist preformed his work.

A tiered design, subtle, because of it's location, and beautiful, because of its design, surrounds the mirror. A very elegant, teardrop chandelier hangs from the center of the mirror. The graceful tiers complement and enhance the mirror and the beautiful chandelier. For very bright light, when needed, can lights surround the design.

A teardrop over a butterfly? I wonder?

Dividing the Great Room from the Foyer are large beautiful columns. Custom woodwork adorns these large columns. Upstairs, you will find the same beautiful columns. In this Post & Beam home, both the posts and the beams are a lovely addition to the home.

Then your eyes follow upward and outward and you see your first look at the two story great room. But, that surprise awaits until you enter that room.

And this is just the beginning.....

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