My house is situated on a peninsula that extends into the lake. We are a small private community of 21 homes.

On with the tour of my home.

	Here is the front door to the house. Let's start with a tour of the inside and then move on outside.
	This is a view of the living room. The entire main floor is done in a light colored wood. Over the fireplace is a print of a painting of the Interior of St Peter's Cathedral by Giovanni Panini. I had been looking for several years for a copy of this painting and finally found it a couple of weeks before I moved into the house.
	Here is a more close-up view of my Panini Print. For a high resolution copy to download, visit my Panini Page .
	This print is a detail from a much larger painting entitled 'Flora and Fauna' by Botticelli.  He is most famous for 'Venus on the Half Shell'.  Since I wasn't looking for a nude painting for my living room, this seemed like a better choice.
	This is a print of the Roman Coliseum as it would have looked in 300 A.D. I came across it in an art book I was reading. I searched on the internet for the author, Bruno Brizzi, and located a store in Rome that was selling the print .
	This is a set of prints I picked at the Library of Congress when I passed through Washington D.C. on vacation in the spring of 1993. The Vatican Library was putting on a special exhibition to say thank you to the Library of Congress for sending over several people to help them set up a card catalog system for their collection way back in the 1930's.
	This is a picture of dining room taken from the living room. The main floor is about 850 square feet and contains the living room, dining room, kitchen, and half bath. To maximize the floor space on a small lot, the rooms are not the traditional square shapes.
	The kitchen. The main floor has very high ceilings. In the kitchen this means that much of the shelf space is too high even for me to reach.
	On to the second floor. This floor has about 1200 square feet; two bedrooms, two baths, and a laundry room. This is a view of the master bedroom.
	The master bedroom is roughly 17 x 22 but trapezoidal shaped instead of square. It has a private 8 x 12 deck overlooking the lake. The picture on the easel is Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
	On another wall of my bedroom is this print, entitled 'Silver', by the painter Albert Moore.  He was English and most of his works date from the 1880's.
	The master bath has a Jacuzzi tube, a glass block shower, and a 12 x 16 walk-in closet with two built-in dressers.
	Another view of the master bath.
	My den, the room I pretty much live in. On the left side of this photo you can see my High Definition TV.  A 53" Rear Projection Pioneer.  On the walls are the movie poster from 'Clan of the Cavebear' and a poster of Yasmine Bleeth from 'Baywatch' and 'Nash Bridges'.
	Another view of the den. On the wall is one of my most recent art acquisitions, the movie poster from 'The Rocketeer'.  On the easel in the doorway is the 'Aakre Family Tree' chart that I created.  It covers my family history from the year 1200 to the year 2000.  If you click on the link above, you can access the Excel spreadsheet from which it was created. (If you are using Internet Explorer, select 'open' in the menu box that will appear to open the spreadsheet in your browser window.)  If you move your cursor over the beginning of a person's name, a box will pop up with more detailed information about that person.  The spreadsheet is very large, so you will have to scroll around to see all of it.
	'Scarlett on the Stairs' by Jeffery Barson. This is a limited edition (495 of 2950) print. The lady at the framing store told me that she has one of this artist's first prints, which is no longer available and is now worth $3000. Hopefully mine will appreciate someday also!
	An opposite view of the den showing my computer workstation.
	The guest bathroom.
	The guest bedroom on the third floor. The walls still look a little bare. This concludes the pictures inside the house.
	This is view of the back of the house from across the fjord. (Ok, most people would call it a channel but those of us of Norwegian descent use the more accurate term fjord which means a narrow inlet of water between steep slopes) From this angle you can see all of the decks on the backside. The uppermost deck is off of the master bedroom. The next is on the main floor of the house. The third level has another large deck. The lowest level is on the water where you can pull up a boat.
	Close up of the upper levels in back.
	Close up of the lower levels in back showing the water frontage.
	A more recent picture of the landing below my deck with the jet skis and the hoist I installed. Very convenient, at least when the water level in the lake is high enough to access my channel.
	A view of the lake from the main floor deck looking north. From here the area has a Californian feel rather than Texan.
	A view of the back of the house from the deck on the main floor level. The doors enter into the living room. The windows to the right of the barbecue are in the dining room.
	A view of the front of the house. The house is located on a short street that runs out onto a point allowing water access on both sides of the street. All of the houses on this street are required to have similar tan brick and blue roof styling. However the 21 houses are each custom built and unique on the inside.
	The street includes a community pool and a private marina.  This photo is a  close up of the community pool and spa. The pool and marina are on the other side of the street and about four houses down from my house.  The final photo below is a panoramic view of the lake when standing by the pool.  It was created by 'stitching' five digital photos together.