We have sold our pottery business and are just making lampwork glass beads and all that equipment will move with us. Our workshops are being finished to become family rooms and childrens bedrooms in the basement with a new full bath. The unfinshed masterbedroom is large enough for a great mother-in-law apartment.

We had our hearts set on selling this house to another potter. This home will be heaven for any home business large and small. If you are not an artist; we will move everything and these workshops can be easily turned into bedrooms and the glaze studio would make a great family room. The outside workshop could be a stall for horses or storage for boy toys. The kiln room would make a great tool room. Lots of possibilities! And if your art were painting, or stained glass, or even metal work; you will find incredible ease in adapting to our workspaces.

There are three indoor sudio spaces, an outside kiln room with seperate electrical box and and the larger swamp cooled covered raku firing area.

Raku Firing Area

Excuse the mess for the camera. Here is where the final work gets done in Raku. Propane fire, hand built fabric kilns with a few tricks of our own. We run 3-4 kilns at once off a large propane tank and splitters; using at least one as a warmer. Shelves, boxes, materials, tongs, gloves and lots of garbage cans. We can get 30-50 pots done in a full days session. The large swamp cooler and ventilation areas allow us to survive the whole process whether it is 100 degrees or 20 degrees outside.

Enclosed Raku Firing Area,

This large area is covered by a low pitch metal roof on 32' TGI's that are 14'' tall. They can handle huge snow loads. Inside is approximately 28' by 30' and all open with huge shelves at the back end at 8' in height. The open vented hi end stands 12' hi and is posted up by two large pipes and two cement filled columns with rebar. The side wall and one front half have huge screened windows for ventilation and can be closed off easily for wind break protection. Along the other side wall is a side shed that slopes away from the big room and is open to it. It is about 12' by 20' and has a wide screened window, large entryway for toys and a thru wall mounted shop swamp cooler that really puts out the cool. There is one exhaust fan above the adjoining Kiln room and places to mount others as needed. The kiln room electrical box can handle two kilns and 6 15-20 amp circuits. It is on a cement floor here and the walkway from the covered porch thru the walkway and into the big shop is cement too. But then for fire code reasons most of the firing area is dirt and fireproof around the propane kilns. A 225 Gallon propane tank is well located behind the shop and has a full tree of splitters and shutoffs and regulators with proper hoses to the four raku burner kilns. There is a full 15-20 garbage cans of all sizes and functions for raku. Tongs, gloves, bricks, furniture, fabric, wire and all kinds of shelves.

Glazing Studio & Glass Studio, Large Central Table and Shelves.

This great room is at ground level below the bedrooms. It is 16' by 28'. It has 6 large screened windows and an oversized back door of metal. Anything fits in here. There is a swamp cooler and a wall mount propane heater and a utility wash basin with a large shelf unit next to it. Above the glass making station is a full size exhaust duct system. There is Directv and phone. The 4 windows and 6' sliding door all face and open out to a covered porch that is 6' by 28' and then goes to the outside workshop. An all cement floor with one huge wall of shelves for our art materials and glass. Three wheeled display carts for multishelf storage of works in progress. The big central table that is easily cleared and adapted to the project of the day; blends into the two facing glass torch stations at the other end. Here too are shelves that sit below the two front windows that look out to Zion and the hummers and our water feature area. One long line of our glaze containers seems to take up alot of space but not really when it comes time to get glazing.

Re-modeling in progress as all clay is outside the house in the pottery studio, where all throwing, glazing and firing.

We are taking this area and enlarging the bath and laudry area. There is enough room here for two large bedrooms and a den. The stairs will be remove and run with the railing that is left to enlarge the room below the bedrooms. There are two large windows with unobstructed views straight at The Temple of Zion. Our basement is 960 square feet and has a 12' ceiling height. So, at the front portion I raised a strong deck up 4' and built stairs to it, (this will be turned). Now there is 4' of storage area underneath and this elevated view and clay room of over 300 square feet. There is Directv and a phone here too.

Outside Kiln Room.

This room is 8 1/2' by 10' and has a sloped roof to a large vented window and is totally rain proof. The shop Electrical box is here and has room for lots of circuitry. A great working computer fired kiln that has never seen glaze ware; only used for bisque. My second kiln is smaller and needs a new switch but i won't do it till i need too. There is a circuit for it now. And there is lots of shelving and kiln furniture here too.

Large NorthStar Slab Roller.

This slab roller has both the handle and wheel turning devices. Top of the line in size and performance.

Peter Pugger, De-Airing Pug Mill.

Such a workhorse for the single potter. I have barely worked it hard. It would easily keep up with a second potter. Mixes 40 pounds at a time and with practice you can spit out a perfect batch every time. Takes about 40 minutes to go from raw mix to the wheel.

Before picture of the remodeling we have been doing

This is where all of the packing for out going shipments are handled. Off this room is a bathroom with shower but no sink; and new washer and dryer, (this is changing to be a full bath and larger laundry room). The plumbing tree, water heater, water softener and boiler room for the furnace of the radiant floor heating system are next to that. A short set of stairs to the new bedroom area above the hidden storage. And there is a radiant baseboard heating system for the whole basement, including bedrooms, den and bathroom.