There is a lot to take in with Double Star Ranch, but here are some of the numbers and dimensions around the home and property. They are only approximate and not meant to be binding - but are hopefully useful for those who are not in the area and cannot tour it immediately, but who want to know about how big things are on the ranch.
- The Red Brick House is full brick, not veneer, and has bricks from the footing up to a band of white border near the roof of about a foot. The main bricklayer said he had never done a house like this since he lived back east, and he really wanted to never do one again! It's a very large amount of beautiful red brick, somewhere between 350 and 400 feet of outside perimeter of the house, with the longest length dimension of the home being 113 feet, and the each end being about 50 or so feet wide. The red brick was picked out in Salt Lake City at the factory showroom for the national supplier,
and was a color that was apparently not going to be continued in the future.
The Big Barn
- The Big Barn has 12 horse stalls, all with auto-watering. There are 8 under the metal roof part of the barn, with 2 that are extra large, and 6 that are medium sized. There are 4 more stalls in the block building, all the same size with square feet inside the building, and about that much outside the building in a fenced area.
Location Numbers
- The location of 2S Ranch is at the last 1/4th mile on the north end of Signal Butte R
oad, and all of that 1/4th mile is dirt road. The location is in a square mile of county, bordered by Signal Butte, Brown, Crismon, and McKellips Roads, with the Ranch in the far northeast corner. Being in the county and not a city means you have septic not sewer, and that you contract your own fire coverage, your own garbage service (many homes in the area get big bins for the horse manure to be better handled), and your own water supply. Well water is the water supply for almost all the houses in this county square mile - some houses a mile away from us get to tap into city water, and some of the older ones in the neighborhood (probably very, very few left) truck in water. The Red Brick House has a stand alone private well approximately 700 feet deep, with a 1500 gallon underground cistern and a 200 gallon pressure tank, for use by the Red Brick House and the Big Barn together.
Other Outside Areas
- The children / grandchildren areas include the large sand playground with deluxe playground equipment (4 swings/rings, a bumping slide, an elevated platform, a fireman's pole, a ladder climber, and a horizontal ladder "monkey bars")
- The firepit ring can hold about 100 people seated, and has hosted Boy Scout Court of Honor and Eagle Court of Honor ceremonies (including the shooting of a flaming arrow from the pit to the desert in some kind of ceremony that had us worried when it happened.) The biggest fire in the pit happened when one of the Ranch residents unknowingly thought dry Christmas trees don't burn unless you put gasoline on them. The thick, block fire ring contained the base of the flame very safely, but the rest of the flame looked like it was several stories high.
- Telescopes used at 2S Ranch have included a 10 inch Dobsonian, a 6 inch reflector, and a computer guided 5 inch refractor. Deep space objects can be seen from the Ranch using the Dobsonian, and there aren't many residents who haven't seen at least one falling star if they've had the patience to just sit and wait for one.
About the Red Brick House
- The Red Brick House and equestrian facilities cover about 2.15 acres, though if you count the un-deeded county land the property uses to the north, it is about 375 feet from north to south, by about 315 feet from east to west, give or take a little, which is about 2.7 acres.
- The Red Brick House is full brick, not veneer, and has bricks from the footing up to a band of white border near the roof of about a foot. The main bricklayer said he had never done a house like this since he lived back east, and he really wanted to never do one again! It's a very large amount of beautiful red brick, somewhere between 350 and 400 feet of outside perimeter of the house, with the longest length dimension of the home being 113 feet, and the each end being about 50 or so feet wide. The red brick was picked out in Salt Lake City at the factory showroom for the national supplier,
and was a color that was apparently not going to be continued in the future.- The Red Brick House was completed in March 2008, and is 4039 square in the home, not counting the garage. It has a 3 car garage that is approximately 46 feet wide, and 30 feet deep for 2 stalls, and 23 feet deep for 1 stall, all of them with extra tall garage doors to allow a large 12-passenger van entry. There is a covered under roof back patio of about 85 feet in length, with zigs and jogs from the back sliding glass door area to the far northwest corner by the garage. There is also about a 30 foot by 10 foot covered front porch at the top of the steps leading up to the entry door. All of this extra porch, patio, and garage area makes for a large amount of square footage under the roof.
A pre-construction floorplan is below. There were some changes done in construction, but the general layout is the same.
Some of the details from the floorplan are:
- The Red Brick House has 4 bathrooms as follows:
Master Bath: double sinks, a shower with extra lumbar jets and two heads, toilet in a separate room with shower, and a two person deep jetted tub.
Walk-Through Bathroom (from the bedroom hallway to the laundry suite): double sinks, separate toilet room, separate tub/shower room, skylight.
South bedroom bathroom (between the 2 south bedrooms): double sinks, separate toilet room, separate shower room (no tub.)
- The Red Brick House has 5 bedrooms, as follows:
* The Master Bedroom has double french doors out to the back yard and views of the National Forrest. The master bedroom closet is just wide enough to allow a full twin mattress to be set up on one end, so someone can sleep in the closet in a bed that is longways along the narrow edge of the closet - it's a handy place to hide for a nap that way. The length is about twice the width.
* The other 4 bedrooms were built extra large to accomodate more than 2 children per room (a necessity for the family), and are generally about 13 by 13 feet each, and 3 of them have walk in closets that have built in dressers and shelving in them.
- The Red Brick House has the following other rooms:
* A kitchen / family room combination that is very large. The combined kitchen / family room area was big enough to host an indoor wedding reception, with tables, chairs, and a serving area that worked very comfortably. The kitchen also includes a 15 foot by 4 foot back loading pantry. This means the cans roll down sloped shelves to be held by a lip, but are fed from doors in the back of the shelves, near the garage entrance to the home. The procedure is: bring food home in the car, step in the house from the garage and right there you unload everything to the back of the pantr
y along 15 feet of shelving back, then take it out from the front when it is needed.
* A den/office (which is the normal size of a bedroom but is just not used that way) off the kitchen/family room area, and the entry way. This has extra materials in the walls which allows it to serve as a very nice professional office.
* A "food storage room" with room for 2 standup refrigerators/freezers, and extra heavy duty shelving on 3 walls.
* A very large "laundry suite" (it has serviced a 10-child family) that holds 2 dryers and 2 washers and has cabinet fronts from floor to ceiling all along one wall, for sewing supplies that go with the built in sewing desk in that room.
- The air conditioning systems (which are very important in the Phoenix area) are two custom units that are part a two speed system, allowing it to run on the lower speed for maintaining the temperature and saving costs. They also have built in humidifiers to allow you to set humidity levels in the home. And, each bedroom has a separately ducted return air vent, with the outflow on the far end of the bedroom, and the intake by the door, to make for the most efficient and comfortable use of the systems.
- Appliances in the home are as follows:
* A double oven in the kitchen, with one of the ovens being a true convection oven, and all digital controls.
* A large water filtering system for the entire house, that self backwashes and is not considered damaging to the septic system of the home (water softeners and their discharges are generally considered damaging to septic systems.)
* A built in central vaccum system that has a special muffler to allow it to operate quietly in the garage without creating excess noise in the home. That is important because next to the garage is the 5th bedroom, that has been set up to be a home office and quieter than the other bedrooms.
* A central intercom system, complete with a television camera at the front door and viewing screen inside.
* Computer, phone, and coaxial cable wiring to every major room, with central hub locations at different junctions in the house.
A pre-construction floorplan is below. There were some changes done in construction, but the general layout is the same.
Some of the details from the floorplan are:
- The Red Brick House has 4 bathrooms as follows:
Master Bath: double sinks, a shower with extra lumbar jets and two heads, toilet in a separate room with shower, and a two person deep jetted tub.
West bathroom (in the west bedroom/bathroom suite area): single sink, toilet, tub/shower, skylight.
- The Red Brick House has 5 bedrooms, as follows:
* A 13 foot vaulted ceiling living room, with a remote control gas fireplace that has all the deluxe features, but most importantly the Superstitions view out its main window.
* A kitchen / family room combination that is very large. The combined kitchen / family room area was big enough to host an indoor wedding reception, with tables, chairs, and a serving area that worked very comfortably. The kitchen also includes a 15 foot by 4 foot back loading pantry. This means the cans roll down sloped shelves to be held by a lip, but are fed from doors in the back of the shelves, near the garage entrance to the home. The procedure is: bring food home in the car, step in the house from the garage and right there you unload everything to the back of the pantr
y along 15 feet of shelving back, then take it out from the front when it is needed.* Two refigerators side by side in the kichen, set up mirroring each other. They are not custom built in units, just standard extra large units that fit like built ins and look like the largest custom units available.
* A double oven in the kitchen, with one of the ovens being a true convection oven, and all digital controls.
* A built in central vaccum system that has a special muffler to allow it to operate quietly in the garage without creating excess noise in the home. That is important because next to the garage is the 5th bedroom, that has been set up to be a home office and quieter than the other bedrooms.
- The Big Barn has 12 horse stalls, all with auto-watering. There are 8 under the metal roof part of the barn, with 2 that are extra large, and 6 that are medium sized. There are 4 more stalls in the block building, all the same size with square feet inside the building, and about that much outside the building in a fenced area.
- The equestrian set up has: the 4 speed motorized hot walker, the large fenced corral, the outdoor changing bathroom for riders with an outdoor hot water wash down sink for horses, the feed/tack carport, the two south barn storage rooms with cement slab floors, and the finished executive office (not available to those leasing the home.)
Location Numbers
- The location of 2S Ranch is at the last 1/4th mile on the north end of Signal Butte R
oad, and all of that 1/4th mile is dirt road. The location is in a square mile of county, bordered by Signal Butte, Brown, Crismon, and McKellips Roads, with the Ranch in the far northeast corner. Being in the county and not a city means you have septic not sewer, and that you contract your own fire coverage, your own garbage service (many homes in the area get big bins for the horse manure to be better handled), and your own water supply. Well water is the water supply for almost all the houses in this county square mile - some houses a mile away from us get to tap into city water, and some of the older ones in the neighborhood (probably very, very few left) truck in water. The Red Brick House has a stand alone private well approximately 700 feet deep, with a 1500 gallon underground cistern and a 200 gallon pressure tank, for use by the Red Brick House and the Big Barn together.Other Outside Areas
- The children / grandchildren areas include the large sand playground with deluxe playground equipment (4 swings/rings, a bumping slide, an elevated platform, a fireman's pole, a ladder climber, and a horizontal ladder "monkey bars")
- The firepit ring can hold about 100 people seated, and has hosted Boy Scout Court of Honor and Eagle Court of Honor ceremonies (including the shooting of a flaming arrow from the pit to the desert in some kind of ceremony that had us worried when it happened.) The biggest fire in the pit happened when one of the Ranch residents unknowingly thought dry Christmas trees don't burn unless you put gasoline on them. The thick, block fire ring contained the base of the flame very safely, but the rest of the flame looked like it was several stories high.
- Telescopes used at 2S Ranch have included a 10 inch Dobsonian, a 6 inch reflector, and a computer guided 5 inch refractor. Deep space objects can be seen from the Ranch using the Dobsonian, and there aren't many residents who haven't seen at least one falling star if they've had the patience to just sit and wait for one.
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