The home has a large, unique greenhouse facing South, encouraging growth and blooming of plants and flowers all year around. The greenhouse is 12 feet long and 7.5 feet wide. It has 2 tilt-out skylights near the peak and 4 full length, sloping glass panels facing South, as well as 6 tilt-in bottom windows and 2 triangular, stationary glass panels on the sides.
The greenhouse has a door to the library and an exterior door to the West side yard All the glass panels are high efficiency, argon-filled, thermal panes and were just recently replaced with new panels and a new wood frame.
The interior timbers are oversized redwood beams, the walls are paneled with redwood planks. The floor is natural bricks and the area under the shelves supporting the plants is natural gravel.
The greenhouse has a small built-in electric heater for especially cold nights, which has not been used during the last 5 years. Normally the door to the house is left open during the winter and all the windows are closed, thus the temperature and the environment in the gree- nhouse is sufficient to support healthy growth of the plants all year around. At the start of the spring season the tilt-in windows are selectively opened for climate control. At the start of the summer the top tilt-in skylights are opened to ventilate the greenhouse. The beginning of the fall requires the closing of the tilt-in skylights and