Thanks to John and Monika Ryan for sharing their beautiful home at 10415 N. Bogus Basin Road in Boise. The property is secluded luxury, but close to town (Boise).
This is a spectacular single-story home with 5,790 square feet. The ornate security gate greets you as you pull in off Bogus Basin Road, which is the direct way to the Bogus Basin Ski Resort at the top of the foothills north of downtown.
This location is a quick 10-15 minute drive to the heart of downtown Boise. If you are a doctor at the downtown St. Luke's Hospital, you can arrive in plenty of time, but have your privacy and seclusion when it is finally time to go home.
This home is definitely built for entertaining with the larger great room/kitchen/informal dining and the formal dining room all open to each other. The spacious great room has a beautiful wood burning fireplace that can heat the entire area.
As you arrive, you will drive down an expansive concrete driveway there for years of great service to the front of the house. As you can see, there is an more than enough driveway to park your guests' cars for the large social galas you might have at your home.
Notice the four-car garage on the right. You could actually park more cars inside if you worked at it, and there is generous storage with shelving built in on the entire rear wall.
On the left side of this photograph there is a "boat" garage, although truth be told you could easily park four more cars in it, as well. So, whether you want to store your boat between excursions to the lakes and reservoirs nearby, or your car collection, you have room for them here.
This is the first view of your home that your friends and family will see as they walk up to the front door. The arch top of the entry is mimicked in the window above the massive front doors. The front doors and the door between the house and the garage are solid wood and are 2.25" thick.
The stone work and stucco on this home are magnificent. The tile roof will last fifty-plus years so the entire exterior was designed to be maintenance free.
The garage doors are covered with a solid-wood cedar approximately 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch in thickness and it gives a rich look to the exterior instead of typical metal doors.
The interior of the entry looks just as nice as the exterior. You see the arch way carried into the interior and the same solid look of the front doors.
Art, or in this case displays of John's fly fishing flies, are framed on either side of the entry and the Limestone floors extend down the hallway, across the great room, through the kitchen and informal dining room and into the large utility room.
There is a brief view of some crown molding at the top edge to this photo but you will see other photographs that show the custom ceilings throughout this home and the crown molding that is a part of each room.
The great room is massive, both in actual size but also in volume. There is room for a pool table between what you can see of the great room and the entry way. In fact, you can see the rack for the cue sticks on the photograph above.
The wood-burning fireplace has the capacity to heat the great room, kitchen and dining rooms. You can see the detail of the crown molding in the ceiling and the massive windows which allow a view of the acreage that surrounds this home.
There are built-in bookcases on either side of the fireplace and ample room for whatever size television you would like to have to the right of the fireplace. There is much space to push furniture to the outside areas and have a beautiful dance floor.
The wing to the east has an exercise room, which is currently being used with exercise equipment and set up for the wife's office at this time. There is a full hall bath with a large vanity, commode and roomy shower.
In addition, there is a door to a foyer that precedes the entry to the master suite through another door. In that foyer are expansive wall cabinets for additional storage as well as drawers below for additional storage. The builder indicated he has over $100,000 just in the cabinets in this house.
Then, you enter into the master suite. It has two separate atrium doors that exit to the covered patio at the rear of the house. This makes it easy if you add a hot tub on the back patio to have access to it from your bedroom.
The master suite is large. It has the same custom ceiling detail with the crown molding, as well as another fireplace. This one has a wood-burning insert that actually is interconnected with the furnace system to send warm air through the entire house.
There are bookcases on either side of the fireplace and, although you can't see them in this photograph, windows that allow you to see the city lights below in Boise.
There is plenty of space in the large master walk-in closet in the master bath which we will show you in the next photograph.
The master bath has expansive counters and two separate vanity units, including a sit down area for the lady to apply her make-up. In addition, there is a jetted tub and a walk-in shower.
At the end of the room, where the photograph was taken, there is a large linen closet as well. Again, the floors are of the durable and easy to clean Limestone.
There is a built-in drawer vacuum system that is attached to the central vacuum system. This drawer style allows you to place dust from make-up or other items right into the suction where it is carried off to be emptied later.
Although we didn't take a photograph of the office, it is set-up with a three-hole putting green which can be removed and they have the carpet to cover that area. There are built-in bookcases which also double as rifle storage if you have them. It sets up well for an office and is near the front door if you need to have people come and see you at home.
The guest or children's bedrooms are on the opposite side of the house from the master suite.
Each of these rooms has a built-in desk to make it easy to use for the student living at home. Each bedroom has a closet with organizer shelving and clothes poles for great storage.
Each bedroom has crown molding and views of the property's acreage.
All of the bedrooms have plenty of room for beds and dressers. Each of the rooms looks somewhat like this representative photograph.
Here's the picture of the kitchen from the informal dining area. You can see how these rooms open to each other and how there is an island with a curved breakfast bar with room for seven or so to sit.
You can see the nice built-in refrigerator in the background and the microwave and wall oven.
The Limestone floors are easy to care for and again add to the overall feeling of spaciousness.
The granite countertops are surrounded by Cherry cabinets which were stained with a black stain that stops the cheery wood from turning either red or yellow.
This next photo shows the KitchenAid eight-burner cooktop and two wall ovens.
The kitchen is the hub around which all the activity in the house happens.
You can see out the large number of windows and the views beyond them to the acreage surrounding the house, as well as a pond. This pond was designed to hold the runoff from snow and rain, and then pump that water back up to the sprinkler system on the yard around the house to create a fire safe zone.
Here's a photograph or the extensive covered patio at the back of the house. The windows on the right are the master suite and the center windows are the great room and informal dining. On the far side is the formal dining room.
The quality of this home shows on all sides. Just because you can't see the sides and rear of the house unless you walk around it, the builder extended the same finishes to the columns as they had to the columns at the front of the house.
This gorgeous home may be exactly what you have been looking for - well-designed and built by a craftsman with thirty-plus years of experience, mostly in this caliber of home.
Thanks again, John and Monika, for allowing us to see and share your home. Although listed with Coldwell Banker Tomlinson Group, I can assist you as your Realtor if you are ready to look at homes of this type. Call me at 208-409-7653. Or if long distance, call 800-330-8104 or e-mail me at Tim@TimBurroughsGroup.com.
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