Litchfield Park...

 

It's an upscale section in the Phoenix area.  Today, we went to the Litchfield Park Home Tour.  Dan did the graphic design for their brochure...

 Nicely done.  Besides a check, he got a couple wristbands (for entrance to the 6 homes featured in the tour).  The homes ranged in vintage from the 1960s to 2021.  I would describe this area as "classically elegant."  The homes that we toured are beautiful examples - sizes from 2,500 square feet to over 8,000.  It was fun to see how some of these have been beautifully updated, while keeping the classic exterior.

Some photos: an exterior...

A bedroom with the original brick...

Most of these homes were along the golf courses that are found in Litchfield Park.  Here's one view...

More exteriors...

The pool area at one house, alongside the golf course...

Back in the car, driving to the next house, this gorgeous row of palm trees...

The grande finale: the 6th home, most recently built, and huge (yes, the 8,000+ square foot one)...

Two RV garages!  That was just the start of it - a full gym, 2 sand volleyball courts, a sunken living room that opened to the pool area, with 24 linear feet of glass that completely open, a wine cellar, a custom chicken coop (air conditioned, of course) with fancy chickens (seriously, the first one I saw looked like a Maine Coon Chicken, followed by a Siberian Forest Chicken, and another that was wearing a coat of feathers that looked like something Liberace had worn.  No estate is complete without a "casita," that was bigger than our house.  Photos...

That's the living room above, open to the pool area.  And speaking of the pool area...

That bunch of horizontal things just left of center are built-in concrete pool chairs, allowing you to sit partially in the water.  That building at top center is a full bar and kitchen; yes, it is a swim-up bar.  The place went on and on.  They had people stationed around to give you directions.

It was an interesting tour.  The proceeds $25 per person for the wristbands goes to support the Litchfield Museum.  Dan has been doing their brochure for this since the inception of this fund-raising tour.

This is a beautifully elegant part of town.