Desert Sage

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Note that many of the pictures are wider than the thumbnails which are cropped to align nicely.

The restaurant building has the following areas. Under each area are ways we might improve the space. The 2D Floorplan section may be helpful.

  1. Kitchen
    1. Redesign and overhaul
  2. Store (currently used as restaurant office)
    1. Has unused chimney, maybe add stove from #9; not sure as masonry heater may be enough
  3. Main dining area is accessed from front door, cinder block exterior walls
    1. Whitewash bricks
    2. Add masonry heater
    3. Remove forced air ducts and add walkway to clock tower with seating overlooking the downstairs.
    4. Add a pumping sound system
  4. Clock(less) Tower
    1. Add clock with Zodiac symbols
    2. Add stairs to addition over high part of main dining area or maybe raise the entire roof (skylights are over kitchen; dining area S of kitchen under the different colored roof), some of which is enclosed and some an open deck; use sliding glass doors for passage to deck; include pullout mosquito netting
    3. Add unused sliding door windows everywhere
  5. Restaurant has Guys and Gals Bathrooms
    1. Redesign to have shared sink, urinal in its own room and 2 individual bathrooms with sinks
    2. Use extra space for mop closet and slop sink, maybe expand Tiki Bar
  6. Tiki Bar which opens currently into the Sun Room
    1. Add counter and opening into Main Dining Area
    2. Larger sink
  7. Sun Room, an addition on the south side of the building that looks out on to a patio facing east and the floor is bricks over sand
    1. Use as a garden, spa, art space, etc.
    2. Add underground water storage on S side
  8. Apartment on the west side of the building, has 2 stories, 1.5 baths, access to water heater and forced air heater, downstairs W/D; wood framing and minimal crawl space
    1. Divide into 2 apartments
    2. Upper Apartment
      • Add exterior stairs to deck
      • Add a dormer if not raising the roof
      • Remove the WH and forced air heater and replace with point of use heaters and a masonry heater respectively
      • Add shower and laundry to half bath
      • Add a gas stove heater
    3. Lower Apartment
  9. Shed (8′ x 8′)
    1. Move shed out of there to make a patio
    2. Demo that fence too
  10. Casita (not sure, maybe 16′ x 16′) wood framed, likely slab with a ½ bath and huge water heater
    1. Add shower via adding tankless heater outside, using WH space and moving wall
    2. Put sink outside bathroom to be used in a kitchenette where small hall to bathroom is
    3. Add wood stove
  11. Parking Area
    1. Add gabion wall topped with juniper bushes and lit from below to replace the falling parking lights, and provide cover for the restaurant kitchen and casita entrances
    2. Add bricks where is currently dirt
    3. Add EV chargers (Colorado offers a grant, next application submission is in January)

Grants

  1. EV grant through Colorado
  2. Saguache County Tax Grants – can only find the recent recipients page
  3. Saguache Tourism
  4. Women Owned Business Grants: some are listed in this website

Kitchen appliances and tags (if available)

  • Prep station, 5′ long
  • Prep station tag
  • Garland 6 burner stove with griddle and 2 ovens. No tag found.
  • Hood above stove with fire suppression. No tag found.
  • Part of fire suppression system.
  • Long view of wash station. The HW line is about 60′ of 3/4″ pipe.
  • Pro Clean Dishwasher.
  • Pro Clean DW tag.
  • Kool-It 3 door, 6 1/2′ long
  • Kool-It tag
  • Glenco Guardian XL Series 3 door Fridge, 6 1/2′ long, not working.
  • Glenco tag
  • Turbo Air Fridge
  • Turbo Air Fridge tag
  • Not sure about this.
  • Baker’s Pride Oven, no tag, we are told this works.
  • Hobart Mixer D300 I think. They are 355lbs.
  • Food Processors and Rice Cooker?
  • Rancilio Z11 2 Group Espresso, needs maintenance, tag too worn to read.
  • Rancilio Coffee Grinder (maybe model MD 80 AT?)
  • Coffee and HW machines
  • Manitowoc Ice Maker, no tag visible.
  • Blue Air Fridge
  • Kenmore Fridge

2D floorplan view

  • Downstairs
  • Upstairs. Sits atop the N side of the apartment and bathrooms

Kitchen, Original Dining Area and the Sun Room

  • Looking west on south kitchen aisle, office is behind me, dining area to left
  • Looking east on north kitchen aisle, pantry 1 is behind and pantry 2 is to the left; pizza oven to right in S aisle
  • Pantry, to left is door to next pantry which has door to outside
  • Second pantry, leads to outside
  • Second pantry, east side
  • Pizza oven!
  • Looking north into the kitchen
  • Bathroom entrance to left
  • Kitchen to the right, Sun Room to the left, bathrooms ahead. Note the balcony above the bathrooms
  • View from upper apartment balcony
  • Sunlit front doors visible; doors to left are to office
  • The office 1 of 2
  • The office 2 of 2
  • Looking into the north half of the tiki bar, which is to the south of bathrooms
  • South half of the tiki bar, currently opens to Sun Room
  • In the Sun Room looking at the tiki bar shutters
  • The Sun Room itself
  • More Sun Room

Exterior and the two outbuildings.

  • Sitting area S of doors and visible from Sunny Addition
  • Inside Sunny Addition looking east
  • Inside the 2 room, 1/2 bath office

The original building has an apartment on the west side which houses the water heater and forced air heater and has 1 1/2 baths. It is wood frame construction for walls and floor.

  • Also has a tub & shower
  • West door view from bathroom
  • At the top of the stairs looking east towards the balcony
  • The stairs down are below the window
  • Looking west towards the stairs
  • Mechanical room with heater and WH