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About Chris Mikulas

We spent 10 years designing and saving to build the House on Bluebird Ridge not only as a comfortable Colorado cozy place to live and raise 4 kids, but as a warm, welcoming place for guests and people who need a place to stay. Over the years the house has been host to fundraising events, church events, school events, community events, and for 8 years, 50-70 high school kids every week for youth group. If the walls could talk! Great care has gone in to insuring the home “feels” casual, but is rich in comfort with upscale but not boastful or “stuffy” furnishings and amenities. We are told over and over again… “There is something about this house…it is so warm and inviting…I just feel the stress melt away when I am here.” As a family, we love the quite outdoors enjoy the serenity found on Bluebird Ridge as well as the wildlife you are likely to glimpse. Now the kids are grown and on their own and we are left with a big house that needs to have people, families, love and laughter grace its rooms again. So, we offer it to you. Come, be our quests and share in the blessing that we call home. We hope the house blesses you as much as it has our family. Bob & Chris

Why Chris Mikulas chose El Paso County

We fell in love with the Colorado Springs Area when we were dating and on a weekend trip. We found our way back here purposely and have enjoyed living in the area since 1985. If you like culture, Downtown Colorado Springs offers museums, festivals, music, art and diversity of people. If you like playing tourist, you have come to the right place and will have to come back every year for 20 years if you want to catch all the tourist destinations. If you love outdoors and nature, as we do, you might start packing now as you might soon be moving here yourself. Bluebird Ridge is just north of Colorado Springs by a 15 minute drive and just south of Denver by 30 or 40 minutes. We can be almost anywhere in less than an hour, including the mountains. It takes no time at all to pack the car with the fishing poles or snow shoes and hit the foot hills for some outdoor adventure. Or take a little more time to head up the pass to the mountains or take the local “back road” up the mountains for some real seclusion. Warning…if you don’t want to move here, you may not want to come visit.

What makes this House unique

We looked for property for years before we stumbled upon “The Forty” as we called it. It was surrounded by pasture land with no homes in sight and we had to cut in the ½ mile driveway and run power and gas lines to the house. Today, we still use the long driveway and wake to the neighboring rancher’s cattle mewing. The view to of Pikes Peak is still unobstructed, and we now have the benefit of having the upscale neighborhood of Kings Deer and the Kings Deer Golf Course nearby. When we were designing the House on Bluebird Ridge, we hit a wall. The architects kept coming back with traditional houses that felt like everybody else’s house. “Dining room on the right, living room on the left, family room to the back next to the kitchen, bedrooms upstairs.” While those are lovely features in a home, we realized that we left our traditional home almost every weekend and headed for the mountains to find a lodge like rental that made us feel close to nature, relaxed and stress free. BINGO….So we built one of our own and stopped leaving every weekend. We soon found that we were more relaxed coming home to “our home” then we were going on weekend trips to the mountains. It was an out of the box idea, but we built our vacation dream home to live in everyday. It has been wonderful. Close to town and only 5 minutes to the grocery store and restaurants, wide open spaces and 360 degree views, wildlife and a very special Colorado Lodge Style home. The 27 foot post and beam constructed Great Room with a dramatic stone-faced wood burning fireplace is open to the oversized gourmet kitchen, formal and informal dining areas, and is the “heart of the home”. The house is designed so you can see out the front and back of the house from most every room and adds to the open airy feeling. The Colorado Sky is amazing and with our high perch we can see the sky and horizon in every direction insuring beautifully sunrises, sunsets and spectacular lightning shows.