Cambria Style - Fall/Winter 2010

FALL/WINTER 2010

AT HOME WITH

BOB KNIGHT Go behind the scenes with the coach and his wife Karen

GET GLAM With designer Billy Beson

DETAILS, DETAILS Sometimes you should sweat the small stuff

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LIVING STYLE

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Don’t sweat the small stuff, or so we’re told, but sometimes it’s the details that make the difference COVER STORY

At Home with the Coach

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Bob Knight and his wife Karen talk about their shared life, their passion for the great outdoors, and their love of Cambria RENOVATION STYLE

On the Cover:

Bob Knight in his new kitchen, in front of his chiseled edge Cambria countertop.

Photograph by Shelly Mossman

Grand Central Kitchen . . . . . . .32 A straightforward kitchen renovation turned into a significant remaking of this bustling family’s living spaces

‘My Cambria’ photo contest “Mark and Joshua love their Cambria with hugs + kisses.”

How do you love to live with your Cambria?

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TWO WAYS TO WIN! 1. MONTHLY WINNERS Each month photos will be posted for a chance to win a Flip Video Camcorder.

Go to facebook.com/CambriaQuartz to see recent winners.

2. GRAND PRIZE WINNERS One grand prize winner will be chosen for a trip for two to Palm Desert California and a new

Capture a moment showing how you love living with your Cambria and you could win a trip for two to California to visit Cambria’s Palm Desert Design Center where you can select a custom Cambria vanity top with Kohler sink and faucet.

ENTER + VIEW rules/details log onto: CambriaStyle.com/mycambria

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STYLE UPDATE IDEAS

Style Report

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Things to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

The latest trends in kitchen design, healthy living, and stylish additions for your home

For your home: Functional can still be beautiful

STYLE UPDATE ACCESSORIES

LATEST WORD

Finishing Touches

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Those perfect little extras that turn a space from ordinary to extraordinary

Word on the Street . . . . . . . . . .48 The latest news and notes about Cambria and the world beyond

STYLE UPDATE EXPERT ADVICE

LAST LOOK

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Inspiration

Ideas from designer Billy Beson on how to interpret glamour in your own style

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Final thoughts on those details that define our homes—and our lives

HOME FOOD

Fooling Mother Nature

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Even after the weather turns cool and those outdoor gardens go fallow, fresh herbs, grown indoors, offer a taste of spring

Herbal Artistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 A few dishes to show off your sage, taste your thyme, and kick back with a finish of your lemon balm

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FA L L / W I N T E R 2 0 1 0

Letter from the Publisher What an exciting new Fall issue of Cambria Style…. Billy Beson, like so many valued designers, is a designer dynamo and he shares his many great visions with creative ideas and some do’s and don’ts from Billy’s style….

Billy is a great guy and fun to listen to and read…. Bob and Karen Knight…. what a love story…. two great friends of ours and tremendous, down to earth people…. whose deep love and admiration for each other can be seen as easily in their Cambria kitchen as it is out on the Wyoming streams where they enjoy fly fishing together…. Bob and Karen, as people, really parallel our pursued virtues at Cambria: doing things right, pursuing perfection with vigor, extraordinary fairness, integrity unchallenged, a commitment to do all that we do at the highest level of performance possible, and a keen sense of the importance of education and learning for everyone…. New colors and looks abound as Cambria launches 21…. Some fun stuff from our very own Word on the Street and … Inspiration for all…

Enjoy!

Martin Davis

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PRESIDENT AND CEO

Martin Davis DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE + PUBLISHING

LouAnn Berglund Haaf EVP, MARKETING + RESIDENTIAL SALES

Peter Martin SENIOR MARKETING DIRECTOR

Randy Meier DIRECTOR OF BRAND MANAGEMENT

Summer Kath DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS

Stacia Smith Publishing Partner

TOUCHPOINT MEDIA, LLC CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Editorial

Steve Farbman

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

PRESIDENT Jim McEwen SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

David Jensen CONTROLLER

Linda Allison

Morin Bishop ART DIRECTOR

Barbara Chilenskas MANAGING EDITOR

Reed Richardson PHOTO EDITOR

Alan Gottlieb CONTRIBUTORS

Jill Kirchner Simpson

“Bob and Karen Knight.... what a love story.... two great friends of ours and tremendous down to earth people.”

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Compare and Contrast TZIREL KAMINETZKY/HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

High contrast kitchens are all the rage, as evidenced in the kitchen at left and the variant of the same theme above. While trendy, both also possess a timeless look, enhanced by the strong horizontal lines, the open shelving, and the simple palette that makes the kitchens seem fresh and new. Food is stored in a pantry, and the objects that do show are beautiful.

Minimize clutter but add modernist touches for a consistently contemporary look or more original handmade pieces to offset the cool machined feel.

MUJI Beige Porcelain stacks perfectly for good looking open shelves. Neat and sculptural—and on the cheaper side, too.

Weisshouse sells handknotted and hand-woven rugs (Orientals, gabbehs, kilims, soumaks, etc.) from Turkey, Tibet, India, China,and Pakistan that complement contemporary and traditional interiors alike. Weisshouse.com

Ittala Dahlstrom Tools 3-quart Casserole These casseroles are known for their superior cooking as well as for their modern appeal. The sleek stainless steel body, interior measuring scales, and solid heavy duty handles make these pots highly functional as well as stylish. Dishwasher and oven safe.

Suggestions Several of the Cambria colors are perfectly suited for this high contrast look, including (from top) Hazelford, White Cliff, and Nottingham.

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StyleReport Today it’s all about wellness, with fresh vegetables, antioxidants, local growers, and healthier cooking styles as the new cornerstones To Your Health The virtues of Matcha tea, the latest darling of the Can you say natural health antioxidants? movement, are This powdered green elixir, stunningly numerous: with its potent antioxidant exceptionally high capacity is a renowned antioxidant levels, said to inflammation fighter. forestall aging and minimize inflammation; high concentrations of one antioxidant in particular known as catechin EGCg, alleged to fight cancer; rich in chlorophyll, a pigment that helps to remove metals and chemical toxins from the body; and also containing L-theanine, an amino acid said to relax the mind and enhance one’s mood. Isn’t it worth a try? www.matchasource.com

Matcha Tea

Grace Young has created a sumptuously illustrated tribute to the many virtues of stir frying as it is practiced not only in China but around the world.

Filled with recipes, personal anecdotes, and all sorts of stir-fry minutia, this is a musthave volume for foodies in general and health-oriented veggie lovers in particular.

(Simon & Schuster, 2010)

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MATCHA TEA DARK CHOCOLATE POMEGRANATE BROCCOLI

*ORAC (oxygen radical absorbing capacity) measures the capability of antioxidants in food and beverages in units per gram

Kohler Vault Sink Guaranteed to deliver modern style and exceptional performance, the Vault fabricated sink features a low-profile rim for your choice of selfrimming or undercounter installation. Precise, tight corners and a nine-inch depth provide loads of room to work.

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OXO Uplift Tea Kettle Simply lift the tea kettle by its handle and the spout opens automatically. The soft non-slip handle is heat-resistant for added safety and a large lid makes the Uplift easy to fill and easy to clean.

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What is a CSA?

Keeping It All Fresh Wash, dry and refrigerate produce right away. This keeps it fresh and cuts down on prep time during “rush hour”

Community Supported Agriculture is spreading like wildfire from coast to coast. Fueled by the growth of local agricultural coops and farms, CSAs sell shares that entitle consumers to a box of vegetables, fruits, or dairy products—or some combination of the three—to be delivered on a weekly or biweekly basis. Some CSAs deliver directly to the consumer, others to a convenient designated pickup destination in the consumer’s community. Your local CSA will decide which products you will receive in each box based on what’s fresh that week so you can’t always be certain of what you‘ll receive, but you can be sure that whatever it is will have been grown locally—hence maintaining a minimal carbon footprint—and will be fabulously fresh. The cost varies from region to region, with the average cost of a weekly delivery falling in the $25–$50 range. To locate a CSA in your area, go to www.localharvest.org/csa.

From Farm toTable “...there are more signs that

A trio of helpers (from top): A chef’s knife (1) from Global, made to the exacting standards of Japanese professional cooks; a handy serrated knife (2) for small prep tasks from Kuhn Rikon with a red non-stick surface for slicing smoothly and efficiently without clinging; a two-in-one juicer (3) from Amco that offers a movable dual-sided (larger for lemons, smaller for limes) center plate.

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Make meal preparation quick and easy with the Micheal Graves Speed Prep Mandolin with multiple attachments to slice and dice to your most exacting requirements.Dishwasher safe.

The Windowed Canister Set by Poldar is attractive enough to leave on your counters or add a touch of style to your pantry or cabinets if you wish to stow it away. The horizontal windows provide easy viewing of the contents and the rubber seal on the lids create a tight closing every time. Brushed stainless steel construction. www.organize.com

Hide Pantry Renaissance No single option offers more opportunity to conquer the clutter in your kitchen than the pantry, which has made a major comeback in recent kitchen design for precisely that reason. Glassed doors, like those above, add a touch of class, and can be fitted with clear glass if you keep your pantry well organized with attractive storage vehicles, or opaque glass if you prefer to keep peeping eyes at bay.

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Organize Mix and match these stackable eco-friendly bamboo drawer organizers to create a custom solution for your kitchen drawers. Since they are stackable, you can use multiples inside deeper drawers. www.containerstore.com

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In order to maintain the clean, uncluttered look so valued by today’s kitchen designers, it’s critical to have effective—and stylish—ways to put everything away.

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These hand-woven Iringa baskets from Tanzania warm up any room and add a splash of color to offset otherwise muted palettes. Due to the hand-made nature of the product, the colors will vary somewhat. http://shop.canvas homestore.com

Ceiling Pot Rack Hang your pots and pans overhead for easy, space-saving access. Gray painted wood and brushed chrome frame, with sturdy metal grid shelf and 10 hooks. Rack arrives fully assembled with hanging hardware included. www.crateandbarrel.com

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The Maun Windsor Chair is hand crafted in Botswana using tried and tested traditional methods from sustainably harvested hardwoods. Use of a tight wood grain in the natural finish, as well as a dead matte finish further emphasizes the chair’s form. Like all Mabeo products, the Maun Windsor is made to be ecologically, aesthetically, and culturally sustainable, while bringing long term benefits to the local craftspeople and the community.

Designed by Patty Johnson. www.mabeofurniture.com

Hand Made Details With the demand for hand-made goods at an all-time high, more and more designers have come to recognize their distinctive contributions to today’s interiors. So it is only natural that new alliances and organizations have formed to support local artisans in less privileged communities around the globe and bring their high quality goods to first-world consumers. Here are two of the leaders in this effort: Aid to Artisans has spent 33 years creating economic opportunities for well over 100,000 artisans in more than 110 countries where their livelihoods, communities, and craft traditions are at risk. Over the past 10 years, ATA’s efforts have leveraged nearly $230 million in retail sales. This income has empowered 125,000 artisans in 41 emerging regions of the world and left behind an infrastructure that continues to support the artisan community long after ATA completes its mentoring. www.aidtoartisans.org The North South Project is a new model for design and craft collaboration in the developing world. Called the North South Project because of its reach across the global north/south axis, the project brings new product collections to Northern markets that are designed and made in the Southern hemisphere. Over the last two years, designer Patty Johnson has worked with partners such as Mabeo Furniture and Etsha Weavers in Botswana, and Wai Wai Weavers in the far south of Guyana. www.northsouthproject.com

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Decanters, antique bottles, serving trays, decorative bottle stoppers and glasses that are as unique as the people drinking out of them.

This season, add some sparkle to your parties with a bar that is as beautiful as it is functional.

For information on how to purchase products featured on these two pages, along with more ideas, go to cambriastyle.com/ featured-products

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Those perfect little extras that turn a space from ordinary to extraordinary PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HENKE

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HOME FRONT/RENOVATION

Whether you are doing the daily grind at your home office or in the office, jazz up your space with some beautiful and functional extras. Unique drawer knobs that renew a tired desk, an antique wooden box that offers a great place for housing memos and to-do’s, a letter opener that begs to be picked up, or a paperweight that puts a lid on that stack of fires to put out.

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Defining Details

Don’t sweat the small stuff, or so we’re told, but sometimes it’s the details that make the difference

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You’ve made the big, agonizing decisions for your kitchen: the cabinets and countertops, the appliances and island. But you’re not quite done yet . . . . There are still many details that need to be chosen, from faucets and hardware to backsplash and lighting. Before you get overwhelmed, the good news is that these are often the fun elements to select—the ones that give your kitchen personality.

Just as a distinctive piece of jewelry or a beautiful scarf can take an outfit from so-so to eye-catching, a few great design details can set your kitchen apart and make it feel polished, finished, and a little more special. We interviewed some top kitchen bloggers and designers, to get their advice on choosing the all-important finishing touches. Their collective wisdom is organized by category below. And even if you’re not renovating or building a kitchen from scratch, these are elements that can easily (and often inexpensively) be changed out to update and improve the look of your space.

First Things First “All rooms should have a narrative that ties them together,” advises Paul Anater, a kitchen designer in St. Petersburg, Florida, and author of the blog KitchenandResidentialDesign.com. “If you have an overall concept and style for the room, it makes all the smaller decisions easier. Don’t try to force something you saw in a magazine if it doesn’t fit your kitchen.” As designer Kelly Morisseau, CMKBD, of Walnut Creek, California, points out, “Not all products work well with each other. Each choice has a domino effect. For example, handmade tiles are quite thick, so they can impact how appliances like the cooktop are installed.” Morisseau shares her perspectives on design in her blog, “Kitchen Sync,” at kitchensync.typepad.com. “You don’t want to walk into a kitchen and say, ‘What a gorgeous tile,’ or ‘What a fabulous light,’ ” she adds.

“You want to say, ‘What a gorgeous kitchen!’ Stick to one or at most two focal points, such as a backsplash tile or dramatic light fixture.

In traditional kitchens you can get away with more detail. In a modern kitchen, you want to keep the details quieter and sleeker.”

That said, even the smallest detail can sometimes be a starting point and inspiration for the entire room. “I’ve designed kitchens around one or two pieces of tile,” says Morisseau. From there, “we chose colors and materials that worked with those tiles, which became a focal point in the backsplash.” In one case, a client’s pet rabbits even provided a spark of imagination: “We ended up putting tiny rabbit handles on some of the cabinet doors,” she says.

For a family that loved the beach, tiles with subtle, stylized seashell and wave designs in wheat tones went onto the backsplash and fireplace. “The homeowner had been told that seashell tiles were only for the bathroom! A lot of people get caught up in the idea that everything has to be done for resale. If you’re going to stay in your home more than four or five years, make it for yourself!”

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Lighting

Lighting can be an inexpensive way to add a lot of punch to a kitchen,” says designer Cheryl Kees Clendenon of Pensacola, Florida, who blogs at KitchenDetailsandDesign.com. “A beautiful fixture over an island can make all the difference in a room. But lighting is often misunderstood—even by designers.”

Accent lighting can highlight a focal point, such as a collection of pottery, or the interior of glass-fronted cabinets. Designer Sarah Lloyd in Los Altos, California, points out that if you’re going to light glass-front cabinets, it’s best to use glass shelves or sash shelves (glass with a wood front), so that the light flows through the whole cabinet.

Pendant lamps over an island or a dining table, can provide an important decorative element, whether it be hand-blown Murano glass shades that provide a hit of color, or a dramatic wrought-iron lantern or chandelier over a table. Lighting can be a good place to try something a bit more modern.

In California, regulations now require that at least 50% of the wattage comes from fluorescent or energy-efficient lighting, though LED lighting is starting to provide more stylish options. “Some of the LED pendants use only 5-6 watt bulbs, so the energy savings are tremendous,” notes Morisseau.

Sarah Lloyd, author of the blog KitchenClarity.com, points out that light switches, particularly in a tile backsplash, are an important detail to consider as well. “We often place outlets closer to the countertop, and turn them horizontally, so they don’t disrupt the design of an accent or linear tile,” she says. “Electricians tend to automatically place them at 42 inches from the floor, which falls right in the middle of the backsplash.

If you specify where they should be placed ahead of time, they’ll look much less intrusive.”

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Clendenon and most designers recommend thinking in terms of“layers”of lighting:Task lighting is essential, which usually includes under-cabinet lighting and focused lighting over the sink, island (above) and any other workspaces. Then general lighting, such as recessed can lights in the ceiling or hanging fixtures, can add ambient light to the room. Finally, accent lighting can serve to put a spotlight on a beloved decorative item or collection.

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Hardware

Drawer pulls and cabinet knobs not only help communicate the style of a kitchen, but as one of the elements you touch most often, their quality and feel in the hand are essential.

There’s no rule that says all knobs or even all the metals must match. “I always tell new clients that there are no rules, as long as it looks like you’ve done it on purpose,” says Paul Anater. “We start with function, and make up logical rules for the room as we go. For example, anything with a hinge and a door might get a knob, and anything that pulls out gets a handle. If a drawer is wider than 24 inches, then it gets two handles or cup pulls. These should coordinate but they don’t have to match.”

“You don’t have to match the metal of your cabinet hardware to your faucet,” says Cheryl Kees Clendenon; “you should match it to the finish on the cabinets. For example, we’ve mixed pewter hardware on off-white cabinets with black iron pulls on a greenpainted island.”

“Designers talk about hardware being the jewelry of a kitchen, but it also has to be functional,” reminds Kelly Morisseau. “Watch out for sharp edges and corners that might pull on clothing, or drawer pulls that are so shallow you can’t fit a large hand in them.

I’ve also seen square or oval pulls that won’t stay in place. It’s frustrating if you have to constantly adjust them.”

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Faucets & Sinks

“A bamboo sink, a farm sink carved from a large piece of stone, or even a glass sink can throw in an unexpected curve that sparks conversation and makes the kitchen a little more interesting,” says Ann Porter.

“You should buy the best sink you can afford, because it’s very difficult to change your sink without changing out the entire countertop [if it’s been cut out for an undermount sink], so you’ll be living with it for a long time,” points out Clendenon. “Thin metal will get dented easily and make more noise. Opt for sturdy 18-gauge stainless steel or a solid composite sink that matches your countertops. I like a deep single bowl that can handle large pots and pans; you can add a strainer for more delicate items. The double sinks with a little bowl for the garbage disposal don’t make practical sense to me.”

Faucets are another essential where you shouldn’t skimp. “Faucets are one element where price is closely related to quality,” says Paul Anater. “A $150 faucet is one you will replace in two years. A $500 faucet is a oncein-a-lifetime purchase. Choose a faucet in a showroom where you can touch them and try them out, and stick to brands with a good reputation.” A well-designed faucet has an almost sculptural quality. Clendenon especially likes Brizo faucets because they have a magnet that brings the pull-out spray back into place.

Sometimes a kitchen’s most functional elements can add a surprising touch of elegance like Kohler’s Purist faucet (below) or the company’s white porcelain sink (above).

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Backsplashes and countertops offer a wonderful opportunity to add color and character to your kitchen, with ceramic (1), glass (2), and mosaic tile (3) all popular choices for the backsplashes, as is Cambria’s Dovedale (4), from the 2011 collection, which gives a sleek, polished look, with no maintenance needed. Artisanal ceramic tile (5) adds texture and depth to an otherwise two-dimensional surface.

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Countertops &Backsplashes

To add interest to your countertops, consider an edge treatment, such as an ogee or a more natural chiseled rock edge. Or, advises designer Lyn Peterson, author of Real Life Kitchens, create a thicker edge on your island for a simple yet dramatic look. “Keep the perimeter countertops the standard ¾ or 1¼ inches, and then laminate the edge of the island countertop to create the illusion of a 2½-inch-thick slab.”

“The options for backsplashes are unlimited,” notes designer Ann Porter, who pens the blog KitchAnn Style at annporter.wordpress.com.

“There is an almost infinite range of tiles available, or you can use backpainted glass, which has no grout lines, for a very clean look; metal or plaster. Antique mirror is a finish I’m having fun with right now.”

Kelly Morisseau is using metallic-finished acrylic liner tiles (lightweight tiles painted to look like metals such as oil-rubbed bronze) on the backsplash or as a liner tile set just below the crown molding.

“The backsplash is a great candidate for emphasis,” says Paul Anater. “You can do a mosaic, or glass tile—which doesn’t have to be colorful: There are some stunning neutral glass tiles for walls. If you do opt for a bright backsplash, it should be the only colorful element, or else it will create too much ‘noise’ in the room.”

For a very clean, seamless look, consider continuing the countertop material vertically as a backsplash.

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“Sleek, natural cherry cabinetry with simple hardware is elegant...truly timeless”

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Cabinets

While many designers like the idea of using some glass-fronted cabinets or open shelves to break up an expanse of upper cabinets, they also point out that it can be difficult to keep open storage as perfectly styled as it looks in magazines. One solution: Choose glass doors that aren’t crystal clear, but rather use glass that is reeded, seeded, feathered, or obscured in some way. “There are probably 100 different glass inserts you can use in cabinet doors,” says Cheryl Kees Clendenon.

That way you can enjoy the open and airy effect without needing to channel your inner stylist every time you unload the dishwasher.

Another option to add interest: Mix up the planes—choose cabinets of different depths, or add some horizontally hinged doors in place of some vertical ones, suggests Paul Anater. Kelly Morisseau has added wood corbels beneath cabinetry to add detail.

“Open shelving is great,” believes Ann Porter. “It creates a place where you can add your own personal touch with pottery or china you’ve collected or inherited.”

A furniture leg or foot on your island or sink cabinet can add depth and detail to base cabinetry. Lyn Peterson suggests adding “a furniture base—like the base of a buffet or dresser, with a deep piece of molding—on three sides (not the prep/working side) of your island. It creates a handsome finish.”

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From colored glassware to brightly hued bowls, collected objects lend a personal feel to your kitchen as well as adding a splash of color to a sometimes too muted space. Flooring offers another opportunity to express yourself and round out your kitchen palette—choices to consider include bamboo (1), porcelain (2), stone mosaic (3), and cork (4).

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Paint

“It takes some bravery to paint the walls a different color, but it really can make the whole room pop,” says Morisseau. “If the client has a piece of art they love, I’ll see what colors I can pull from it that will work with the room, whether it’s a soft blue or deep okra.” Paint is certainly one of the least expensive ways to make a big impact in the kitchen.

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Artwork& Collections

“I love to hang art in kitchens,” says Paul Anater. “It doesn’t have to be expensive—if it helps tell the story of the people who live there, it offers a tremendous avenue for self-expression and personalization. Instead of hanging a mass-market plaque that says ‘Cappuccino,’ go to a community art fair and get to know a local artist whose work you like. Or frame your children’s artwork or hang a gallery of black-and-white family or vacation photographs.”

“I really like it if we can leave some empty space in the room, where clients can hang a piece of art or a beautiful clock,” says Sarah Lloyd. “It’s often nice to add open shelves in the dining area of the kitchen for collections of things you actually use, like mid-century teacups. It’s your kitchen—let it reflect your personality!”

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“If ceilings are said to be ‘the fifth wall,’ floors are the sixth wall, and shouldn’t be ignored,” says Kelly Morisseau.

“I’ve laid a wood floor on a 22degree angle in a galley kitchen to make it look larger, and I love wood inlay borders and tile “rugs,” which you often see in 1920s and ’30s homes. Here in California, where there is a lot of Spanish and Mediterranean influence, we often use terra cotta floor tiles, with brightly colored 1” x 1” ‘dots’ at the corners.”

“I’m a big fan of area rugs,” says Paul Anater, “because floors are forever. Cutting in a border pattern on the floor may not look good in ten years, but you can easily change out a rug on top of a wood or travertine floor.”

“The most overlooked area in a kitchen is the ceiling,” notes Ann Porter. “A room with a ceiling treatment looks the most finished to me, whether it has beams; added texture through grasscloth; a little bit of color, or even just a high-gloss paint finish, which can make a room without much natural light appear brighter and more lively.”

“In some form or another we are all collectors.

We have been since the cradle.”

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At Home with the Coach Bob Knight and his wife Karen talk about their life together, their shared love of the great outdoors, and their new Cambria kitchen

BY R E E D R I C H A R D S O N WITH PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHELLY MOSMAN

FOR BOB KN IGHT AN D H IS WI FE, KAREN, TH EI R HOME

is their sanctuary. Located on a quiet street on the outskirts of Lubbock, Texas, the Knights’ unassuming three-bedroom, two-and-half-bath ranch-style house offers little clue from the outside of his record-breaking career as the winningest men’s college basketball coach in NCAA Division I history and, aside from family and close friends, relatively few visitors ever set foot inside it. Those that do, however, find that the expansive layout and abundant use of natural materials such as wood, slate, Cambria, and copper bestow a warm and peaceful quality to the house. Indeed, the Knights’ home functions much like a recharging station for the busy couple, who sometimes spend up to three weeks out of every month traveling, despite his having officially retired from coaching nearly two years ago.

And that’s why, when the couple isn’t on the road because of vacations or his current job as ESPN basketball analyst, Karen says they enjoy simply spending time at home.

To realize this notion of home-as-retreat, Karen has designed a house that is an intensely personalized space. It’s a look that bespeaks the couple’s shared love of the outdoors and, at almost every turn, it tells a story about them. The home’s limestone entryway, which still bears the imprint of fossilized leaves, was quarried near Bozeman, Montana, a favorite vacation spot. The black leather saddle mounted atop a barstool near the kitchen once belonged to Karen’s brother, who passed away tragically at age fourteen. And of the two rock doorknobs that open up Bob’s fishing room, one was taken from the Wyoming stream where Bob Knight first taught his wife, Karen how to fly-fish.

“I’ve always wanted to live in the mountains but since my husband doesn’t like cold weather, we’re never going to live there,” explains Karen, whose voice still bears the sweet and gentle, flatlander twang of a native Oklahoman. “So, instead I put a lot of the mountains into our house.” This gives the interior of her home more of a classic look, even though the house itself was only built in 2002, a year into Bob’s tenure as Texas Tech head coach. After a family friend introduced her to Cambria, she says it became the logical choice to use as her new home’s kitchen and bathroom countertops, as well as in a shower stall and in Bob’s infamous “fishing room.” “Since Cambria is natural quartz, from the earth, and doesn’t require a lot of chemicals for upkeep,” it fit perfectly into both their natural decor and the Knights’ active lifestyle, Karen says. “Its natural beauty appealed to me.”

Her husband, who is quick to give full credit to his wife for decorating their home, agrees. “I think anybody that’s ever been in our home has been impressed by the way Karen designed everything, not the least of which is all the Cambria we have throughout the house,” he says. “People never fail to remark about how good it looks and how well it fits. It’s natural, the real thing, from nature—I like that.” That’s quite a compliment from a man who does not offer them lightly.

“When we were contacted by Bob and Karen about Cambria,” says Cambria President and CEO Marty Davis, “we were excited to be a part of Karen’s vision to bring nature into her home. The Cambria had to complement all the other natural elements inside. Having gotten to know Karen, and how meticulous she is, keeping things very nice, orderly

For the Knights, who still sometimes travel up to three weeks out of every month, their home is a place to recharge and relax.

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and clean—we knew our product performance would please her.

When she was so complimentary of the product’s beauty, we knew we had really pleased the Knights.

“They are great people and were a joy for all at Cambria to work with. Our field crews were especially impressed when the most successful all-time college basketball coach, the Bob Knight, personally picked them up at the airport himself, and took them out that night for a good old Texas barbecue dinner. They were just thrilled.”

So with all that good karma, when the Knights replaced their kitchen cabinets this past spring, Cambria was a must. Karen wanted Cambria featuring a chiseled edge, Bob initially objected. “She asked me for my opinion and I told her I liked the smooth edge better,” he says. “Eventually, she divided the countertops up between the smooth and the chiseled edge and the mixture of the two looks very good.”

Karen wholeheartedly agrees, calling their Cambria “absolutely beautiful,” before dryly adding, “Of course, he made a lot of little, smart-aleck comments about the rough-edged countertops to the Cambria guys who installed it, just for fun.”

“Nothing I’ve ever done...has provided me with more enjoyment than flyfishing has.”

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around the house? These are images of Bob Knight that don’t neatly line up with what some people may know or, more likely, think they know about him.

OUTDOORS AND INSIDE Yes, there is the fiery and driven side of The sign and engraved-glass Bob Knight that, for nearly three entrance (left) welcome visitors decades, was the very public and very to Bob’s fishing room, where successful face of Indiana basketball, numerous mementos from striding around courtside in his tradefriends, as well as a wide array mark red sweater and winning three of rods, reels, lures, hand-tied national titles along the way. Sure, his flies, etc., all attest to Bob’s relationship with the press and game passion for fly-fishing. The photo, opposite, top, was used officials during his long coaching career on a Christmas card from the could often be, shall we say, spirited. (A couple, which included this favorite quote of his skewering the sign-off from Karen: “Love, media goes something like: “All of us Karen and her retrievers … see learn to write by the second grade, then dog in corner right.” most of us go on to other things.”)

Numerous rocks like the one When it comes to public figures, opposite, upper right, adorn though, what most people really know the Knight’s home, all inscribed about them doesn’t add up to much.

by Karen with notations of where Those who aren’t afraid to chart their they were found. The Knights’ entryway bears the imprint of own course or speak their own mind fossilized leaves (right). often lose the most in this transaction.

For every sports highlight reel of technical fouls called on Coach Knight over the years, he has thousands of private letters from former players, students, and parents who speak highly of the huge life lessons he imparted to them, whether in the classroom, on the court, in the locker room, or in their various contacts. Bob Knight helped people grow and be better prepared for the life in front of them. A few of his off-the-cuff interview responses may have prompted a headline, but the public heard relatively little about the times he donated tens of thousands of dollars to his college’s library fund, refused his $250,000 base salary because he blamed himself for his team’s sub-par season, or visited a Blooming-

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Bob Knight: By the Numbers BORN October 25, 1940, in Massilon, Ohio RAISED in Orrville, Ohio, where he letters on the high school basketball and football teams PLAYS on Ohio State’s 1960 national championship basketball team as sophomore reserve

BEGINS basketball coaching career in 1962 as the junior varsity coach at Cuyahoga Falls High School, outside of Akron, Ohio

ENLISTS in the U.S. Army in 1963 and takes assistant basketball coaching position at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point

PROMOTED to head basketball coach at West Point in 1965 at the age of 24, becoming the youngest head coach in Division I history GUIDES Army to 102 wins, a .671 win percentage, and four postseason tournament appearances in his six seasons as head coach between 1965 and 1971 MOVES to head coaching job at Indiana University in 1971 CLAIMS the first of 11 career Big Ten conference championships and the first of six career Big Ten Coach of the Year awards while taking Indiana to the NCAA Final Four in 1973

NAMED National College Basketball Coach of the Year in

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FAMILY REMEMBERED The Knights’home has numerous mementos of their past including photos of Bob with his grandmother, Sarah Henthorne (left), and with

his dad Pat (middle,left,and middle right),who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad,and of Pat and his mother Hazel (right),who was an elementary school teacher. .

The black leather saddle (right) once belonged to Karen’s brother, who passed away tragically at the age of 14.

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1975, the first of four such awards during his career, after leading Indiana to an undefeated regular season and the NCAA regional finals

WINS first national championship at Indiana in 1976 after his team goes 32–0, marking the last time any college basketball team has gone undefeated for an entire season EXPANDS his coaching

It’s a look that bespeaks the couple’s shared love of the outdoors and, at almost every turn, it tells a story about them.

In addition to all the fishing gear, Bob owns a large collection of guns, proof of his passion for another outdoor activity: hunting

ton hospital to help a Hoosier fan who was in need. And though Coach Knight has never shied away from openly criticizing the NCAA and its sometimes Byzantine rules governing studentathletes, his unsurpassed reputation for never cutting corners when it comes to following those rules as well as his four-year player-graduation rate of 98% while at Indiana stands in stark contrast to a seemingly unending stream of college sports dropouts, recruiting violations, and vacated victories. Bob Knight is simply the most honest, ethical coach to ever coach college athletics: If there are others who are as honest, they can only equal—never surpass—him.

In some ways, it is a bit surprising, but less so perhaps when you think about it, that as a child, Knight chose to idolize legendary Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams. It’s surprising, because Knight, who grew up in a small town in northeast Ohio as a devoted Cleveland Indians fan, rarely saw his hero and, when he did, Williams was always sitting in the visitor’s dugout.

It’s fitting, though, because the supremely talented Williams embodied many of the same personal characteristics that Knight later became known for: uncompromising work ethic, unquestioned honesty, unfailing loyalty, and a deep-seated patriotism. To be sure, there was also that similar sense of not suffering fools gladly, which could manifest itself as an arm’s-length relationship with fans and the press. But there was also one other thing they came to share as well: a love of fly-fishing.

“Nothing I’ve ever done or been exposed to has provided me with more enjoyment than fly-fishing has,” Knight pointedly wrote in his autobiography. And his reasons for liking it run the gamut: “I just like the whole aspect of it, beginning with being outdoors, and the pristine quality of the places where you fish, the serenity, the scenery, and that you’re kind of playing a game with the fish. You catch a fish just like you’re trying to beat another team.”

As proof of his dedication, he notes that, since making his first fly cast in 1972, he has yet to skip a year in his annual

repertoire to include international play in 1979, when he coaches the U.S. team to gold at the Pan American Games

WINS second national title with Indiana in 1981, defeating coaching legend Dean Smith’s North Carolina Tar Heels in the NCAA Final REPRESENTS his country as the U.S. team’s head basketball coach at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, wins gold while coaching future Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing WINS third national championship at Indiana in 1987 after a last-second shot by Keith Smart defeats Syracuse by one point RECORDS his 500th career victory in 1989, his 24th season as a head coach

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FINISHES his 29-year tenure at Indiana in the fall of 2000, having compiled a .734 win percentage and winloss record of 661–240 while at the school

ACCEPTS job as the new head basketball coach at Texas Tech in spring of 2001

NAMED the Clair Bee Coach of the Year in 2002 for his positive contributions to the sport TAKES Texas Tech to a postseason tournament his first four seasons as head coach BREAKS the all-time NCAA men’s Division I record for head coaching wins with his 880th career victory in early 2007 SETS a new NCAA Division I record in 2007 when he makes his 28th appearance in the NCAA tournament as a head coach

RESIGNS in the middle of the 2007–08 season, after compiling a lifetime 902–371 winloss record and having had only two losing seasons in his 42 years as head coach SUCCEEDED as head coach of Texas Tech by his long-time assistant coach and younger son, Pat HIRED as ESPN college basketball analyst three weeks after stepping down from Texas Tech

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One of the doorknobs that open up Bob’s fishing room was made from the very rock where Bob first taught Karen how to fly-fish in a Wyoming stream.

sojourn to the trout streams of Wyoming or Montana. It was thanks to this demonstrated passion for the sport, along with a valued introduction from a mutual friend, Sid Hartmann, the legendary, nationally renowned sports columnist from Minneapolis, that Knight was able to meet and become friends and fishing buddies with his childhood hero, Ted Williams. Since then, Knight has had occasion to fish, hunt, and golf with many other famous figures, everyone from astronaut Neil Armstrong to former President George H.W. Bush to King Juan Carlos I of Spain, but perhaps his best and most oft-told fishing story involves his wife, Karen: “[TV sportscaster] Curt Gowdy and I were going to go fishing in Wyoming, but Curt called me up and told me it wouldn’t be possible for him to make the trip. So I decided to call a few other people to see if anyone wanted to meet me in Cheyenne. After I called about three or four different people, I started looking over at Karen, who was sitting nearby. After about the seventh try, with no luck, I finally said, ‘Well, Karen, how would you like to go fishing with me?’ She said ‘You know, I’m getting to the point where I think I might. I’ve watched you fly fish and I think I might really enjoy trying it.’ So I said ‘Would you like to go with me on this trip to Wyoming?’ and she said, ‘I would, and it really pleases me that I’m the first person you asked to go.’”

Nearly two decades later, Bob still chuckles at his wife’s not so subtle way of puncturing any “Husband of the Year” pretensions he might have been harboring with his D-list invitation. Now married for 22 years, Bob clearly relishes the spark that Karen brings to their relationship. “Karen is simply the best person I know,” says Bob “she is just a wonderful person.”

But they share more than just compatible personalities and a love of the outdoors; they also have similar resumes.

Like Bob, Karen grew up playing sports and was bitten by the basketball bug in high school. And like Bob, after college, she funneled this energy into becoming a highly successful coach. In fact, theirs may very well be the only home in Texas, probably in the country, that is home to two Hall-of-Fame basketball coaches, husband and wife. That’s because before she met and married Bob, Karen coached the Lomega High girls’ basketball team to three state championships in the 1980s (which also included an undefeated season) and was subsequently inducted into the Oklahoma Girls’ Basketball Hall of Fame.

“Because of that athletic ability and her tremendous desire to do things well as a coach, she took to fly-fishing right away,” Bob explains. “The most enjoyable part of all of it is that now Karen is involved with it alongside me. She likes it, she’s good at it, and it’s something that we can do together and we have, all over the world.”

“It’s one of the best things he’s ever done for me,” Karen says, echoing her husband and pointing out that they now schedule two, 10-day fly-fishing trips together each year. “We have a great time fishing together. It’s good exercise and it’s almost always beautiful scenery.”

Blessed by a relationship filled with shared interests, mutual respect, and lots of love, it is clear that the Knights are in a contented, happy wonderful place in their life. So, when Bob, 70, is asked about whether he’s open to coaching again, the idea of uprooting himself and Karen prompts him to wax a bit philosophical.

“I know for sure that I’d like to fish again,” he says, chuckling.

“If an opportunity for coaching came up, I’d have to weigh what kind of opportunity I thought it was. If I thought it was an oppor-

One of Bob’s friends and idols was Ted Williams, whose portait sits in the Knights’ home.

tunity that I would enjoy that has the right ingredients in it, then that might be something that I would do. It’s kind of like fishing.

If a guy says I’d like to take you fishing in so-and-so creek, well I don’t want to go there, so I don’t go. Someone else might say ‘I’d like to take you fishing at such-and-such stream,’ and I say, ‘Yeah, that’d be good,’ because I know something about it and I’m not going to go there and cast lines for three days and get nothing. So, it’s the same thing with coaching. It has to be a situation where there’s some part of it that I would really enjoy, an opportunity to win, and be in a place where I would enjoy living.”

Of course, everyone at Cambria is enormously proud of how much the Knights enjoy living right where they are in the present, in some small part due to the Cambria that adorns their home. That striking Cambria is of a piece with the many natural objects in the Knights’ home that surround them and remind them of who they are. Perhaps nothing exemplifies this better than their massive, dining room table. Built from a single rough slab of a 150-year-old Juniper tree trunk, the rugged piece of furniture exudes simplicity and solidity. For Bob, the table is a favorite because of its natural beauty and the careful craftsmanship that went into building it. Karen is very fond of the table as well, but sees something else to love about it. “You know, I think people are basically imperfect, so I like that it has holes and knots and imperfections in it and places where it’s not totally symmetrical,” she says. “I could have had it finished, but I didn’t want to. I just left it like that because I like the naturalness of it.” When you’re home, in other words, what you see is what you get, which is exactly how Bob and Karen Knight like it.

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A straightforward kitchen renovation turned into a significant remaking of this bustling family’s living spaces B Y R E E D R I C H A R D S O N WITH PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HENKE

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T H E O W N E R S Debbi Pavelka, a hair stylist, her husband Andy, an inside sales manager for an IT firm, their two sons Ben, 12, and Alex, 10, and their daughter Sophia, six.

T H E P R O P E RT Y A two-story traditional home

located on a cul-de-sac a few miles west of downtown Minneapolis. Inside, the threebedroom, four-bath home has an open, contemporary layout with a dining room, living room, family room, and kitchen as the primary entertaining spaces on the ground floor.

G E T T H E LO O K The four-by-ten foot island countertop is Cambria Oak Hampton and the perimeter counters and backsplash are Canterbury from the 2011 Cambrian Collection..The contemporary, four-pendant light fixture hanging over the island is from the Minka Lavery Acquisitions collection.The stools are Bradley Backless and the island’s cabinetry is Woodland mission cherry, with spice stain and ebony glaze.

The French-door refrigerator with bottom-drawer freezer is from Electrolux.

Kitchen Details CO U N T E RTO P S Wraparound

countertops and a high backsplash create a strong visual counterweight to the kitchen’s darker oak cabinetry above and below. To add to the dramatic effect, all task lighting, outlets, and switches were mounted underneath the top cabinets, keeping the backsplash’s surface free from unsightly plugs or switch plates.

I S L A N D (SEE OPENING PAGES) The four-byten-foot island countertop, which was fabricated as a single slab, was designed more with entertaining in mind, so its surface is uninterrupted by a sink basin or appliance.

R A N G E The kitchen’s simple square windows and sleek, maple cabinetry are arranged symmetrically on either side of the stainless steel oven and range hood, giving the space a very formal balance.

H A R D WA R E The door pulls are centrally mounted along the edge of the cabinets, adding further to the kitchen’s formal balance.

G E T T H E LO O K The perimeter countertop and backsplash are Cambria Canterbury. The cabinetry is Woodland mission oak, with espresso stain. The door and drawer pulls are from Restoration Hardware. The wine chiller is from Vissani and the oven is a GE Monogram® Dual-Fuel Professional stainless steel range with matching stainless steel hood. The floors are forest oak, from Kaar’s. The sink and faucet (not shown) are from Kohler.

ISLAND: Cambria Oakhampton PERIMETER COUNTERTOPS AND BACKSPLASH:

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What they did Removed the previous white cabinets and white ceramic floor tiles and replaced them with dark wood floors and cabinetry Created a more open, hearth room–kitchen combination space by removing the wall between the den and the kitchen Installed a large island with enough square-footage to accommodate informal family dinners as well as a whole holiday meal’s worth of appetizers, entrees, and desserts Purchased new furniture, like the gold leather sofa next to the fireplace, to add more seating as well as an accent color to complement the space’s artwork

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one—the house that every kid on the block seems to gravitate to after school and where all the relatives flock once the holidays arrive. In her suburban Minneapolis neighborhood, Debbi Pavelka knows just where that house is located, because she happens to live in it.

“We’re a family of five and we do a lot of entertaining,” she says. “We’ve had 55 or 60 people in our house at times for parties and it is not uncommon for us to host 35 family members for Thanksgiving or one of the Jewish holidays and just as many kids and adult friends at an ad-hoc backyard barbecue.” And as is usually the case, she adds, “it’s the kitchen where everyone always gathers.”

But the Pavelka’s previous kitchen was a small, outdated affair that, she jokes, “started dying the day we moved in eight years ago,” so Debbi and her husband decided to renovate this past spring.

But after some initial discussions with interior designer Carol Ahlstrand about their home’s layout, the project quickly took on a grander scale.

“Because the goal was to give them as much entertaining space as possible, we ended up almost tripling the size of the renovation,” Ahlstrand explains. As a result, the project expanded beyond creating a new kitchen to also including updates to the downstairs powder room, living room, and dining room. But the most striking change involved tearing down a wall between the old kitchen and an adjacent den with a fireplace. The new, larger hearth-room kitchen has become the home’s entertainment hub.

Tying this new expansive space together stylistically became easier, says Ahlstrand, once she saw the many decorative pieces that Debbi, a former art school graduate, had collected over the years.

“She has so many great contemporary art and pottery pieces; I saw that what she favored was a more open, California-contemporary style, with a lot of clean lines,” Ahlstrand explains.

To further highlight the Pavelkas’ artwork, the kitchen includes accent colors—tomato red, Mediterranean blue, and gold—that complement the various art pieces, while a fairly neutral color palette of browns, grays, and coppers keeps the large, flat surfaces, like the walls, ceiling, floors, and island countertop in the background. The one element pulling all of the main color threads together is the dramatic Cambria Canterbury pattern chosen for the kitchen countertops, backsplash, and fireplace surround. Selecting this new color pattern, which wasn’t unveiled by Cambria until late in the summer, after the Pavelkas’ renovation was well underway, did make for some long days and last minute scrambling, Debbi admits.

“But the new countertop color just feels so right to us, it’s positively beautiful and fits the new space so well,” she says. And to be able to alight upon just the right detail to perfectly finish off a project as important as renovating the heartbeat of one’s home was worth the extra effort, she says. “We take pride in the fact that so many people feel at home in our house,” she explains. “We’re thrilled to death with the renovation and that’s what it’s all about.”

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G E T T H E LO O K The box vanity’s sides and top are Cambria Henley.

The sink and faucet are both from Kohler, and the circular mirror is from Target.

Family Room F I R E P L AC E S U R RO U N D The thick slabs of Cambria framing the fireplace use the same color pattern found on the countertops and backsplash on the opposite wall of the kitchen, adding design continuity across the new, larger space. Placing a horizontal quartz section in front of the fireplace and vertical slabs beside and above the fireplace surround also echoes the countertop-backsplash construction motif from the kitchen and further helps to balance the design of the room. All in all, the fireplace lends a warm and welcoming feel to the entire room.

G E T T H E LO O K The fireplace surround is Cambria Canterbury.The gold leather sofa is from Room & Board and the red area rug is from Crate and Barrel.The walls and shutters are painted the same color—Fairview Taupe by Benjamin Moore—but in different finishes; the walls are flat while the shutters are satin.

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Even after the weather turns cool and those outdoor gardens go fallow, fresh herbs, grown indoors, offer adventurous cooks a taste of spring B Y E R I N M C D E R M O T T WITH PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HENKE

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FYI All the celebrity chefs are growing herbs in their kitchens, so why aren’t you?

It’s easy, it’s fun, and it will enhance your culinary creations throughout the entire year. By adding artifical light, what you’re basically doing is circumventing plants’ natural tendency to shut down as daylight shortens in the fall.

W H AT Y O U N E E D : Six-inch clay pots with drain holes and saucers, warm, moist potting soil, a spray bottle, and …

LIGHT: Find a bright, wellventilated spot facing south or southwest. If your sun exposure is less than 6-8 hours a day, replace a regular indoor bulb with a plant bulb or buy a plant light with a clamp. Keep lights four to six inches above your plants, and move the lights away as they grow, advises Linda Shanahan, founder of Barefoot Gardens, a Community Supported Agriculture project (CSA) in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

While seeds need steady moisture during germination, fully grown herbs don’t need much. You can learn to read what they need. A rule of thumb: Stick a finger down into the soil to determine if the root system is damp.

Seeing yellow leaves? You’re watering too much.

WATER:

W H AT T O G R O W : THYME: The all-around champ for home cooks. Grow your own by covering a cluster of seeds with 1⁄4 inch of soil and they’ll germinate within ten days. Every two weeks, add a tablespoon of skim milk to the base to fertilize.

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PARSLEY: Seeds can take six weeks to germinate, but you can speed it up by soaking your seeds in warm water for a few hours before planting. Be sure to keep parsley’s soil moist and you’ll be rewarded with its burst of flavor and Vitamin C.

Compound butter is an easy way of preserving and combining flavors—and also a great way to take ingredients found only at certain times of the year and enjoy them long after that last farmers’ market.

Begin by asking yourself what flavors would complement the foods in your kitchen, like marinated pork loin, grilled vegetables, or fresh pasta, and then add that flavor or flavors to softened butter. Let your culinary instincts, your taste buds, and perhaps a glass of your favorite wine, inspire your creativity. Relax, there is no recipe, you can cook without one.

When you are ready to test your concoction, spread a bit of it on toast—it is butter after all—and see what you think. Does it need more bacon, bite, sweetness? Add accordingly. Don’t look now, but you’re creating something wonderful to sustain and entertain your family and friends. Here is one of Chef Chesebro’s favorites: 1 stick butter, softened to room temperature 1 tablespoon minced fresh herbs (thyme, rosemary, sage, or chives) 2 teaspoons of minced lemon zest Combine all of the ingredients in a mixing bowl.

On a sheet of parchment paper, roll the mixed butter into the shape of a log. Chill in a refrigerator until it is solid (three hours).

To serve, cut into disks 1⁄4 -inch thick.

CHIVES: Dig this: It’s easy to transplant spiky wild chives from the yard. This fall, dig up a clump, put it in a pot, and leave outside until the tops die back and the roots freeze. Then bring the pot inside and put it in a sunny spot. You’ll see sprouts in about three weeks.

ROSEMARY: Who hasn’t killed a store-bought rosemary plant?

“If a rosemary plant gets dry, it can die in as little as a day,” Shanahan says. Her secrets: Use a plastic pot to contain the moisture, mist branches with a spray bottle to keep branches from drying, and wrap the plant with a plastic bag every few days to build up humidity.

SAGE: It’s OK to cheat: Sage can take up to two years to grow to size from seed, so hit the garden center for a plant. Crumble a few eggshells or add some wood ash to fertilize to boost your Thanksgiving supply.

Great for flavoring tea. “Balm” grows easily from seed, but like chives, it’s easy to transplant from the yard. “Ask a few neighbors—there’s always someone who planted too much lemon balm and has it taking over their yard,” Shanahan says.

Your quest will pay off—lemon balm offers a great mid-winter pick-me-up from its leaves’ lemon-minty fragrance.

LEMON BALM:

Snap this tag for a complete list of ingredients and additional herbed butter recipes. Go to get.neoreader.com on your smartphone.

Resources

PODCAST: “ You Bet Your Garden”—The public-radio staple from Philadelphia’s WHYY. Mike McGrath, the former editor of Organic Gardening magazine, offers funny, intelligent, can’t-miss, weekly advice on everything green indoors and out. APP: Herb Garden—For 99 cents on iTunes, a guide in your palm to all things herbal. BOOK: Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs (Claire Kowalchik et al., Rodale Books, 1998) WEB: Trouble? Call your local USDA Cooperative Extension or visit www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/index.html for growing advice for your local area. YOUTUBE: The site holds a wealth of user-generated video, pro and amateur, showing how everyday people are keeping the their gardens bountiful and healthy.

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When your indoor herb garden is growing, you're ready to harvest—just in time for savory fall and winter dishes. Wisconsin chef Joel Chesebro, who handles cooking demonstrations for Sub-Zero and Wolf, recommends a few dishes to show off your sage, taste your thyme, and kick back with a finish of your lemon balm.

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Squash Risotto 1 cup butternut squash, diced 2 cups Arborio rice 1⁄ cup caramelized onions 2 (see recipe with Apple, Goat Cheese, and Sage Tart, page 45) 1 clove garlic, diced fine 2 tablespoons minced pancetta (optional) 6 cups chicken stock 1 cup SarVecchio® Parmesan or Asiago cheese 1 teaspoon minced sage 1⁄ cup heavy cream 4 Salt and pepper 1. Warm the chicken stock to a simmer next to the pan you plan to use for the risotto.

2. In a large heavy-bottomed saucepan, sauté the butter, caramelized onions, garlic, half of the squash cubes, and pancetta over medium heat for three to five minutes, until the fat is rendered out of the pancetta and the garlic has lost its strong smell.

3. Add the rice and stir frequently for five minutes to release some of the starch.

4. Add the rest of the squash cubes and slowly start to ladle the stock into the rice. Stir the rice until the stock is absorbed. Alternate between adding stock and stirring until the stock is fully incorporated, giving the risotto a porridge-like consistency.

5. Finish by stirring in the cheese and cream, until both are absorbed.

6. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Garnish with fried sage leaves (recipe, page 44) and serve.

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Whole Roast Chicken 1 whole cleaned chicken, 4 to 6 pounds Salt and pepper 4 tablespoons butter, sliced Bouquet of herbs (parsley, sage, thyme, chives), chopped 1 lemon, sliced in half 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. 2. Pat the chicken dry with paper towels, then move the chicken to a roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the outside of the bird.

Place a row of butter pats on the ridge between the chicken’s two breasts.

3. Put the herbs and lemon halves inside the cavity.

4. Roast in the oven at 425 degrees for approximately one hour until the thigh meat registers 165 degrees F. on a meat thermometer.

5. Remove from the oven. Let the chicken rest for 10 minutes, covered. Carve and serve with compound butter and squash risotto (recipe, page 40).

Fried Sage Leaves 10sage leaves 3 cups vegetable oil Salt 1. Using a frying pan and deep-fry thermometer, heat vegetable oil to 330 degrees F. 2. Fry sage in batches of three or four, for 10 to 15 seconds each, until leaves are slightly crisp.

Remove from the pan and drain on paper towel.

3. Sprinkle with salt and use as garnish.

“Fresh herbs are the way to extend the season and take that taste year-round,” says Chef Joel Chesebro.

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Apple, Goat Cheese and Sage Tart FOR CRUST

1 cup of flour 1/ pound of butter (2 sticks), 2 diced into 1/4-inch cubes and chilled 1/ cup ice water 2 1/ teaspoon salt 2 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. 2. In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cut the chilled butter into the flour and salt. Slowly add the chilled water until the mixture binds together.

3. Form mixture into a ball and chill. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.

4. With a rolling pin, roll the pastry dough into a 1/4-inch thick round. Move the circle to a tart pan and form it around the sides.

5. At the bottom of the tart pan, add pie weights (or dried beans over parchment paper) to keep the dough from puffing up in the oven.

6. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and proceed with the recipe below.

FOR FILLING

3 to 4 tart apples, sliced 2 tablespoons of sugar 6 ounces fresh goat cheese 1 tablespoon of heavy cream 1 egg 1 teaspoon sage, chopped 4 medium white onions, sliced thin 4 tablespoons of butter 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. 2. In a sauté pan, caramelize the onions by melting the butter over medium-high heat and adding the sliced onions, stirring to coat. Don’t stir too much—the onions won’t turn brown. After 10 minutes, salt to taste. Cook for an additional 25 to 30 minutes, turning down the heat as the moisture is absorbed and scraping up the browned bits on the pan. Remove from heat when the onions take on a dark, rich color.

3. Next, combine the egg, cream, sage, and goat cheese in a separate bowl.

4. In the baked tart shell, evenly spread the caramelized onions and then the goat cheese mixture.

5. Toss the apple slices in the sugar to coat. Create a fan shape over the top of the tart by layering the slices.

6. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool and serve with fried sage as a garnish.

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tasty trio

Leslee Miller, certified sommelier and owner of Amusée, a wine consulting and event planning firm in Minneapolis, offers three wine pairings for the colder months Korta Katarina Posip

Guardian Peak SMG

Belle Vallee Cabernet

Island of Korcula, Croatia (approx. $23 on shelf)

Syrah, Mourvedre and Grenache spells Yum!

Rogue Valley, Oregon (approx. $25 on shelf)

Posip you say? A native grape to Southern Croatia.

Round, rich, melony yet bright, with sunny acidity and minerality—fresh like the area where it’s grown.

Great with goat cheese, salads, or an onion apple tart this fall.

Very velvety and dark fruited with a peppery South African backbone.

Ready to take on anything from your harvest season or better yet, a brambly fruit dessert. Enjoy!

With a personality all its own, I love this southern Oregon Cab. Smoky with hints of violet, dark blueberries, and chocolate.

Amazing with anything grilled, especially grilled onion steaks.

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Things toLove Functional needn’t mean frumpy: From a classic afghan to an old-time nickel crank doorbell to a newage lamp, here are some of our stylish favorites.

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1. Haverhill Afghan As the weather turns colder, snuggle up the way families have for generations—with a warm, colorful afghan (opposite).

This handcrafted coordinated afghan and pillow cover are crocheted by artisans using soft, marled lambswool yarns. $328; www.garnethill.com

2. Thermometer Bring some retro fun to telling the temp with this mercuryless, colorful, indoor/outdoor thermo-

meter in red, apple green, orange, yellow, white, or black. Small (7”): $20; Large (9.5”):$26; www.basicfrenchonline.com

3. Stadler Form Otto Wooden Fan The epitome of style and function, this industrial style fan crafted from fine-grain African sapele wood and high-grade steel does more than blow hot air. $199.99; www.bobbyberkhome.com

doorbell sounds exactly like you think it will.

Made without the use of plastic, its nickel-coated steel plate bell doesn't disappoint. $34; ww.manufactum.com

5. George Nelson Bubble Lamps

Brighten and add instant style to any room with these hanging lamps. Your only hurdle is choosing which great shape to pick. Sizes range from 9.5” H. x 25” D. 4. Crank Doorbell Just plain fun, this old fashioned for saucer shape to 21”

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H. x 11.5” D. for cigar shape. $359-$405; www.modernica.net

6. Cherry Blossom Garden Stool What space couldn't use a little red? This handcrafted porcelain garden stool fits the bill with a design that trails all the way around and coin cutouts that are traditional emblems of good fortune. For indoor or outdoor use. 12.75” D. x 18.25” H. Imported. $295; www.gumps.com

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As this vintage postcard attests, when the Foshay Tower went up in 1929, it was the tallest building in Minneapolis by far.

On the Street

© 2010 THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/CHERYL TIEGS, CA. 1984, FOUNDING COLLECTION, THE ANDY WARHOLD MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH

During a recent Cambria promotional visit to Pittsburgh, Cheryl Tiegs found some time to drop by the Andy Warhol Museum. During her stroll through the collections, she was surprised to find two images of herself staring back at her.

Cheryl, who had once been a close friend of Warhol’s, had received a silkscreen-oncanvas portrait of herself as a gift from him in the early ’80s, but says she didn’t know about the existence of any others. This duplication is not uncommon, explains Eric Shiner, the museum’s Milton Sine Curator of Art. “Andy often times would keep at least two other original portraits of his highprofile clients for his archives,” he notes, adding,“Cheryl was really great about [the discovery] and, while she was here, posed for some Polaroid photos standing under his other portraits of her.”

As it turns out, Shiner says he has recently made a Cheryl-related discovery of his own, one that proves the mutual admiration between the pair. “In our archives,” Shiner explains,“we just found a box of some Cheryl Tiegsbranded cosmetics that she had personally signed over to Andy and that he had made a point of keeping.”

FoshayTower & the Prohibition Bar in the W Minneapolis Set amidst the classic Art Deco architecture of the recently restored Foshay Tower, the W Minneapolis’s new Prohibition Bar serves up libations and breathtaking views from its aerie 380 feet above the street. The 32-story, concrete office tower, built during the Roaring ’20s by business magnate Wilbur Foshay and finally completed just months before

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the infamous stock market crash of 1929, has long reigned over the skyline of downtown Minneapolis.

In 2008 it was converted into a luxurious new hotel. During the renovations, Mr. Foshay’s former boardroom on the 27th floor was transformed into one of Minneapolis’ hottest new places to be seen at while taking in the city. To complete the Prohibition

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Bar’s elegant look and complement its timeless design, the hotel chose Cambria Nottingham. (For

more on the design of Prohibition Bar, see “Style Update” on pages 14–15.)

Constantly in use by a staff of eight industry professional and food experts, Canadian Living’s Toronto-based test kitchen is busy five days a week, 12 months a year, churning out approximately 700 carefully tested recipes. So, when the magazine’s staff recently decided to update and renovate the rambling, 5,000square-foot space, they looked for new working surfaces that would be beautiful enough to be photographed hundreds of times, durable enough to withstand years of abuse, and safe enough for food preparation. In the end, Canadian Living decor editor Karen Kirk explains that she and interior designer Jane Lockhart chose a surface of “gleaming Cambria Hamilton, a rich brown with hints of grey and light brown, for a kitchen work surface that’s low-maintenance, highly durable and now the focal point of this hard-working kitchen.”

P IT TS B U RG H ’ S P N C PA R K , CA M B R I A ST YL E A grand opening was held for the new Club Cambria at the Pittsburghs Pirates’ PNC Park on April 1. The new, members-only luxury club, which is the size of four PNC Park suites, features an open floor plan with Cambria countertops, bar tops, tabletops, wall cladding and tile throughout, a private full-service bar, nine flat-screen televisions, private restrooms, a coat closet, and a private suite attendant.

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Cambria recently donated more than $25,000 in countertops and surfaces to the Lake County, Ohio YMCA Dream House project. This fundraising effort, which annually raffles off a brand new home that has been “Cambria’s built and furnished through unprecedented corporate donations, has raised more than $3 million for equipgenerosity in and facility enhancements today’s economic ment at Lake County YMCA environment is branches since 1993. This year’s prize, a 3,400-square-foot, truly inspiring.” grand Cape Cod-style house built atop —Richard Bennett a dramatic cliff overlooking CEO and Executive Director Lake Erie, featured panoramic Lake County, Ohio, YMCA views from its multiple decks as well as its Crow’s Nest. Inside, the home was decorated with the help of nine local interior designers and included six

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different Cambria colors in the kitchen and bathrooms: Dover, Aragon, Preston, Clyde, Sussex, and Snowdon White. On August 20, Susan Sivik, of nearby Mentor, Ohio, was one of 20 semifinalists to try the key she was given in the front door. When hers proved to be the magic key to open the entrance, she won what will become her new home.

LAST LOOK

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they’re what make the difference. They’re the cherry on a sundae, the dash of ground pepper on a Caesar salad, or the perfect froth on a latte. For a house — they’re all those things that make a house a home: the comfy corners that have served as the backdrop for everything from classic literature to everyone’s favorite pop-up book; the dent in the molding from that indoor baseball game that wasn’t supposed to happen; that distinctive wall, doorway, or step where everyone perches for a family picture; those growth hashmarks on the doorframe. They’re all those things that make a home breathe, give it a heart, and make it your own.

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