C-VILLE Abode: January 2017

Royal flushers Style for style Brew location What’s new in high-tech toilets

Scarpa’s smart reno for continued success

The new Timberwood goes big for beer

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Home.

JANUARY 2017

Welcome additions An Ivy cottage readies for guests

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Introducing

Peter A. Wiley

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PUMP HOUSE – Spectacular small horse property located in the heart of Somerset and the Keswick Hunt. This mostly open & fenced 14.5 acre offering has a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house built in the 1940's. A 4-stall stable with tack room, wash stall & 2 new run-in sheds make this a great horse property.

HARDWARE RIVER LOT – Private 4.6 acre setting , river frontage, 7 miles from Charlottesville. The elevated site overlooks the Hardware River and lush bottomland that would make an excellent soccer/sports field. Very convenient to town, I-64 and the new Wegman’s shopping center.

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AIRSLIE – A landmark country estate located in the beautiful Keswick hunt area of Albemarle Co. House completely renovated in the early 1990's using only the finest materials and craftsmen. Surrounding 115+/- acres further compliments the house and allows the property complete privacy.

PLANK ROAD – Private 21 acre mountain top building site located off Plank Road between North Garden and Batesville. A rough driveway is already in place, with gentle grade leading to a flat home site at 1200ft elevation, with incredible winter views of the Blue Ridge and western Albemarle County.

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LAUREL RUN – Located in the Keswick Hunt area, less than a mile from historic Montpelier, this 41 acre property boasts wonderful mountain views, a stream, several springs, rolling pastures, a large barn with a new one bedroom apartment with a sitting room/office, full bath and kitchen.

LOWER BUNDORAN – A well-proportioned Federal period farmhouse with panoramic pastoral and mountain views. The residence sits on a 30-acre equestrian lot in the heart of Bundoran farm with miles of hiking and riding trails and fiber internet. A shed row barn with 4 stalls is connected to a handsome carriage house. 15 min. to Charlottesville. Additional acreage available.

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A Barracks Road shoe store grows up, the new Timberwood Tap House stays warm, Noah Bradley’s handmade houses, UVA’s A-School annual project review and more.

Real Estate 34

A small city lot gets a big addition.

Finishing Touch 37 A bright orchid for darker days.

Cover photo by Virginia Hamrick.

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Timeless style It took homeowner Justin Rood a while to find the perfect Charlottesville property. He was searching for an older home he could turn into a rental, but needed a house with large rooms that guests would feel comfortable staying in. He found the perfect spot in Ivy—an original log section with later additions. All he had to do was finish it off.

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IN THE NEWS

Day in the sun “The sun is my almighty physician,” once said the ubiquitous Thomas Jefferson.

In a small room at UVA on December 6, packed wall-to-wall with people eager to celebrate the installation of 1,589 solar panels on university rooftops, President of Dominion Virginia Power Bob Blue said, “I’m not exactly sure what he meant by that.” But what he does know is that UVA is one of 10 groups participating in Dominion’s Solar Partnership Program, and once all the panels are installed atop Ruffner Hall and the University Bookstore, they will generate 364 kilowatts of energy—or enough to power 91 homes.

Nine hundred sixty-five panels, which could power the equivalent of 52 homes, are already installed and, so far, the school’s 2008 Delta Force sustainability program reduced energy usage in 37 buildings, saving $22 million in energy costs.

In the running Six landscape architecture teams are vying for the chance to turn Raleigh, North Carolina’s Dorothea Dix Park into a destination space.

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Among the finalists? Charlottesville firm Nelson Byrd Woltz, which noted another of its big wins as a qualification: a six-acre landscape in New York City’s Hudson Yards—the largest development in Manhattan since Rockefeller Center— which the firm has had on the boards since 2012.

The RFPs for the project are due at the end of January, followed by a week of interviews in mid-February. The executive committee will make its final recommendation in March.

New treatment Construction group Skanska USA will expand and renovate University Hospital, a UVA medical center on Grounds. The $142 million project— which comprises a 15-story tower adjacent to the existing hospital as well as a renovation of the existing hospital buildings—began in 2015, with the current construction phase slated for completion in fall of 2017. The 645-bed medical center will be finished by December 2020.

Designed by architecture firm Perkins + Will, the expansion of 1215 Lee St. spans 430,000 square feet and will include a new emergency department, new surgical suites and an inpatient section.

The renovation will allow for new dropZack Worrell off and entrance locations for the ER.

EVENTS THIS MONTH

Working woods walk January 29 Venture into the Montpelier Demonstration Forest on a two-hour hike with experts in forest conservation. Learn about cultivation strategies that generate mutual benefit to man and nature, both in the Madisons’ time and today. Dogs on leashes are welcome. $5. James Madison’s Montpelier, 11350 Constitution Hwy., Orange. montpelier.org

Piedmont Landscape Association seminar February 16 Early-bird and advanced-ticket registration closes this month (early birds: through January 13, advanced: through February 3) for the Piedmont Landscape Association’s annual seminar, which brings together gardening enthusiasts and landscape professionals for educational lectures from notable gardeners, researchers and horticulturists such as Nancy Ross Hugo, Allan Armitage and Peggy Singleman. $50-75. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. piedmont landscape.org

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OFF THE BOARDS

ANDREA HUBBELL

While the renovation of Scarpa noticeably altered the look of the space, architect Jim Rounsevell’s goal was the opposite: “We wanted the inventory to be paramount,” he says.

By Erika Howsare

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here are a few iconic local retailers in Charlottesville, and Amy Gardner’s store, Scarpa, is one of them. The women’s boutique—which started out selling shoes nearly 23 years ago and recently expanded into clothing—has been a mainstay in the north wing of Barracks Road Shopping Center, and in the Charlottesville imagination, as a bastion of luxury fashion. When Gardner asked architect Jim Rounsevell last year to help her change up the look of the store, he knew it was a key moment in the store’s long history.

“With all things like this, there’s a degree of uncertainty,” says Rounsevell. For one thing, the construction would have to be fast-tracked so that Scarpa wouldn’t have to be closed for long (ultimately, customers only missed about three weeks of shopping). For another, the project wasn’t just a renovation but an expansion into a vacant space next door.

“They were busting at the seams,” says Rounsevell. Not only was the inventory packed in, but so were the people. “The office was this gloomy dark box up in the corner.” Gardner needed more dressing rooms: “People were trying on 12 ABODE

nice pants in the bathroom,” she remembers. “A lot of the consideration was to give a customer a really positive experience.”

The look and feel of the store was due for a refresh. “I felt like it needed to be happy and bright,” says Gardner. “The old store was more subdued.” Yet, for Rounsevell, the heart of the project was about staying in the background.

“We wanted the inventory to be paramount,” he says. From the beginning, he and Gardner agreed that the store should essentially be a “white box.”

Within the larger space, Rounsevell was able to design a new office volume (he calls it a “shoebox”) that seems to hover above the checkout counter. It’s clad in translucent Acrylite and makes a striking modern statement from a customer point of view. Just as importantly, the material allows some daylight to enter the shared office space. “It’s such a step up” from the previous windowless office, says Gardner.

The staircase, too, becomes an architectural focal point that drastically improves functionality. A partial wall separates the staircase from the customer areas in the rear of the store; the whole form is clad in dark-stained plywood with thin strips of brass (an echo of the brass hanging system that stylishly supports clothes on hang-

ers). Stockroom, dressing rooms and circulation areas are clearly defined.

Gardner’s own design sensibility—she earned an architecture degree before opening Scarpa— brings the touches of color and comfort that customers will notice. A tall, green velvet curtain keeps the rear wall from feeling oppressive; a 13' custom couch, upholstered in pink, offers a place to revel in the experience. Display tables and seating— much of it scored at Circa and in some cases refinished by Christy Baker at Pigment—bring the right vibe and a degree of flexibility that Gardner and her team require. “We’ve already arranged the furniture three times in three months,” she says.

Rounsevell’s work, and that of lighting designer Mark Schuyler, may fly lower under the radar, but it’s no less important to making the space work. For example, shelving for shoes and accessories is surrounded by a white “frame”— vertical sides and a soffit across the top—that Rounsevell says “keeps your eye down” and focused on shoes, bags and jewelry. It serves the other important function of providing a place for Schuyler to mount uplighting.

After 23 years, Scarpa has a substantial customer base, and the response has been positive.

“They cannot believe the transformation,” Rounsevell says.

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Wood works

Timberwood Tap House elevates elements of its predecessor with a modern touch

By Shea Gibbs

that we have there. We didn’t just want to put a low ceiling in, but to work with the volume, give more character to each area and still have some visual connection to the original shell of the building.”

Outside the shell, patrons will be able to enjoy an outdoor space covered by a canopy, outlined by a low planter and surrounding several fire pits. Guiffre says the effect is to give the outdoor dining area some connection to the indoors and make it feel less like you’re eating in a parking lot.

Roberts, whose partners Adam Gregory and Steve Guiffre were less interested in working on design than she was, said she worked closely with Kendra Guiffre (Steve’s sister-in-law) to put a modern spin on the wood-paneled Timberwood

STEPHEN BARLING

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hen Lynne Roberts and her partners looked to start a sister restaurant to Route 29-based Timberwood Grill, they wanted to create a unique space while hinting at the original. The key link between the two?

Look no further than the name.

“The other restaurant has a lot of wood in there—the ceiling, the tables,” Roberts says. The new Timberwood Tap House, newly opened at 5th Street Station, “echoes it a little bit in that way.”

In addition to the lodge-like beams, bar and tables, Roberts says wood’s been taken up a notch in the new beer-focused gastropub. The shading on the boards behind the bar and in the corners of the dining room ranges from a light blonde to a deep brown, a nod to the various colors of beer.

“It’s sort of a celebration of the beer,” says Kendra Guiffre, owner of architecture firm Blueply Design. “There are four different types of wood and...four different stains, so there are 16 different tones represented in the wood, similar in nature to a light pilsner all the way to a dark beer, like a stout.”

Guiffre says woodwork was critical in creating defined spaces for Timberwood Tap House’s dining room and bar. One of the challenges in designing the restaurant—the first full eatery she’s taken on since starting her own architecture firm—was making the 6,000-square-foot layout with 15' ceilings feel comfortable and finished.

“We added a wood-slatted ceiling to define the different areas,” Guiffre says. “With the dining room to the right and bar to the left, above the bar we did a series of hanging wood elements. It starts to take a large space and define it.”

Worthington Architectural Millwork built the custom ceiling elements, as well as the stained woodwork behind the bar, according to Guiffre.

“Those elements definitely are unique,” she says. “There was an appreciation of the volume

Tap House. That included adding a sleek in-wall electric fireplace, unique printed tile in the bathrooms and illuminating the entire space with LED light fixtures.

In addition to being far warmer than she’d expected, Roberts says energy efficiency was a critical component of every step of the design process. The team did as many things as it could to earn LEED points, and that included sensor faucets and auto-flush toilets, in addition to the efficient and mood-appropriate lighting.

“We wanted to make it more modern and upscale, and then to take such a big space and make it feel more intimate—it’s hard,” Roberts says.

“We want it to be casual enough to bring a group of friends and watch a game and nice enough to bring your grandmother for her birthday.”

The wood in Timberwood’s new tap house echoes brew hues—light blonde to deep brown. “It’s sort of a celebration of the beer,” says architect Kendra Guiffre.

“There was an appreciation of the volume that we have there. We didn’t just want to put a low ceiling in, but to work with the volume, give more character to each area and still have some visual connection to the original shell of the building,” says architect Kendra Guiffre.

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Houses by hand

Noah Bradley looks to the past to build unique homes from the outside in

By Nathan Alderman

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hen Noah Bradley was 15, his insurance agent father announced that the two of them would spend their summer building a house by hand, from the ground up. “I believe I swore at that particular stage of my life,” Bradley says, “that I would do anything I could to avoid building houses ever again.”

His plan failed. More than 40 years later, Bradley runs Blue Mountain Builders, where he and his crews specialize in “handmade houses” constructed with time-tested techniques.

As a 20-year-old VCU undergrad, Bradley decided that if he’d built one house, he could build another: “All I would have to do was get started on it and never quit.” He found a piece of land and, denied a bank loan, maxed out his father’s credit cards to dig the foundation and build the frame. That got him the loan—and, a year’s work and $20,000 later, his house.

At 25, after one engineering class and zero architecture classes, Bradley looked at his fellow information-systems students and decided that a lifetime in corporate America didn’t sound appealing. Instead, he and his wife, Lynne, moved to rural Tennessee, where they spent three years building another home with material salvaged from nearby ruins. Alas, beautiful components didn’t make a beautiful house. “It was mighty ugly,” Bradley says.

“When you design a home, you want the outside aesthetics of it to be attractive from all four sides.”

The arrival of their child in 1985 ended the Bradleys’ homesteading experiment and brought them to Albemarle County. After working for other builders, Bradley started his own firm in 1988, drawing inspiration from historic houses.

On a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, “I saw a variety of homes that were 200 to 300 years old that were attractive when they were designed

Turkey Cove, a small log home near Free Union, is a classic example of Noah Bradley’s work. “When we go to the cabin,” says homeowner Jack Marshall, “it’s easy to imagine stepping back in history 150 years.”

and built, and here they were so many years later, and were still gorgeous,” he says.

Enduring buildings like these have fueled Bradley’s belief that the homes best adapted to a given place will still be standing after decades or centuries. He approaches architecture from the outside in, examining exterior elements of houses he admires to reverse-engineer what makes them beautiful.

Most architects start with a floor plan, and build the outside of the house to fit it, Bradley says. “When you design a home, you want the outside aesthetics of it to be attractive from all four sides.” Only then, he believes, should you concern yourself with what’s inside.

“Noah’s understanding of Appalachian log buildings—his obvious respect for them and the people who constructed them over the past centuries—is expressed in the cabin he built us,” says Jack Marshall, owner of the Bradley-built Turkey Cove, a small log home near Free Union.

“When we go to the cabin, it’s easy to imagine stepping back in history 150 years.”

Bradley has built or restored roughly 100 houses, by his estimate: log cabins, farmhouses

and stone and timber-frame buildings. To pass on what he’s learned from that long career, he’s written a how-to book, currently in editing at the publisher; amassed thousands of followers for his Facebook page and YouTube videos; and launched an online learning program, the Handmade House Academy, through his website (handmadehouses.com).

“If I could go back to that young man in Tennessee who was about ready to build an ugly home,” Bradley says, “and I could share with him what I know now that would bring him to where I’m at now...that was the driving force behind Handmade Houses.”

As he nears 60, Bradley says he plans to slow down. But he also wants to build a few more homes for clients. And a new dream home of his own. And homes for his three grown children.

Once, he swore he’d never build houses. Now he can’t seem to stop.

“When you hand-build a home, when you drive that last nail in, it’s a melancholy moment,” Bradley says. “That’s what led me to a career of building houses, because I found that every time I finished one, I had to build another.”

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FROM THE A-SCHOOL

In studio

A look at last semester’s final review

RAE SWAIN

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reviously in this column, we’ve explored a graduate student’s perspective on architecture’s trajectory—one that leverages architects’ unique skill sets to address, through the built environment, uncertainties facing society today. This semester at UVA engaged this topic directly through school-wide discussions facilitated by the biennial Woltz Symposium and design courses.

The Woltz Symposium, a two-day event comprising lectures from a diverse set of speakers, enabled a dialogue in three parts, discussing design’s role in reimagining urban development, socioecological challenges and individuals’ “right to the planet,” and why urban sprawl necessitates new scales of design, materials and conceptual tools. The event is not only thought-provoking for students and architecture enthusiasts, it echoes and elevates much of the coursework completed throughout the year in studio classes.

Studio is the essential course that defines the education of a future architect. Each semester, it is through studio courses that we define, research and design a project that responds to a problem. Fall semester studios at the University of Virginia were unique in that students from all disciplines—architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning—could take the same design studio, allowing for cross-disciplinary learning and collaboration.

Graduate students had a variety of options this semester, many of which addressed themes similar to those of the Woltz Symposium. One studio dealt with complex social issues and worked with the State Department to propose projects for a new U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Other studios explored issues facing growing “third-world” areas such as Mexico City or Caracas, Venezuela, and one worked with the Indian government to redesign a 50km open drain in New Delhi.

One studio imagined solutions to move Inuit villages that are at risk due to climate change,

For her final project, third-year Eleanor Birle presented “Milkweed,” created during the studio’s “3-D Metropolis: Mapping Spatial Operations,” in which each student chose a different seed pod and analyzed its possible influence on a building in downtown Baltimore. Says Birle, “I focused on how the given site could operate as a new ground plane to disperse seeds that germinate through the wind, using the many vacant lots in the downtown area as targets for dispersal.”

and another focused on designing a new museum in Washington, D.C., seeking to rethink the human relationship to the natural world.

Two studios dealt with design problems facing UVA itself, proposing campus-wide strategies for accessibility oriented design and an adaptive reuse project of the west campus medical complex that seeks a new urban university life.

The semester ends with a school-wide final review where students defend their projects to a panel of professors and visiting critics. These projects are real, even though they will not be built. The work we put in while pushing a project forward, learning how to be decisive, solve problems, communicate through drawings and words, collaborate and defend our decisions will serve us throughout our careers. The problems we are dealing with in studio are the problems facing the world today. Architecture becomes

more than manipulating materials or designing a particular “style.” It is also about navigating complex social conditions and systems structuring the built environment. As students, this is how we want to engage with the world. We see how the conditions that our studio projects address will re-emerge in the profession we seek to shape.

Many people, across disciplines and with diverse backgrounds, are rethinking the foundation of modern society’s relationship to the natural world and built environment. The UVA School of Architecture, drawing on the history of the university in promoting an active citizenship of independent thinkers and leaders, is engaging directly in this discussion.—Joseph Brookover Joseph Brookover is the editor of Catalyst, the School of Architecture’s annual publication. He is pursuing a master of architecture.

Architecture becomes more than manipulating materials or designing a particular “style.” It is also about navigating complex social conditions and systems structuring the built environment.

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Bowled over

Those who think a toilet’s just a toilet can flush that notion

By Shea Gibbs

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DXV AT200 Ringing up at nearly $5,000, DXV’s AT200 offers an automatic open/close seat, deodorizer, 0.92 or 1.32 gallons per flush, air dryer, heated seat, bidet, nightlight and a motion-activated sensor. And, of course, it’s all driven by remote control.

American Standard Studio For those who want a modern, functional toilet but don’t need to fly the space shuttle from the throne, American Standard’s two-piece Studio should do the trick. The touchless toilet flushes automatically and features a “concealed trapway,” which gives it straighter lines and makes it easier to clean.—S.G.

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f you’re the type of person who’d like to drop five grand on a toilet, you are living in the right age indeed.

Toilets have come a long way, and these days features include advanced water-saving flushing systems, hands-free flushing, self-opening and closing lids, self-cleaning bidets, drying wands, heating elements in the seat and foot area, ambient lighting, built-in speaker systems, Bluetooth connectivity and deodorizers.

“Modern toilets offer an unrivaled range of sophisticated features to enhance the bathroom environment,” says Trish LeDuc, manager of the Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery in Charlottesville.

A top-of-the-line Kohler Numi can cost up to $5,100—but that’s a small price to pay for a throne with illuminated panels and speakers for your favorite tunes.

Flushing Manufacturers have for years been looking for ways users can save water when flushing, and municipalities like Charlottesville are happy to reward the effort.

The city’s offered a $100 rebate on all WaterSense toilets, a distinction given to those that are 20 percent more efficient than the maximum usage standard of 1.6 gallons, since 2012. And according to the American Water Works Association, toilets account for about 30 percent of indoor water usage, meaning there’s serious money to be saved on your utility bill.

Top-of-the line toilets these days all offer dual-flush options, contingent on the waste, meaning the less offensive of your byproducts can go down for as little as 0.8 gallons per flush.

Cleaning There’s nothing new about bidets. In fact, they’ve been around for centuries. But they’re back in a big way, according to Ferguson spokesperson Zsavonne Perryman, who says the company’s seen a nationwide increase in the number of bidets and washlets purchased in the past year. That’s driven largely by products from manufacturers like Kohler and DXV that feature adjustable controls for temperature and water pressure, as well as more discretion than they’ve offered in the past.

“Many customers are looking for products that aid in better hygiene. A growing number of luxury hotels are including bidets and other amenities in the bathroom,” LeDuc says. “Customers enjoy the experience of using a bidet abroad and want to bring that experience to their own home.”

And toilets are cleaning up after you in ways that go beyond a simple spray of water. They’re deodorizing the backside and drying it, as well.

Connectivity Everything’s connected these days, so why leave the bathroom bowl out in the cold? With easy-touse Bluetooth technology, toilets are capable of connecting to your smartphone and streaming your music collection, FM radio stations, podcasts and more. Some even have the ability to download and store tunes in the wild event you ever find yourself on the toilet without your phone.

Atmosphere Modern toilet features like built-in speakers, lighting around the bowl and heated seats and foot rests take the ordinary act of micturation and make it a miracle. Some toilet lighting cycles through various hues depending on the time of day and season, and heaters can be temperature controlled vents or ambient.

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BLUEPRINT AT HOME WITH CHRIS COGGINS

Favorite designer? Jamie Drake for his affec-

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tionate use of color; Alexa Hampton for her sense of balance; and, probably the most impactful, Charlotte Moss. I remember once having a conversation with her [at the New York School of Interior Design] where I was complimenting her for a small detail from a showhouse a year or two before. She said, “Ah, you remembered the detail—and it’s always about the details!”

Which design blog, website, TV show or magazine do you peruse religiously? Ever since I was young, I have subscribed to Architectural Digest. I love leafing through the pages, seeing designs that are timeless and inspirational.

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hile attending the New York School of Interior Design, designer Chris Coggins embarked on an independent project: review 40 famous houses in 40 days. “I visited significant homes all along the East Coast,” says Coggins, “so I experienced a full range of styles.” But it was Biltmore, the Gilded Age estate in Asheville, North Carolina, that had the most lasting effect on him—with its dark furniture, hunting trophies and a sense of elegance and comfort.

It’s a style that’s inspired his own store, Linden Lane Interiors, which he opened in early 2016 on West Main Street.

We asked him to tell us about his house, other ways he finds inspiration and his favorite finds.—Caite White

Design rule you like to break? I think the first rule of design is: There are no rules. I love layering with lighting, textures, color, whatever it may be. It enriches a room by adding depth.

What is your favorite room in the house?

I really enjoy creating warm and inviting family spaces, be they living rooms or great rooms that bring people together with comfortable seating, intimate lighting, sophisticated drapery and enough surfaces to hold books and drinks.

What is your most treasured possession?

I would have to say the host chairs in my farmhouse dining room, which I found in an antique

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store in New York. They were tucked away in a corner, but the tag stated that they had the original paperwork from a 1965 estate sale at Hyde Park, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s estate.

The preservationist in me leapt into action. I hope someday to return them to the president’s home to be enjoyed by others.

What do you wish you could do without?

I have a personal love-hate relationship with technology. The various computer programs that designers use today are great, but often clients don’t understand why it takes so long to create design presentations. I fear it has also removed the artistry and creativity that we should be proud to experiment with. I still love to do hand-renderings.

Have you ever had a change of heart about an object or a style? It’s so funny...I have gone between styles in each home I have lived in. Our D.C. house was traditional; NYC apartment: Asian modern; and the beach house: an eclectic mix of modern and antiques. The farmhouse I have done more traditionally with antiques and vintage pieces.

On what movie set would you like to live?

From the soundtrack to the fashion and design, I absolutely love the Baz Luhrmann remake of The Great Gatsby.

Resides in: Madison, Virginia, and Southampton, New York

Antique or modern? I have a deep affection for the artisanship of antiques, particularly English and French. But I do enjoy an eclectic mix of transitional, while showcasing one or two fine pieces of antique furniture or art.

Which colors do you gravitate toward?

Each project is unique. For clients, I enjoy using neutrals for versatility with punches of color in the accent pieces. By doing so, in the future we can give a room a new personality with just a few changes.

Does your home look like the one you grew up in? No, but I have been fortunate to live in a variety of styles of homes. Whether it was a D.C. brownstone, a Federal rowhouse, ranch, modern, a New York City apartment or, like this, an 1850s farmhouse. Each one has its own character.

as quickly (and inexpensively) as a fresh coat of paint—and if the client’s budget allows, spring for a textured wallpaper. It really can add warmth to the walls.

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What’s one thing that can really transform a room? Nothing can change the feel of a room

Chris Coggins, pictured here in his living room, says his favorite spot in his own home is the downstairs bath. “With the marble shower and large rain showerhead, [it’s] the perfect way to relax after a long day of design.”

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hen Justin Rood went house-hunting in Charlottesville, he looked really hard. Many dozens of properties into his search, he still hadn’t found just the right place—but not because he was picky. Intending to create a vacation rental in an older house, he needed to find a rare combination of location, character and function to serve out-of-town guests.

“Charlottesville’s one of my favorite places in the world,” says Rood, who lives in Washington, D.C. His search yielded many appealing homes, but often, because he was focusing on older properties, “the rooms were very small. From a business perspective, that isn’t what guests are looking for.”

At last he came across an Ivy property that had it all. “It was really wonderful,” he remembers. “It’s nestled between two streams on a rolling piece of property, and it was just instantly charming.”

The house—an original log section with later additions—was in the midst of an expansion and renovation by then-owners Josh and Jen Deibert. Josh, a mason, was working to honor

the rustic character of the house by layering it with a spare, Scandinavian aesthetic. “They’d done a really great job of highlighting and preserving the best aspects of the old structure and carrying that through into the new,” says Rood.

Rood decided this was the one, and Deibert continued his work with Rood’s input. “It had really wonderful space and light,” says Rood, who saw the mission as this: “to strip away everything else.”

Quiet cooking “The house was still pretty raw on the inside, and we started working closely together on the details,” says Rood. Finish work, tile, trim, roofing, landscaping and many other aspects were still to be completed.

Yet the kitchen was in large part finished before Rood found the house, and that room set the tone for the rest of the renovation: “uncluttered, light, monochromatic and very simple,” as he puts it.

Located in the oldest section of the house, the kitchen design balances modern minimalism with the structure’s rural vernacular roots. A simple layout uses an island to separate the work zone from the dining area—a transition that’s also marked by a change in the ceiling height.

Custom Shaker-style cabinets, in white, are as understated as can be, and instead of upper cabinets, open reclaimed-wood shelves hold mugs, toaster and other morning necessities.

There are very contemporary materials here —countertops in concrete and soapstone, stainless steel appliances—but these have a foil in the elements that proclaim their historic or handmade origins. A forest view through the large dining-room window seems to echo the prominence of wood in the design. Rough-sawn planks form the island. Like the exposed ceiling joists, they are painted white. The floors are painted gray, and in a stroke of design luck, they are laid diagonally.

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Unifying elements As Rood and Deibert continued with the renovation, the stripped-down aesthetic first established in the kitchen informed all their decisions. “The appeal of that to me came from a modern sensibility and the appeal of that [for Deibert] was from a more rustic sensibility, so it was a lot of fun to see where those met in the middle and complemented each other,” says Rood. “We started making more decisions, leaning toward modern fixtures and finishes.”

Interiors are white-walled throughout, and in the newer portions of the house, wide-plank white pine floors become a key design element.

The team, says Rood, “did a wonderful job creating this authentic feel of aging on brand new floors by leaving them unfinished while they built.” Deibert then applied motor oil—an old method of staining floors that’s seldom used these days—giving the floors a luminous glow.

A double-height ceiling in the entry lends a little drama to an otherwise cozy home. “There are so many spaces,” says Rood. “If somebody wants to read or have a conversation, you’re not exposed to anyone else. You can go off into corners.” Those include a sunroom with a wall full of reclaimed-wood shelves, and an office with

Interiors are white-walled throughout, and wide-plank pine floors become a key design element from the public living spaces to the master bath.

its own sliding barn door for undisturbed laptop time.

The views from every window—featuring yard, woods and creeks—create serenity, and the renovation team tucked a number of outdoor living spaces into the plan to invite guests out into the fresh air. The master suite has a private balcony, but all guests can share two other porches, including one with a dining table, plus a patio off the walkout basement. A landscape design by Anna Boeschenstein, including a pool with a rolling lawn that takes advantage of neighboring views, is in the works for the future.

Stucco on the exterior of the three-story addition distinguishes it from the lower-slung original portion, clad in clapboard, but stand-

ing-seam metal roofing, eminently appropriate for a rural Virginia house, unites the whole structure. Deibert’s stonework on the foundation draws the eye, and it’s echoed indoors by a new stone fireplace surround.

Rood hired D.C. designer Yvette Freeman to furnish the house, telling her he was after a restrained look. “I said the most beautiful thing about the house is the house itself,” he says. She delivered an eclectic yet overridingly neutral design that relies heavily on natural materials: wood, leather, fur and jute.

Freeman arranged books by color on the sunroom shelves, mounted real antlers and sculptural mooseheads on walls and sourced antiques ranging from bowling pins to a model ship with Union Jack sails. Cowskin and Oriental rugs play off modern art and leather seating.

“I told her I wanted it to look like somebody traveled all over the world, but still thought Charlottesville is the most wonderful place to be,” says Rood.

Rood is a little sorry, now that the renovation is finished and the property is available for rent through Stay Charlottesville, that he won’t be able to spend as much time in the house as before. “Every space is just really wonderful to be in,” he says. “There’s a timelessness in the design; it could be 100 years old or brand new.”

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Expanding the limits A second structure can be a dramatic improvement

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f your house sits on a small city lot, it may seem as though there’s little room to expand. After all, city regulations limit how much of your lot may be developed, plus the height of secondary structures relative to your house. But don’t give up hope. One recent project by Alloy Workshop demonstrates that even a modest lot can support a surprising amount of newly built space.

The original house was built in 2010 by Latitude 38, known for its modern dwellings that often fit into narrow lots like this sloping site that faces Carters Mountain. The property’s current owner approached Alloy about adding a 34 ABODE

garage in the open backyard. The idea wasn’t just to shelter vehicles, though, but also to make room for an exercise and yoga studio, plus guest quarters. Actually, it gets even better than that.

“The two-car garage opens to the back,” says Alloy architect Dan Zimmerman, showing the sliding barn doors that also allow the garage space to open frontwise toward the house, creating a pass-through pavilion. “The building’s really porous for such a big structure on the site.” When the client has a party, garage doors can be opened on both sides and vehicles moved out to create a roomy space for serving drinks and entertaining.

There’s still more: A third vehicle can be stored in a carport open at both front and back,

and a second-floor porch off the studio capitalizes on the mountain view. And the space between the house and garage has been transformed by multi-level decking into what Zimmerman calls “an urban courtyard” that physically connects the two buildings.

Zimmerman says this multitude of functions grew from a design process that began with several possible schemes. Once the carport was established as a pass-through, he says, “everything else took off from there.”

It was a puzzle with many pieces. “We had to dance between the minimum dimension for the cars and the maximum percentage we could occupy on the site,” says Zimmerman. City code

states that no more than 30 percent The look of the garage of the backyard can support a strucgenerally cleaves ture. It also specifies a maximum height for “accessory structures” very closely to that of —25' or the height of the main build- the house: dark graying, whichever is less. green panels, shiny In this case, height was important galvanized metal and a also because vehicles entering the garage from the alleyway needed a single-slope roof. “In a relatively level pathway. “You didn’t lot of ways it made it want to dive in,” says Zimmerman. easy” not to rethink The garage had to be high enough the vocabulary for the to meet the alley but not too high compared with the house. “It was a secondary structure, balancing act.” City code, of course, says Zimmerman. also requires that structures be set back from property lines by specific distances.

On the second floor, the “cutout porch” bites into the volume of the building, ensuring that the garage doesn’t feel too monolithic. The use of two different exterior materials—an idea borrowed from the original house—also helps break things up. Whereas the house uses metal, HardiePanel and wood, the garage uses only the first two from that list: the ones that take the least maintenance.

The look of the garage generally cleaves very closely to that of the house: dark gray-green panels, shiny galvanized metal and a single-slope roof. “In a lot of ways it made it easy” not to rethink the vocabulary for the secondary structure, says Zimmerman. Yet the garage does have its own feel—a little more industrial than the house, even as the porch clearly marks it as a domestic space.

A low-maintenance structure with a bedroom, bathroom and flexible studio space, that A new addition to a slim city lot contains a capitalizes on a great southern vista: You can bedroom and bathroom, imagine how this affects property value com- flexible studio space, pared with, say, a tool shed. And oh yeah, it’s two-car garage and a carport. To keep it from good to live with, too.

“The structure streamlines our daily life by feeling too overbearing, Alloy created a cutout providing an alternative, easily accessible space porch and echoed the while maintaining privacy,” says the client. Pret- exterior materials of the main house. ty good for an “accessory structure.”

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A spot of color At this time of year especially, when the world outside tends toward browns and grays, orchids like these from Gordonsville’s Floradise bring a splash of tropical color to an indoor environment. But aren’t they hard to care for? Not necessarily. Beginners should decide where the orchid will live. If it’s a low-light spot, consider the phalaenopsis or paphiopedilum (known as lady’s slippers). If you’d rather put an orchid in a south-facing window or another very sunny spot, opt instead for dendrobium or cattleya varieties.

More than 50 orchids are native to Virginia alone, though most sold as houseplants hail from warmer climates. In short, there’s an orchid for everybody—even those with black thumbs.

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