C-VILLE Abode: February 2017

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A new Woolen Mills home experiments with symmetry In a mix-andmatch house, a kitchen comes together

History house An interior designer fashions a storied James River home anew

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Introducing

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MILLWOOD – This 63+ acre parcel is ideally located in the Keswick Hunt in an area of fine estates and equestrian properties. The land is ideally suited for a country estate with long road frontage and a bold stream. The property is under conservation easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. There is an existing well on the property.

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HARDWARE RIVER LOT 2 – 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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MUMMAU FARM – The 1850’s clapboard house is situated on a commanding hill with extensive Blue Ridge Mountain views and frontage on the Rapidan River. Located in the Somerset area of Madison County, this 279 acre farm has very fertile soils and is ideal for crop, hay or livestock. This property has great potential as a horse property because of its prime location in the Keswick Hunt. Other improvements include a tenant house.

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MLS# 550111 • $675,000 PLANK ROAD – A premier 25 acre equestrian lot in Albemarle County. This gently rolling lot backs up to 400 acres of land in conservation easement with views across protected, Bundoran Farm. Keep your own horses on the property or let Bundoran take care of the land at no additional cost. 14 miles of hiking and bridle trails. High speed internet and electricity to the lot.

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GREENWOOD ROAD – This contemporary home is perfectly situated on 23 open acres with stunning views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The home's clean lines boast a large living room with lots of glass to allow the spectacular views into the home. The land is mostly open and ideal for horses. It is conveniently located between Orange and Montpelier.

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DANWELL FARM – A contemporary farmhouse with expansive windows and thoughtfully designed house that enjoys a seamless open floor plan. A 115 acre turnkey equestrian or cattle farm with magnificent, layered Blue Ridge Mountain views. The land is mostly open with productive pastures that are fenced and have ample water. Recently renovated with upgrades including a copper roof, geothermal HVAC system and an updated kitchen.

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Features

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A house on Riverside Avenue breaks the mold, why wallpaper is your new best friend, a case for high density, where to start with kitchen fixtures and more.

Before & After 42 A homeowner with hearts.

Cover photo by Virginia Hamrick.

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Already outfitted with fine millwork in the parlor, chair rails, an ornamented fireplace mantel and window and door trim, this month’s feature home, which once belonged to a relative of Thomas Jefferson, seemingly required a certain caliber of décor and renovations. But the homeowner, an interior designer, made it her own.

In a rustic 1980s home that had evolved with the times (and various homeowners’ additions), this Ivy kitchen renovation started with a simple change: knocking out a wall that had previously separated the kitchen from the dining area. From there, it was a matter of adding in modern details without changing the footprint.

Living history Mix and match

In North Downtown, a 1920s home makes room.

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EVENTS THIS MONTH

A Body Incorporate: Patterns and Peoples of the Virginian Municipality February 3-24 Created by architectural history student Andrew Marshall, this exhibition documents Marshall’s travels to small towns across the state to investigate the physical typology of urban forms.

Through the view of architectural form as an extension of society’s collective consciousness, the project seeks to read urban and building scale patterns to foster the critical practices to interpret and improve the civic realm. Free. Corner Gallery, Campbell Hall, Bayly Drive. arch.virginia.edu

Memories Matter: Saving Family Heirlooms February 11 Jointly sponsored by Monticello, this three-hour event teaches you to properly store and care for family heirlooms—bibles, letters, quilts, trophies, diplomas, photographs and more. Record your

family history at the story booth in the Heritage Center. Free, 10am-2pm. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, 233 Fourth St. NW. monticello.org

Piedmont Landscape Association Seminar February 16 This annual event brings together gardening enthusiasts and landscape professionals for educational lectures from notable gardeners, researchers and horticulturists. This year, the lineup includes Nancy Ross Hugo, Allan Armitage and Peggy Singleman. $75. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. piedmont landscape.org

Apple Tree Pruning February 28 Join Monticello fruit gardener Jessica Bryars for a two-hour outdoor workshop on proper pruning techniques for apples—a much-misunderstood horticultural practice. $18, 10am-noon.

David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 931 ThomWorrell asZack Jefferson Pkwy. monticello.org

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Warm reception In its January 2017 issue, Landscape Architecture Magazine published a cover story on University of Virginia assistant professor of landscape architecture Leena Cho and assistant professor of architecture Matthew Jull and their Arctic Design Group. The group, founded by Cho and Jull in 2013, is a joint research effort between UVA’s School of Architecture, the School of Law and the Department of Environmental Sciences to develop strategies for Arctic cities, towns and landscapes as sea ice recedes and opportunities for growth in those areas open up.

Last semester, Cho and Jull took 14 students to three towns in Svalbard, an archipelago between Norway’s mainland and the North Pole, “to study urbanization patterns and develop design responses to the environmental challenges of industry amid the receding ice and shifting permafrost—signs of much more to come,” according to a press release. The article follows the architects and their students on the 10-day journey exploring “the next frontier.”

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OFF THE BOARDS

A trademark Latitude touch is wood cladding—short planks in various hues and widths—on interior walls. Diagonal boards add drama to the entryway.

By Erika Howsare

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ou can often spot a Latitude 38 house from a block away. The Charlottesville company, owned by husband and wife team Jeff Erkelens and Joey Conover, has tended to build tall, vertical structures, with a fresh, quirky asymmetry. But one Latitude house, found in the Riverside neighborhood adjacent to Riverview Park, breaks the mold.

More horizontal than vertical, it is largely symmetrical side-to-side and front-to-back.

(That’s notwithstanding the signature Latitude shed roof.) The reason for the change? It lies somewhere between Erkelens, Conover, their employees and the site itself.

“We’re usually stuck on these skinny lots,” says Erkelens; Latitude focuses on urban infill, mostly building houses on spec in fairly dense neighborhoods like Fifeville. But the Riverside site is relatively wide and, what’s more, it overlooks a landscape that also spreads laterally: the flat ground of the park and the Rivanna beyond, flowing left to right across the view.

Building a house that’s wide instead of deep also worked better with the slope of the lot, since the team did not want to include a basement in the design. Instead, the house sits on a concrete slab, with the front entry a few feet below street level.

Says Erkelens, “At the time, we’d done a couple houses using all Superior Walls”—prefab 12 ABODE

concrete wall sections—“but we wanted to figure out how to break that up in an interesting way.”

Latitude employee Isaac Miller contributed the basic scheme for the house’s form: two Superior Wall rectangles, with a wood-frame connector between. That center section is set back to create a recessed entryway at front and rear. “I find that more inviting,” says Erkelens.

Once the house’s outer form was in place, the basic interior layout took shape in response. The open kitchen/living/dining area would spread across the back of the first floor, taking in the river view. “The dining room had to be in the center; you don’t need as much space for that,” Erkelens explains. Upstairs, one bay is devoted to the master suite and the other is divided into two smaller bedrooms.

The scheme of the house seems almost classical in its simplicity and in the way it derives from the exterior form, but Erkelens says there was plenty of push-and-pull to make it all work.

For example, the first-floor ceiling joists are mostly left exposed in order to gain some height. Yet second-floor plumbing would need to be hidden, too. So Latitude added a drywall ceiling to the dining room. This accomplished a couple of things—it helped to delineate the dining zone from the rest of the open great room, and it provided a way to hide plumbing for the second-floor bathroom, located directly overhead.

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Mixing it up in Crozet Piedmont Place merges many functions

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he idea of a “new downtown” in Crozet has been in the air for years. With the opening of Piedmont Place—a lively, mixed-use building just across the street from the Crozet Library—it is suddenly looking like a reality.

“My wife Michelle and I moved to Crozet in 2011,” says developer Drew Holzwarth, who manages residential development for Stanley Martin Homes. “I was worried that an out-of-town de-

BLUEPRINT On this project, Erkelens and Conover experimented with kitchen design. “We’d been doing these more modern kitchens with white cabinets,” says Conover. In this case, “We did a wood finish, and it has more of an Asian vibe.” White quartz countertops resemble trendy marble but are more

The scheme of the house seems almost classical in its simplicity and in the way it derives from the exterior form.

Two of the building’s dining options—The Rooftop sky bar and Smoked Kitchen and Tap— are midsize, sit-down places. At Smoked, diners in red booths will order barbecue and beers in a space that’s easily accessible from the street. The Rooftop, meanwhile, requires a trip upstairs in the elevator but delivers jaw-dropping views, especially from its outdoor terrace. Anderson specified doors that can fold away to make a wide opening, connecting the terrace to the indoor seating.

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veloper would put something ugly and cheap in the entrance to our new downtown.” After keeping their eye on the Library Avenue parcel for several years, the couple decided to develop it themselves as a residential/commercial venture. Architect Bob Anderson, who’d been associated with the site during a previous effort that ultimately went unbuilt, designed the four-level building.

With six apartments and eight businesses, Piedmont Place is meant to be, as Holzwarth says, “a vibrant place 24/7.” It has a long, narrow profile, and its lowest level is deeply set into the sloping site, so it doesn’t appear oversized. But Anderson’s design packs in a number of different functions, aiming for a sense of urban density that will bring residents, workers and customers together for a communal experience.

That’s not to say anyone should feel crowded.

Anderson went out of his way, for example, to protect residents of the two-bedroom apartments from the sounds and smells of the building’s restaurants. A ventilation system should ensure that fish taco smells won’t enter apartments (though their occupants may still want to run downstairs to Morsel Compass for the actual tacos).

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Rather than their go-to white cabinets, Erkelens and Conover used a wood finish.

“It has more of an Asian vibe,” says Conover.

Piedmont Place, which combines two-bedroom apartments, restaurants, a yoga studio and more, promotes a communal experience.

durable, and the dark wood cabinets carry through along one wall of the dining room. One of these pragmatically hides a wall-mounted mini-split HVAC unit, but the overall effect is of visual richness within the spare, clean space.

One trademark Latitude touch is the wood cladding on some interior walls: short planks in various hues and widths, forming a pattern that’s organic and modern at the same time. Bold diagonals mark the staircase and add drama to the entryway.

In the living room, a wooden wall also holds an arrangement of Ikea cabinet boxes, wrapped in the same wood—a “sculptural piece,” says Erkelens, that also happens to hold a lot of stuff.

The views, in fact, get pride of place just about everywhere. Two levels down from the sky bar is Piedmont Place Market, which Holzwarth says is “effectively, an incubator” for small-business entrepreneurs. A central corridor winds through a collection of food businesses—offering everything from beer to smoothies to ice cream—plus Over the Moon Bookstore.

This portion of the building exemplifies the busy, local feel of the entire project. Seating is tucked into various niches, plus an outdoor patio, but the best perches of all are in the southwest corner, where big windows offer a mountain vista. Building residents, too, drink in the views: Each apartment has its own balcony.

Anderson gave the building an exterior that nods to the library across the street. Stone clads the terrace level, and a solar field sits on the roof. A yoga studio occupies the rear terrace level.

It’s a place that could become personal to many folks, and it already is for Anderson. “I used to live in Crozet and still have a lot of connections here,” he says. “I have a personal interest in how it comes out.”—Erika Howsare

With six apartments and eight businesses, Piedmont Place is meant to be, as Holzwarth says, “a vibrant place 24/7.” It has a long, narrow profile, and its lowest level is deeply set into the sloping site, so it doesn’t appear oversized.

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FROM THE A-SCHOOL

The urban myth Are denser areas more beneficial to their inhabitants?

By Lindsey Luria

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he recent arrival of winter weather in Charlottesville has brought interruptions to school, work and business, particularly on the outskirts of town. The snow storm was a reminder that it generally takes longer for snowplows to clear rural backroads and neighborhood streets than it does in the town center, where everything is more concentrated. This raises several questions about the benefits and detriments of density—do people belong in cities? What does it mean to create space for people? What do they need in their immediate environs, and what can be provided from urban peripheries?

When it comes to receiving public services like snowplowing, people in urban areas have a clear advantage over those who live in rural areas. In fact, the concentration of businesses, consumer markets and tax bases in cities gives urban dwellers an advantage in access to all kinds of goods and services, including health care, well-stocked and well-staffed public institutions and responsible waste management. These advantages, as well as the social advantages of greater professional opportunities and cultural amenities, have caused a global trend of urbanization—people moving to denser areas.

Whereas environmentalists have historically regarded cities as unsustainable and unhealthy (think the Great Smog of London), there is now an overwhelming consensus that dense development is probably more resource-efficient than sprawl and may even have the potential to function with more ecological integrity. The problem is that the more people choose to live in cities, the more need there is for either urban production of goods and waste management or dependency on the cities’ neighboring areas to provide these necessities.

Many urban designers have been tackling air quality, storm water management, nutrient recycling and urban farming, trying to meet these needs within cities, but very often there is too

Current opinion is that dense development, like in Charlottesville’s downtown area, is likely more resource-efficient than sprawl.

much red tape or too great an expense involved in retrofitting high-density areas, and the majority of the burden still falls on rural outskirts. Driving into New York City, one of the nation’s leaders in urban sustainability, there is a persistent stench of waste being dumped into New Jersey.

This environmental injustice also works in the opposite direction, where many Americans who live amongst farmland ironically require government aid to buy fresh vegetables because so much of those grown must be sold into urban areas through a system that rewards mass production.

So, returning to the question of whether urban density is good or bad, the more important point is that the attractive ease of access to goods

and services within cities often comes at the expense of those in rural areas and maybe, in addition to the brilliant work in urban design and sustainability that has already begun, we can also work on strategies to improve rural life through design. The question of “What does it mean to create space for people?” should refer to all people and not only those in cities, and if urban centers are more resource-efficient than sprawl, then perhaps this idea can be translated to the development of thriving rural towns.

Lindsey Luria is pursuing a master of landscape architecture degree and certificate of historic preservation at UVA’s School of Architecture.

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Every finish in the kitchen starts with your sink fixtures, so get them right

By Shea Gibbs

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he verdict is in from the nation’s biggest kitchen and bathroom expo—kitchen sinks are trending modern. And there’s probably nothing Charlottesville can do about it.

According to local designer Amy Hart of Albemarle Cabinet Co., a visit to The Kitchen & Bath Industry Show in early January and her clients’ recent purchases indicate most folks are looking for high-quality, simple designs these days.

“Right now we are selling more high-end faucets because people are being wise with their money—they want to invest in a well-built, goodlooking faucet,” she says. “As for the look, it is very modern now.”

Charlottesville, though, may be slower to progress. With its legacy residences and bucolic

sensibility, classic finishes are still in around here, according to Karen Turner of Karen Turner Kitchen Design.

“With older homes and remodeling, people want their kitchen to look like it has always been there and have a certain patina,” she says. So where does that leave you? Remember the following tricks and trends, and you should be golden, or at least bronze.

Think from the sink Hart says faucet designers like Kohler and Delta tend to drive trends throughout the kitchen.

“They’re paying for all these new finishes,” she says. “They spend so much time with marketing and focus groups and developing these finishes, and that is what everyone else is waiting on.” In

Form and function What about all that fancy new faucet technology? Should you consider a touch faucet or a no-touch faucet? What about a faucet you can operate with your mind? Slow down, space cowboy.

While touch and no-touch faucets are on the rise, both Hart and Turner are somewhat skeptical. Turner says her clients still prefer single-lever faucets you can operate with your wrist. Hart was even less kind to the touchyfeely faucets. “Personally I feel like it’s one more thing to break,” she says.

Hart says her customers are particularly savvy about faucet construction and are willing to pay more for quality. A pull-down sprayer—once ostracized for its clunky docking mechanisms— is almost a given. You’ll only see side sprayers in the lowest end kitchens. “They’re just really practical,” Turner says. “There’s less clutter on the countertop, and the pull-out sprayer eliminates the hose.”

Turner says stovetop pot fillers are still in, and some of her clients are doing cool new things with built-in filtered water systems and hot water supply lines. And the best part of the hot new stuff is you can still get it in your preferred finishes.

“They have brought those along, with different styles—modern, sleek or more traditional,” Turner says. “So that doesn’t limit you if you want all those things.”—S.G.

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The cutting edge So what exactly are those new finishes? Hart points to aged pewter, titanium and rose gold, a Kohler-specific finish that people have been showing a lot of interest in throughout the kitchen, including on hardware and in lighting.

In a broader sense, homeowners looking to go modern are typically reaching for matte, not shiny finishes, Hart says.

Classic redefined If you’re more of a traditionalist, you have options, too. Sure, you could go with the standards—polished nickel, which has a warm feel, or chrome, which is cooler. Or you could go with a rediscovered classic.

“Many of the older homes have unlacquered brass hinges and other cabinet hardware, and they are trying to make the faucets look like a part of that,” Turner says.

Unlacquered brass or polished nickel go nicely with more traditional apron-front sinks, which have also made a huge comeback, she adds.

Hart concedes that parts of Charlottesville are stuck in the past. “It’s very polarized in our market—it’s either very traditional or very modern,” she says. “I don’t sell a lot of in-between.”

The in-between Hey, maybe you’re a C’ville eccentric. Local trends be damned, you’re neither traditional nor modern. Hart says the best sellers in the middle of the road, as well as for spec homes, are chrome and matte nickel. Satin nickel, a brushed product, is also popular, but the oil-rubbed bronze that was on fire several years ago is fading fast. What’s coming next? Matte black, iron and matte pewter are starting to build momentum, according to Hart, because they go well with lots of kitchen styles. “People are looking for that contrast,” she says.

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Unlike paint, wallpaper adds detail and dimension that paint can’t achieve. And, says Kenny Ball Antiques designer Chloe Ball, it gets an unnecessarily bad rap.

“If walls are primed properly, it’s not harmful and easily removed,” she says. (She recommends using Benjamin Moore Fresh Start, an oil-based primer, before you hang anything.) Feeling intimidated?

Ball says starting small, with a mudroom or powder room, is a good way to ease in. And Kathleen Conroy, Ball’s design partner, suggests using wallpaper as a segue between painted rooms (like in hallways) or even at the back of bookshelves.

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Situated on high ground, commanding a majestic view, the house is likely close to two centuries old. With its brick foundation and chimneys, and many other classic Virginia architectural details, it looks eminently at home among the mature trees that surround it. It holds a place on the National Historic Register and even boasts the ultimate Albemarle pedigree: It was owned by a member of the Jefferson family.

The home may not be a world-class tourist stop, but it is plenty special—and its current owners, a couple whose primary residence is in Portland, Oregon, know it. Since they purchased the house in 2014 (and nearly 14 accompanying acres, perched on a bluff above the James River), they’ve been carefully updating it, always with an eye toward the integrity of the house. Yet what they bought was already a mélange of eras.

“It wasn’t a grand house,” says the wife, an interior designer, of the original portion owned

by Peter Field Jefferson, a relative of the third president. Indeed, the central section of the house—deeded to Field Jefferson in 1836—is, by today’s standards, quite humble in size. “But he clearly wanted to make it grander,” she says.

Fine millwork dresses up the formal parlor: chair rails, an ornamented fireplace mantel and window and door trim.

Twentieth-century owners added on to increase square footage and modernize—two small side wings in the 1950s, which preserved for the moment the house’s strict symmetry, and a larger 1970 addition on one end. Just before the turn of the millennium, the house gained a terrace room with more contemporary touches: French doors and a high cathedral ceiling. Still, on the exterior, the additions have for the most part been kept very consistent with the original look: clapboard siding, metal roof and white porch columns.

In the lower level of the home, the current kitchen (below) flows into a sitting area.

‘Not too fusty’ The central, 19th-century portion needed little but fresh paint and refinishing work on the floors. But the newer sections came in for remodeling; because they house the bathrooms and kitchen, they were the most obviously outdated. With Lithic Construction as the contractor, the owner-designer embarked on a spot-byspot renovation that aimed for comfort while still paying historical respects.

“I don’t want it to be too fusty,” she says.

Through a design career spanning Oregon, Minneapolis and the East Coast, she’s assimilated many influences, from mid-century modern to antique French, and likes to mix styles. Accordingly, architectural choices here are sympathetic to the era in which each house section was

built, yet the home does not function as a museum. “I’ve tried to make the rooms accessible,” she says.

That goal was literal in the case of a ’50s-era guest bathroom with a closet that partially blocked the doorway. “This space had black-and-

white linoleum floors,” says the owner. “It needed to look more like the house.” She chose shiplap wainscoting, travertine tile and a painted pine floor to brighten things up, and rearranged the layout so that the sink is nearest to the door, while the tub and toilet are in their own separate space with a sliding door. A corner closet near a window replaces the previous obstruction.

At the opposite end of this floor, the master bathroom demanded even deeper changes.

While the adjacent bedroom only required painting, the bathroom was, says the owner, “a warren of little spaces.” It even had two doors, which after much thought the team decided to keep. “There was something I liked about it,” says the owner. The room became one of her favorite parts of the renovation. “Once I said, ‘You can go without a tub,’ I gave myself free rein.”

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The dining room (top right) locates in the original portion of the home, near the kitchen addition from the 1950s, which now serves as a wet bar. Though it has such a rich history, the home’s pedigree didn’t intimidate the homeowner when it came to design. “I didn’t feel compelled to give it a period look,” she says, instead mixing patterns, styles and design eras.

A cozy “keeping room” in the home’s original portion (top left). A ’50s-era guest bathroom (opposite), once with blackand-white linoleum floors, now looks right at home with shiplap wainscoting, travertine tile and a painted pine floor to brighten things up.

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Instead, a large glass-walled shower stall anchors the center of the room, awash in Carrara marble and porcelain tile that closely mimics the marble. Custom vanities have a traditional look with a stepped-back profile for, says the owner, “a little more movement.” The two doors allow easy flow, and the closets at one end have mirrored doors to save space and to keep light moving through the entire room.

“I didn’t feel compelled to give it a period look,” she says.

Historical touches Yet she and her husband clearly value the fact that this historic property connects them to layers of the past. They had all the chimneys relined so they can enjoy the simple pleasure of a fire in the fireplace—even, laughs the owner, when it’s not quite cold enough outside.

Old skeleton keys dangle from hooks near most of the doors, and a weathered, wooden sign, which once marked the end of the driveway, hangs on the guest room wall. It’s painted with an image of the house prior to the 1970 addition.

The lower level, with brick floors and exposed ceiling beams, is partially below-grade, less formal than the upstairs, but equally redolent of the past. A cozy “keeping room” once served as the kitchen and now offers a place to sit before the fireplace. In the 1950s, the kitchen moved to a tiny space off the paneled dining room.

“It was done in old French tile,” says the owner—with words like “champignons” and “oregano” painted in blue on white. She kept the cabinetry and hardware, but updated the space with soapstone countertops and backsplash. It now functions as a wet bar.

The current kitchen is much more ample, flowing into a sitting area and a separate terrace room.

Traditional cabinets in white, with Calacatta marble countertops and a farmhouse sink, make the space feel fresh. “There was a big square island in the center, and it felt tight,” says the owner. “We created the peninsula instead,” managing to reuse much of the cabinetry in the process.

Artwork and antiques are beautifully displayed here, but nothing can outshine the James River, resplendent through all the rear windows and from the modest back porch, which the owner says is her favorite spot of all. “This is a therapeutic, healing kind of place,” she says.

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Opportunity to own a 116-acre farm just minutes from Nelson County attractions, Wintergreen Resort, and Nellysford. Post-andbeam home with rock chimney, 2 stone fireplaces, renovated kitchen, hardwood floors on the main floor, 4 BR and 3.5 BA. New 2-car garage, 1 BR, 1 BA log cabin, large shop/storage building, barn, shed, 2 stocked ponds, streams and mountain views. Perfect for hunting and hiking. Lots of privacy.

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2118 Cub Creek Road Fantastic mountain views from this 3 BR, 2 BA property just 15 minutes to Wintergreen, Route 151 breweries, distilleries, and restaurants. Would make a wonderful retreat or permanent home. Sited on 108 acres with abundant wildlife and stunning vistas. It has an open floor plan and is maintenance free, with hardwood floors on the first level and berber carpet upstairs. Seller may consider owner financing. $670,000

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102 Towler Way Bring your horses! At the end of a quiet country lane sits this picturesque farmette consisting of 28+ acres. Home offers 3 BR, 2 BA, great room with fireplace, family room and a bonus room. There is a garage and a two-stall horse barn. Approximately 2 acres in fenced pasture. The remaining acreage is wooded and provides ample space for creating trails for riding and walking.

1840 Virginia farmhouse offers a huge living room, cozy den and wet bar, country kitchen, dining room, sunroom, 3 BR (with private baths), bonus/loft room and another full BA. Original old bedroom has a sitting room, making it a private apartment with its own entrance. Hardwood floors throughout. Porches, decks, gazebo gorgeous landscaping, views and multiple building sites on this 47-acre farm. Several outbuildings. Fenced for horses or cattle and there are springs, streams and creeks. Close to Nelson County amenities and Wintergreen. $579,000

819 Stonegate Lane Unique horse property in the heart of Nelson! This 29-acre farm offers a horse barn with 7 stalls (12 x 12), tack room, wash stall with central vacuum, and an office with a half bath. Also on site is a riding ring, run-in shed, and large fenced pasture.

Brick home has a family room with stone fireplace, large kitchen with all new appliances, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, and attached 2-car garage. All of this within minutes of the amenities along Route 151! $545,000

Stoney Creek 142 Saddle Ridge Lane This is maybe the most desirable location and home site in Stoney Creek.

Private, park-like and beautifully landscaped 1.44-acre lot with an audible creek (deck beside it) at the rear and long-range mountain views and golf course frontage. The 4 BR, 4.5 BA home has been meticulously maintained. At the rear of the garage, a 2-story apartment has a billiard room, family room, utility/laundry, half bath, full bath, bedroom. A large deck with mountain views connects this to the main home.

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20 Sawmill Creek Water and mountain views! Great value priced below assessment. Custom-built 5 BR, 3.5 BA home with high ceilings and open flow. Marvel at lake views throughout home and in the gourmet kitchen with breakfast nook, family room with floorto-ceiling stone fireplace, and 1st floor master suite. Enjoy the large parcel with fenced back yard and outdoor living space with decks and screened porch with lake views and privacy. Ample room for guests with upstairs bedrooms or terrace-level family rooms. Oversized garage with workshop, front porches, hardwood floors, dual heat system. $475,000

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risti Williamson’s house in Ivy is one of those that has evolved with the times. Built in a rather rustic style in the ’80s, the original, Williamson says, has a DIY feel.

“There were lots of funky doors and different kinds of trim,” she says. Subsequent owners made additions; Williamson and her husband, John, bought the place in 2009 and expanded again, adding a master suite.

Then, last year, it came time to change the kitchen, starting with that classic first step: knocking out a wall. In this case, it was a wall that separated the kitchen from the dining area—and from a showstopping view of the mountains to the west.

“I knew I wanted to utilize the view,” Williamson says. “It felt weirdly closed off.”

In the old kitchen, natural-finish maple cabinets were matched with a wood floor and a wood ceiling. “Nothing stood out or felt special,” says Williamson. Instead, she had in mind a dark gray and white palette that leaned more contemporary.

Taking out that wall meant losing some cabinets, but Williamson figured she’d replace the storage by installing a large island in the center of what would become an expansive, open room.

From behind that island—thanks to a row of French doors the Williamsons had the foresight to install in their previous renovation—the mountain vista is unobstructed.

As for the view inside, the goal the Williamsons shared with their team, including architect Ruth Ellen Outlaw and cabinetmaker Todd Leback, was to “mix in modern touches” with the existing, rustic look. In the old kitchen, naturalfinish maple cabinets were matched with a wood floor and a wood ceiling. “Nothing stood out or felt special,” says Williamson. Instead, she had in mind a dark gray and white palette that leaned more contemporary.

She considered refinishing the old cabinets, which were in good shape. But, says Outlaw, “It’s often the case that modifying cabinets is more costly than making new ones because of the labor costs involved.” That’s especially true with lots of additions and retrofits: a new bar niche in what had been a closet, a deep pantry tower at one end of the workspace and, of course, the island itself. “I decided to go all brand new,” Williamson says.

Leback built new maple Shaker-style cabinets in two different finishes: white for the largest group of cabinets and dark gray for the island,

Two different colors of cabinets paired with two different styles of quartz countertops might seem like a busy choice, but it’s unified by a neutral palette. The homeowners also chose to knock down a wall between the kitchen and dining room, opening the room to a westward view.

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Immaculate Home in the Horse Friendly Equestrian Neighborhood of Hidden Hills Tall cathedral ceilings with beautiful stone fireplace in living room, kitchen has granite and stainless steel with breakfast area, formal dining room, home office, double vanities in upstairs hall bathroom and master bath. Downstairs is large family room with exercise area/game room and surrounded by wainscoting and the 4th bedroom with Murphy bed and full bath attached. 2 gas burning fireplaces, 1 electronic fireplace in master BR and 2 BOSE surround sound systems.

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A multi-hued stone backsplash ties all the colors and textures of the kitchen together.

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plus the three “towers” (pantry, refrigerator, bar) that anchor the room. Add in quartz countertops in two different styles and multi-hued stone backsplash tile, and it might sound like a lot for the eye to take in. But thanks to the neutral palette, it all feels quietly unified.

Outlaw helped the Williamsons refine their seating plans, suggesting that the island allow for barstools to wrap around two sides. “Now it feels like a table, instead of all five of us lining up,” says Williamson. Storage for seldom-used

items like vases and platters is tucked in front of the stools.

The original wooden floor remains, as do the exposed beams and the vaulted wooden ceiling— although the latter has a new finish. Wanting to seal off the space against mice (this is a country house, after all), the team added battens to the existing boards and painted the entire ceiling light gray. “You can still see the wood, but it brightens everything up,” says Williamson. Meanwhile, the elements that are still natural wood seem like warm accents, as do the mustard yellow metal barstools.

The kitchen looks sleek, but hides a multitude of functional details: pullout trash and recycling, a spice drawer with custom dividers to keep jars lying down in neat rows, an A/V closet tucked under the bar. The team also added under-cabinet lighting, and fit illumination under the TV in the space above the sink.

What’s surprising is how similar, in some ways, the kitchen remains to the way it was before. “I tried to make it modern but not over the top,” Williamson says. “We weren’t changing much of the footprint.”

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t’s not easy to nearly double the square footage of a house without bulking up its street profile. But that’s just what happened at Mike and Karen Ball’s North Downtown home. Not only did the couple, and their three young children, gain a lot of living space with the renovation/addition designed by Bushman Dreyfus Architects, their house now looks perhaps less imposing from the street.

On this pie-shaped lot, which gets wider at the back, the temptation might have been to expand laterally. But, says Karen, “We wanted to stay with the basic shape of the original house.” Built in 1925, the house had an awkward, small addition on one side and was sided with white vinyl. The Balls made a decision to replace the vinyl with Tennessee fieldstone—a move that adds both aesthetic gravitas and a physical sense of weight to the central, original portion of the house.

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low-profile,” clad in white clapboard and set back from the front plane of the house. (The old addition now has a porch facing the street, balanced by a new mudroom on the opposite side.)

Tim Tessier, architect with Bushman Dreyfus, says the use of fieldstone, along with keeping the original windows, helps the house seem older.

“It feels more integrated,” he says, with the surrounding houses.

Make no mistake, though: With this renovation, the Ball home has been thoroughly modernized. Not only did the family gain certain new-construction luxuries—upstairs laundry, a mudroom replete with cubbies, a butler’s pantry—the house is significantly more spacious, with a contemporary sense of flow.

One of Tessier’s main goals was to improve the way traffic would move through the first floor.

Previously, a long, narrow living room stretched from front to back, doubling as a highway to the only first-floor bathroom. Tessier shortened that space, creating a cozy den/office, and reorganized the rest of the first floor so that there are multiple

ways to get from point A to point B. “You never feel like you’re stuck,” says Karen.

There are lots of places to go: a new kitchen/ living area that spans the back of the house, a new rear screened porch and deck and a new guest suite perched on the footprint of the previous addition. There are spaces that feel very roomy and open, but there are also lots of appealing nooks—like the banquette, surrounded by windows, that provides a multipurpose family gathering space right off the expansive kitchen.

The team created a look that balances historical accuracy with current trends. The kitchen, with its white subway tile, white cabinets and soapstone countertops, is right in line with contemporary preferences. The proportions of the large island, and the wide floorspace between that island and the cooktop, are also clearly of the moment. “You can have four or five people working in here and it’s still comfortable,” says Mike—a far cry from the tiny kitchens that were standard when the house was originally built.

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But some details—like the window and door trim that the Balls copied from other 1920s-vintage houses around Charlottesville—ground the space in a historical fabric. Built-in cabinets and shelves add timeless practicality. An upstairs powder room has been turned into a pleasant reading nook, with bookshelves and a window seat.

The Balls’ master suite, on the second floor of the rear addition, feels like a separate world because of a single step up (which also makes possible a higher ceiling in the living area below). The bedroom features a peaked ceiling and opens onto a small private deck, while the bathroom centerpiece is a tub in an arched nook, lined with marble tile. Tessier and the Balls realized that the bathroom, not the bedroom, should face east. “You go into the bathroom in the morning, and that’s when the light starts hitting you,” says Mike.

For all the private family space that’s been gained here, a relationship with the neighborhood is still a priority. The side porch, which faces the street, is what the Balls call “the social porch,” where they like to play music or just make themselves available to the many walkers and runners who come down the sidewalk. “Often in the summer,” says Karen, “we’ll sit out there and wave to folks and friends who pass by will pop over for a drink.”

A powder room upstairs got a new life as a reading nook, with built-in shelves and a window seat.

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Love nest

While visiting friends in Bath, England, in April of 2010, Jennifer Brecht was enamored of a wall in their farmhouse kitchen, which displayed hearts of varying sizes. One day while shopping, Brecht saw three hearts that inspired her—a slender wooden block heart, a small red heart encased in a square of glass and a plump heart stamped with “with love.” “The rest flowed from there,” she says.

These days, Brecht’s heart collection lines the backsplash of her own kitchen, and is an ever-changing project.

“I’m considering redoing it again,” she says, “culling the ones that don’t speak to me now and probably adding more.” That’s what you call a change of heart.

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850 WEST STREET - c. 1890 Farm house on West St. located in the center of Charlottesville. 3 bedroom, 2 full baths with new metal roof. Private level yard includes an irrigation system and fencing. Charlottesville city location and charming period home, this property is a rare find in today’s active city market. MLS 554489. $399,000. Murdoch Matheson 434.981.7439

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