C-VILLE Abode: May 2017

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Inside the Corner’s new student center

Bright spots How lighting can transform a room

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A Crozet kitchen with NYC vibes

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MAY 2017

A downtown home deftly mixes eras In Ivy, a landscape comes into view

Return to the With deference to Jefferson, an Albemarle estate taps tradition

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JACKLYN HALL - 457 acre farm located in the Somerset area of Madison County with long frontage on the Rapidan River. The 1820’s clapboard house has extensive views of the Southwest and Blue Ridge Mountains. Property includes a working feedlot for cattle and the land is a mix of productive crop land, fertile pasture and some hardwoods. Other improvements include a tenant house, cattle barn and a large equipment barn. MLS# 541545 • 3,300,000

SCOTTSVILLE AREA FARM -A beautiful, medium-sized horse farm or retreat 14 miles from town. The turn-of-the-century farmhouse is well-sited in the center of 77 acres of fenced pasture and fields, with a beautiful stable, large pond and trails. The farm offers privacy and views and is adjacent to over 1500 acres of protected farmland. A 6-stall center aisle barn with power, hot and cold water, bathroom, tack room, wash stall and shavings storage is positioned near the large outdoor ring. MLS# 558491 • $1,250,000

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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. MLS# 554383 • $469,900

DUNDEE ROAD - FIRST TIME ON THE MARKET- 150 acres of mature hardwoods and fertile pasture with long frontage on the Conway River. Two elevated knolls offer spectacular, protected views of the Blue Ridge, the river and surrounding farmland. 1 division right. 30 minutes to Charlottesville, 90 minutes to Dulles Airport. MLS # 553011 • $1,075,000

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PUMPHOUSE ROAD -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. Many recent improvements include a finished basement, 2 renovated bathrooms and remodeled kitchen. Situated at the end of a county road with great privacy. A 4-stall stable with tack room, wash stall & 2 new run-in sheds make this a great horse property. MLS # 559333 • $595,000

HARDWARE RIVER - 21 acres of hardwood forest at the end of a quiet street. The parcel offers gently rolling topography and a number of private building sites. Incredibly private yet only 7 miles from town. Land use tax already established. Perfect for a builder spec home or a new custom home to be built. MLS# 540953 • $187,900

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by Jefferson. It is a monument to craftsmanship. Read more on page 28.

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A dank downtown home gets a facelift, a swank student center on the Corner, frank talk about kit homes and more.

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Can changing a kitchen’s functionality increase your home’s value?

Finishing Touches 53 Purple’s proper for a spring awakening.

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An ode to Jeffersonian architecture, this 21st century home is one for the ages— both in durability and design, thanks to architecture firm Dalgliesh Gilpin Paxton.

To spruce up her Crozet townhouse kitchen, homeowner Ashley Jewell asked Southern Development to create an exposed brick wall. The hip design flowed from there.

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Over more than 30 years, a county homeowner (and master gardener) develops a native landscape filled with unfussy flowers, décor and peaceful garden zones.

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OFF THE BOARDS

By Erika Howsare

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historic house on Park Street—one of the first ever built in this genteel Charlottesville neighborhood—is certainly a prize. But it comes with some baggage. When Ariana and Greyson Williams bought their home, built in the 1850s by a Virginia Supreme Court judge and listed on the National Historic Register, they knew they wanted to do some renovations. The house’s age meant they’d not only have to contend with an antiquated structure, but any changes would have to gain approval from the City’s Board of Architectural Review.

Their projects were also fairly large in scope.

“Our goal was to make this our family house,” says Ariana Williams, who was just about to have her first of two children when they moved in 2009. One upstairs bedroom functions as an office, and the Williamses needed a guest suite. So the latter would have to be carved out of the basement—partially finished by a previous owner but essentially unlivable.

“It was dank,” remembers architect Dan Zimmerman of Alloy Workshop. The basement floor was brick laid on soil, making for poor air quality that bothered Ariana’s asthma. “I couldn’t even be down there,” she says.

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Alloy’s task, in a physical sense, was to gut the basement, lay down a concrete slab and finish the space with a bedroom, bathroom, exercise room and living room. Outside, a small rear sitting porch would become a larger screened porch, with a patio underneath looking onto the backyard. The Williamses also commissioned Alloy to design a two-car garage. The challenge was to blend all these new spaces and structures with the vocabulary of the existing house.

“I’m multilingual,” says Zimmerman, comparing building styles with languages. While his “native language” is the modern/contemporary look for which Alloy is best known, he welcomed the chance to test his fluency in a more traditional architectural language. “It stretched us a little,” he says. “You’re adding onto an architecturally strong structure; I wanted to do it correctly.”

Especially on the exterior, the details of the original home informed the new designs. The screened porch, for example, borrows its scale from an existing sunroom around the corner of the house. “We mimicked its windows with the openings in the screened porch,” says Zimmerman. The same goes for trim details, including the fairly ornate railing.

The results are convincing. “People are surprised the porch is new,” says Williams. At the same time, the structure offers clues that it does

not date to the 19th century. The floor is made of teak, and the ceiling planks form a subtly contemporary diamond/chevron pattern—painted, however, in traditional sky blue.

Modern on the inside Inside, the basement design aims for a balance between refinement and an earthy tactility, inspired by the highly textured original brick fireplaces in the bedroom and living area. Zimmerman felt that these rooms didn’t need to match the formality of the old upstairs spaces, but could find a different appeal with modern touches and natural materials.

Concrete basement floors became a canvas for various patterns of shape and color, like the diagonal checkerboard in the entry hall, stained with light tan and rusty red.

Pine planks, lightly whitewashed, warm up some walls and ceilings, including those that form a nook over the bed. Tiny LED lights overhead are like stars, and the nook’s lowered ceiling, says Zimmerman, provides intimacy even as it serves a practical function: hiding ductwork.

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a plan that used a new stone wall to separate the lawn into two different levels, added new plantings and steps, and improved drainage. “We didn’t want too many steps,” says Zimmerman.

Careful tinkering with the heights of walkways and walls, and the elevation of the garage itself, ultimately yielded easy flow through the landscape and a sense of connection between the upper children’s play lawn behind the garage, and the garden below.

The new garage is able to function as a pavilion thanks to sliding barn doors on the rear. “I thought, ‘We have a party yard, we need a party structure,’” says Williams.

Zimmerman worked hard to integrate the garage with the property overall. Its stucco exterior mimics that of the house, and Williams remarks, “It looks like it could have been a carriage house.” Yet Alloy did allow some details, like exposed roof rafters, to skew more casual than their counterparts on the house.

Not long ago, the great-grandson of the house’s original owner stopped by to chat with the Williamses, and expressed admiration for the changes they’d made. “He loved the additions,” says Williams.

Zimmerman says the task of sensitively augmenting a historic house is one he relished. “This is one of the projects I’m most proud of.”

On the exterior, details of the original home informed the new designs. The screened porch, for example, borrows its scale from an existing sunroom. In the basement, lightly whitewashed pine planks warm up walls and ceilings while, underfoot, concrete floors are a canvas for various patterns and colors.

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FROM THE A-SCHOOL

What’s next?

Now that they’ve made it through the program, we asked a few of UVA’s architecture graduate students to tell us where they’re headed come May 21.

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Jennifer Hsiaw Undergraduate school/degree: U.C. Berkeley (Bachelor of Architecture); MIT (Master of Engineering structural engineering) Graduate degree/concentration: Master of architecture Summary of your thesis: My thesis is looking at high-tech corporate campuses in Silicon Valley and their relationship with the suburbs of the Bay Area. I am proposing a new corporate architecture that considers the unique character, culture and settlement conditions of the area, negotiating both private and public interests in the determination of space, program and form.

Why architecture? The social impact of architecture was a revelation to me in my first survey course as an undergrad. I was amazed by the breadth of the field and the research my professors were pursuing.

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while sailing through a fjord on the way to an abandoned Russian mining town in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This was on a studio site visit.

What’s next? I’m planning on staying an extra semester to complete my thesis. Then it’s time to start practicing!

Chad Miller Undergraduate school/degree: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota (Bachelor of Arts in urban studies and psychology)

Graduate degree/concentration: Master of architecture and master of landscape architecture

Summary of your thesis: I have completed two funded independent research projects while at the School of Architecture. Our studio sequence ends with Comprehensive Studio, so although these projects were not for a thesis studio, they constitute my design research interests.

First, L’Espace Peripherique, which explores emerging social spaces in the territory of Le Pe-

ripherique in Paris, a zone of transition that divides inner and outer Paris both physically and socially. Working in the context of Le Grande Paris regional planning initiative, this project develops a narrative of the zone as experienced on the ground, and employs a typological approach for spatial and programmatic strategies that subvert the monstrous scale and divisive nature of the territory.

The second project, Agile: Tactics of Colonization for the Flexible City, studies how the structural, material and spatial logic of abandoned structures in Detroit can allow these buildings to become stages for an imagination of new urban scenarios through gradual and temporary colonization rather than wholesale redevelopment.

Why architecture? I have always had a strong interest in the critical role that architecture can play in the civic realm, beginning with critiques of urban sprawl through drawing proposals I submitted along with letters to the mayor of my hometown, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at age 11. Although I considered studying archi-

tecture in college, as a high school senior, my broad range of interests compelled me to seek my own path in undergraduate, gaining a liberal arts education and settling on urban studies and psychology.

What’s next? I have applied for funding for post-grad thesis research for fall 2017. I am planning to move to Minneapolis, Philadelphia or New York to seek work with an architecture firm. I hope to get licensed in architecture within a few years, and work between architecture/ landscape/urban design throughout my career.

I am particularly interested in critical and research-driven design practices as well as public interest design.

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From the scale of a territory to an individual’s day-to-day life, architecture presents a unique opportunity to imagine a new future and shape the space around us, which I find is both a very exciting and humbling process.

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What’s next: After graduation in December, I’ll be moving to Austin, Texas, where I’ll continue to pursue my architectural career and eat a lot of barbecue. From there, who knows!

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1515 and counting New student center builds on a patchwork past

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1515, a new student center on the Corner, opened in March.

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ince its construction in 1896, 1515 University Ave. has been a drugstore, a bookstore, a boarding house, the Cavalier Diner and many more incarnations. The building, which opened in mid-March, now pieces together fragments of all its previous incarnations, giving UVA students a new place on the Corner to call their home away from home.

“From very early on, it’s been a student-centered project,” says James Zehmer, the project manager and one of UVA’s historic preservation managers. In summer 2015, a team of students, many from UVA’s Meriwether Lewis Institute for Citizen Leadership, assembled a plan to revive the former campus bookstore, vacant since 2014. Their idea: an alcohol-free student center that wouldn’t feel like just another building on or near Grounds.

The students “were hands-on with everything,” says lead architect and UVA alum Bob Nalls. He and architectural designer Amanda Mazid worked closely with students on everything from how the spaces would be used to the furniture, flatware and fixtures that fill them.

“It was the type of project where you couldn’t just sit there and design the whole thing and then start working,” Nalls says, “because there was too much that had to be figured out in the field.” UVA crews began to demolish, reinforce and rebuild the interior even as the students worked with Nalls and Mazid to plan out and populate its spaces. If they’d done it the conventional way, Nalls says, “we’d be looking at doing it for next summer.”

The ground floor’s high ceilings and numerous windows create a comfortable study and social space for students, with a stage for musical and other performances at night. Student artwork decorates the walls, and a boutique dessert café, Crumbs on the Corner, serves sweet treats from 5pm until the wee hours.

“I came up with the idea of the dessert bar while brainstorming, based on what I thought the Corner was lacking, but would still draw students in,” says third-year Brittany Hsieh, who drew inspiration from a similar restaurant in her hometown of Richmond.

A prominent open staircase leads to the second floor, once 1920s-era apartments, which now

provides open and reservable spaces for students, plus a satellite office for UVA’s career center.

“Our hope as a group was to give the floor an eclectic feel and model each room after a different room in a residential home,” says design team member and fifth-year grad student Dakota Lipscombe. For instance, the studio has mirrored walls for dance and music rehearsals. The mindfulness room’s subtle soundproofing keeps outside noise at bay. In the sunroom, faux boxwood creates a green wall, while the dining room is built around a single long communal table. A garage room, designed as a maker space, offers a chalkboard wall for capturing ideas.

As for the building’s basement, “there was talk of a bowling alley,” Lipscombe says, “but I think

the game room worked out much better instead.”

Students can play pool, pinball, arcade games or air hockey, watch TV on several large flatscreens, rehearse music in the acoustically isolated back room or just read, sleep or study in a menagerie of couches and chairs. The walls are partly paneled with reclaimed joists sawed out of the floor to make room for the stairwell, lending the space a natural, intimate vibe.

Throughout the building, touches like these connect 1515 to its history. On the ground floor, two different pressed-tin ceilings recall the two stores that once occupied the space. On the top floor, UVA crews tore out interior walls, but filled in the resulting gaps in the floorboards perpendicular to the rest of the planking, to show students where those partitions had been.

The new 1515 proudly shows off its scars, turning those layers of oddities into advantages.

“Our vision was that every three or four years, you’ve got a complete change in the student population, and hopefully this building won’t get stale,” Zehmer says. “Hopefully, each class will take it on and give it its own spin.”

“All of it is a little bit of an experiment,” Nalls adds, “and nobody is quite sure exactly how it’ll get used.”

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Kit and caboodle

After popularity in the 1900s, where are mail order homes now?

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Kit homes (like this Aladdin Westwood from Sears, seen below in present day in the Lewis Mountain neighborhood) were most popular in the early 20th century, but there are modern iterations.

Kit cost Modern kit housing varies widely in price, according to Casati Copeland, co-owner of Charlottesville-based Green Modern Kits. While it should be reasonable at somewhere around $100 per square foot, it can be up to $300 per square foot in cases.

Below is a look at pricing for three Sears Modern Homes, listed at the time of manufacture and adjusted for inflation.

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Glen Falls $4,560 $1.57 (2017) $63,703.20 $21.92 Rockford $2,086 $1.44 (2017) $29,120.56 $20.10 Westly $1,874 $1.44 (2017) $27,416.62 $21.07

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mmigrants and minorities struggling to buy their own homes after the turn of the century had an unlikely ally—the powerful Sears, Roebuck & Company.

Sears sold mail-order kit homes and provided easy-qualification mortgages from 1908 to 1940, putting about 70,000 houses into the hands of enterprising folks looking to build their dream dwelling with their own two hands.

And all across the country, including in Charlottesville, the legacy of those homes is still felt today.

“The intent was to create a house mom and dad built that could be passed through the generations.

They were latched onto a piece of the American dream,” said Rosemary Thornton, author of The Houses That Sears Built. Thornton is an unabashed Sears home fangirl—to her, they should be registered as historic locations, preserved and honored for their role in real estate’s past. “It’s not just about the house,” she says. “Sears was so progressive and helped so many marginalized people get a house. You didn’t have to come from the right part of town to own your own home.”

Thornton has identified nearly two dozen Sears model homes in Charlottesville and surrounding towns. Whether it’s the 2,900-squarefoot Glen Falls luxury model in C’ville, the bevy of Carlins in Waynesboro or the Sears Dovercum-restaurant in Crozet, many of the homes are still in working order and picture-perfect representations of Sears catalog images.

And the legacy of the Sears kit home—along with those by Aladdin Homes, Montgomery Ward and other manufacturers—is still felt in modern modular and prebuilt housing. While folks aren’t necessarily buying 12,000 pieces of lumber through the mail and throwing up their own siding, some are still drawn to housing designs that feature standard components manufactured off-site and assembled in place.

Casati Copeland, co-owner of local housing provider Green Modern Kits and a kit home owner herself, says that, in fact, she won’t sell to anyone who doesn’t have a reputable contractor at the ready to assemble the home.

“The client’s prefab project success is tied to my success, so no you may not buy my kits, get a keg of beer and invite your friends up for the weekend to build a house,” she says.

When the houses are complete, they should have a reasonably small footprint, but “these are not tiny homes,” Copeland says. “These are homes with two to three bedrooms that families can use for their different life stages.”

Copeland says she and her husband were attracted to kit homes because they allowed them to bring together their love of technology and cuttingedge design. Using prefab components allowed them to contract with a high-end architect while ending up with a modular, insulated home capable of being taken off the grid with solar power.

Copeland and her husband aren’t unlike those hands-on folks who built kit houses 100 years ago. But times have changed, according to Thornton, and we’re probably not going back to department store dwellings anytime soon.

“Building codes vary from locale to locale, so if you’re building a house in Florida, it’s different from California and Virginia,” she says. “And housing became increasingly complex. Electrical, plumbing and heating were sold separately from Sears homes...so they were primitive by today’s standards.”

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“There are three layers of lighting: ambient, accent and task lighting,” she says. “We like to see all three in a space if possible.”

In a recent client’s home, Messenger and her designer partner at Foxchase Design, Nicole Fagerli, reimagined the lighting concept in the dining room, moving sconces from above the hunt board to its sides to make room for lamps, creating accent lighting. For task lighting, the designers replaced the original chandelier with an antique piece they found while traveling, and added hurricanes with candles (“to mimic the circle chain link crystals in the chandelier”) to the table for ambient light.

Lighting, Messenger says, can make a room feel alive and invite people into a space. But where’s a good place to start in your own home?

The shades. “Sometimes the lamp shades wear out before the base,” Messenger says. “Replacing [them] can create a different look for the lamp and the space.” And, she adds, consider adding a dimmer, which can help eliminate visual hot spots or dark shadows.

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Of course the house takes advantage of the views; on this spot, even a campsite would do that. But the formal, palatial home that Dalgliesh Gilpin Paxton Architects designed for an Albemarle hilltop is about more—much more—than what’s outside the windows. The “V House,” as it’s known, sits not only at a physical high point, overlooking a magnificent vista, but at the culmination of its owner’s admiration for building as an art form.

The house is designed as an exercise in the practice of classical architecture beloved by Jefferson, and it is built as a monument to craftsmanship: a “house that can last for 300 years,” in the words of the project motto adopted by owners, architects and builders alike.

That timelessness is impressive, and it informs every detail of the structure. Yet there is a surprising quirk in the story of how this house came to be. It begins with an antique circular dining table the owners acquired in Wales.

“The table set the size of the dining room,” says architect Bob Paxton. Because classical architecture is predicated on specific rules of ratio and proportion, the footprint of the dining room became the key to many other measurements.

“That dictated the height of the ceiling and the scale of the rooms around it,” says the owner. “The scales of structures at the furthest corner of the property is related to the size of that [table].”

The round dining room sits within a cube forming the central volume of the house, and it doubles as a library holding thousands of books, many of them relating to Virginia architecture.

“The spark of inspiration was to make the dining room and the library the same room,” says the owner, recalling one of the many contributions of architect Jay Dalgliesh, who passed away during the three-year construction process.

From that central core, the house is arranged with total symmetry, as two arcades curve away from the main structure to connect with dependencies on either side. It’s a scheme that the owner had specified after extensive study of historic classical forms found in his book collection.

In two thick, neatly organized binders he gathered for 30 years prior to construction thousands of images of “prime examples of what we wanted to do”: everything from stone facades to interior window trim.

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A two-story wall of windows at the rear of the house reveals views of fields and woods that unroll to the feet of the mountains. A hidden wing contains a catering kitchen and a second living room which opens onto a multi-level garden and permits guests to access the grounds and entertainment areas without going through the front door.

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a two-story wall of glass on the rear. “Not everybody has the willingness to try something as contemporary as this in a classical house,” says Paxton.

The huge southwest-facing windows let in the views of fields and woods that unroll to the feet of the mountains. And they allow for something even more timeless than classical proportions. At sunset on the summer solstice, the sun shines through the rear windows, along the central axis of the interior, and exactly out through the front doors.

Hidden volumes Though the main house is plenty dramatic— suddenly appearing, as it does, at the end of a pin-straight drive just as one’s car rounds a bend—it’s even more impressive considering that that initial view actually obscures the house’s true size. Sited on a slope, the structure has hidden wings below the curving arcades.

“That allowed the house to read as a cube,” says the owner, “but in fact, it is broader on the lower floors than a visitor perceives.”

The house is home to just two people, but they wanted to be able to entertain on a large scale, and one of the hidden wings makes that possible. It contains a catering kitchen and a second living room and it opens onto a multi-level garden that permits guests to access the grounds and entertainment areas without going through the front door.

That’s the south wing, and although its twin on the north has an identical footprint, it has a

very different function. Here, the owners themselves enjoy back-door access via a lower-level entrance meant for people wearing boots rather than black tie. “This is an active working farm,” says the owner. “[From here], you can go hunting and fishing and working on the farm without interrupting the formality.”

Larger than life Materials at V House were chosen for their durability. “The exterior materials have extremely long useful life,” says the owner: limestone walls and trim, slate roof, bronze windows and doors. “Nothing on the exterior has a square inch of paint.”

Some interior floors are limestone, too, while others were crafted from white oak salvaged from the roof rafters of a 150-year-old barn on the adjacent family farm. Walnut trees taken down on this property provided many interior doors and, says one owner whose family has been on this farm for a century, “make the house personal.”

The interior rooms were designed not only to enact classical ratios but to house the owners’ collection of antique American furniture. The elaborate rooms—with their ornate moldings, heavily cased openings and luxurious finishes— demanded the highest level of craftsmanship from those involved in construction. In an engineering sense, too, there were unusual challenges, like the enormous curving stone staircase supported by a structural steel core.

“Projects like this don’t happen without passionate people,” says Paxton.

The round dining room sits within a cube forming the central volume of the house. It doubles as a library holding thousands of books, many of them relating to Virginia architecture.

A central core flanked by two identical wings, V House reflects the homeowner’s longtime interest in classical architecture.

Stonemasons, to name another example, delighted in meeting the challenge of building two tall, slender pyramids at either end of the front courtyard. Dalgliesh had designed these just weeks before his death, and they solved the puzzle of how stone walls on three different levels could gracefully intersect.

Finished in 2013, the home seems to exist in a realm beyond the everyday—a plane on which beauty and achievement are larger than the scale of any single person’s lifespan. The enormity of the landscape outside is the only possible match for the ambition of this project, and was crucial to its inspiration. “I had identified the site many years before,” says the owner. “You could not see the view, but I knew it was there.”

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Interior rooms were designed to enact classical ratios, but also to display the owners’ collection of antique American furniture.

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ou wouldn’t expect a townhouse in Crozet to have an urban feel. But Ashley Jewell got a jolt of inspiration last year when she looked at a rendering of the townhouse that she and her husband, Tim, were planning to buy in the Old Trail development.

Then unbuilt, the home had a long windowless wall along one side that, unexpectedly, made Jewell think “brick.” Having lived in and renovated a 1920s bungalow in North Carolina, she was ready for a change. “The rendering made me think of a row house, or a brownstone in New York,” she says.

She asked the builder, Southern Development, if the wall could be faced in brick, and they accommodated. From there, the old-meets-new urban look of her kitchen began to take shape.

“I asked them to leave off the upper cabinets,” she says. Original plans called for cabinets and a built-in microwave above the countertop along the brick wall. But Jewell, who has a background in interior design, envisioned something more

contemporary. Against the brick would be open shelving made of salvaged wood, plus a modernstyle stainless steel range hood.

Finding the right wood for those shelves proved a challenge. Jewell eventually spotted the name Maya Wood Construction on her son’s baseball jersey, and the Barboursville company became her supplier for chunky pine slabs cut from salvaged beams. Saw marks on their edges signal that they’re the real deal.

The kitchen layout stayed as the builder had originally drawn it—a U plus a peninsula for barstools—but Jewell pushed the aesthetic toward a modern look. She was reacting, in part, to her former bungalow kitchen, all done in white. “Our 1920s house was shabby chic, with a lot of things whitewashed,” she says. “I thought black had a more modern feel to it.”

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Bright, light quartz countertops completed the crisp look of the basic kitchen elements. “It has such a nice light veining to it,” she says. “It’s got a little bit of gray. A lot of the other choices have a lot of variation; I was looking for a starkness next to the black.”

The real fun was in the details. Those two banks of open shelving, on either side of the range hood, provided a chance to show off an eclectic collection of china and other objects, many of which represent members of Jewell’s family. Antique butter molds belonged to one of her great-grandmothers; a glass cake stand came from another. One grandmother passed down an old recipe book and the other, a winsome zebra toothpick holder.

These things mingle with mostly white dishware and clear glass, along with some vintage cutting boards from Roxie Daisy. The collection’s

neutral palette gives the real star of the show its due: the gold-tone cabinet hardware, sink faucet and light fixture.

“I’ve always clung to gold,” says Jewell. She found modern drawer pulls in a warm brass at Schoolhouse Electric, but was even more excited to have a use for a light fixture she’d been carting around, through several moves over a number of years. “I found it in a store in North Carolina,” she says of the piece by designer Louise Gaskill, who refurbishes vintage lighting. “I almost forgot what it looked like; I knew I loved it but it had been in a box for so long. I feel like it’s finally home.” A milk glass globe is dressed up with retro-style hardware and even a bit of gold leafing.

“I’m so thrilled every day when I walk downstairs to that kitchen,” says Jewell, who moved in with her family last summer. Yet she still considers the space a work in progress (she’s trying to source an antique kitchen scale, for one thing).

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When Fran and Andrew Boninti moved into their Ivy home 36 years ago, the lot was mostly bare. Today the Ivy garden boasts an array of ornithogalum, trillium, clematis and scilla beneath an abundant tree canopy. The plantings are interrupted only by the homeowners’ collection of garden décor—a wagon, a wheelbarrow, various sculptures and other pieces—which, together, create a whimsical display.

On a spring visit, daffodils, bluebells and wood poppies carpeted the ground under the poplar trees. Spring beauties provided a delicate scrim of white over the ground. Peonies were growing and deciduous azaleas were still bare, while Japanese maples—not native, of course, but beloved nonetheless—were beginning to leaf out.

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hirty-six years is long enough to watch a forest grow. And it’s long enough to establish an enchanting garden beneath the tree canopy—a magical realm on what was once considered a neighborhood’s least desirable property.

“It was the cheapest lot,” says Fran Boninti of the two-acre place she and her husband, Andrew, bought in 1981. An Ivy cattle field was being developed for housing, and this lot—mostly bare then, and trampled by decades of cows—was priced lower because it was at the bottom of a hill. Boninti, though, could see its assets: two streams (fun for her young daughters) plus plenty of moisture for gardening.

“I knew the potential of the riparian area,” she says. The house she and Andrew built looks over a graceful bowl of land, and they loved the few trees they did have—a pecan and several mature oaks.

They didn’t dive right into large-scale gardening (“We were growing the girls,” she says), but she did have an interest in native plants even in those days, and was involved with the Jefferson Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society. She started planting trees—tulip poplars, hemlocks, buckeye, redbud and dogwood—and small ornamental beds, and worked around the brambles and multiflora rose.

“We woke up one day and all these trees were behind the house,” she says. No longer was the land a cattle field; it had become a young woods.

And as their daughters became teenagers, the Bonintis found themselves beginning to garden much more ambitiously.

The guiding lights were to prioritize native plants and remove invasives, mostly by hand.

Boninti’s mentor Ted Scott taught her how gardening can enhance the ecological web that connects plants to bugs and birds, and she made herself a student of plant taxonomy (and Latin, to help her understand the taxonomy).

Gradually they created a grand sweep of beds and groves, filling out the borders of the slope and the flatter area at the bottom, with tall straight poplars presiding over smaller trees and shrubs. Paths divide the gardens into rooms and spill down steps made, in some cases, of chunks of salvaged concrete. They’re surprisingly attractive, doing a fine imitation of flagstones in some patio-like areas. “Andrew would break them into CONTINUED ON PAGE 49

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big pieces and I would drag them where I wanted them,” Boninti says.

It’s a haven for native plants, with Boninti diligently rooting out interlopers and adding shredded leaves to the beds every year to build rich soil where once was red clay. “The plants propagate themselves,” she says, believing that natives can be self-sufficient as long as they aren’t outcompeted.

The leaves give the beds a more natural look, too; she uses mulch only on the paths.

On a spring visit, daffodils, bluebells and wood poppies carpeted the ground under the poplar trees. Spring beauties provided a delicate scrim of white over the ground. Peonies were growing and deciduous azaleas were still bare, while Japanese maples—not native, of course, but beloved nonetheless—were beginning to leaf out.

Under the big pecan tree, still a focal point, a large bed is home to serviceberry, Virginia rose and

hellebores. Boninti was a longtime garden guide at Monticello, and it shows when she mentions another name for that serviceberry, shadbush, and connects it to Jefferson’s birthplace, Shadwell.

Around the property are places that feel secretive and separate from the garden at large. The “Steps to Know Where,” one of the longest-established zones in the garden, lead down through a cleft in the land, perhaps an abandoned roadbed, bordered by a row of cedars. Wildflowers amply cover the ground, spilling over low-profile walls built with salvaged stone.

A certain thriftiness is at play here, in yardsale benches and in the old door with flaking paint that opens into a tall, skinny garden shed.

Nothing seems fussy, not even the formal geometric garden that hosts Boninti’s daffodil collection and borders of boxwoods. In one spot, a remnant of barbed-wire fence is deliberately left as a reminder of the property’s agricultural past.

Yet clearly there is great effort involved in planning and caring for such extensive gardens.

“We garden all winter,” says Boninti. “We prune and put leaves down.” When she has a stem or branch from a shrub—boxwood, azalea, rhododendron, fringe tree—she habitually roots it to replant or give away.

Change is a constant. As the trees have matured, the beds at ground level below have gradually transitioned to shade gardens. Some invasives are finally eradicated, while others mount new attacks. Boninti’s still learning even as she now mentors others, giving lectures through the Virginia Master Gardener Association.

And every year Boninti fine-tunes her observations about the ways her garden is connected to the larger ecology. One native deciduous azalea with orangey-yellow blooms, for example, is “probably our favorite—it’s extremely fragrant.

And it opens when the hummingbirds get back.”

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BEFORE & AFTER

Catching up the kitchen A renovation for looks and for flow

By Erika Howsare

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kitchen can get outdated while you’re looking the other way. Beth and Greg Morris built their house south of Charlottesville in 1999, and lived there for many busy years as their son was growing up. And although they made a couple of cosmetic changes to the kitchen during that time, it essentially remained the same. Before they knew it, it was 2016 and the kitchen suddenly seemed to be crying out for renovation. “It looked very 1999,” says Greg.

An angled peninsula with a two-level countertop was probably the main offender. The workspace was cramped, and the peninsula was like a dam stopping the flow of traffic. “The kitchen was cut off,” says Beth. “To get upstairs, you had to either go through the dining room or all the way around the peninsula.”

Not only that, the cabinet layout left a large amount of space unused. The couple compensated by placing a shelving unit on one end of the main wall of cabinets, but that made things look cluttered and still wasn’t offering a lot of storage.

It was this problem—a simple matter of “not enough cabinets”—that started the Morrises down the path that eventually led to a total renovation (plus new floors throughout most of their first story).

Amy Hart at Albemarle Cabinet Company says that Beth Morris came to her knowing she wanted a new kitchen layout, and that exchanging the peninsula for an island would be a key move. “It made sense that the sink would go into the island,” she says. “Halcyon Contracting jackhammered the floor to run the plumbing to the sink. Moving a sink is not always an easy task, but the end result is beautiful and functional.”

The old peninsula had space for four barstools, where the couple’s son used to sit and spread out homework on the upper level of the countertop. Now the Morrises were ready for more workspace and less visual interruption—a one-level island that lets eating and cooking happen on the same plane. It’s better for entertaining, they say, which is more relevant now that the homework years are done.

Beth points out one other advantage: The island doesn’t “catch everything,” as in clutter.

Bread and snacks have their own cabinet draw-

To improve traffic flow, designer Amy Hart exchanged the kitchen’s peninsula for an island.

BEFORE ers rather than living on the countertop, and things feel more tidy.

As the island runs the length of the kitchen, it creates two lanes for traffic that flow right into the living room and the staircase. “It opens up traffic and sightlines,” says Beth. During the design process, it also opened up a need to unify the flooring in what was now becoming an openconcept first floor. The Morrises chose 5-inch oak planks, wider and more sophisticated than what they’d had before.

Hart saw the potential to make deeper changes, too. “We didn’t even think about moving the refrigerator or pantry,” says Beth. But Hart figured the room would look sleeker if the fridge and pantry swapped places. “Guests would rather look at a nice run of cabinetry than a large stainless appliance, so I always do my best to tuck the refrigerator behind a corner,” she says.

Along the main wall of cabinets, the new arrangement adds lots of storage space by extending cabinetry to the ceiling and nearly to the exit door.

Hart even helped the couple add mudroom-type functionality along a section of wall that, says Beth, “used to be an area of wasted space. The mudroom now provides a place to hang coats, scarves, etc., as opposed to hanging them on the barstools as we had done in the past.” Now there are proper hooks, cubbies and benches.

The inspiration for one last layout change came about by chance. While moving furniture around to accommodate workers, the Morrises temporarily put a loveseat in the spot where they’d always had a dining table. “We thought ‘Wow, that’s cool!’” says Greg. Now it’s a break-

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fast nook, with two comfy upholstered chairs where the pair enjoys weekend coffee.

As for colors and materials, the Morrises say, “We wanted bright.” White cabinets made for a big change from the old oak, and the couple chose semi-custom cabinets with solid wood Shaker-style doors. “We wanted nothing too elaborate, just a simple clean surface,” says Beth.

Updated features like soft-close hinges and pullout drawers in the pantry make things more convenient.

Backsplash tile is just barely off-white, providing a transition to gray and white granite countertops.

Brushed bronze hardware echoes the finish on the two large pendant lights that hang over the island, which itself is a darker hue to match dark leather furniture in the nearby living area.

“The new palette is peaceful with pops of red, which keeps the eye moving around the room,” says Hart—the “pops” being bench cushions, the two chairs in the nook and patterned window blinds.

The Morrises praise Hart’s company (soon to change its moniker to Dovetail Design & Cabinetry) as well as contractor Justin Pincham of Halcyon Construction, and say the kitchen is functioning as beautifully as they’d hoped. “We take great pleasure in sitting in the nook and enjoying our new kitchen,” says Greg. “It is difficult now to imagine what it used to look like.”

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CHARM & CHARACTER NEAR MURRAY

2155 DogwooD Lane $7,375,000 Sited on one of Farmington’s largest, most beautiful parcels, ‘Treetops’ is a center hall Georgian constructed 2001 to uncompromising standards. The distinguished 6 bed, 8 bath residence enjoys panoramic Blue Ridge views & extensive Ivy Creek frontage. Remarkable features include triple hung, floor-to-ceiling windows & remarkable millwork at every turn by Gaston & Wyatt. On-point floor plan. Charming, immaculate guest cottage. MLS# 560048

150 LYNX FARM LANE • $579,000 Perched on a knoll is a well-constructed, thoughtfully designed 3 bed, 4.5 bath modern farmhouse just 10 mins to Murray Elem. & the heart of Ivy. 4 acre parcel provides expansive, level lawns, winter mtn views, creek & woods. Stunning oak floors, 2 fireplaces, huge fin basement. Sally Neill (434) 531-9941. MLS# 560030

35 IDYLLIC ACRES IN HUNT COUNTRY

PARK-LIKE SETTING IN EARLYSVILLE

10 PRIVATE ACRES IN SOUTH KESWICK

4196 BALLARDS MILL ROAD • $1,995,000 35 acre Rocky Creek Farm is nestled in Free Union w/ mtn views.

With gently rolling pastures, pond, & several outbuildings, it would be a beautiful equestrian property. Renovated Main House w/ 5 bed, 4 baths, & chef ’s kitchen w/ stone fireplace. Owners related to Agent. Suzie Hegemier (434) 962-8425. MLS# 559918

520 TANAGER WOODS COURT • $559,900 Beautiful home in mint condition on private corner lot on 2.13 acres. Gorgeous kitchen w/ rich cherry cabinets, granite counters & top-of-the-line stainless appliances. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, finished basement. Large master w/ attached spa-like bathroom. Angela Dotson (434) 981-6302. MLS# 559846

620 BEAVER POND RIDGE • $639,000 Gorgeous, custom home on 10 acres enjoys peace & privacy just 2 miles from I-64. Open floor plan w/ nearly 3,000 sq ft on the main level, chalet-style great room, in-law apartment, & luxurious master. Terrace level incl’ office, 3 bedrooms, & ample storage space. Shannon Thomas (434) 882-1761. MLS# 560178

PERFECTLY SITUATED CITY HOME

BEAUTIFUL SETTING IN RIVANWOOD

BETTER THAN NEW IN PROFFIT CROSSING

308 10TH STREET • $188,000 Easy walking distance to everything: the Hospital, the Corner, Grounds, & Downtown from this 1925 home with overunder configuration. Cozy covered front porch & large level backyard. Two 2-bedroom, 1 bath units. Live in one, or rent out both units. Erin Garcia (434) 981-7245. MLS# 560055

275 RIVANWOOD DRIVE • $569,000 Less than 5 mins to town & mins to all area amenites incl’ Barracks Rd, Stonefield, JPJ & UVA. Over 2 meticulous acres w/ flowering shrubs & trees, garden spaces & open areas. Great room, sunroom, master suite, plus a private addition. Many recent upgrades. Lindsay Milby (434) 962-9148. MLS# 560020

2732 PROFFIT CROSSING LANE • $839,000 Better than new 5 BR, 4.5 BA home on 4+ acres. High-end finishes & natural light throughout. Stunning kitchen w/ white cabinets & honed black granite counters. See-through gas FP. Finished terrace level & screened porch. Whole House Generator & 3-car Gar. EarthCraft Cert. Kathy Hall (434) 987-6917. MLS# 560322

CHARMING HUNT COUNTRY HORSE FARM

CLouDs HiLL on 35 aCres $3,695,000

672 SIMMONS GAP ROAD • $649,000 Charming Horse Farm within Farmington Hunt Territory, with about 24 acres, 8-stall Barn & 3 Paddocks. 4 bedroom cottage offers stainless steel appliances, granite counters & sink, & open floor plan. Sunroom overlooks 3 pastures & serene pastural views.

Mins to airport. Bunny French (434) 996-1029. MLS# 559776

ENTRALLING COUNTRY ESTATE IN IVY

This significant Ivy estate lives more like 4x the amount of property: sweeping lawns shaded by massive hardwoods, pool, pool/guest house by Jay Dagliesh, whimsical woodland garden, kitchen garden & greenhouse, stable complex, fields fenced & crossed fenced, rolling hills embraced by mtn views & a stocked pond. Brilliant reinvention of the residence by Bethany Puopolo from c. 1870 structure.

Spacious floor plan incl’ many artistic, handcrafted flourishes. 8 minutes to town. MLS# 558846

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