Abode: Spring 2018

The new flip A local couple reinventing home renovation Inside.

Outside.

Home.

SPRING 2018

LOVING COLOR WITH PAINTER CHRISTY BAKER

A little bit country Farmhouse style: the remix, page 40 MURALIST LINCOLN PERRY ON ART AND ARCHITECTURE

OUT OF OFFICE

From law practice to whimsical family home

An Albemarle home merges its expansive vista with an intimate landscape

Giving it all to the view

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Justin H. Wiley

Peter A. Wiley

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STAVE MILL FARM - Charming 85 ac property surrounded by large estates in Albemarle County. The stuccoed main house successfully combines the conveniences of a new house with the charm and craftsmanship of an old Virginia manor home. Some of the many high points of this 3 bedroom home include custom woodwork, custom kitchen with Aga and sub-zero fridges, and 50 KW generator. Other features include a 2 bedroom guest cottage, stable, riding arena, board fencing, and equipment barn. MLS# 571183 • $1,795,000

SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE FARM - A beautiful, medium-sized horse farm or retreat, this turnof-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 barn with power, water, bathroom, tack room, wash stall and shavings storage is positioned near the large outdoor ring. MLS# 558491 • $1,150,000

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MICHIE FARM - These 175+/- acres located in the Keswick area of Albemarle, have numerous beautiful, and private building sites. The parcel also includes the circa 1750 Michie house, farm buildings, pond, existing entrance, and driveway. The land is currently fenced for cattle, and has roughly 60 acres in pasture, and the balance in hardwoods. The property would be a great candidate for a conservation easement. MLS# 562581 • $1,430,000

TATTERSALL COURT - This “like new” home has it all: 1st floor master, long views of the 13th fairway, and a large, level, private backyard. Owners have maintained and upgraded the house adding an artfully crafted library/study area using wrought iron and reclaimed materials. The walk-out terrace level has plenty of natural light with a home theater prep kitchen, exercise room and a large wine cellar. 2.5 car garage with plenty of room for a golf cart. $1,100,000

Justin H. Wiley – 434.981.5528

Peter A. Wiley – 434.422.2090

Justin H. Wiley – 434.981.5528

Peter A. Wiley – 434.422.2090

BLUE RIDGE VIEWS IN SOMERSET

OLD WORLD CRAFTSMANSHIP

ELIJAH CRAIG - 113 +/- acres of mostly open meadows with stunning Blue Ridge Mountain views located in the heart of the Somerset area of Orange County. Surrounded by large estates, and protected by a conservation easement ensures that this parcel will keep its current view shed. Ideal for horses or livestock. Property also has a cottage suitable for tenant or guest. MLS# 566743 • $1,250,000

WYATT MOUNTAIN RETREAT - The right buyer will fall in love at first sight! A timber-frame stucco residence with soaring spaces (30 foot ceilings, exposed timber beams), detailed millwork, and energy-efficient systems. Unparalleled craftsmanship. A magnificent home with dry-laid stone walls, and beautiful gardens all in a completely private setting with 30 mile views down the Blue Ridge.

Lovingly designed and built by architect/builder for own use. 30 minutes to Charlottesville. MLS# 560435 • $1,450,000

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IN THIS ISSUE

Custom country 40 As homeowners Adam and Rebekah Goldberg prepared to move to Albemarle County from Chicago, they sought a property that would blend a rural landscape with the neighborhood feel they and their two young children were used to. So when their search led them to the possibility of building from scratch, they knew they’d be able to accomplish both of their goals. “It’s about having a cozy environment for people of any age,” says Rebekah.

An intimate space 50 AMY JACKSON

In 1996, when the owners of this Albemarle property bought their home, there was nothing but a wide expanse surrounding it—the view began where the house stopped. They commissioned a local mason to build a promontory enclosed by a stone wall, then brought designer Susan Viemeister into the project in 2006, just as it was being built. She saw her task as creating an area where visitors could engage with the view at close range.

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BLUEPRINT

On trend 11 Artful Lodger designer John Kriebel loves the swivel.

SPOTLIGHT 13

Community building A husband-and-wife team takes flipping to the next level.

Art+Architecture 17 Artist Lincoln Perry on the importance of setting.

Made in C’ville 18

It’s almost like chalk paint, but better.

Interview 19

Eleanor Gould, Monticello’s curator of gardens, at home.

Commercial Break 21

Design firm Convoy finds a new spot at Eleven:30.

Garden Green 24 Waking up the toolshed, preparing for blooming season.

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A closer look 25

Three new highlights for this year’s Historic Garden Week.

On the market 27

A North Downtown home worth saving up for.

Design+Creativity 27

The 411 on Bushman Dreyfus’ inaugural design competition.

To the trade 29

Locally made lampshades for a quick room spruce-up.

Before+After 30

Readying a downtown office building for family living.

Events 35

A backstage pass to downtown’s most stunning theater. Plus, nature walks, gardening workshops and more.

A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN 58

Pampered chef Creating a custom space (that’s USDA-approved!).

Cover photo by Bill Mauzy.

Comments? E-mail us at abode@c-ville.com.

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Swivel chairs offer smarter décor options By Caite White It’s an open concept world and we’re just living in it. And while the kitchenliving-dining layout creates accessibility (and visibility), it’s a challenge to decorate. John Kriebel, a designer at The Artful Lodger, has a solution: swivel chairs.

“I use them as a great connector for entertaining,” he says. “You have two places guests and families hang out—the kitchen and the living room.

A swivel connects both by a simple rotation of a chair.”

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Kriebel likes swivels with rounded backs, such as the ones in this Batesville residence, and a small round side table between them: “No corners to hit. Everything plays in unison with a full rotation.”

And, he says, don’t be afraid to put a swivel chair in an unexpected place, like a bedroom. It makes for a nice place to tie your shoes in the morning or sit and drink in a nearby view.

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Community building

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A longtime dream of building a home renovation business prompted Brian and Andrea Hubbell to launch HubbHouse, and take properties from house to home. By Caite White

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on’t call Brian and Andrea Hubbell flippers. Even though they admit what they’re doing sounds a lot like that, the husband-and-wife team behind HubbHouse think they can come up with a better term, one that conveys their more thoughtful approach.

“We’re definitely not a quick-flip company,” says Brian. “Quality is really important and the process is really important.” The couple prides themselves on taking great care with the tactile C-VILLE ABODE

and experiential—everything from paint color and lighting to cabinet hardware and doorknobs—with each of their projects.

“We’re really particular about things that you touch,” says Andrea, especially since they try to redesign each house as if they were going to live in it themselves. Brian admits they’ve considered moving in to each of their speculative houses.

Last September, they began work on their biggest project yet, transforming a three-bedroom,

two-bathroom house off of Rose Hill Drive. Until now, they’ve stayed mostly in the three-bedroom, two-bathroom arena, but HubbHouse 6, as they call it, will end up being a five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath home when it hits the market in April. They’ve added a second story and increased the square footage by 40 percent.

“Previously we’d just kind of opened up walls and made small programmatic changes,” says CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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“We’re big believers in the notion that space can affect the way you live your life— whether that’s positive or negative—so the experience of being in a place is something that we take very seriously, from the materiality to the space itself.” BRIAN HUBBELL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 41

Andrea. “We really had to put our architect hats on for this one.”

We met them on site to ask a few more questions about their operation.

What’s your background?

Andrea Hubbell: We met in college our first year at the University of Florida in architecture school. We did four years there and then moved to North Carolina and Brian worked in building a little bit and we both worked in design and then moved to Charlottesville so I could go to grad school at UVA for architecture.

Brian Hubbell: When we first moved here, we both worked at Bushman Dreyfus Architects together. We actually applied there together, in the

same envelope. I think it was intriguing enough to the partners that they hired us both. After that, Wolf Ackerman Design and Rosney Co Architects. And then I went on to direct user experience design at a local software company for about six years while Andrea operated her architectural photography company. During that time, HubbHouse was getting on its feet and Andrea got her real estate license. Now HubbHouse is my sole focus and Andrea is a full-time Realtor with Nest Realty.

gets into execution, that’s where I step in and manage the projects.

AH: I start the process by finding the initial property and doing all the research and figuring out the market dynamics. Then we make the decision to move forward or not. Brian takes over during the build and then I’ll market it and sell it at the end.

Are you getting a lot of comparisons to Chip and Joanna Gaines [from HGTV’s “Fixer Upper”]?

AH: We don’t compare ourselves that way, but we get that a lot.

BH: We get a lot of, “When’s your HGTV show airing?”

AH: That’s incredibly flattering, so we’re not offended in any way. I’d love to be the next Chip and Jo.

Are you interchangeable on each job, or do you have different roles?

BH: It’s more collaborative in the beginning than it ends up being towards the end because we both design this together and then once it

At HubbHouse 2 on Rose Hill Drive, a broken supply line led to a total gut job in the kitchen. “We wound up being able to make decisions about that kitchen that we wouldn’t necessarily have made,” says Andrea Hubbell.

BEFORE

PHOTOGRAPHY: ANDREA HUBBELL

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What are your main goals when renovating a home?

AH: It’s really important to us, when we identify a property, that we’re not completely transforming it into something else. We were very careful about how we decided to add on to this one [HubbHouse 6] by going up, but trying to keep the majority of that square footage inside of a roof space and with dormers so that it still has the character and feel of the neighborhood. The surrounding context is really important to us.

Our first official renovation project was the 11th Street Bungalow and that house was just in such poor condition. It had a structural beam that had been compromised, so the whole house was caving in at the center. But we walked into it and we were both like, “Ahhh! This is such an amazing house.” That’s in the 10th and Page neighborhood and we wanted to be really careful on that street, too, to respect the history. So many families have been there forever and we didn’t want to be seen as outsiders coming in and changing the face of the neighborhood. But, at the same time, somebody needed to save that house. So we kind of took that on as our responsibility. The neighbors were very much involved —stopping by and getting tours and getting really excited about it—and that was fun, to become part of the community on that street.

Any horror stories?

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ning on a light renovation before moving in.

Brian went out of town for a few days for a work trip. We had a 7-month-old baby; I’d drive by every now and then, but I had no reason to pop in and check on it. So he gets back into town and he’s meeting people over there—this is within a few weeks of us buying the house—and he walks in and a supply line had broken.

BH: I unlocked the door, and all I could hear was the hiss of pressurized water. I ran into the kitchen and discovered a geyser. The burst had flooded the basement and a significant portion of the first floor. The kitchen was a total loss.

AH: It was like, okay, now we’re really gutting it.

Let’s do this. It was a horrible moment, but we wound up being able to make decisions about that kitchen that we wouldn’t necessarily have made if we hadn’t had the necessity of taking it down to the studs.

What’s next?

BH: We just picked up HubbHouse 7. It’s in Belmont and back in the three-bedroom, twobathroom range. Ultimately the market dictates the type of project we undertake; you can only improve what’s available to purchase. We don’t really have a targeted resale market; we respond more to the house itself both from a business and design perspective. If it’s a home that we can bring a substantially better living experience to and still operate the business then we’re game.

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The Greenbrier Ranch, aka HubbHouse 5, necessitated the removal of unnecessary interior walls, allowing for natural light to reach deeper areas of the house.

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Our beautiful nest Artist Lincoln Perry discusses the importance of painting figures in a setting By Erin O’Hare

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hen Lincoln Perry lived in a house on Altamont Circle, he would crawl up to the roof of the Altamont apartment building to get a good view of the North Downtown neighborhood’s brick houses and church steeples for some of his paintings, including the one shown here.

This painting is part of a series that Perry says is “loosely based” on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in which musician Orpheus descends to the underworld to retrieve his love, Eurydice, killed by snakebite while attempting to flee an unwanted suitor. With his lyre, Orpheus convinces Hades, god of the dead, to let Eurydice return to the living realm…on the condition that Orpheus does not look behind him during their ascent.

Here, a woman strides through a spot of sun while leaving her house on Altamont Circle “in an extremely low-key and quotidian version of being dragged down to hell,” says Perry. “Perhaps Orpheus will be able to pull her back home.”

Perry, who now resides near Staunton with his wife, writer Ann Beattie, is perhaps best known for his murals that depict scenes of life, including The Student’s Progress series in UVA’s Old Cabell Hall. Though Perry’s paintings appear to emphasize interactions between people, the settings are just as important.

“I’m trying to paint what it feels like to be a body

in the world,” Perry says of his work.

“As a teacher of mine wrote, ‘The challenge of drawing and painting the figure…is enough to have occupied the whole history of civilization; certainly it will be enough to occupy me as a painter.’ Another painter/friend claims that all artists are frustrated architects, so perhaps I paint architectural setting in sublimation of that desire.”

What’s more, Perry says, “There is a difference between humans and habitat. ...Rembrandt always considered architecture synonymous with authority and oppression, while I consider it our beautiful (or hideous) nest.”

“A painter/friend claims that all artists are frustrated architects, so perhaps I paint architectural setting in sublimation of that desire.”

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Stroke of genius Virginia-made paint brightens décor prospects

By Caite White

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or the last five years, Christy Baker has made herself into Charlottesville’s go-to person for refinishing furniture in bright, unexpected colors as the creative director at Pigment, so it was just a matter of time until she got to the heart of the matter: the paint itself. With Good Bones, her line of durable, low-VOC paints, she’s seeing an idea realized.

“When I opened Pigment I was essentially converting a production paint shop into a publically accessible destination,” she says. “So, when a large stockpile of leftover paint conveyed with the shop, I kept what I could salvage thinking there could be a use for it.” Customers’ requests for chalk-painted pieces led her to mix various additives into the leftovers, but Baker noticed they weren’t performing “as well as I believed a more sophisticated paint could.” So, she and her business partner, Charlie Davis, spent two years developing a paint with a very specific wish list of qualities—water-based, nontoxic, easy to use, strong bond to various surfaces, etc.—and finally landed on the formula for Good Bones.

The paint, which is manufactured in Lynchburg, retails for $39.95 per quart and can be used both indoors and outdoors, on furniture and walls, and it dries quickly, so you can start your second coat almost immediately after finishing the first. What can’t the paint do? Not much.

“One of my favorite [uses] is to apply Good Bones using a wide spackling knife. If left to thicken a bit in an open container, the paint becomes almost like slurry,” Baker says. “I’ve used this technique on tabletops and other pieces of furniture to create a striking, layered texture.”

Christy Baker’s Good Bones paint line can be used both indoors and out.

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Tough choices What’s Christy’s favorite Good Bones color right now? “It would have to be Gris,” she says. “It‘s incredibly versatile and ontrend for both contemporary pieces and Scandinavian-inspired antiquing. Gris is a warm gray (without reading brown or purple). It’s the color of sun-baked river rock.”

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Notable ground Garden curator digs in with Jefferson By Erika Howsare

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leanor Gould is curator of gardens at Monticello—for her, the perfect mix of having her hands in the dirt and the broader perspective needed to plan programs and educate visitors. We talked with her about what brought her to the little mountain and why she loves it.

at 7. The sunrises are rewarding. There’s always some subtle change, some exciting thing to see in the landscape.

I love the sensory aspect of gardening. I bring home Texas bird pepper, which Jefferson circu-

What’s it like for you to work in this historic garden?

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How did you come to hold this position?

I studied landscape architecture at UVA. After being in graduate school for three years I was ready to get back to hands-on gardening, so I came to Monticello as a seasonal gardener. I figured I would immerse myself in historic plants.

My job has evolved over the last seven years; they even created this position for me. It includes research, documentation and gardening. I helped initiate an internship program to bring landscape and horticulture students here in the summer. Some interns come and start working in this garden and really light up, and I find this really gratifying.

lated widely; it’s quite spicy but the heat dissipates quickly. I’ve used it to make a hot sauce as a gift for friends, which they now demand!

I love the way that Jefferson organizes the landscape. He used a string line and compass to lay out the garden. It makes for very precise plantings, which appeals to my design background.

What are some of your favorite programs here?

We do a kids’ program where we harvest from the garden, cook, then sit down at the table to eat. An important aspect of Jefferson’s life was convening different people and opinions around a table. I’ve enjoyed making historical Monticello recipes like gumbo, tarragon vinaigrette and vanilla ice cream. He loved macaroni and cheese and even imported a pasta extruder from Italy.

We work with gardeners to ensure we’re planting the correct varieties of the time period. It’s a mystery in some ways. I’ve been assisting with a GIS mapping program to map the trees, perennials and shrubs that surround the house. There will be a public component to make it easier for people to search plantings and Jefferson-documented information linked to that.

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Convoy’s new office space in the Eleven:30 project on East High Street ends the design firm’s five-year search for a home. “We wanted a place that was modern that we could upfit,” says CEO Matt Shadel.

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It’s a sign of a Charlottesville that’s growing and changing. On a site on East High Street, where once stood two small single-family houses, architect and developer Richard Price is creating a cluster of modern buildings to provide “medium-density” working and living space. At the moment, much of the project is yet to be built— but one occupant, the design firm Convoy, is already working out of its new office in the most visible building of the Eleven:30 project.

“We had been looking for an office building to buy for almost five years,” says Convoy’s Tim McDaniels, “but we never could find something in our price point.” Previously, the company worked in the Terraces building downtown. “We wanted a place that was modern that we could upfit,” says CEO Matt Shadel.

When they spotted the Eleven:30 project— then still in the planning stages—they immediately liked the location on the East High Street corridor, and they were attracted to Price’s modern design, customizable to their needs. What sealed their interest was the fact that Price could easily increase the square footage of their office—by adding a basement level—and that they C-VILLE ABODE

would also own a second-floor rental apartment to generate extra income.

“Convoy’s done a great job picking up on overall design cues,” says Price, praising his clients’ choices for interior finishes. “My design philosophy is low-key.” He had envisioned a clean, light-filled space, and Convoy especially liked his choice of natural-wood doors. “We built on that,” says Creative Director Matt Thomas, pointing out the light-hued engineered maple floor on the office’s main level.

The team needed closed-door offices for Shadel and McDaniels, who occupy the basement level along with a conference room. Upstairs, Thomas and two other designers share an open work area, which can potentially accommodate more workers in the future, along with a small kitchenette, an entryway and a production space. The look is simple and neutral, with Convoy’s design work providing color wherever it’s hung on the walls.

Convoy’s building faces the street and creates a visible presence for the company. Big northfacing windows provide perfect indirect lighting.

Considering that the space was built to Convoy’s specifications, says Shadel, “We feel like we stumbled on an amazing opportunity.”

The missing middle Richard Price, who previously developed sustainable housing in Charlottesville’s RiverBluff neighborhood, bought the Eleven:30 property three years ago, with an eye toward filling in what he calls “the missing middle” in local housing. Between single-family houses and large apartment buildings, he says, there’s a lack of medium-density housing.

Yet the site, on a mostly commercial corridor, “demanded mixed-use,” he says. He arrived at an eight-structure scheme that places office spaces near the street and shelters most residential units behind these. A central courtyard, with landscape design by Kennon Williams Landscape Studio, will serve all the future residents and workers.

Along with Convoy, condo residents have begun to move in to the two buildings completed under the project’s first phase. Price estimates that the remaining three phases will be complete within a year and a half.—EH

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Retooling for spring A good gardener is only as useful as her instruments

By Cathy Clary

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y circle of acquaintances happily includes many who make their lives in horticulture. Their answers to my idle query, “What is your favorite tool?” ranged from humorous—a professional gardener, 5-gallon bucket and a radio—to the obscure, among them the intriguing swan hoe, an ingenious asparagus knife with scuffle attachment and a number of beloved Japanese tools such as the Hori Hori soil knife and the Hida long-handled hedge shear.

A question like that is like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. Practicality jostles with sentiment and the answer often depends on what stage of life you’re in. I lost one of my favorite tools in the asparagus patch last summer, a soil knife with a handle crafted from an old Univer-

sity of Virginia boxwood. Fit my hand just fine.

I was digging the deep-rooted dandelion and somehow came out of the patch without it. I could never deface such a work of art with a spray of orange paint, but bright handles are a help. Plus a bucket to throw things in instead of on the ground. I’ve never been one to hang things on my pants or belt, sagging weight around the middle being a problem as it is.

People who do a lot of weeding have their preferences. Vegetable gardeners love a variety of hoes—those that scuffle, those that chop, held as a hand tool or a long-handled implement. I gave all that up long ago, though I did my time tending the roundabout and vegetable garden at Monticello and perennial beds at Morven, but

I find what I really like to do now at my own place is cut back and prune. Consequently, my most frequent companions are my Felco folding saw and hand pruners stuffed in the back pockets of my jeans. I also like a long-handled narrow-bladed ditch or poaching spade that pops out a small plant or tenacious weed in a jiffy.

Only an inveterate weeder who spends a lot of time on her knees and has a tendency toward Zen needs a collection of hand cultivators: asparagus knives (like a screwdriver with a fork at the end) and various little plows or claws that fit into the fingers for scuffing along the soil surface among new plants to dislodge tiny weeds. I used to use a Clawdia that looks just like it sounds and put blisters on my palm after a good session.

Vegetable gardeners love a variety of hoes—those that scuffle, those that chop, held as a hand tool or a long-handled implement.

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Among the wildflowers

The soil knife vs. trowel debate is moot. If you do hand cultivation, you need both. The classic U shape trowel (I prefer a deeper blade over the stubby ones) gives a good scooping action especially in well-prepared soil; the pointed dagger design of the soil knife is best for fierce digging in inhospitable ground.

If you’re going to start or refurbish a tool collection this spring, have a dedicated space.

Whether a potting shed, garage, basement, pantry or mudroom, find somewhere out of the elements—running water and sink a plus. Aspire to keep tools clean and blades sharp. Learn to do it yourself or use a sharpening service at a local hardware store.

Brush clods from dirty shovel blades and plunge several times into a bucket of oil and sand, wipe with a dry rag (bar rags are perfect) and put each back in its place. If you have room, a wall for hanging is ideal. You can see and reach everything at once. Have linseed oil (for wooden handles), mineral spirits (for cleaning pine sap, etc.) and WD-40 on hand. Visit local tool departments like Southern States, Martin Hardware and Fifth Season Gardening, as well as look into A. M. Leonard online. Start small and buy quality.

Around March 21 spring will turn our faces to the sun with new smells to dispel the empty cold of winter and we will feel a visceral desire to get moving. Everything wakes up. Even the tool room.

A closer look at this year’s Historic Garden Week By Caite White

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hat’s the best thing about spring (aside from the increase in temperature)? Flowers. For the last 85 years, each spring, the Charlottesville Garden Club hosts Historic Garden Week, a chance for flora enthusiasts to get an up-close look at the grandest landscapes in Charlottesville and beyond.

This year’s event, which runs in our area from Saturday, April 21, through Monday, April 23, features annual highlights—UVA’s Pavilion Gardens, Morven Estate, Carr’s Hill—but Sunday’s lineup includes three new properties in Keswick’s hunt country. Here’s a look at each. To nab tickets, visit vagardenweek.org.

Ben-Coolyn An impressive 176 willow oaks line the driveways of this gracious 1870s estate, built on the site of the original late-18th century home of James Clark. The 145-acre farm, partially dating back to the Meriwether Land Grant of 1730, features an 1850 chestnut corn crib, a balloon-framed bank barn, a 100-year-old boxwood hedge and

elegant parterre gardens filled with tulips, roses, peonies, flowering trees, water features and many spots to drink in the view.

Chopping Bottom Farm The house (Metropolitan Home’s 2002 house of the year, which draws on Keswick architectural vernacular but blends in a contemporary aesthetic), grounds (featuring a shade garden and all-weather stream, as well as decorative trees throughout) and studio (a 20'-high structure sitting on a knoll overlooking the property) will be open for tours.

East Belmont Farm Old Kentucky coffee trees and mature boxwoods surround the early 1800s main house, while a gated formal garden and colorful cutting garden provide a stunning view from the new pool house and patio. Converted outbuildings—a corn crib and apple barn into a hunt cabin and guesthouse, respectively—also dot the landscape.

The basics n Hand clippers

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Cut everything under an inch. Bypass scissor-type like Felco is the standard.

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Larger branches, good for reaching into tangles.

n Leaf rake Clean up small debris and keep things tidy

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Ultimately, these questions lead to contemplation of bigger concepts, such as, what is the role of art within the public realm?

With ideas, people can be bold, even impractical, says Dreyfus. In an ideas competition, there’s no need to worry about existing flower beds or parking spots or the logistics of moving a statue. The park is a blank space: What will you do with it?

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This is the question Charlottesville-based architectural firm Bushman Dreyfus Architects posed for its inaugural annual ideas contest, the Bushman Dreyfus Architects Prize.

A few years back, while thinking of how to best celebrate their firm’s 25-year anniversary in 2017, Jeff Bushman and Jeff Dreyfus thought to offer a cash prize for the best idea for what to do with a certain public space in Charlottesville.

It just so happens that right now, the Charlottesville community is engaged in an impassioned conversation about public space, specifically Emancipation and Justice parks, located in the heart of downtown Charlottesville and not far from the Bushman Dreyfus offices.

Dreyfus says that conversation has included talk of what no longer represents our community, which in turn begs the question, what does represent our community? How are we different from one another and how are we the same? How can all of that be represented visually, symbolically?

The BDA Prize competition is slanted toward designers, but anyone was welcome to submit an idea. Because competition guidelines required entrants to submit a 30-inch by 40-inch physical poster, one didn’t need fancy design programs like CAD or InDesign to share an idea; a pencil or pen would do.

BDA Prize poster submissions will be on view at the Jefferson School City Center through May 7, and a panel discussion, awards presentation and voting for the community choice award will take place April 10. There’s $8,000 total in prize money on the line.

Bushman and Dreyfus don’t anticipate that the winning ideas will be built. But there’s no telling what change an idea might spark for the community, they say. Saying that it might bring about healing is “too lofty,” says Dreyfus, but it can encourage self-reflection, which is never easy.

The BDA Prize is meant to inspire deep thinking, says Bushman, and that’s something we can all aspire to.

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Dana Quist’s lamp shades light up living rooms and the small screen By Erin O’Hare One of the most iconic images from the classic holiday film A Christmas Story is the fishnet stocking- and black stiletto-clad leg lamp that causes quite a stir when Ralphie’s dad, Mr. Parker, displays it in the front window of his home at Christmastime. With its fringe-trimmed shade reminiscent of a can-can dancer’s skirt, the saucy lamp lands Mr. Parker on some folks’ naughty list.

When the film was adapted for a three-hour Fox television special, A Christmas Story Live!, last December, Charlottesville-based lamp shade designer Dana Quist tuned in, but not for a glimpse of the infamous lamp: She had made 10 glossy red lampshades for the production, as part of a holiday display in a Higbee’s department store scene.

The production designer had found Quist’s Etsy shop, LampShadeDesign, and placed a custom order.

Quist, who used to run a monogramming business, began making lampshades in 2011 while looking for something easy to make and sell on Etsy. She remembered seeing a few —but not many—lampshades on the site, all pretty wellpriced, and for a crafty person who loves fabric but doesn’t like to sew (and a businesswoman looking to make some cash in a niche market), lampshades seemed like a good fit.

Quist watched some how-to videos online and gave it a go. All it takes is a couple of wire lamp shade rings (which she purchases in a variety of sizes from a seller in Tennessee), some backing material and fabric, which she stretches taut to fit the rings, then uses transfer tape and strong glue to hold it all together.

Quist offers drum- and taper-shape lamps in a variety of fabrics and finishes—black glossy drum shades, floral fabric tapered shades, even woven rattan pendant lampshades— with prices starting at around $40. Each shade takes about 30 minutes to make, depending on the size and shape.

She’s always happy to consult with customers on creating the right shade for their lamp, taking things like room décor, lamp aesthetic and function into consideration. For example, Quist wouldn’t recommend a dark shade for a bedside table reading lamp, as it wouldn’t give off enough light. She particularly loves projects that involve creating new shades for grandma’s old, but still pretty cool, lamp.

As far as decorating goes, says Quist, a lampshade can be a relatively inexpensive and low-risk way to change up the look and feel of a room. And if you’re looking to make a splash (like Mr. Parker), a shade can do that, too.

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The dining room features a playful mix of repurposed outdoor chairs, bright upholstery and exposed ceilings.

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From business to casual While maintaining some of its original appeal, a downtown office becomes an eclectic family home By Erika Howsare

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inding a house in downtown Charlottesville isn’t easy, but Kate Stephenson managed to do it when she spotted a commercial space for sale just north of the Downtown Mall. Like many onetime residences, the brick building had been serving for decades as offices. When she first walked in, Stephenson definitely noticed a “law-office” look—acoustic tile ceilings and a choppy layout—but she was also drawn to architectural details like arched doorways and a graceful central staircase.

The house, originally built in 1925, would require a total renovation to become a home for Stephenson and her three children. She asked designers Candace and Michael DeLoach, a sister-and-brother team, to help her envision a new life for the structure. Their services ranged from designing a new roof structure to the smallest details of the interiors.

“The architecture grabbed my attention from the beginning,” says Candace, who liked the proportions of the windows and of the unaltered rooms. She and her brother redesigned the front façade of the house to make it feel less heavy and to allow more light inside. A decorative roofline with an “eyebrow” over the arched front door “made the house feel weighted,” Candace says, so it came off. They swapped out a small secondstory window for a decorative circular one salvaged from New England. And they raised the roof to convert cramped attic storage into a real third-floor living space.

“I knew we needed four bedrooms, which was challenging,” says Stephenson. Adding the third floor allowed for not only the fourth bedroom but a TV room and an outdoor deck. A new staircase leading to the third floor mimics the existing one below and creates a vertical sightline from top to bottom of the house.

Stephenson and the designers clearly relished the process of finding furniture, lighting and artwork for the interiors here, much of it through the DeLoaches’ company, DELOACH. They created a playful, eclectic environment that reflects Stephenson’s self-described “casual” nature, with a few key colors and elements that unify the entire house.

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An office upstairs—desks piled high with papers and supplies—transformed into a glam master bedroom, with a four-poster bed and mirrored end tables.

“I feel like I took a yearlong course on design,” says Stephenson, who shopped along with the designers and approved every piece as it was bought, but didn’t see the total package until the DeLoaches had completely installed the furnishings. “For three days she’d come by and try to peek in the windows,” Candace laughs. On a Friday evening, Stephenson and her children entered their new home at last. “I was stunned,” she says.

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Weathered-look wooden planks cover the walls in most of the first floor plus the ceiling of the living room—a response to Stephenson’s love of all things coastal, which also inspired the aqua-blue color that shows up on everything from walls to cabinet knobs to upholstery. Existing narrow-plank wooden floors got a new, lightgray finish reminiscent of driftwood, and exposed ceiling joists in some first-floor rooms add to the tally of natural materials.

“We knew we could do casual, but we wanted it to have a glam feeling as well,” says Candace.

Mirrored pieces, like the vintage folding screen in the living room and the four-poster bed in the master bedroom, as well as glass and Lucite pieces, add shimmer to the spaces. Deep jewel tones and sinuous lines (as with the curvy living room sofa and kidney-shaped cocktail table) make for a feminine, sensuous feel.

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Outside, Candace and Michael DeLoach removed the “eyebrow” over the arched front door, swapped out a small second-story window for a decorative circular one and raised the roof to convert cramped attic storage into a real third-floor living space. Inside, the designers retained many of the original architectural details—more arched doorways and exposed structural materials.

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chairs to a mirrored table salvaged from Miami’s Fontainebleau Hotel. “Mid-century was a period that wasn’t so serious,” says Candace, explaining why this project seemed to call for such elements.

A recurring theme is Sputnik-style lighting, a space-age, geometrically playful reference.

Two new arched doorways into the kitchen make the first floor feel roomy and open.

Though Stephenson had envisioned a white kitchen, the DeLoaches convinced her to go for gray cabinets (to blend with the weathered-look

walls) and a white Carrara countertop. Multicolored upholstery on the barstool seats echoes the colors of the dining chairs, which are repurposed outdoor chairs the team sourced from the Highpoint Antique and Design Center in North Carolina. “They’re very fun and wacky,” says Candace. “They made the whole place feel playful.”

As vintage items tend to do, many pieces have stories—the 1940s bubble sconces in the foyer were originally part of a Paris nightclub. Stephenson also contributed a number of items

from her family, like a 1920s inlaid elephant side table that came from her grandmother.

Though the house was gutted, the builders saved and reused as much trim and hardware as possible, preserving the house’s original character. In the third-floor bedroom, original brickwork and terracotta tile is left exposed, along with two small quarter-round windows. Details like these mix with brand-new features—like the ipe roof deck that affords a surprisingly big view over Charlottesville.

“I walked in and saw it could still be beautiful,” says Candace.

“The architecture grabbed my attention from the beginning.”

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Thursday, March 15 Join Monticello fruit gardener Jessica Bryars for a hands-on demonstration and workshop on pruning techniques for peaches. Bring pruning shears and gloves. $18. 10am-noon. David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. monticello.org

Thursday, March 15 On this 90-minute walk around James Monroe’s historic Highland property, expect vistas of mature ash, black walnut and other native trees, plus a hemlock and towering white oak that date to Monroe’s time. Hosted by the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards. Free, but registration is required.

11am-12:30pm. James Monroe’s Highland, 2050 James Monroe Pkwy. charlottesvilleareatree stewards.org

Shenandoah Valley Plant Symposium Friday, March 16 There’s plenty of growing season inspiration to be had at this annual event. Workshops and lectures from big names in horticulture—Larry Weaner, Claudia West, Dan Benarcik and Preston Montague—will cover an array of topics, such as natural landscape design, green infrastructure, container gardening and approaches to design problems. $90. 8am-4:15pm. Best Western Inn & Conference Center, 109 Apple Tree Ln., Waynesboro. waynesboro.va.us/971/ Shenandoah-Valley-Plant-Symposium-2018

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seed casings, nuts and many other tree features.

This will be a walk on the trails at McIntire Botanical Garden. Hosted by the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards. Free. 1-3pm. McIntire Botanical Garden. charlottesvilleareatreestewards.org

Thursdays, April 5, 12; Saturdays, April 14, 21

Spring Open House

Wear sturdy shoes for this three-hour, five-mile hike through Monticello’s woodlands to the Rivanna River. Keep your eyes peeled for early spring’s bounty—trout lilies, Virginia blue bells, spring beauties and more—during this strenuous trek, with muddy slopes and uphill climbs. $20.

9am-noon. David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy. monticello.org

Saturday, April 28 Acclaimed designer, plantsman and author Cole Burrell leads a presentation (“Designing for Habitat: From Back Yards to Byways”) on utilizing your landscape to attract and sustain wildlife.

Come for the lecture, stay for other guided garden tours and opportunities to ask the knowledgeable Monticello staff gardening questions.

Plus, don’t miss beekeeper Paul Legrand, who will discuss what it takes to become a successful beekeeper. Free, 10am-2pm. Tufton Farm, 1293 Tufton Farm. monticello.org

Plant Sale Saturday, May 5 Piedmont Master Gardeners hosts this annual event featuring more than 200 varieties of plants for sale—many of which are from the Master Gardeners’ own yards. More than 50 native plants—a focus of this year’s sale—will also be on offer, as well as advice and tips from PMG and the Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards. Free, 10am-2pm. IX Art Park, 522 Second St. SE. piedmontmastergardeners.org

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Bushman Dreyfus takes on the contemporary farmhouse

oming from Chicago, Albemarle County can seem like a different world. When Rebekah and Adam Goldberg were hunting for a local house to buy in 2014, they were trying to strike a balance between rural bliss and the neighborhood feel they were used to. “Adam wanted land and privacy,” says Rebekah. “I also like to have neighbors and not feel like I’m out in the middle of nowhere.” They were coming up short and began to consider building a new house instead.

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Eventually, they found a 5.4-acre lot in Ivy where they’d be able to glimpse neighbors but still enjoy a woodsy setting. Bushman Dreyfus Architects would design for them a contemporary farmhouse with lots of windows. “We walked the site and flagged a spot,” says architect Tim Tessier, “looking at sunlight and views. The sun rotates around the main living space.”

The couple wanted plenty of space for their two young kids, a home office for Rebekah and room to entertain. “It’s not formal, but comfortable,” says Rebekah of their entertaining style.

“It’s about having a cozy environment for people of any age.” She especially wanted direct access from the kitchen to the outdoor patio and screened porch so that guests, kitchen cook and grill cook could all easily mingle and converse.

Tessier drew up a scheme in which an open kitchen/living space and master suite would receive the best daylighting, with the balance of the rooms found across a central stair hall.

“It’s almost like two little buildings next to each other, with the stair hall between,” he says. “We positioned the major rooms on the sunny side,

which is also the private side with views into the woods.”

The farmhouse style, he says, “comes easily in Charlottesville.” Here, its updated nature is evident in generous glazing, the solar array on the roof and modern features like a basement theater. Yet a vernacular style is alive and well in the house’s proportions and detailing. The generous front porch, for example, couldn’t be more classic—and it serves the same function such porches always have, to keep summer sun from enterCONTINUED ON PAGE 43 ing the house.

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Behind the sink (below), a custom window opens onto the porch, functioning almost as a bar where guests can pull up a stool. A screened porch off the garage is just a few steps from the kitchen for easy serving.

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Sunny rooms Element Construction’s Mike Ball says that tight construction methods make this house, finished in 2016, very efficient. “We’ve been achieving great airtightness in our houses,” he says, adding that the house relies on open-cell insulation in the 6-inch-thick walls, a Superior wall basement and an energy recovery ventilator (ERV) to cut down on energy use.

The family and their guests naturally gravitate to the kitchen/living area, anchored by a fireplace flanked by some of the many built-in shelves and cabinets throughout the house. Salvaged wooden posts and beams, and a tongue-and-groove ceiling, delineate the kitchen. Floors are made from reclaimed fence boards.

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the wall cabinets, and the other in a contrasting gray-blue color with a quartzite top. “I really wanted a white kitchen,” says Rebekah. “[Interior designer] Wynne Shafer brought soapstone into the design, which grounded it.” A breakfast nook, windowed on three sides, provides an informal place to sit down that’s not at a countertop.

A favorite feature, first suggested by Rebekah after she spotted an example on Houzz, is the window over the kitchen sink that opens out like an awning on gas struts, creating a generous opening to connect the kitchen to the patio. She asked Ball if it were possible. “I found one that was $10,000,” he says, “and I said, ‘I think we can engineer it ourselves.’” It took some trial-anderror on the part of project manager Hayden Yount, and a custom steel frame, but it got done—and the window opening now functions almost as a bar, where guests can pull up a stool CONTINUED ON PAGE 45

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The generous open concept kitchen/ living room space makes entertaining easy and casual. “It’s not formal, but comfortable,” says Rebekah Goldberg of the family’s entertaining style.

A vernacular style is alive and well in the house’s proportions and detailing.

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and help themselves to appetizers served on the narrow shelf along the bottom of the window.

The patio centers on a fire pit and leads to the screened porch. “I didn’t want the windows to open into the screened porch,” says Rebekah, explaining why she asked Tessier to attach the porch to the garage rather than the house. It is still only a short walk from the kitchen for easy serving.

Across the stair hall—which is almost completely glassed on both ends and walled in shiplap, making it feel a bit like an open-air dogtrot rather than an interior space—are a formal dining room, office and what the Goldbergs call the “reading room.” This is a quiet space for kids to lounge, away from the large TV that’s in the living room, and includes a designated spot for the family’s piano.

The office features a long built-in desk made from on-site scraps by Element carpenter Joel Detrinis, plus much more storage. “We lived in an old house in Chicago,” says Rebekah. “It was important to have character, but there was nevC-VILLE ABODE

er enough storage.” The Goldbergs’ new house more than makes up for that, with built-in drawers, cubbies, shelves and cabinets everywhere.

Upstairs, the master bedroom has a balcony and a dramatic vaulted ceiling—an idea that didn’t arise until construction was underway.

The attached bathroom features a large double shower, Carrara marble tile and a black granite vanity top.

There are two identical kids’ bedrooms across the hallway, replete with more storage and the same generous windows found throughout the house. The Jack-and-Jill bathroom between them uses a repurposed dresser for a vanity. The Goldbergs say one of their favorite upstairs spots is an unexpected one—a simple sitting area at one end of the central hall. “It’s amazing how much we use this space,” says Adam, often for reading to their kids in the overstuffed chairs.

In the basement is a large play space, a hallway lined with yet more storage, a gym and a home theater. Kids and their friends circulate easily in and out of the theater while parents watch sports and movies.

At the beginning of their house search, Rebekah says, “Building wasn’t something we thought about a lot.” Now, the act of building has delivered to them exactly the house they needed.

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An intimate space

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The house enjoys an extraordinary location, overlooking miles of Albemarle countryside from a high mountainside perch. Throughout the day the sun makes its crossing from east to west across a wide expanse of sky, while fields and woods unroll below for what seems like forever. When the present owners came here in 1996, they loved the vista, but the sense of space was sometimes overwhelming.

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It would be an “intimate space” where the colors and textures of trees and perennials could engage the eye at close range.

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here was nothing around the house,” says the owner—no landscaping, and very little flat ground to invite a sense of dwelling outdoors. Rather, the view seemed to begin exactly where the house stopped. The owners wanted help creating more of a transition between the two—a humanscaled intermediate zone—and they began by asking mason Charles McRaven to build a promontory enclosed by a stone wall.

Landscape designer Susan Viemeister joined the project in 2006, as the wall was being built.

She saw her task as creating an outdoor living space, but knew that the garden wouldn’t “attempt to compete with the view or do anything about the view,” she says. Rather, it would be an “intimate space” where the colors and textures of trees and perennials could engage the eye at close range. The huge vista to the south would be balanced by the relatively nearby backdrop of forest on the north.

The owners wanted a patio for seating and grilling, which Viemeister positioned just outside the kitchen. She designed pathways made of bluestone stepping stones to connect the promontory, patio and porch. A small lawn would be given shape by a perennial garden, itself enclosed by the stone wall. “And we cre-

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ated breaks in the wall where you could walk through the garden and down the hill,” she says.

Two young red oak trees were growing too close to the house and had to be moved further out with a tree spade. One of these now anchors the patio space, providing a “ceiling” of shade in the summer, and a place to hang birdfeeders in the winter.

“The perennials were chosen for late spring through fall interest,” says Viemeister—though, on a winter visit, there was actually still color to be found, in the form of winterberry holly and the various greens of the arborvitae, Skip laurel and boxwood that Viemeister likes to “weave through the garden.”

Forsythia just below the wall herald the spring; Cayuga viburnums provide fragrant spring blooms and, later, fall color. A perennial flower bed includes rudbeckia, yarrow, phlox, goldenrod and coneflower (whose seedheads the owner likes to leave in place for winter birds). Two dogwoods flank steps down to the hillside, while two Emerald arborvitae mark the entrance to the small promontory, just big enough for two chairs.

Oakleaf hydrangeas, garden juniper, Little Princess spirea and Birdsnest spruce are the yearround backdrop to the more fleeting appearances of dianthus, asters, lavender and Shasta daisy. Knockout roses climb a pergola added more recently by the clients.

Viemeister laid out the hardscape so that central axes of promontory and patio would unify the overall design. “I was using the patio to connect those dots, and using the garden to soften that,” she says. The bluestone patio is dry-laid in what Viemeister calls a “Charleston pattern”— stripes of stone in various widths—and she designed new steps from the porch to reach the ground level. The client places a number of planters for annuals around the patio and near the porch, adding even more color and texture.

The garden, now mature, is a lovely outdoor room that provides a detailed counterpoint to the magnificence of the southern view. As Viemeister says, “You can visit the view; you’re not intimidated by the view.”

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aving lived in a 1960s rancher off Park Street for nearly 12 years, architects Stephanie and Evan Williams were no strangers to renovation. They’d torn out the kitchen in their first home practically before the ink was dry on the closing paperwork (“A couple of architects can never sit still,” Evan says). So when they were searching for a house last year, they wanted something that hadn’t yet been touched—something they could put their own stamp on.

The most important space was the kitchen, which doubles as the hub of La Vache Microcreamery, Stephanie’s caramel company.

“It had to be functional for the business as well as personal use,” Evan says. “And since the space has to be USDA-certified, it also needed to be easily cleanable.” Once they settled on a 1970s Colonial in the Greenbrier neighborhood, the couple opted for

a modern aesthetic with clean lines, but also warmth and character. They topped a new island with Italian soapstone, added in two full-height pantries for extra storage, installed new lighting and, to open the space, Stephanie decided to relocate and widen the passage between dining room and kitchen.

Because the kitchen is the La Vache “office” and the dining room functions as the Williams’ conference room to meet architectural clients, “creating a interconnected set of rooms that could perform multiple functions was very important to us,” Stephanie says.

Now that they’ve checked off these two spaces from their list of design priorities, there’s more renovation in their future, which they say they’ll happily take on themselves.

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