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Lightening up IN ALBEMARLE, A NEW SITE FOR A WORTHY VIEW WHY NATIVE PLANTS ARE GOOD FOR THE BIOSPHERE

After 30 years of traditional design, two Nelson homeowners conjure a modern farmhouse

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Justin H. Wiley

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ELIJAH CRAIG - Beautiful 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.

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MILE END RIDGE - In a beautiful elevated setting of 114 acres with expansive mountain views, this residence is an impressive 6 BR English country manor replete with all modern conveniences. An Infinity pool, pool house/ guest apartment and 4 car detached garage complete the offering..

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Addition and subtraction 38 Though the house had sat vacant for many years, its current homeowner could see it had good bones and bought it the very day she saw it.

Then, she enlisted architect Enoch Snyder and interior designer Alana Woerpel to restructure and restyle it to suit her needs—including shifting the layout and creating an addition for an art studio. The final touches? Artfully displaying the homeowner’s extensive collections.

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Though the landscape, which overlooks the Moormans River, lush fields and the Blue Ridge Mountains, offered much in the way of scenery, the owners of this Western Albemarle property felt the home was too close to the edge —to really drink in the view, they needed to take a few steps back.

Architect Bob Paxton resited the house to give the verdant vista some breathing room.

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In the garden 29

The wild and wonderful backyard of Marlene Condon.

Art+Architecture 31 Bringing the outdoors into the kitchen.

On the market 35 People in glass houses, as they say...

Events 35

The biannual SHE Design House returns, plus a farm tour, workshops and more.

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Leader boarding Herbert Hoover’s Madison County retreat.

Cover photo by Andrea Hubbell. Comments? E-mail us at abode@c-ville.com.

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The homeowners were looking for a home that was livable on one level, with rooms for kids and grandkids upstairs. The great room —which comprises a sitting area, dining area and generous kitchen (“I like to spread out when I cook,” says Carolyn Frazier), situates near the master suite and informal den.

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hree decades in one house makes some people set in their ways, but, for others, it ends with an abrupt change. Tom and Carolyn Frazier had lived in Northern Virginia in a “typical, traditional D.C. house,” says Carolyn, and when they reached retirement they were ready for something “totally different. We wanted something modern and open.”

After searching unsuccessfully for an existing house in Charlottesville, they found a lot in Nellysford’s Stoney Creek development, facing the golf course and the Blue Ridge. “No matter where you look, you can see the mountains,” says CaroC-VILLE ABODE

lyn. A plan they found for a contemporary farmhouse seemed to suit the site well, and contractor Jefferson Area Builders helped modify the details to cater to the Fraziers’ needs and tastes.

“We wanted to keep it simple and elegant, with clean lines,” says Carolyn. The previous house had lots of traditional detailing—chair rails and so forth—and was filled with family antiques and other traditional furniture. The couple now craved a crisp, almost minimal look.

The house plan called for a great room with a very high 18-foot cathedral ceiling, and for that large main space, “Tom wanted white walls,” says

Carolyn. “It’s the simplicity,” he says, explaining why he stuck to his guns even when interior designer Alexandra Bracey suggested some gray in the space. Instead of color on the walls, then, she introduced grays and a bit of red-orange via the furniture and accessories: sofas from Theodore’s in D.C., a pair of Design Within Reach chairs and a rug from Matt Camron (also in D.C.).

The fireplace is a minimalist design dwarfed by the stone chimney that extends the full height of the great room—a major architectural element in itself. Three small clerestory windows CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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Designer Alexandra Bracey convinced the couple to take a few design risks: In the master bedroom, a midcentury modern dresser was refinished, its drawers painted a light gray. In a powder room, tree-patterned paper covers the walls.

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layered over a sisal rug. Tom’s collection of antique maps fills one wall.

Some of Bracey’s design recommendations were bold: A powder room features tree-patterned wallpaper and a very modern bare-bulb light fixture from Lambert et Fils hangs in the

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also emphasize the room’s lofty height, as do the exposed beams near the shiplap ceiling. The seating arrangement sits between two facing rows of French doors, an invitation to natural light and an homage to the view.

In the kitchen, white and gray granite countertops provide very generous workspace; there’s even a lower, table-height section of countertop tucked into a windowed nook. “I like to spread out when I cook,” says Carolyn—yet the ample storage in this kitchen means that when she’s not cooking, there is virtually no clutter on the counters. A dining table custom-made by Shenandoah Furniture Gallery overlooks the golf course; pantry, broom closet and mudroom are found down a short hallway, nearly out of sight.

“We were looking for something livable on one level,” says Carolyn, “that could accommodate our kids and grandkids upstairs.” Besides the great room, the other main living spaces for the Fraziers—master suite and den—are nearby on the first floor. The den is an appealing space, with a sliding barn door, blue walls and a second fireplace. Bracey sourced a teak root coffee table from Jayson Home and suggested a cowhide rug

stairwell. In the master bedroom, a midcentury modern dresser was refinished, its drawers painted light gray, by Martha Leone Design in D.C. The rug was created, in a custom smoke-blue color, by Timothy Paul Home.

Upstairs, the three bedrooms and two baths each have their own wall color, but the hues are compatible: Together, they form a palette of soft grays, blues and sage green. “The rooms work cohesively,” says Bracey. “I am a big fan of softer, soothing colors—colors without a lot of yellow,” fortunately also the one shade that did not interest Carolyn.

Very few pieces of furniture traveled with the Fraziers from their previous home—a small writing desk that’s now in the grandsons’ bedroom and a white canopy bed that’s unfussy enough to fit perfectly into this contemporary house. They’re joined by new pieces including iron twin bedsteads for the kids, tall glass cylinder lamps from Arteriors and custom patterned window treatments.

Planning and outfitting the house was a yearlong project for the Fraziers, but Carolyn says the pleasure of living in a totally fresh environment was well worth it: “We got what we wanted.”

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nolia stands to the left of Jefferson’s statue in front of the Rotunda, which itself was flanked by seven evergreen Southern magnolias until they were removed in 2014. “The Southern variety is beautiful and reliably evergreen, but they grow so fast that they tend to get out of scale to the building and take over the architecture,” says Cornett.

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hough they’ve been around since the 18th century, painted floors (when done right) can be nostalgic, practical and surprisingly modern, says designer Franny Hurt. Back then, they were used in everything from modest farmhouses to Victorian mansions, helping to protect hardwoods before modern sealant was developed. Now they’re more multipurpose, used as a temporary (and cost-effective) solution to refinishing or replacing old floors; to ease a transition between one room to the next; or to provide visual interest in a character-less room.

“I believe that any time is a good time to experiment with paint,” Hurt says. “It’s an inexpensive, nonpermanent treatment that can be applied to virtually any surface.” And the Washington, D.C., transplant practices what she preaches: She transformed the kitchen of her own 1930s Shaker-style house just by applying a checkerboard pattern to the floor.

“Painting the kitchen floor was a referential and relevant solution,” Hurt says. “Changing up the color, scale and pattern made it feel decidedly modern and fresh.”

But what should you know before applying this technique in your own home? Choose a durable paint (Hurt says Farrow & Ball and Benjamin Moore are both good options) and think hard about the scale of the pattern: “Large spaces with small-scaled patterns can quickly look too busy and small spaces with too large of a pattern can feel cramped.” And, while it might not bother you, keep in mind that high-traffic or high-moisture areas will need touch-ups more often. “However,” says Hurt, “the patina enhances the look of painted floors, so have fun and paint away.”

In her own home on Locust Avenue, designer Franny Hurt decided painting the kitchen floor was the best solution to ease the transition from newly installed to old maple floors.

“Large spaces with small-scaled patterns can quickly look too busy and small spaces with too large of a pattern can feel cramped.”

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Rain gardens are swaths of grasses, shrubs and perennials in low spots that absorb runoff from streets, parking areas and roofs, i.e. impermeable surfaces. Check out the Virginia Conservation Assistance Program at Thomas Jefferson Soil & Water Conservation District for cost-share programs. Rain gardens hold and filter excess water while providing space for flowering shrubs and perennials to feed the insect world. They are not neat and tidy and have a meadowish look. They generally get cut down once a year in early spring and are not heavy feeders.

The best of public plantings teach us ways to improve our landscapes. Our city is full of rain gardens when you start looking for them. From the parking lot at Region Ten on Preston Avenue

to the ones at Boar’s Head by the pond and at the bottom of the County Office Building on McIntire Road, you can study efforts to hold and clean stormwater instead of dumping it in the bay.

Our shining jewel is the University of Virginia’s Dell, which daylighted part of Meadow Creek and tamed its flow into a pond (with resident egret). Plantings along its run up to the old cemeteries reflect Virginia’s different ecological regions, from waterside to foothills. A meandering path with excellent signage leads through river birch, switch grass, bayberry, fringetree, Joe Pye weed, cardinal flower, sweet fern and more. Walk right in and immerse yourself in the songs and smells of summer.

A feather in the University of Virginia’s landscaping cap, The Dell contains plantings that reflect Virginia’s various ecosystems, from waterside to foothills.

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ach season has its sounds and smells. In the quiet of late winter stinky skunk cabbage entices winged insects hungry for carrion. Spring brings birdsong and sweeter breezes although nature continues the rotting meat theme with the lurid purple hue of pawpaw flowers. As we approach the equinox of June 21, the legendary longest day when everywhere day and night are the same length, the fragrant heady buzz of summer reigns supreme.

The peepers’ song (our little native chorus frogs) was the opening act for bees, butterflies, moths, wasps and flies that fill the air with their whirrings. From now until the first killing frost, rich odors and bright flowers with protruding stamens and landing pads of petals lure myriad flying things to pollinate vegetables, fruits, trees, shrubs and each other. In turn they provide food for toads, turtles and birds on up the food chain.

Cicadas and crickets in late August and the tang of nasturtiums will foretell summer’s end.

So what does this have to do with city gardeners or even suburban and country folk who are just trying to keep everything in check and have something pretty to look at or eat? Summer’s prime directives are to feed the hungry (fertilize roses, tomatoes, annuals), water the thirsty (transplants, containers, drought-stressed shrubs and trees) and try to keep weeds from taking over (mulch with newspaper, cardboard, wood chips, and compost).

Attracting pollinators and keeping water on your property are two of the most important things you can do to achieve the first two of these ends (weeds can become a losing battle at any time). Unless you’re going to get out there with a cotton swab, all those tomatoes and cucumbers and squash, not to mention the fruit trees, depend on bees and flies and wasps, even bats, to move pollen from one plant to another. Plant flowers, give shelter, and they will come. Spray pesticides and you will kill them. A variety of native flowers like black-eyed Susan, coneflower, beebalm, phlox and butterfly weed is best, but even the much-derided Asian butterfly bush has abundant nectar and gives a twiggy home.

When you capture runoff with rain barrels, rain gardens and permeable surfaces (avoid asphalt and concrete and look to pavers or stones set in soil or sand), it’s a win-win for your landscape and the Chesapeake Bay, which does not need any more yard waste. Barrels and rooftop catchment store water for outdoor use.

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here are as many ways to garden as there are ways to cook. Some folks plant neat rows of vegetables; others create geometric arrangements of herbs. Traditional ornamental gardens in our part of the world might feature forsythia, crepe myrtle and daffodils—plants that originate in Asia, Europe and other faraway places. But for gardeners sensitive to the larger systems that surround our gardens, there are compelling reasons to choose native plants: those that evolved here in our region, in concert with other native species.

One of the reasons is simple practicality. “Native plants, once established, are tougher than your average garden plant,” says Tim SanJule. He and his wife, Wanda, opened Hummingbird Hill Native Plant Nursery, north of Crozet, in 2016.

Because natives are evolved to thrive in our local soil and climate, they generally demand less coddling than exotic plants. At the Quarry Gardens— a new 40-acre native botanical garden in Schuyler—gardeners from the Center for Urban Habitats have planted thousands of plants in the last two years, but have done little watering. The bluebells, blue-eyed grass, birdsfoot violet and many other species growing there are, in the right spots with the right conditions, well-equipped to thrive.

But the greater significance of native plants is the key role they play in the abundant biodiversity of our locale. In a world undergoing widespread development by humans, says SanJule, “There’s a huge difference in the amount of wild places for wild critters—a lot less space for them to live and less food for them to eat. Native plants are the base of the food chain.”

Birds and butterflies are some of the more obvious creatures who get their food from native plants, but so do a host of other species, including many fungi and invertebrates. Mary Jane Epps, a biologist at Mary Baldwin University and a member of the Virginia Native Plant Society who sometimes leads plant walks at Ivy Creek Natural Area, points out that while threatened honeybees have been rightly getting a lot of press, they themselves are not native—and there are many species of native bees that are in even worse trouble. “A surprisingly high proportion of bees are specialized,” she says. “You’ll only see them on particular native plants.” Willows, for example, can support eight to 11 species of native bees.

If the opposite of native is exotic, it’s important to understand that not all plants originating on other continents are invasive—that is, prone to uncontrolled spreading that crowds out native species in the garden and beyond. Many species introduced to our region for one practical purpose or another have escaped their intended boundaries; some of the most notorious are honeysuckle, kudzu, Chinese privet and Japanese stiltgrass.

Yet even in a time of increasing awareness about invasives, some are still offered for sale in

The Quarry Gardens, in Schuyler, are planted to model ecosystems.

Aesthetic considerations are secondary to combining plants with others that grow in their natural communities.

Native plant resources Hummingbird Hill Native Plant Nursery The retail nursery is open on weekends or by appointment.

964-1034, humming birdhillnatives.com Farfields Farm Mostly a wholesale nursery, the facility does have occasional times when the public can buy plants on-site.

Upcoming events at the farm are on May 6 and May 27. The nursery will also be part of a Nelson County Master Gardeners plant sale at Devils Backbone Brewing Company on May 6. 326-2157, facebook.com/ farfieldsfarm

the garden trade. “A lot of places advertise garnet autumn olive,” says Epps.

“It sounds great on paper—really hard to kill, nothing eats it, produces tons of berries…” But these are exactly the qualities that make it invasive.

Other plants can directly harm native wildlife—like lesser celandine, whose pollen is toxic to bees.

The more you learn about native plants, the more the subject deepens.

In his work with CUH, Devin Floyd aims for as narrow a definition of “native” as possible. A species may grow in many eastern states, but seed gathered from that plant in Pennsylvania is not genetically identical to that collected from the same species in Virginia, he explains. The geographical definition of “native” gets more circumscribed the more rigorously you consider environmental factors like geology, soil type, elevation and exposure. Ideally, Floyd tries to source seed from within a 15-mile radius of where the plant will be sited.

That said, planting natives doesn’t need to be an intimidating affair.

CUH is partnering with two area native plant nurseries—Hummingbird Hill and Farfields Farm—to produce plant specimens with as local a genotype as possible. These could become important resources for gardeners around here who otherwise may have trouble sourcing some native plants at all, much less from local seed.

Start small by adding a few plants to your landscape that are known to benefit wildlife. One of Hummingbird Hill’s bestsellers, says Wanda SanJule, is mountain mint. “It’s a pollinator magnet,” she says. “It blooms like crazy, it’s pretty easy to grow, and it doesn’t spread like peppermint.” She says native milkweeds, asters, goldenrods and sunflowers are also popular, as is medicinal elderberry. The nursery sells herbaceous plants as well as flowering shrubs, small trees, ferns, vines, grasses and sedges.

Another strategy that can be fairly simple is to choose a section of your lawn to leave unmowed. “You can mow around it and make it look intentional,” says Epps. Scatter native seeds and let the plants stand uncut through the winter. “When you do mow it, do it in March after the nesting bees do their thing and before the next growing season is upon us.”

Observing the pollinators and birds who interact with your native garden is one of the most rewarding aspects of growing these plants. “This is a way that anybody with access to a garden can help restore the environment,” says Tim SanJule.

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vating nature-friendly gardens. She has spent decades advocating for the practice of landscaping for wildlife—a looser, more freeform gardening style that prioritizes the planet over the plan.

“There is the misperception that you don’t have to do anything at all, but that’s not it,” says Condon. “Landscaping with wildlife in mind uses a traditional three-level structure—flowers close to the house, then shrubs and low trees, then taller trees in back—but it also includes things like brush piles, dead leaves and even a few flowering weeds.” The idea is for gardeners to give up their compulsion for neatness and to embrace what grows naturally in their area instead.

The result is less orderly but more purposeful.

“Dead leaves break down and become natural fertilizer, and when all the plants come up you don’t even see them anymore,” says Condon. “Brush piles are incredibly useful. You can keep them 30 feet from the house for safety, and they become a place where birds can hide from hawks or make their nests, and lizards lay their eggs in there. You’ll be shocked by how fast they decompose.”

Condon reserves special scorn for wide swaths of unused lawn. “The problem is, there’s not a lot of habitat potential in a lawn,” she says. “It’s wasting a resource, and the insecticides and her-

bicides [used on lawns] kill so many animals that are important to the food chain,” particularly creatures with absorbent skin, like salamanders and other amphibians.

“Slugs and snails are your recyclers and are feeding your plants,” says Condon, “and the whole world collapses without insects.” A more natural landscape also means weeding is less of a chore. “Really, the more plants you grow the better, and the fewer weeds you’ll see.”

Condon stresses that protecting the natural ecosystem of the plants, birds, bugs and animals is vital to the future of mankind. “I’m terrified for the future,” she admits. “The whole point of existence is to perpetuate life, and we are losing so many organisms. We absolutely cannot survive without wildlife.”

Even in times of discouragement, however, Condon’s source of solace and joy is her garden, a habitat certified by the National Wildlife Federation. She hopes it can serve as an example of a sustainable, low-impact way for people to coexist with wildlife. “Listen to the birds, the wood frogs,” she enthuses, gesturing widely. “Part of the beauty is hearing all this life. It means the creatures are saying, ‘This is a healthy place for me to live.’”

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“We had these old-style windows with mullions and storm windows,” says Grant. “You couldn’t raise them easily, you couldn’t clean them easily. The storms were kind of stuck.” In short, they didn’t function well and, even if they had, their many divisions would have made it hard to see the view. What’s more, the kitchen sink was positioned facing into a wall rather than a window, and one window was partially covered by an extra countertop that Grant had added a while back to gain workspace.

“It was cozy, and it was workable,” says Grant of the former layout, “but it wasn’t very functional.” With the old kitchen showing serious wear and tear, he and Evans decided it was time to update.

One of the first moves was to relocate the sink under a new, better window. “We wanted a big picture window and one small casement window that could open,” says Evans, “not to have the view broken by so much wood.”

The wall between kitchen and dining room came down, meaning that another large new window, near the dining table, also adds light and views to the kitchen space. With this change, the room gained a bar and barstools—an obvious improvement considering guests used to crowd into the kitchen as Evans and Grant tried to cook.

The couple hired Todd LeBack of Vaneri Studio to build cabinets, and he helped hone the layout to maximize storage, workspace and circulation. Little things make a difference—like the counter-depth refrigerator that leaves a few more inches of free floor space.

Evans and Grant, both artists and photographers, wanted to design a kitchen that wouldn’t go off trend within a few years and wouldn’t upstage their art collection. To that end, they created a neutral color scheme and a limited materials palette, starting with the floor.

“The kitchen had linoleum; it was really ugly,” says Grant, who admits he was the one who installed it decades ago. The rest of the house had hardwood floors, and the couple decided to unify all the rooms by adding new hardwood in the kitchen/dining room, then giving all the floors a common finish.

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ing for extra storage. The cabinets are finished in Benjamin Moore’s “Pelican Gray,” a choice that Grant says was hard-won, given the tendency of grays to change appearance in different lights. He and Evans examined multiple samples at various times of day before making the decision. Walls are also gray, with one dining room wall accented in a darker shade behind a large abstract painting that Grant has owned for years.

Dark-gray quartz countertops complete the neutral scheme, but the couple had no intention of shunning color altogether. They asked local glass artist Vee Osvalds to create a stained-

glass panel to be installed above the stove. Illuminated by LED backlighting, it adds warmth and color to an area that Grant had worried would otherwise feel dark. “It gives a pleasant homey atmosphere,” he says. “It substitutes for a backsplash.”

Completed last September, the kitchen brought ease to cooking and entertaining and allows the backyard view to become part of the room, like another artwork that’s ever-changing. For the most part, these improvements hinge on quiet, rather than splashy, choices. “It’s a modest house,” says Grant. “We didn’t want to overbuild.”

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Grace Church Historic Farm Tour Saturday, June 9 Grace Church welcomes visitors for an old-school country fair—with food, children’s activities and various vendors— on its Keswick grounds, as well as provides visitors with exclusive access to some of the county’s most beautiful historic farms. $15 in advance, $20 day-of. 10am-4pm. 5607 Gordonsville Rd. (Keswick). gracefarmtour.org

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That was seven years ago. The lucky buyer was coming from a farm in Greene County where she’d collaborated with design/build contractor Enoch Snyder on renovations. The new house, built in 1930, had “good bones,” she says, but its layout was “wonky” and she knew she would need to make changes. Snyder reorganized the

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Snyder’s approach with additions is to make the new portion “blend as seamlessly as possible, making you wonder just exactly where the original house stops and the addition starts.” He carried materials and detailing from the old house into the addition, and, he says, “lowered the roof lines so that the mass of the addition didn’t overwhelm the main house.” On the exterior, field stone walls tie various areas, which lie at different elevations, together.

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Moving was an opportunity to start fresh. “I wanted to change my living vibe to calm, empty and edited,” says the owner. Woerpel understood it would be a big change. “The farmhouse was warm, layered, textured,” she remembers. “This is much more serene.”

Edit and revise The first basic task was to get rid of, the owner estimates, 60 percent of her things. “I looked at everything she had, measured, catalogued and decided what would make the cut,” Woerpel says.

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Though the look is indeed very serene, it isn’t minimal—there is lots to see here—and it isn’t generic.

The house has a pleasant old-fashioned vibe throughout, with floral fabrics on Laura Ashley chairs, antique furniture and vintage collections mixed in.

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Salvaged objects lend character and help marry the old portion of the house with the additions, as in the studio, where recycled windows illuminate the space with its built-in bookshelves and long farm table, or a powder room, where vintage wallpaper mingles with a custom vanity cabinet.

Like many pieces in the home, the kitchen island is salvaged. Once an antique counter and cabinet from a fabric shop, it is the centerpiece of the room. “The whole kitchen was built around it,” says the client.

“Serenity doesn’t mean ‘not textured.’ When you add sisal, raw wood and matchstick blinds”—as she did in the upstairs nook—“you’re adding the texture back in.” ALANA WOERPEL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 41

was a need to pare down, but no urge to dump possessions wholesale. Instead, Woerpel, Snyder and their client thought in terms of reusing and refreshing familiar objects. Woerpel says she appreciated the contrast with what she calls “our throwaway culture.”

One major strategy was to simply repaint many pieces of furniture. Woerpel refers in shorthand to the new house as “white,” but few elements are stark white. Instead, it showcases many warm, subtle shades of cream, buff, distressed and antique whites and other neutrals.

David Currier, a local painter, refinished a number of pieces for the owner in whites that appear to have the patina of time.

Though the look is indeed very serene, it isn’t minimal—there is lots to see here—and it isn’t generic. The home clearly communicates the owner’s unique sensibility through quiet patterns and recurring motifs. For example, moons and stars show up in many artworks and objects throughout the home, from a small framed print facing the side door, to a rug in an upstairs reading nook.

Salvaged objects lend character and help Snyder’s addition marry with the old portion of the house. “We searched salvage dealers throughout Virginia and beyond,” says Snyder. “We found transoms, doors, hardware, sinks, you name it. It’s all meant to blur the lines between old and new.”

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table, repainted in white. A tiny vintage sink fits into a corner, relocated from a powder room that used to be off the original house’s hallway— so small that, says the owner, “a lady could not sit down in it.”

The new powder room, near the studio, is more accommodating. Vintage wallpaper from the owner’s collection is a perfect match for a blue closet door sourced from Caravati’s in Richmond. A salvaged sink was given a custom vanity cabinet by Snyder, and antique curtain holdbacks flank the window.

In the kitchen, the island is an antique counter and cabinet repurposed from a fabric shop. “The whole kitchen was built around it,” says the client.

It anchors a room filled with subtle color and texture: green vintage tile, stained-glass windows used as cabinet doors and a restored 1950s stove exactly like the one the owner grew up with.

Snyder added a wide doorway between kitchen and dining room, where strangely there’d been no opening previously. Woerpel and her client gave the dining room the quietest palette of any room in the house: a sisal rug, white paint on the round metal table and sideboard, linen drapes in a color called “beach.” A collection of antique candlesticks fills the fireplace mantel.

There’s a pleasant old-fashioned vibe throughout, with floral fabrics on Laura Ashley chairs, shutters repurposed as closet doors and a suite of fairy and nymph artworks on the piano room’s long wall. Yet, as Snyder puts it, “It’s not a collection of shabby-chic junk, but a seamless project filled with great details that back up

the design. Even when we had to buy new materials, [the owner] pushed me to find the real deal. We found a source for authentic reproduction subway tiles on the West Coast. She then scoured the internet and found some Art Deco accent tiles that we were able to mix in.”

Woerpel’s custom-made furniture and window treatments, and her understanding of the design’s many layers, were key to achieving a unified effect—calm, but detailed. “Serenity doesn’t mean ‘not textured,’” she says. “When you add sisal, raw wood and matchstick blinds” —as she did in the upstairs nook—“you’re adding the texture back in.”

The owner’s unique tastes are, through the shared vision of the team, able to find just the right expression here. Perhaps her quirkiest collection is a group of “stairways to heaven”—a type of woodworking project once popular in high school shop classes. Sharing certain stock elements, including the moon and star motifs found elsewhere in the house, yet individually customized by their many amateur creators, they are a kind of folk-art form—and, of course, the stairwell is the perfect place to hang them. Though the owner once possessed 150 of them, she displays here about two dozen of her favorites.

The house asks for the kind of appreciation that can only unfold over time—a collage of objects, eras and histories. “The credit goes to [our client] for her years of collecting,” says Woerpel. “She was able to take so much of what she had and yet end up with a drastically different house than she had before.”

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Framing a view Having already decided to replace the house on their Western Albemarle property, the homeowners then set their sights— and siting—on the scenery, a wideopen expanse of countryside and rolling river.

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W Outdoor living spaces include a screened porch that opens onto a bluestone patio and pool.

The area is defined by a black metal fence on which clematis and other climbing vines grow.

hen your property overlooks the Moorman’s River, miles of verdant fields and finally the Blue Ridge Mountains, it seems obvious that the view is a primary attraction. Yet when one couple bought a Western Albemarle house in 2000, its siting and design didn’t do as much as they could have to connect occupants to the vista. “It was really close to the edge,” says architect Bob Paxton, referring to the spot where the land drops off sharply toward the river.

The new owners knew they would replace the house, which was a small International-style structure with a flat roof. Having worked with Paxton’s firm Dalgliesh Gilpin Paxton twice before, they also knew that Paxton and partner Roger Birle would be their go-to design team.

Landscape architect Rusty Lilly collaborated to create a seamless marriage between inside and out.

“Setting the house back gives you a foreground,” says Lilly, explaining how the siting of the new house, some distance back from where the old one stood, improves on the experience of looking west. Now, a flat expanse of lawn anchors the viewer in a human-scaled outdoor “room,” with the bigger spaces beckoning from beyond.

The house is traditionally styled with an exterior of painted brick and a shake shingle roof.

It’s designed along a long horizontal axis to allow many of the rooms to take in the view. “[The clients] liked classical architecture,” says Paxton.

“We kept the main block very symmetrical, and then as we moved away from that, we let it meander and get more playful.”

The relationship between house and land is meant to be informal. “They didn’t want a house that appeared grand and imposing,” says Paxton.

He and Burrell designed the structure so that the second floor is de-emphasized within the façade, and the team made sure that guests would feel a sense of welcome. The parking court sits close to the front door, and guests’ approach up the driveway is softened by the large trees that the design team worked to save. Allowing the house to conform to the existing grade of the site meant that more big trees could remain undisturbed.

Outdoor living spaces include a pool, screened porch and uncovered rear porch. Bluestone ties all these together along with paths through the lawns and the treads of the steps leading up to the screened porch. One advantage of bluestone, Paxton says, is that it can be sourced in large pieces, resulting in fewer joints and a quieter look.

“They really wanted a screened porch,” Paxton says. “We tried to put it to one side so from the main rooms, you’re not looking through the screen.” Similar logic placed the pool to the side as well, considering that in colder months pools CONTINUED ON PAGE 53

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The clients didn’t want the house to seem grand and imposing, so while it is classical in style, the architects de-emphasized the second story within the symmetrical façade.

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are not especially attractive. So a “summer area” developed to one side—screened porch, with dining table, opening onto swimming pool. In season, the owner, an avid gardener, adds many containers of flowers to this area, which is defined by a black metal fence on which clematis and other vines grow.

That allows the lawn adjacent to the main, symmetrical volume of the house to be a separate and somewhat more formal space. “The lawn creates a visual green edge,” says Lilly, pointing out that as one exits the house through the main rear door, the spaces become progressively more open: from interior, to pergolacovered porch, to tree-framed lawn, to the sweeping view beyond.

The pergola is semicircular, its white supporting columns dividing the vista cleanly into seg-

ments. Because this porch faces west rather than south, Paxton says, it did not need a solid roof to protect it from the sun.

Two cutleaf Japanese maples flank the porch —they were moved to their present locations from elsewhere on the property, and Lilly can vouch for their age since she remembers them being planted when she herself, coincidentally, lived in a rental cottage on this property for several years in the late 1960s.

They stand within a symmetrical composition of plantings that Lilly designed to complement the balanced architecture of this portion of the house. Crepe myrtles, boxwoods and andromeda set a palette dominated by green and white.

Boxwood and slender deutzia define the perimeter of the lawn, while fragrant sumac populates the slope below it. “The way Rusty picks and locates the plant palette, as it comes out of the

natural woods and moves into lawn, it’s seamless,” says Paxton. The sumac is low to the ground in winter, its less appealing season, but visible to those strolling the lawn in summer, when it’s more attractive.

A pair of white-blooming spirea bushes signal the entrance to a path around the side of the house, where Kousa dogwoods, hydrangea and more andromeda and spirea await. Lilly prefers a limited group of plants, with species planted in masses for a cleaner, less spotty look. Yet this property is extensive enough to allow room for various islands of ornamentals: forsythia along the driveway, camellia in a protected spot near the house, hellebores and daffodils near the parking court.

The landscape here is primary, both outside and inside. “We’re always trying to bring the landscape indoors,” says Paxton. Inevitably, this landscape must also invite people out.

A flat expanse of lawn anchors the viewer in a human-scaled outdoor “room,” with the bigger spaces beckoning from beyond.

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hen Herbert Hoover bought 164 acres of land in Madison County near the Rapidan River just before he was inaugurated as our 31st president in 1929, there’s no way he could have anticipated how much of a respite the place’s trout-filled streams, mountainous landscape and fresh air would offer him a few months later.

The son of a Quaker blacksmith, Hoover was orphaned at age 9 and sent to live with relatives in Oregon. He became a mining engineer and rose to political prominence during and after World War I for leading hunger-relief efforts throughout war-torn Europe; he won the 1928 presidential election by a landslide.

Just months after Hoover’s inauguration, the U.S. stock market crashed. It was a pivotal event in the advent of the Great Depression, and while Hoover’s predecessors’ policies contributed to the crash, the American people blamed their sitting president.

Hoover’s physicians recommended regular retreats to Rapidan Camp to help cope with the stress of leading a country increasingly plagued by unemployment, debt, poverty and hunger.

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While Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry, paid for the land with their own money, the U.S. Marine Corps built the camp as part of their training regimen (Hoover caught flack for that, too), building out roads, utilities and bridges and constructing 13 one-story, gabled-roof frame cabins, including the president’s, dubbed the

“Brown House.” The Hoovers hosted family, friends and many high-profile guests at Rapidan Camp, among them Charles Lindbergh and British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and Hoover conducted quite a bit of government business there as well.

“I have discovered that even the work of the government can be improved by leisurely discussions out under the trees,” said Hoover.

In 1932, the year before he left office, Hoover donated Rapidan Camp to the Commonwealth of Virginia for use as a summer retreat for subsequent presidents, and it officially became part of Shenandoah National Park in 1935. The Boy Scouts of America leased the camp for a time, and in 1959 the National Park Service tore down all but three of the original structures, including the “Brown House.” The three remaining cabins were restored in 2004.

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