Abode | October 2021 by C-VILLE Weekly

Inside. Outside. Home.

FALL 2021

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A zen box holds space for a local artist

Woodworker Tate Pray returns to form—and function

SHOP HOP

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MIXING IT UP

Rethinking the performance of a family kitchen

With an eye toward its second life, a designer reimagines a city cottage

To be continued

22 ACRES OF PEACE, PRIVACY AND BEAUTY IN FREE UNION

Wonderful blend of fenced pasture plus forest with stream in a gorgeous setting. Great indoor and outdoor play spaces for family and animals. 2 stall barn and luxury kennels. Spacious five bedroom home has owners’ suites on first and second floors plus an apartment/ in-law suite in the walkout basement. Generous sized formal and causal rooms. You may especially like the way the eat-in kitchen, family room and huge screened porch are one. Walk to Glass House Winery and walk or ride to Farmington Hunt. $1,295,000.

8 OR 13 ACRES 12 MINUTES WEST OF TOWN AND UVA

Beautiful, open land awaits. Design your dream home to take advantage of the lovely views and sunsets. The 8 acres are open and level, making it easy to build on and to provide for family and animal play areas. Great southern exposure for active or passive solar. Available with the 8 are 5 adjoining acres that are 3 of fenced pasture with the run-in shed and 2 of mature woods. Neighboring homes are assessed for $1m+. $450,000 for 8 acres and $800,000 for all 13.

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18th century Virginia living at its finest. Historic main residence with 5 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 half on main floor. Eight additional bedroom suites in the dependencies, rich with character and historical charm—all with fireplaces, modern baths and current mechanical systems. Green Springs Historic District, 20 minutes east of Charlottesville, 40 from Richmond. $2,2 50,000

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Beautiful Nelson County parcel. Multiple private elevated building sites, mountain views, stocked lake. Carefully maintained, worthy of architecturally significant construction. Old log cabin cottage provides guest accommodations or rental income.

Some of the most spectacular mountain and valley views in Bundoran Farm! Easy access to miles of trails, fiber optic internet, complete serenity all within 15 minutes of Charlottesville. Equestrian parcel, allowing owner to have horses.

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Enjoy mountain views of the Southwest Mountains from this 4-bedroom residence on 6 private acres. Convenient and quick to Pantops, Historic Downtown Mall, and UVA. MLS#611672 $989,000 C. Dammann, 434.981.1250

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Top floor condo! 4 BR, 4.5 BA. Expansive mountain & city views from inside or from one of 2 balconies. Secure garage parking. Ting available. Walk to dining, shopping, & entertainment! MLS#621646 $1,495,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

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Bright, comfortable, and recently renovated house with 4 BR & 3.5 BA. Gas FP, wood floors, & new appliances. Conveniently located in the city minutes from Downtown & UVA. MLS#620141 $670,000 C. Dammann, 434.981.1250

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12-acre country estate, west of Charlottesville. The 2-story, 5-BR, 4.5-BA manor home is surrounded by lovely mature gardens, plantings, trees, and a beautiful spring-fed pond. MLS#617622 $2,500,000 Jim Faulconer,434.981.0076

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Build your dream house on this 0.34± acre lot in sought-after Rugby Hills and walk or bike to UVA, Darden, UVA Medical Center, and so much more! MLS#621457 $345,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

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146.88 acres in Albemarle and Greene County. Privacy and protection adjacent to the Shenandoah National Park! Full division rights and multiple home sites. MLS#620276 $1,200,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

HESSIAN HILLS

Brick ranch with open floor plan. Front room has FP and skylights. Huge kitchen! Downstairs apartment includes kitchen & private entrance. Agent related to owner. MLS#622003 $599,000 Gail Hubbard, 434.242.7073

Brick Georgian, 5-6 BR, 5 full BA, 2 half BA. In one wing is a main level master suite attached to conservatory with study/library. Large eat-in kitchen is in the other wing, laundry room, leading to attached 2-bay garage. Situated on 21 beautiful acres with panoramic pastoral & long range mountain views. Less than 15 minutes to Charlottesville. MLS#621601 $1,450,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

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VIRGINIA HAMRICK

On a half-acre lot near the university, a European-inspired stone house gets a fresh start at the hands of interior designer Alana Woerpel, who fell in love with the property a year prior to buying it. “Right away, I knew I had to have this house,” she says. She’d always assumed it’d be a flip, but soon after the renovation began, she changed her plans.

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Line by line Trained carpenter Tate Pray returns to form.

A new recipe 17 Reimagining the function of a kitchen.

17 For all tastes 23 Three local décor spots worth eyeing.

The black box 26 An artist conjures a dream studio. HOME SWEET HOME 38

Giving an old house new life.

Cover photo by Virginia Hamrick. Comments? E-mail us at editor@c-ville.com.

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ate Pray doesn’t consider furniture art. But that doesn’t mean his work isn’t artistic. The classically trained painter, sculptor, and tireless maker began working as a carpenter after earning his art degree. He moved to Charlottesville in 2005, transitioned to concrete formwork and stuck with that for more than a decade. In 2019, Pray returned to his carpentry roots and launched Poem Furniture to bring handcrafted, solid wood furniture and cabinetry to homeowners with vision. He recently chatted with Abode about his own vision.

Abode: What makes Poem Furniture unique? Tate Pray: We are antithetical to the throwaway culture that we all reside in, and we hope to basically make a mark in the community by crafting heirloom-quality furniture.

Are most of your pieces made-to-order? We have a showroom in town and have a number of spec pieces, but the majority of the work is commissioned by architects and designers. They come to us—they know the work I do. Sometimes they want to tailor to clients’ needs or they come to us with a completely different vision of their own we can help realize.

We work in all the domestic hardwoods, and a lot of it is local. We work with sawyers and people who dry the lumber locally. We also fabricate our own metalwork, and that’s a component that’s been valuable to our clients. We have the capability to do sand casting and all the resources to fabricate in metal.

How did you move from classical art training to furniture making? In supporting my art habit, I got into the building trades. I really love making things that are practical. I still make art here and there, but with furniture there is that connection that comes from creating things for people to live with functionally. It’s really gratifying. What art and furniture have in common is a desire to create and work with your hands. I have an atelier-type background and learned all the classical techniques in painting and drawing and sculpture. With sculpture, you have a visual, hands-on way to replicate nature, and the mechanical acumen you develop translates almost directly to furniture design and proportion and form. The only difference is the functional component of it— making something useful. C-VILLE ABODE

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What materials do you use specifically?

So furniture is definitely not art? I think the inherent nature of art is that it doesn’t have a function. So yes, there is a hard line. If you are making things of use, they should be useful. Whether it is comfortable or not is part of the form-function debate.

Do you have any favorite Poem Furniture pieces? Most everything I make, I love. I think I’ve had success working with designers and riffing off of each other to a positive end—creating something unique and different and exciting for both of us. A lot of the things that excite me have some element of whimsy. That kind of thing scratches a certain part of my DNA. I

love making things that have different elements: metal, steel, wood, stone.

So, no. No favorite pieces. In one instance, over at Oakhurst Inn, a designer and I worked together on a bar. The back bar was there for us to kind of respond to, and one idea was to make a replica in wood. I said, why don’t we make the whole thing in steel? The designer said she was thrilled and we worked out the details together—a glass and steel, mirrored upper bar, steel crown moldings, all welded together. It’s something you don’t see often, kind of harkening to a storefront façade. And there was just a unique moment where the place and piece spoke to a certain material. We just went, “aha.” 15

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Making a more livable kitchen

VIRGINIA HAMRICK

The heart of a family home gets a new life By Carol Diggs

Architect Kirk Webb’s design significantly lengthened the center island, providing more working space for cooking and seating.

here’s nothing like a pandemic shut-down and virtual school to show you that your kitchen just isn’t working. For one family who moved into the Rugby Road area in late 2018, the “new normal” showed that their eat-in kitchen, while large, didn’t have a good working space for their grade-school daughter’s remote learning, and didn’t function well for the husband-and-wife cooking team. Besides that, the room didn’t have nearly enough storage—or outlets. So the owners asked Bushman Dreyfus Architects to give them “a space that promoted conC-VILLE ABODE

nection,” says lead designer Kirk Webb. Integrating all the kitchen’s functions in a cohesive way—and keeping the space in context with the rest of the house, which had been substantially renovated by the previous owners—meant “the scope of the project felt much larger than a single room,” Webb says. Another part of the challenge: Because the 1910 house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, any changes that would affect its exterior (like pushing out a wall, or adding/ moving windows) were a non-starter. Luckily, relocating the cooking area (gas stove and two

below-counter ovens) to the exterior wall, under a line of windows overlooking the terrace, revealed a faux-stone backsplash which, once removed, made the kitchen a foot wider. Webb’s design also significantly lengthened the center island. The longer counter not only provided more working space for the two cooks, but also created a seating area where the family now has breakfast every day. Once the kitchen’s design was finalized in August 2020, the owners posed the next challenge, for contractor Alexander Nicholson, Inc. C ON TIN U ED ON PA G E 19

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On the kitchen’s north end, a corner banquette gets dressed up in teal-and-slate-striped faux leather. Opposite that, a wet bar situates next to the stairway downstairs. C O N T I N U E D F R OM PAGE 1 7

and cabinetmaker Worthington Architectural Millwork in Gordonsville: Have the kitchen ready by Thanksgiving. With hard work and some luck, the deadline was met—“just in time,” says the owner with a laugh. The new kitchen is well-organized, with enough comfortable space for cooking, working, and gathering. The island, counters, and backsplashes are a white lightly veined marble, which—with the white walls and east and south exposures—fill the space with light. In one of the touches that makes everyone dream of someday having a custom-built kitchen, the east-facing windows all have switch-controlled retractable shades to make sure there’s no early morning glare. (The south-facing window over the porcelain undermount sink is already shaded—by the decades-old paperbark maple outside.) C-VILLE ABODE

The new custom cabinetry along the walls and under the counter is a soft, blue-gray that warms up all that white. The kitchen’s interior wall is an uninterrupted expanse of cabinets and closets for the refrigerator, a full-size freezer, appliances, and the family’s dishes and glassware. Above that, the upper cabinets have doors with brass diagonal-mesh screen insets, matching the brass fixtures on the drawers and doors. On the kitchen’s north end, the space that held a settee and table now has a corner banquette upholstered in a teal-and-slate-striped faux leather; an oval table provides plenty of space for family meals, school work, or (as the pandemic eases) a gathering of school buddies. On one end of the banquette is a cabinet with shelves for cookbooks or school supplies. On the opposite end, where there was empty wall space, is a small wet bar beside the stairway down to the

TV room-cum-kitchenette where the family had meals during the kitchen renovation. (“Microwaving and lots of take-out,” says the owner. “Making school lunches was a real challenge.”) Getting a custom kitchen right requires a good deal of pre-planning, thinking through exactly what items are needed where. The drawers in the island hold “everything needed to cook a meal,” says the owner, “and then the cabinets along the wall hold everything needed to serve it.” But going custom also means getting those little details that suit just your family. There’s now a storage closet right next to the door to the terrace, for whatever’s needed outside: umbrellas, bug spray, sunscreen, etc. And, in a touch of genius, there’s a little popopen compartment that holds a kitchen stepladder. How else does a woman who’s 5'2" make use of all those beautiful upper cabinets? 19

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3024 mEchum bankS drivE $2,495,000 This large contemporary in the heart of Ivy designed by Shank & Gray delights at every turn, both inside & out. Soaring ceilings, arresting views from most rooms, incredible light quality & architectural drama are hallmarks of the interior. Outside are incredible gardens in bloom throughout the year, stunning Mechums frontage, & wonderful flow from indoors to out, whether off the kitchen when cooking or leading from the entertaining rooms out to the terraced gardens. The grounds incl’ woodland pathways w/ rocky outcroppings & endless ferns, a tucked-away tennis court, koi ponds, vegetable garden, & an ‘outdoor room’ above the Mechums. 1st floor master, large laundry rm, separate mud rm, 2-3 office spaces, plenty of storage. MLS# 622093

112 SE 5TH STREET #5A • $1,395,000 This 5th floor Holsinger penthouse condo incl’ private entry foyer, large den, kitchen w/ abundant cabinetry & countertops, dining area & great room w/ floor-toceiling windows & soaring ceiling. Private master suite features dbl walk-in closet & ensuite bath. 2nd bed w/ full bath, laundry room & storage. Private terrace w/ city & mountain views. 2 garage parking spaces & elevator access. Lindsay Milby (434) 962-9148. MLS# 617630

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415 WHITE GABLES LANE #201 • $769,000 This much sought after White Gables condo incl’ a master suite & add’l bedroom suite, gracious foyer, large open living space overlooked by the kitchen & expansive wrap-around deck accessed from both bedrooms & the living area. 2 garage parking spaces & storage room. White Gables is perfectly situated to provide quick access to UVA, Downtown, Boar’s Head & Farmington. Turn-key, low maintenance living in the middle of the action! MLS# 622359

795 FRAYS RIDGE ROAD • $1,595,000 This 5-6 bedroom is sited on 21 totally private acres about 15 mins northwest of town. A lovely pool area w/ slate surround, hot tub, & trex deck overlooks a fire pit. The acreage incl’ mountain views & expansive stretches of both level & rolling lawns. The chef ’s kitchen opens out to a sunny eat-in area overlooking the parcel, as well as to the family room w/ deck access. 10ft ceilings, 3 gas fireplaces, all brick construction, & the list continues. MLS# 622244

5401 CISMONT LANE • $1,120,000 A storied property in Cismont & 1st time on the market in nearly 100 years. Included are the main house at Twenty Gates – a well maintained stucco & frame 1930 home; the whimsical stone cottage known as “The Playhouse”; the Pettus house, aka “The Snuggery” ‒ an 18th century log dwelling worthy of restoration; a pony barn w/ plumbing & electric; & a large workshop. 9+ acres w/ division rights & excellent build sites. Julia Parker Lyman (540) 748-1497. MLS# 619805

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1025 LOCUST AVENUE • $1,195,000 This c. 1900 Queen Anne Victorian features large, gracious rooms, 10’ ceilings downstairs, 9’ upstairs, 6 fireplaces, original pine flooring, period mantels, large eat-in kitchen, original hardware, huge windows & lots of light, wraparound front & side porch, set back from the street on a large ¾-acre lot toward the quiet end of Locust Avenue. 3 beds, 2 baths, 1 studio, plus a 1 bed, 1 bath apt on the ground floor. Dennis Woodriff (434) 531-0140. MLS# 622312

Set on 21+ acres just 7 miles from UVA, Hickory Hill offers convenience & privacy with yearround mountain views. The home has a traditional floor plan w/ rooms for entertaining and comfortable spaces to relax w/ family & friends. This immaculate home is filled w/ light & features 3 fireplaces & antique heart pine floors throughout. Partially fin. basement has rec room & laundry. Above garage bonus room w/ full bath & kitchenette. Property includes a pool w/ pavilion that features fireplace, full bath, laundry, dishwasher, ice maker & TV. Picnic/Sports area w/ stone fireplace & incredible sunset view! Blue Springs neighborhood offers a 1.5 mile trail, tennis court & stocked pond. Bunny Gibbons (434) 466-9940. MLS# 619395

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Good picks Tap one of these three local purveyors for an interior refresh By Caite Hamilton

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Onyx Art Deco bookends, a collection of vintage zoology plates, Brighton Pavilion side tables. Thanks to three new vendors on our local home décor scene, we have more options than ever when it comes to redesign. C-VILLE ABODE

Like a lot of folks, Maria Gall started rethinking her career during the pandemic. With kids at home and an untapped passion for interior design and antiques, she launched Savannah Street (named for the street her dad grew up on), and specializes in a traditional aesthetic. Specifically, she says, “You’ll see a lot of Chinoiserie, mid-century American, and European-influenced designs. Hand-carved detailing, timeless silhouettes, and textured materials are just a few of the characteristics I look for when selecting pieces.” Find Savannah Street on Chairish (chairish. com/shop/savannahstreet) and by appointment in the Ivy Square Shopping Center. Follow @savannah_st_antiques for more info.

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Even as a kid growing up in Southern California, Andrés Hernandez was a perpetual collector. “I’d come home from family camping trips with stones and other bits of nature filling my pockets,” he says. Over time, the collections evolved and, as he puts it, one interest led to another. Influenced by his father’s upholstery business, he fell in love with homewares and design. After moving to Virginia, he suddenly had access to a lot more—antique malls, estate sales, architectural salvage lots—and began collecting new treasures. “My aesthetic is influenced by wabi-sabi, utilitarian, brutalist, and primitive styles,” Hernandez says. “Most of my items are sourced from all throughout central Virginia, and each piece is genuine vintage or earlier.” Follow Worne on Instagram @_worne and in person at Heyday Antiques & Vintage.

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After helping her mom list a collection of vintage owls on Etsy, Otherwise Shoppe owner Marangelie Caballero noticed that the practice felt almost therapeutic. She began to fill the shop with her own finds—classical sculptures, brutalist and mid-century pieces, and artisan-made objects. “Otherwise Shoppe is about saving forgotten pieces and giving them a chance at a new life,” Caballero says. “It’s about showing the value of objects that already exist. In the settings in which I find them— cluttered shops and musty antique stores—they are often overlooked. By presenting them in a lovely way, I hope to inspire people to view antiques differently.” Find Otherwise Shoppe on Etsy at otherwiseshoppe.etsy.com and on Instagram @otherwiseshoppe.

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The zen box

A simple studio space makes an unexpected statement By Carol Diggs

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ou would think a black box the size of a large living room, set amid the rolling hills of Albemarle County would stick out like...well, a huge black box. But Ivy Levien’s studio, perched on a rise with a view towards the Blue Ridge, rides on the land like it’s always been there. A year ago, the only building on the Leviens’ land at Bundoran Farm was a condemned log cabin, which they had restored after buying the site 10 years ago. During the pandemic, Ivy and her husband Jeffrey (who are also partners in real estate development—600 West Main is one of their projects) were happy to have an alternative to their Manhattan home. But after a few months, the onebedroom cabin felt a little small; Ivy, who is also a professional multi-media artist (as Ivy Naté), says, “Even during COVID, I needed to work—it’s my living.” So the couple got Bushman Dreyfus Architects started on designing a new house—and a free-standing studio. Ivy already had a mental image: a simple black structure set into the farm landscape. Lead designer Aga Saulle looked to Scandinavian barns and horse run-in sheds for inspiration, and cre-

ated a simple gable-roofed building that fit both the site and Ivy’s concept. To achieve a clean, minimalist outline, the roof and exterior walls use the same cladding system: panels of vertical wooden slats laid over a black, UV-stable waterproofing membrane. For contractor Mike Ball of Element Construction, that paneling was the job’s biggest challenge. The two-inch by two-inch slats are Cambia-treated poplar (“We’ve used it before, and knew it wouldn’t warp,” Ball says). The vertical slats were laid across horizontal supports and secured from behind, so the screws wouldn’t show on the finished panels. Ball’s subcontractors, Kring Carpentry of Staunton, took pains to assemble the panels precisely and ensure the walls slats aligned perfectly with the roof panels. To achieve the color Ivy wanted (“almost black”), the panels were stained rather than painted. The resulting matte finish helps the building recede into the natural background, and complements the dark-gray metal roofing on the nearby cabin. Landscape architect Anne C-VILLE ABODE

Inside, the studio is one big white working space, with large windows with views of the surrounding pasture on three sides and a walk-in closet along the south wall.

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Pray, who designed a meditative garden terrace for the log cabin, helped integrate the building into its setting. The studio’s interior is one big white working space. Large windows on three sides pull in the surrounding pastures and hills. Along the south wall is an open-ended walk-in closet (storage for Ivy’s art supplies and the found objects she works with) and the entry door, but no windows; south light would be too intense for a studio space, Saulle notes. The building’s precision and purity of line make it feel sculptural—appropriate to Ivy’s work as a three-dimensional artist—and create a calming atmosphere, like the zen garden at its exterior. Ivy says working in this new place has given her a different perspective. “My studio in New Jersey is in an industrial, urban environment. Here, when I come into the studio, I clean, clear the space, get quiet, and listen. That’s the beauty of having a dedicated space.” Ball, who drives by the finished studio every time he comes out to work on site preparation for the Leviens’ new house, says, “I still love to see it.” 27

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lana Woerpel began using her imagination to create beauty and comfort as a little girl, helping her mother sew, paint, and hang wallpaper in the houses her parents bought to renovate. These days, the UVA alum has her own business, Alana’s, Ltd., a prize-winning interior design firm. Creating beautiful rooms has also become her avocation: In her free time, Woerpel buys and decorates houses for resale. It’s a version of the busman’s holiday—“I don’t play tennis or have hobbies,” she says. “I love bringing old houses back to life.” One day a year ago, a friend looking to downsize asked Woerpel along to check out a 1930s house in Charlottesville’s Lewis Mountain area before it came on the market. And, Woerpel recalls, “I fell in love.” When the house was finally listed this spring, and her friend decided she wasn’t interested, Woerpel snapped it up. For the next four months, she lavished her nights, weekends, and design imagination on bringing out the potential she had seen on that first visit. In the process, she discovered this was a place she couldn’t give up. One of the house’s attractions is its setting. The half-acre lot, on a not-quite-two-lane side street, is narrow and steep; the two-story fieldstone house is set back from the road, turned sideways and tucked into the slope. Because the house was uninhabited for months, the naturalistic garden and shrubs have a lush, overgrown look that suggests hidden mysteries, like The Secret Garden. The curved driveway crosses a small stream (“Like a moat!” says Woerpel) and leads up to the basement garage. From the driveway, a stone stairway on the right leads up the slope to the first floor, and a door that used to open into a small—and inadequate—kitchen. The layout there was awkward (kitchen into dining room into office) and cramped. Woerpel, working with her frequent partner Rich Bell Construction, opened up the sight line by aligning the doorways of the three rooms; she repurposed them into a charming entry, leading to a square dining room, with an updated galley kitchen beyond. Off the entry, a stairway gives access to the second floor. Years ago, when a UVA professor lived in the house, that attic space was a student apartment; Woerpel has redesigned it as a second bedroom and guest room (or a potential Airbnb rental, with its own bathroom and laundry). To the left of the driveway, a path circles up past a huge wisteria to the unique feature that first caught Woerpel’s imaginaC ON TIN U ED ON PA G E 35

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tion: a flagstone-paved courtyard. It’s an intimate space, surrounded on three sides by the golden stone walls of the master bedroom suite, the living room with its French doors, and the kitchen. Built into the kitchen wall, and creating an arch over the dining room entry, is an outdoor stone stairway up to the second floor. The south-facing courtyard is screened from the adjoining lot by a bank of azaleas and small trees—and, from some previous owner, a five-foot-tall topiary dog. “I saw this and thought, ‘Am I in the south of France?’” Woerpel says. “Right away, I knew I had to have this house.” That Mediterranean feel is carried through in the interior as well. The living room, with its white-painted wood paneling (all original), is light and open; opposite the French doors is a wall of windows overlooking a border of shrubs and trees. The white walls, ceiling, and cabinets set off the brightly patterned ceramic tiles around the fireplace in both living and dining rooms. The original oak flooring, now aged to a honey-gold, flows throughout all the first-floor rooms. Woerpel kept the living room space essentially unchanged, but she turned its coat closet into a powder room, papered with a single panel of a painted garden scene. She incorporated the small bedroom/nursery into the master bedroom, to create a suite with a walk-in closet and modernized bathroom featuring double sinks, corner shower stall, and gray Carrera marble basketweave flooring.

As Alana’s Ltd., Woerpel has clients whose needs and tastes figure in to the final design. But “in my personal projects, I have an imaginary client in mind,” she says. “I picture who might live in there, and decorate to that.” Often, that means letting the house speak to her. “If you’re unsure about what to put in a room or a space,” she says, “sit and live with it for a while. Eventually you’ll know.” But in the case of this Lewis Mountain home, from the start the imaginary client was Woerpel herself. She was so sure she wanted the house that she began ordering kitchen cabinets even before the sale closed. Woerpel’s style uses warm neutral colors, large comfortable furniture with simple lines, luxurious fabrics, distressed or painted wood, and big abstract wall art to create spaces that are airy without being overwhelming, calm and inviting, ready to live in. That style, married to this house’s features—the setting, the stone, the courtyard, the sense of snug comfort and sunlight—reinforces the intimate charm that attracted Woerpel from the beginning. As each room came together, the décor was a combination of furnishings Woerpel has gathered from her interior designer “warehouse” and her own personal pieces—including several large black-and-white charcoal sketches produced by her oldest son, now a professional artist. “When you use things with a history, they have a patina,” she says. “It gives the house a soul.” It’s clear this house has captured hers. 35

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