Abode | Summer 2022 by C-VILLE Weekly

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In with the old A young couple takes on a historic Locust Avenue home

STAY A LITTLE A tiny guest house—barn-style FEELING BLUE Spring has sprung in this bedroom HOUSESTORY Preserving a Civil War-era home

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One of Virginia’s preeminent estates, Verulam is nestled on 503 acres in the breathtaking foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, conveniently located just 4 miles from the University of Virginia and modern amenities of Charlottesville. The Classical Revival manor, offers an easy elegance with both formal and informal spaces that flow seamlessly to bucolic grounds, formal Charles Gillette designed gardens and handsome pool complex. Additional amenities include a charming guest house and restored dairy barn turned grand event venue. The farm abuts 1,000+ additional acres of protected land including the Ragged Mountain Reservoir Natural Area. JU ST IN H. W I L E Y | 4 3 4 9 8 1 5 5 2 8 PE T E R A . W I L E Y | 4 3 4 4 2 2 2 0 9 0

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A storied, 111-acre farm with brick manor home offering complete privacy, natural beauty and grand Blue Ridge views. This rare offering sits on the edge of Crozet with easy access to all its amenities. The 7,700 square foot is well-sited on the back of the property offering complete privacy and expansive mountain views to the West. The home offers 10 ft ceilings, well-proportioned rooms, a large family room/kitchen, wide plank floors, and heart pine millwork and doors. An excellent candidate for conservation easement. PE T E R A . W I L E Y | 4 3 4 4 2 2 2 0 9 0

MLS 627707

Privacy, mountain views and long river frontage set the stage for this impressive residence. A meticulously restored colonial era home was enlarged with a custom 7,000+ SQ FT addition creating a one-of-a-kind offering, perfect as a main residence, family retreat or inn. Additional amenities include a restored bank barn, cabin, and pool. Property has incredible Blue Ridge views and long frontage on the Roach River. PETER A. WILEY

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140 beautiful acres, very private, yet conveniently located to both towns of Gordonsville, and Orange. This parcel consist of 35 acres in pasture, with numerous great building sites, and 105 wooded acres, which surrounds the open land. The parcel has numerous springs that flow into the White Oak Creek, which bisects the property, and there is natural area suitable for constructing a pond. Property is further enhanced by a recently updated driveway, long frontage on Mallory's Ford Road, and a deeded access out to Mountain Tract Road. J U ST I N H . W I L E Y

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First time ever on the open market, two exceptional parcels with incredible views over Charlottesville and layered Blue Ridge Mountains beyond. These private parcels, perched on the western slope of the Southwest Mountains, offer complete seclusion yet are only 15 minutes from downtown Charlottesville, its restaurants and amenities and UVA. Perfect as a family compound or build on one and sell the other. Please do not drive on property without an appointment. PETER A. WILEY | 434 422 2090

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PROSPECT HILL

$1,950,000 |

MLS 6 18 16 6

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. P E T E R A . W I L E Y | 4 3 4 4 2 2 2 0 90

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Beautifully constructed 2-story custom home containing superior materials and quality workmanship. Idyllic wooded setting overlooking pond with enormous privacy on 76 acres. Over 6,400 sf, 4 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, spacious rooms, tall ceilings, 7 fireplaces, and numerous windows providing an abundance of light and airy feeling. Under conservation easement with the VOF. MLS#628772 $2,950,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

GREENFIELDS FARM

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53-acre country estate with custom-designed home, wonderful outdoor spaces, 1,800 sf barn, 2-acre lake, Blue Ridge views, within 15 miles of Charlottesville. MLS#617485 $3,965,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863 greyoaksfarmva.com

RIVANDALE FARM

An oasis of tranquility and fine country living on 177 ac. estate in Somerset. Classic 4-BR home, completely updated. Less than 20 min. to CHO airport. Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 MLS#626933 $3,795,000 rivandaleva.com

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29 acres fronting Blenheim Rd. a small agricultural and residential subdivision with CCR’s, but NO HOA. 2 buildable lots, with an historic red barn and silo, and an 8-stall stable. MLS#624834 $495,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

ROUND HILL

120-acre Albemarle County estate featuring a 5 bedroom manor home with magnificent panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Rivanna Reservoir frontage. MLS#625402 $5,450,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863

WOOD’S END

Striking residence on 5+ acres in the heart of Keswick. Architecturally-designed with numerous high-end custom features. One-level living minutes from the world-class Keswick Hall. MLS#626196 C. Dammann, 434.981.1250

STONY POINTE

A spacious and meticulously maintained 4 bedroom, 5.5 bath Manor home on 57 acres of tranquility, and beautiful panoramic mountain views 6 miles from Charlottesville. MLS#625588 $2,850,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076

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Extraordinarily charming 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, circa 1920’s city bungalow in the highly coveted and desired neighborhood of Lewis Mountain - just steps from the University of Virginia, Scott Stadium, medical center, shopping, and other city amenities! This unique residence has been recently renovated and is sure to impress. MLS#628708 $947,000 Will Faulconer, 434.987.9455

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Completely renovated and expanded With over 8600 sf. Excellent attention to detail, craftsmanship and design throughout. Easily walkable to the Farmington Country Club. MLS#627583 $6,650,000 Tim Michel, 434.960.1124

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Alan and Bryant Taylor noticed the house on Locust Avenue long before they bought it—they were drawn to its spacious green yard and, most of all, they love a project. They put in a bid before even seeing the interior and, since then, have gone to work making it perfect for their small family of three.

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previous owner had started to create an apartment there—pouring a concrete floor, sealing the walls, putting up drywall, and hanging electrical wiring from the ceiling—but the space was still a dank, dark disaster. The current owners, seeing the value of a basement apartment, resolved to do it right. The wiring, heating and water pipes (the house’s original water system was gravity-run) were concealed in the walls and ceiling. Most of the window openings had been covered up with plexiglas or plywood; the original windows were removed, cleaned, and repainted, then reassembled and reinstalled. The bricked-up fireplaces were reopened and reconstructed. All the wall sealant was removed so the brick could be cleaned, prepared for new mortar, and repointed. Most of the contractors he asked for estimates kept talking about sealant and drywall, the owner says. “Dominion came in and said, ‘We can fix this basement.’ And they did.” The first rule in working on historic masonry, says Ondrick (who has worked on more than 1,800 historic buildings in his 30-year C-VILLE ABODE

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career) is “don’t introduce any modern materials. Modern cement mortar is too strong—it sets up too quick, it won’t let the water out of the brick [to bond with the mortar].” And sealant? “You don’t want to seal your structure up—these old buildings need to breathe.” Ondrick mixes mortar specific to each particular building, using only lime and sand. Ondrick is just one of the “old house-lovers” who has put his skills into this restoration. “One of the best things about doing this house,” says the owner, “has been the people you meet.” To re-create the basement fireplaces’ wooden mantels, Bruce Courson—who with his wife Virginia Robinson owns Blue Ox Custom Builders in Mineral—copied the one remaining original in the first-floor parlor. Blue Ox also made the custom cupboards and cabinets in the basement stair hall, as well as the replica moldings and base-

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ith the real estate market still red hot, you may have noticed a new trend on Instagram: buyers selling their houses fully furnished. They don’t have to pay to pack up and haul all their worldly goods elsewhere, and sellers get a custom-decorated house with minimal unpacking. But before you decide to jump on this trend, consider two crucial words of advice: Don’t, maybe? For one thing, selling your house with all its furnishings might not be as common as the internet makes it look, especially in our area. “On rare occasions, a seller might know that a certain set or furniture piece won’t fit into their new place, and [offer it] for sale to the buyer or others,” says Nest Realty’s Jessica Russo. “This is more likely happen if it is a second home or vacation rental, like a Wintergreen place.” Luxury homes and their high-end designer furniture, or getaway homes in vacation spots, are most likely to sell with their furnishings. In the former case, buyers might not want to throw out a fancy decorator’s work, especially if they like the overall look and mood the furnishings create. In the latter, getting a vacation spot fully furnished saves time and trouble for folks who want to start enjoying their new home away from home as soon as possible. But aside from those very specific cases, “I don’t believe offering the furnishing with the home makes the sale more appealing,” Russo says—and she wouldn’t advise her clients to try it. Nor does bundling furnishings with the home they occupy tend to offer the kind of financial windfall sellers might be imagining. Most buyers don’t want a home prefilled with someone else’s furniture. And even if they do, the highly personal nature of furnishings means they might not want yours. No matter how elegantly you’ve framed and lit it, your collection of, say, blackvelvet paintings of cats dressed as Elvis impersonators might actually drive potential buyers away. Throwing in furnishings won’t bump up the value of your house, either. Banks only issue

Offering to sell your home with its furnishings doesn't necessarily make it more appealing, says Nest Realty's Jessica Russo.

mortgages for land and buildings, so buyers can’t tuck the additional cost of furnishings into their home loan. Potential sellers will have to negotiate a separate, special contract for the furniture itself, and report the money they make as income to the IRS. And while it’s relatively easy to guess a home’s worth by looking at its appraisal price and the sale amounts for nearby, similar homes, furniture doesn’t work that way. Even the fanciest, trendiest pieces start losing value the instant you buy them. Expect to get back only a fraction of what you paid for that leather sofa or mahogany bed. Potential sellers need to go online and

search item-by-item for reasonable pricing for the furniture they want to sell, and those furnishings need to be in good condition. (If you have small children in your house, well, good luck with that.) Even if you do find an interested buyer, you may need to be ready to slash your asking price for furniture to seal the deal. If all these hurdles don’t keep you from trying to sell your furniture alongside your home, Russo advises you try it only if your gorgeous furniture in great shape has been carefully staged and photographed for maximum impact. Or maybe just resign yourself to the reality of a moving van, packing tape, and lots of cardboard boxes. 19

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The two main structures are linked by a landscaped patio and covered porch.

or an artist moving to Charlottesville from the West Coast, dashed urban hopes led to a near-downtown dream renovation. The homeowner quickly learned the loft-style living and working space she wanted wasn’t currently available, but she says she got lucky. She found a single-family home on Lexington Ave-

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nue that had already undergone a modern renovation and fit her minimalist style. So what would it take to make the place her own? Only an ambitious three-phase project, working closely with Alloy Workshop, to first make the main living space move-in ready, then turn a halfhearted garage structure into an additional

dwelling unit and artist’s workshop, and finally a return to the main house to modernize the kitchen and create a more open-concept floor plan. “Working with others helps you tell a story you wouldn’t tell yourself,” Alloy Workshop’s Dan Zimmerman says. “There is an efficiency about the new space.” 21

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The central studio space created during the second phase of the project features counter-to-ceiling cabinets to hide art supplies, a massive central desk raised to standing height, and three automated skylights on the space’s north side to avoid direct sunlight.

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Why break a renovation project into three phases? For Zimmerman and his new client, it was all about continuous livability. The bulk of the work would be in phase 2, but the first phase was imperative to bring the home up to the new owner’s standards before move-in. That meant renovating a bathroom and bedroom and turning another bedroom into a home office. According to the homeowner and Zimmerman, phase 1 was all about the details—a panel in the bedroom bookshelves that slides down to reveal an otherwise hidden television, matching the new paneling to the existing fireplace style, adding a new window and door to close off the space. Adding storage and using space effectively was also critical. “Under the stairs, it was all open,” Zimmerman says. “We created some muchneeded storage, working around the return deep under the stairway. This might not jump out, but it was one of the more valuable things we did in a day-to-day sense.”

The second project stage required crafting three structures, all facing the street behind Lexington: a fully appointed guest apartment beneath an exhaustively designed art studio and astride an economical carport. The studio is the project’s Mona Lisa. Sitting on a 480-square-footprint, the studio opens from a stairway leading away from the home on a pithy office space, separated from the main artroom by a half bath. The central studio space features details developed through collaboration between an

obsessive artist and attentive architect. “Our secret is to ask questions,” Zimmerman says. “It is not to pretend like we know best, but instead ask questions of our end users. Then, we mix that with our experience and say, ‘Oh, that reminds me of this.’” Clever details include counter-to-ceiling cabinets, which neatly hide art supplies, a massive central desk raised to standing height, homasote siding functioning as both bulletin board and soundproofing, three automated skylights on the space’s north side to avoid direct sunlight, custom flat drawers for paper-

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Outside, with the help of a landscape architect, Alloy and the homeowner completed an extensive landscape project that was completed nearly a year after phase three concluded.

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based artwork, and articulating light fixtures suspended from the ceiling. “You can move them so you can put the light exactly where you need it,” Zimmerman says. Beneath the studio on the same footprint is an ADU suited for visiting youngsters and oldsters—namely the homeowner’s parents. It features a small kitchen, living/dining area, bathroom, and private bedroom. The neighboring carport features a modern gate design to enclose the property, and the building’s exterior is intended to match the main home, giving the impression that both structures were built at the same time. “Our driving goal was to make it look like it was always supposed to be there,” Zimmerman says.

This rendering illustrates the second phase of the project, a fully appointed guest apartment beneath an art studio for the homeowner.

can just see that is the way it should be,” Zimmerman says. “Our drive was not to do things that weren’t useful.” Landscaping was a significant part of the project, as well, and the team completed an extensive outdoor project about a year after phase 3 concluded. Alloy and the homeowner contracted with a landscape architect with whom they were both familiar, and the result was a patio and backyard that seamlessly linked the main home and new structure. “We knew that was coming, so we did everything else with that in mind,” the homeowner says. “We initially wanted a slightly different design—a covered walkway from the garage to the house—and couldn’t do it, but in the end, I think it actually turned out better.” Alloy and the homeowner built as much under roof as is allowed by local regulations, but the goal was always to do so “tastefully.” “Going into it, I didn’t know what my style was, really,” the homeowner says. “But I am detail-oriented, and I am a pretty highly organized person. It all has a practical orientation.” 23

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Downsizing empty nesters opt for tiny house-style guest space By Shea Gibbs

A modern nod to a barn, this tiny house guest suite is 320 square feet—including its lofted sleeping area.

he tiny house craze may have tempered a touch, but in the right application, downscale domiciles can still bring it big time. Crozet-based John and Lori O’Connor contracted with Charlottesville Area Builders to construct a new farmhouse several years ago. They didn’t plan to add a guest house but came to the idea as an afterthought during construction. The empty nesters were downsizing their living quarters by roughly half but realized they’d like some additional space for their two college-aged children when they came home to visit. The O’Connors’ new home sat on eight acres, so space wasn’t a constraint in dreaming up their guest house. But after looking at several design schemes for the additional room, they settled

on a tiny house-style abode that would look much like a barn on their rural property. “They were building some brand new homes behind our old house, and one was a white, modern farmhouse,” John says. “They had an attached garage and painted it red. It looked a little strange, but I ended up loving it.” The couple settled on a similar contrasted combination for their own new build. They even knocked on the door of the homeowners behind their previous house to learn the exact color red that would make their guest space pop (it was called caliente). In addition to striking the O’Connors’ fancy, tiny house styling served several purposes for the guest house. The space, which is about 320 square feet including its lofted sleeping area, takes up

only a 10x22-foot area and has everything the couples’ grown children—or vacation renters— might need in a single-room efficiency: a kitchen with a hotplate and microwave (ovens are out of code), bathroom with shower, toilet, and vanity, living room area, loft, tankless hot water heater, and mini-split heating and cooling element. Critically, the barn-shaped structure, positioned about 50 feet from the main house, is fronted by a window wall to maximize the mountain view that in part called the O’Connors to their new home in the first place. The windows include a sliding glass door for easy entry and a trapezoidal pane positioned above, according to Mike and Isobel Sadler of Charlottesville Area Builders. “We were influenced by the tiny house movement, but at the same time, we wanted it to complement the modern farmhouse,” Isobel says. “It’s kind of a modern nod to a barn. That’s where you get that beautiful bright red color and the black metal roof and the expansive front windows.” The tiny house’s bedroom loft frees up the full 220 downstairs square feet for living, the structure’s plumbing is tied to the main farmhouse’s septic system, and the mini-split requires no ductwork. “You are at 14 feet at the peak in the main space, and that really adds volume to the room,” Mike says. “You think, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s going to be very crowded.’ But even now that they have it furnished, it feels spacious. It was very exciting and fun for us to maximize the space.” Sadler says the key to the styling was simple: Make everything guests might need a little smaller. Smaller shower, smaller vanity, smaller kitchen sink. They used the same matte black plumbing fixtures featured in the main house and opted for luxury vinyl tile flooring that would be resistant to traffic, and shiplapped the exterior. The O’Connors say they’ve been happy with the results, as have their kids. “They love staying here,” John says. “They basically take turns living in there.”

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Charlottesville’s real estate market is tighter than ever By Ben Hitchcock

harlottesville is getting more expensive, and fast. In the fourth quarter of 2017, the median sales price for a home in the Charlottesville area was $286,000. In the fourth quarter of 2021, the median sales price for the region was $369,000—a 29 percent increase in just four years. Those rising prices affect everyone in the city, whether or not you’re buying or selling a home. Increased sale prices drive up the value of neighboring homes, which in turn increases the amount homeowners owe in real estate taxes. In January, the city announced that average residential property assessments rose 11.69 percent from last year to this year. Meanwhile, seeking to generate revenue for major projects like a $76-million proposed renovation of Buford Middle School, the City of Charlottesville considered raising the real estate tax from the current 95 cents per $100 of assessed home value to $1.05. But after reviewing alternative funding options for the school project, city councilors decided a 10-cent increase 30

wasn’t necessary, and on April 12, City Council unanimously voted to raise the real estate tax rate by 1 cent, meaning homeowners will pay 96 cents per $100 of assessed value. When considering the 10-cent increase, Councilor Michael Payne said, “There are lots of wealthier people in Charlottesville who can afford it, but there’s also definitely a lot of people who it’s going to be a real hit for.” Real estate assessments are entirely based on the real estate market, says City Assessor Jeff Davis. “We witnessed, this year, a very strong real estate market,” Davis says, and the increased assessments reflect the increased sale prices of homes in the city over the last year. From 2020 to 2021, residential property assessments rose 3.8 percent, compared to the 11.69 percent increase from 2021 to 2022. “We have the city broken up into neighborhoods, and we look at these neighborhoods and determine from the sales where assessments need to change,” Davis says. Neighborhoods where as-

sessments rose at particularly sharp rates include Orangedale—comprised of Orangedale Avenue and neighboring streets, on the city’s map—which saw assessments jump 24 percent. Rose Hill, the neighborhood between Burley Middle School and Preston Avenue, and University/Maury, which encompasses Jefferson Park Avenue and its smaller offshoots, each saw 18 percent increases. “It’s like any other product,” says Pam Dent, president of the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. “Supply and demand is going to result in rising prices…The market has been really strong, and we’ve had extremely low inventory.” It’s not just a Charlottesville phenomenon. Assessments jumped in Albemarle County, too. The county, which taxes real estate at 85.4 cents per $100 of assessed value, saw residential real estate assessments rise by 8.4 percent this year. Around the country, the median home sale price has risen 21 percent since the end of 2017. The tight market “hasn’t happened overnight,” says Dent. The 2008 recession slowed new construction, just as Charlottesville was becoming an even more popular place to live, she says. Rising interest rates encouraged people to stay put, and the onset of the pandemic “put it all on steroids,” as supply chain issues disrupted construction further. “You’ve got the same dynamics that have been creating the affordable housing crisis just accelerating,” says Payne. CAAR’s fourth quarter report for 2021 provides more detailed data on the lack of new homes for sale. “In the CAAR footprint, there were 436 active listings in the region at the end of the fourth quarter, which is 213 fewer active C-VILLE ABODE

listings than a year ago, a Orangedale, Rose Hill, and University/Maury days. In the fourth quarter decline of 33%,” the re- are three neighborhoods that saw particularly of 2021, the average time sharp increases in residential real estate port states. “The Charlotwas just 31 days. assessments this year. EZE AMOS tesville region remains A few days after the year’s one of the tightest housnew assessment data was published, City Council took the first steps toing markets in the state. Inventory is now just a ward raising the real estate tax. The councilors third of what it was four years ago.” The average time a house spends on the have not yet decided how much to raise the rate, market has fallen significantly over the last few if at all, but in order to meet their ambitious years as well. In the fourth quarter of 2017, capital improvement goals, council will need houses stayed on the market an average of 79 new sources of income.

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End of fourth quarter median sale price, Charlottesville area (2017-21)

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Payne says improving the city’s real estate tax relief program is one crucial way to ease the pressure caused by increased assessments and potential new taxes. “We don’t have any plan to make our real estate tax relief programs robust enough to prevent harm to those who can’t afford this,” he says. Currently, those with homes assessed at $375,000 or below can qualify for real estate tax relief. Expanding that program requires an amendment to pass through the Virginia General Assembly. Dent says CAAR does not take a position on real estate tax increases either way, but posits that a tax rate increase will have knock-on effects. “Renters will see increases in their leases based on tax increases, and consumers will see increased costs for services and labor from increased overhead.” Payne also says it’s important that the city consider creating other forms of revenue beyond raising taxes, and thinks looking to the general assembly and UVA could be crucial. With so much turnover in the city’s management, longrange planning has been difficult. Creating revenue “without putting the squeeze on working class people in the city” is “not an easy task, and it’s not going to happen in one budget cycle,” says Payne, “but one of the realities we have to confront is we haven’t done nearly enough long-range strategic planning.” For the moment, “it’s the strongest seller’s market that I’ve ever seen,” Dent says. This story originally ran in C-VILLE Weekly. 31

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ver the last few years, Beth Ann Kallen, co-owner of home furnishing and interior design firm Folly, has been helping a client redecorate the family’s home in Blandemar Farm Estates room by room. For the latest project, the master bedroom, Kallen (a mother of three) knew just what the mother of four needed: “I wanted her to have a refuge.” Kallen’s design process always starts with a fabric. This time, her jumping-off point was a Sanderson floral in blues and green, with daisies and butterflies providing yellow accents. “Just a lovely palette,” says Kallen. “I like bringing in colors from nature, and I’ve been working with this client for years—I know she loves blue.” The fabric became drapes for the windows on three sides of the room, set off against walls in a warm white. The Matouk Schumacher bed linen (white with a blueand-green geometric trim) is keyed to the drapes’ colors, with a cadet blue wool on the headboard as a darker

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y husband and I used to take walks along Locust Avenue, and we just adored this one old house,” says Bryant Taylor. “It had an amazing yard, with lots of green space—and both of us love a project.” For the Taylors, “project” is an understatement: Alan is co-founder and president of Riverbend Development, and Bryant works for Studio Figure, an architectural and interior design firm. In spring 2020, the Taylors’ Locust Avenue dream house came on the market—and the couple put a bid in before they had even seen the inside. There was no doubt the house needed work. Built in 1903, its structure was still sound and many historic details were still there, but a renovation about a decade ago had left issues. An extension had been added on the back of the house to create a kitchen and master bedroom suite, but a remnant of the house’s original exterior wall cut the galley kitchen off from the adjoining family room. Still, the rooms were spacious, with large windows, the exterior was in good shape, and the unfinished attic could be

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turned into a great playroom for their daughter and her friends. And then there was that huge back yard… “We dreamed of making it the exact home we wanted,” Bryant recalls. And living in a townhouse with a toddler and three dogs was getting a little cramped. So the Taylors took on this new project. The major challenge was taking out the brick-bearing wall between the kitchen and the family room and installing a huge I-beam to carry the load. Alan says Bryant acted as general contractor for most of the renovation work, but for this particular task the couple brought in Ace Contracting. In updating the kitchen, they kept the appliances installed in the earlier renovation, but replaced the counters and lighting to create a unified look for the newly joined spaces. Much of the rest of the work needed was to be expected in renovating an older home. The entire interior needed repainting (which meant removing some pretty dated wallpaper in places) and all of the bathrooms needed upgrading with new fixtures and tile. The Taylors

wanted hardwood floors, which meant replacing much of the heart pine flooring on the first floor. Luckily, the upstairs flooring only needed to be stripped and clear-coated. All the lighting was replaced (“These are all LED now,” Alan points out), even the chandeliers that the Taylors hoped were period but turned out to be plastic (“from Lowe’s,” he notes with disappointment.) These tasks brought both Bryant’s organizational skills and her design instincts into play. While she hadn’t trained in interior design, Bryant had worked closely with Jeannette Andamasaris, principal partner and director of interior design at Studio Figure, on the Taylors’ previous home, a townhouse on C&O Row. Working together regularly “had given us a shared language,” says Andamasaris—so much so that Bryant is now on staff at the firm. “Bryant wanted to bring in more color while keeping the [historic] feel” of the house, Andamasaris recalls. Most of the house’s original touches—two leaded windows, the CONTINUED ON PAGE 40

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decorative trim, glass-fronted built-in cupboards in the dining room, pocket doors between the dining room and the front parlor (now a den/music room) with its wall of built-in shelves—remain. But Bryant’s eclectic design style gives the interior a contemporary and whimsical feel. The original large windows on the northfacing façade, and more large windows added to the house’s east and south sides in the earlier renovation, provide lots of natural light. That light, along with high ceilings and the newly refinished hardwood floors, allowed Bryant to use dark, high-intensity colors on the walls—a warm grayish teal in the dining room, and matte black in the den/music room—without making the spaces feel closedin. The kitchen/dining/family room space, on the other hand, is all windows and white walls, with contrast provided by the black I-beam across the ceiling, the black spindle dining chairs, and the galley’s black-and-white Cambia quartz counters. Those zebra-striped counters are one of Bryant’s signature touches, because she’s made sure there’s a little wildlife in every room, whether it’s the antler centerpiece on the dining table, the oryx head over the den’s fireplace, the longhorn skull in the master bedroom (Alan is a University of Texas grad), or the mounted whitetail deer’s rump in the bathroom. There’s even an animal’s head over their daughter’s bed—it’s a pastel unicorn, as befits a 5-year-old girl. “We did a lot of funky stuff,” Bryant admits. But it was all part of making this dream house into their unique dream home. The den has plump cushioned chairs with moveable arms, so Alan can more comfortably play guitar with his music buddies. The attic was made into the perfect child’s play space—indestructible carpet tiles, a pull-down screen and a popcorn popper for movie night, a kitchenette for snack supplies, built-in alcove beds for sleepovers. “We want this to be a place where the kids want to come, and their parents know we’re here,” says Bryant. To keep that home entertainment vibe going, the couple is adding a pool and pavilion in their large backyard for family and friends. And “both our parents live far away,” Bryant notes, so construction is already underway to replace the tiny garage and small outbuilding with a two-car garage-cumguest house. All of which still leaves plenty of open space for the kid-sized moveable soccer goal, all the play gear, and the coop for the free-range chickens. After all, the Taylors love a project. 40

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hey may have moved into their five-bedroom home on a frigid day the week before New Years Eve in 2017, but the Radifera family tries to make sure it feels warm and cozy year-round. “We were looking for a larger home because we own a business and need space for a home office,” says Lauren Clare, who manages Robert Radifera Photography. “Plus we wanted to have adequate space for our parents if they wanted to stay with us for extended periods of time.” The couple couldn’t have known that, shortly after moving in, Lauren would be diagnosed with a (benign) brain tumor, requiring two surgeries and a lengthy recovery time. The extra space for family was so valuable. Since recovering, they’ve put their home and land south of town (one acre that abuts a wooded ravine and hiking trails, and that affords views 46

of Carter Mountain) to good use: They joke that Robert hosts his own live cooking show for guests from the large kitchen (“the unanimous answer to the most used room in the house,” Lauren says), and for the past few summers, the family of four has hosted 50+ folks on their front lawn to watch Fourth of July fireworks. Home, Lauren says, is a place to build memories and “talk about our days at dinner. It’s a place we share with our friends and family and hope that all who enter feel welcomed and loved.” When their oldest daughter leaves for college in the fall, Lauren admits the house will be a little quieter and a little emptier, but she’s still optimistic. “I hope that it will always be a place the kids feel comfortable bringing their friends for fun and good food.” C-VILLE ABODE

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