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All together now Being green Creative living A mismatched kitchen’s cohesive upgrade

In Free Union, a DIY landscape flourishes

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Less isn’t more Where are all the local tiny houses?

Modern country A Free Union farmhouse takes a European form

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Japanese maple, katsura and loblolly pine are just a few of the highlights of this month’s featured landscape, Waterperry Farm. Homeowner Katherine Kane estimates that, since buying the property in 1990, she and her staff have planted thousands of trees. Read more on page 37.

Blueprint 13 Architect Bob Moje’s design philosophy, a case for tiny houses in Charlottesville, local handmade stools and more.

Real Estate 51 An inventor’s 1981 house is a worthwhile challenge.

Picture Window 54 A change of season, heading west.

Cover photo by Virginia Hamrick.

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Wanting to preserve the look of a historic farmhouse without the upkeep of an older home, these homeowners in Free Union turned to 2H Design/Builders, who combined a stucco exterior with traditional touches like a standing-seam metal roof and plenty of porch space.

Prior to buying a farm with her husband in 1990, Katherine Kane had done very little gardening, but that didn’t stop her from creating a welcoming eight-acre landscape— traditional “rooms” of roses, rhododendrons and azaleas (among many others).

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Longtime friends (and clients) of architect Karen Turner, Joel and Betty Loving knew they’d want her to handle the kitchen remodel of their 1860 farmhouse.

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Archaeology Open House October is Virginia Archaeology Month, and Monticello is celebrating by opening its archaeology department. Participants will see exhibits on recent discoveries in the field and the lab, as well as take a walking tour of the vanished Monticello Plantation landscape. Free, 10am-4pm (walking tours leave the Woodland Pavilion at 11am, 1pm and 3pm). monticello.org

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Swannanoa Palace Open House Major James Dooley, an executive with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, completed construction of the $2 million Swannanoa in 1912. Dooley, who owned the Maymont estate in Richmond, built this 52-room marble palace for his wife, Sally May. Now stands an opportunity to look at this tabernacle of love. For those who love grand gestures, this is one for the books. Free, 11:15am-5:30pm. 497 Swannanoa Lane, Afton. (540) 942-5201.

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Among Bob Moje’s projects are (clockwise from top) the Buckingham County Primary and Elementary Schools, for which VMDO modernized the campus to suit the growing concern of student health and well-being; the renovation of historic John Handley High School in Winchester, Virginia; and UVA’s John Paul Jones Arena, a 15,000-seat venue.

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“The next piece of that is to get more of the populace to be aware of our built environment,” he says, “and become more involved in discussing— and ultimately understanding—the potential for making all of our lives better.”—Caite White

Why architecture? Architecture —or at least good architecture—has the power to help change the condition of all living things for the better. It is a lasting contribution (relative to other ways one can spend their work life). And it provides a neverending set of challenges and opportunities. There are no right answers, but there are an infinite series of better answers.

What was your life like as a child and how did it lead you to design? I grew up in New Jersey just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City, in a Bob Moje

small town that had exactly one building of any architectural quality—an old church built in the 1600s. In middle school, I was placed in a mechanical drawing class. I found I was pretty good at that, so I signed up for it in high school and completed all four years of courses in two years.

My mother suggested I go talk to the one architect in town and he agreed to talk to me about what an architect does. I asked him for a job and he said no three times before he finally said I could come in for an hour, two afternoons after school. The second week, it was three afternoons. The next week, it was every day. I was 15 and got paid $1.25 an hour. That was in 1970 and I was a sophomore in high school.

By the time I was a senior, I was done with school at 11am and went straight to work—at least 30 hours a week. I worked there through high RON PARIS

e’re all affected by design. A mediocre building, says VMDO founding principal Bob Moje, degrades the world we all share.

“Every act of building is embedded with enormous potential to make a difference—resources are leveraged or wasted, the human condition is enhanced or too often harmed in countless ways, which is tragic when you see how a really good building can have so many positive impacts on people,” he says.

As the lead on all of VMDO’s public K-12 projects, he spends much time researching ways to make each design more effective, like a recent project with Buckingham County Schools to transform the process of healthier eating. “That may surprise people,” he says, “but we have been involved with a number of research efforts looking at ways that our built environments can help.”

Ultimately, it’s a group effort, and Moje says there are more ways to make the world better than there are people to do it.

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found that John Glenn had once lived across the street and trained for his space missions by running around the middle school. The name of our new school will be Discovery Elementary School and is themed around the voyage of discovery. Discovery was the name of the space shuttle that Glenn rode on his last trip into outer space.

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The renovation of Fauquier High School in Warrenton, Virginia, required the replacement of a 1964 classroom building with a four-story addition that provides a range of flexible, modern learning spaces.

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school and summers in college and briefly after finishing college until VMDO got going. We’re now entering our 40th year. (It’s a pretty boring employment history.)

Tell us about your college studio experience.

Was there a standout teacher who had a lasting impact on you? I was very fortunate to find UVA’s school of architecture. I arrived in 1972 shortly after coeducation and the second full year of its transition from a five-year program to a four-two program (four-year undergraduate non-professional degree and a two-year professional degree). That has proven to have been a great circumstance for me.

Bob Vickery, who was the chairman of the undergraduate program and the person that designed the four-two program, was the most important teacher I had, although I didn’t have him for design until late in graduate school. He taught the introductory class “Concepts in Architecture,” which framed my thinking about architecture. In that course, he asked the question, “What does it mean to make a mark upon the land?” That question, for me, has gotten more profound over time and is still at the heart of everything that I do.

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How does the site or sense of place inform architecture for you? It is critical and one of the great failings of modern architecture and the so-called international style. I say that because that was used as a way of promoting one style as the answer for any situation. Fortunately, with time, there has been much work in re-exploring regionalism, and the importance of design responding to its particular place and site. The place where we build is imbued with climate, geology, history, ecologies and cultural uniqueness and it is part of a fabric of interconnected infrastructure, of transportation, utilities and countless other qualities that are all pieces and factors that good design solutions ought to be taking into consideration. Working with nature instead of trying to overcome it is a value that we need to all be focused on.

We start all of our K-12 projects with research into the site and place, trying to uncover the qualities of that which we can use to further the mission of the project. An example of that would be an elementary school we are about to open in Arlington, which, because of growth and crowding and lack of land, is being built on the site of an existing middle school, so two schools on one site. It appears to be a generic suburban neighborhood, but we researched the land and

school in Arlington is designed to be a net zero school, which means it will use very little energy and at the same time produce more energy than the building uses through a photovoltaic array on its roof. Even under current utility rates, the cost of all of that is projected to be cash positive in a very short time and, if rates go up, will be making the school system money even sooner.

We have projects at both Charlottesville High School and Western Albemarle. We have a preschool and a new elementary school in Harrisonburg that we are excited about and are just putting the research group together to look at some exciting new developments in lighting that we think have both health and learning benefits.

We are working with the Miller School to plan for their future campus and building needs. And we are just starting on a new high school for New Orleans as that city and school system continue to recover and build back from the Katrina disaster. That will be our third project there.

How would you assess the state of architecture in our region? Getting better all of the time. This region is fortunate to have many talented architects—perhaps the highest per capita of most anywhere in this country. That may be seen as a problem by some—is there enough work for all of the architects here? I think we all need to rethink our definition or how we think about what architecture is. It’s a field that has the potential to make almost anything better by thinking better about what something can be.

Stanford has gotten publicity over their “D School,” which is not a school at all but a nondegree place within the university where faculty and students apply to spend time problem solving with “design thinking.” Architects have been doing this forever. Perhaps we need simply to be applying our talents and skills more broadly.

I believe there are more ways to make the world better than there are talented people to do it. The next piece of that is to get more of the populace to be more aware of our built environment and become more involved in discussing and ultimately understanding the potential for making all of our lives better.

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The new beer garden at Devils Backbone meant making a risky move—positioning parking further from the restaurant. Says architect David Anhold, “It was getting the cars out of the way—connect the restaurant to the beer garden to the mountains, and give the best spots to the people.”

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evils Backbone has been a mainstay of the local brewery scene since 2008. With its imposing building and its beautiful Nelson County site, it’s highly visible to Wintergreen-bound visitors, and hosting outdoor events like The Festy Experience (this year: October 9-11) has put it on the regional map. Says Heidi Crandall, who founded the business with her husband, Steve, the time had come to make the five-acre landscape around the brewery more appealing. “It was just an open area,” she says. “We wanted to create an environment that was more conducive to events.”

The Crandalls’ travels to European biergartens and Western U.S. brewpubs provided plenty of inspiration. They relayed to landscape architect David Anhold their vision of a pleasant place for visitors to take in beer, food and views. Whereas “most traditional beer gardens are a grove of trees and tables—somewhat simple and austere from a design standpoint”—this was, he says, “a complex program.”

There would be an outdoor bar, a separate area where food could be cooked on a wood-fired

grill, multiple kinds of seating and a reconstructed train depot to be used for private events. And all of this needed to coexist with the amphitheater that’s been on the property since the brewery opened. The Crandalls wanted open space for families to play and, of course, parking to serve all of it.

There are no large trees on the site, so Anhold advocated an emphasis on native grasses and shrubs. “We were bringing the garden to the beer garden,” he says. “It’s a Nelson County interpretation of a traditional beer garden.”

Anhold’s scheme involved a bold move: taking the parking further away from the restaurant.

“It was getting the cars out of the way—connect the restaurant to the beer garden to the mountains, and give the best spots to the people,” he says. The new outdoor seating areas now soak in the Three Ridges Wilderness views from what used to be the parking lot.

From the front door of the restaurant, a walkway leads straight to the firepit, the project’s crucial focal point. “How do you organize all the

elements?” says Anhold. “The firepit pulls it all together.” He credits Steve Crandall with the decision to burn wood instead of gas. “You can go to a lot of places, but you will not see a woodburning firepit.”

A few rings of Adirondack chairs encircle the fire, and the space flows easily in all directions: to the outdoor bar, under its timber-frame roof; to picnic tables sheltered by a covering of black shadecloth; out toward the open meadow and music stage. The design incorporates gravel walkways instead of solid pavers, because gravel feels down-to-earth and offers better drainage.

Native plants—red and white oak, witch hazel, rhododendron, switchgrass—soften and protect the various seating areas. One of the most inventive elements is the “secret gardens”: small groups of Adirondack chairs that will, over time, become partially hidden by the plantings that surround them.

“Everything about it says, ‘Come enjoy it,’” says Anhold. “You sit out here and you’re embraced by the Blue Ridge Mountains.”—Erika Howsare

“We were bringing the garden to the beer garden,” David Anhold says. “It’s a Nelson County interpretation of a traditional beer garden.”

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ometimes it takes actually setting foot in a tiny house to know just how tiny tiny houses are. Perhaps that’s why several local housing experts are skeptical of the movement that has a subset of home buyers seeking to cut their living space tenfold.

“This idea that I’m going to downsize my life is one of the coolest parts of it,” says renovation firm 6th and Dice director Oliver Platts-Mills, who recently attended the Tiny House Jamboree in Colorado. “It’s extreme and a great way to save money, but I don’t know if there are tons of people taking it to that level.”

Check out a few of the tiny house blogs, suggests Platts-Mills. Homeowners start with laudable dreams—moving from 3,000 square feet to 300 or less—but most of them end with a qualified sign off: “Our dream of living in a tiny house is on hold due to X or Y or Z.” If Internet forums are any indication, Charlottesville has its share of such dreamers. And although there are some stumbling blocks to making the dream a reality, local zoning official Read Broadhead says moving into a bona fide miniature mansion even in this population-dense area is possible.

“We treat tiny houses exactly the same as we treat single family homes,” he says. “What some people have issues with is land is expensive, and they would need to have the same size building parcel as a single family house.”

But different zoning districts have different lot sizes, he notes, and the city allows exterior accessory apartments, so tiny house-lovers could plant their adorable abodes behind an existing home. The only stricture is that the structures, typically built on wheels, would have to be secured to a foundation and have water, sewer and electric hookups.

Could multiple parties wanting to build tiny homes just go in on a parcel together? Not in R1 or R2 zoning districts, where the footprint of an accessory residence can be no more than 40 percent of the size of the primary residence, Broadhead says. Planned unit developments (PUDs) might also be a possibility, though finding the requisite two acres in the city is tough. Infill areas allow PUDs of fewer than two acres, and R3 zoning districts might be a possibility, with

This 400-square-foot tiny house, behind the home of local contractor (and Alloy Workshop co-owner) Zach Snider and his wife, Aly, serves as guest quarters and an Airbnb rental. “People love it,” Aly says. “I think the most common comment is, ‘It is small but it doesn’t feel small.’”

up to 21 dwelling units per acre allowed. But that sort of condo-style living doesn’t seem to be what most tiny home dreamers are looking for.

One of those dreamers is James Schnitzhofer, an engineer who operates Schnitzhofer & Associates out of offices in Charlottesville and Staunton.

Schnitzhofer is cagey about his own plans for a diminutive dwelling, but he’s active in the local tiny house community and says he thinks the units could be a great solution for young professionals who are financially savvy and socially aware.

“In the current climate of our country, buying a $300,000 house is doable, but your quality of life drops,” he says. “People are catching on to that, and they prefer to have their own house that has all the comforts of home and not be paying a mortgage for 20 or 30 years.”

Schnitzhofer says the city has to figure out how to accommodate those socially aware individuals, because they won’t want to be 30 minutes to an hour outside of the town where they work and

socialize. And he believes the groundswell of support for tiny homes will eventually overcome the obstacles.

“It is a massive way-of-life change,” he says. “It is a drastic acceleration in the way the U.S. has been moving for a decade.”

Steve Canterbury, who has experience working on small and alternative dwellings through his firm, Canterbury Home Builders, is like PlattsMills in that he’s skeptical of the HGTV tiny house ideal. But they’re not the only kind of tiny house that’s available. “There are a lot of categories— microcottages, mini cottages, tiny houses—and there are real fuzzy lines as far as size,” he says.

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Get cooking The newfangled things you’re seeing in high-end kitchens on home improvement shows aren’t as prevalent as you might think, according to Heimlich. Kegerators, wine fridges and other purposebuilt appliances are few and far between. Kramer agrees—the maintenance on some of those appliances is cost prohibitive—but he does point out outdoor kitchens are getting increasingly techy.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t some practical innovations happening in the indoor cookin’ place. Take stainless steel, the must-have appliance material for two decades now. Everyone wants it, but it can get monotonous. Enter stainless steel with updated and sometimes colorful finishes. Kramer says GE has introduced a slate color, KitchenAid offers a black stainless created with an acid treatment, and some pro-level ranges like Vikings come with optional coated finishes—think black, gray or even shades of red and blue.

“It had gotten to the point where the options were stainless or put a wood panel on the stainless,” Kramer says. “In the last two or three years, we’re getting away from so much stainless steel.”

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raditional wisdom says fall is a great time to buy appliances, as that’s when manufacturers crank out new models and retailers drop the price on older equipment. But, according to several local retailers, that’s not necessarily so.

“I wouldn’t say there is a typical timeframe,” says Jeff Kramer, a sales consultant for the local outpost of high-end appliance specialist Ferguson. “It comes and goes,” agrees Mike Heimlich, appliance sales specialist for Lowe’s on Rio Road.

“Our biggest time is the end of spring, beginning of summer.”

Nevertheless, if you’re in the market for appliances this year, you’re in luck, because there are some cool things happening right now, both in the kitchen and laundry room.

In this Garth Road laundry room designed by Reveal Builders, a top-loading washer was preferred. While front loaders have made strides in fan technology, top loaders are still the most popular—and less expensive—option.

Heimlich says his kitchen customers have shown a renewed interest in convection ovens, which use a fan to circulate heat around food so it doesn’t have to be turned and allow for faster cooking times.

“The [fans] have been appearing in more and more ovens and are starting to filter down from the premium models to the midrange models,” he says.

Kramer points to a final innovation in an unlikely bit of cookery—the microwave. He’s seeing designers embrace the functionality of microwaves and make them easy to access via drawers.

Where are the folding machines?

Turning to the laundry room, Heimlich says the next big thing in dryer innovation is steam drying. The new technology makes clothes come out with an already-pressed look, saving users the step of ironing.

Washers, at least the front-loading kind, have also made some strides, with new fan technology designed to eliminate the mildew smell that often develops as water collects in the units. That’s long been the biggest complaint buyers have had when it comes to top-loading units’ more compact competitor, according to Kramer.

“For the past five to six years, the fix was to leave the door open to allow the unit to air out, but that didn’t always make sense because of space,” he says. “Now they turn on a little fan after the wash cycle is complete, and it air dries the unit. That was huge—it was our biggest constraint to selling those washers, and they have corrected it.”

Heimlich agrees his customers have shown interest in front loaders that don’t smell like gym locker rooms, but they’re still split on whether the front loader stands up to the traditional top loader. His preference? Top loaders, because they tend to be less expensive. Money talks.—Shea Gibbs

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t’s a long way from old-town Fredericksburg to the rolling hills of Free Union. But after 20 years in a historic house in that Northern Virginia town, one couple was ready for the country life.

Their four children mostly grown, they relocated to an old farmhouse in Free Union—where she had grown up—and began looking for a house to buy. “None was quite what we wanted,” they remember. When they had a chance to purchase a three-acre lot, they jumped at it, since they didn’t want to manage a large plot of land.

Friends recommended Chris Halstead of 2H Design/Builders, and as the three of them embarked on the design phase, Halstead guided the clients’ ideas toward a working concept for the house.

“We wanted to have some element of the Virginia farmhouse,” says the couple. Yet white clapboard siding was not on the table. “We had the historic house in Fredericksburg, and we were painting all the time,” they say. Beyond that, “We didn’t want something big and white that would be a glaring monstrosity on the hill.”

Instead, Halstead suggested stucco. “It’s pretty permanent, low-maintenance, and you can have it in any color you like,” he says. “The color is through and through; you don’t have to paint it.” The clients chose a muted color, like coffee with cream, that nicely echoes tones in the natural surroundings. A wide front porch and standing-seam metal roof say Virginia, while the stucco—and black metal deck railings—suggest something more European. Indoors, exposed white ceiling beams and plaster in place of drywall lend weight and character.

Relatives have remarked that the house resembles a French farmhouse, say the clients: “We like the fact that it turned out that way.”

Creating flow The couple wanted an open living/dining space with plenty of daylight, and Halstead located this in the house’s central portion, with a symmetrical arrangement of French doors between two banks of three windows. At one end of the long room is a fireplace whose design perfectly encapsulates the quiet feel of the house: minimal soapstone hearth and surround, with traditional but low-key wooden trim and mantel.

These rooms open onto a deck, part of a system of outdoor spaces that wrap around the rear and sides of the house. The clients wanted both a covered porch and a screened porch, but were loathe to lose the unimpeded daylight in the living/dining space. So Halstead located the deck outside those rooms, then placed the covered

and screened porches at either end. “For them, coffee in the morning on the screened porch was a big deal,” he says. Placing that porch off the kitchen meant maximum convenience.

Dividing the outdoor spaces in this way lets each one be its own small world, emphasizing different views of the nearby meadows and distant mountains.

And while the views do enter the house, a visitor doesn’t immediately appreciate the vista upon arrival: From the front entry, the view is of the back of a freestanding bookcase. Only after moving around this obstacle does one gain the sense of space and light offered by the big windows. “You give them a little glimpse of what’s coming and make them work to achieve it,” says Halstead of the entry sequence.

The house’s design makes skillful use of sightlines to increase the feeling of spaciousness without relying on excess square footage. In the master bedroom, large banks of windows on two sides draw the eye out toward the appealing woodsy views, and a calm interior palette of white and light blue create a feeling of serenity. If this modestly sized room were larger, it would begin to compete with the outside; as is, it’s just right.

Easy to live in The clients needed space for running their homebased consulting business, and although they wanted to live in a fairly compact area on one level, they also needed plenty of room for guests.

(Besides their own children, they each have five siblings who sometimes visit.) With that in mind, Halstead designed not only three upstairs bedrooms, but a basement suite that includes a kitchenette.

A standalone office is connected to the mudroom via a breezeway, and could be converted to

a garage if future owners so desired. Halstead surprised his clients with a second small reading room off the master suite. “I put in a little study, giving her a place to read,” he says, “and she’s set that up as her own little office.” His client is delighted: “Like most moms, I’ve usually had a desk in the kitchen.

Chris created this space for me and I love it.”

A frequent cook, she also needed a well-designed kitchen with the key elements close together, and an L-shaped layout wrapped around a soapstone-topped island does the trick. “I wanted it not to be part of the living/dining room,” she says. “I had had it the other way, and it drove me crazy when everybody was in the kitchen while I made Thanksgiving dinner.” The kitchen, then, is adjacent to but definitely separate from the other public spaces.

Halstead’s clients praise the speed of the construction process (the house went up in about six months in 2010, thanks to a prefabricated foundation and prebuilt exterior walls) and the performance of their home. It’s well-insulated, thanks to 2x6 walls, cellulose insulation and spray foam in the attic.

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Walking surfaces: Trex decking, Bluestone entry porch, colored concrete terrace at basement Interior finishes: Veneer plaster on main and second floor; drywall in basement; wide, wormy oak floors on main and upper levels; colored concrete in basement; steel stair railings; exposed white pine beams in great room and kitchen Mechanical systems: Hydronic floor heat on main floor and basement level plus heat pumps throughout Water heating: Indirect fired from hydronic boiler; 17KW Kohler backup generator

A wide front porch and standing-seam metal roof say Virginia, while the stucco— and black metal deck railings—suggest something more European.

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Upon entering the home, visitors are greeted by a steel staircase and just a hint of the views beyond a freestanding bookcase. “You give them a little glimpse of what’s coming and make them work to achieve it,” says architect Chris Halstead of the entry sequence. The homeowners wanted an open living/dining space with plenty of light, and a kitchen that was separate (though still near) the other public spaces.

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or anyone confronting a property that’s short on landscaping—and feeling that it’ll be a lifetime before anything substantial can grow—Katherine Kane has reassuring words. “If you get obsessive, you can have a mature garden in 25 years.”

She should know. In 1990, when she and her husband, Olin West, bought their Free Union farm, it was mostly open pasture. “There were none of the tall trees I was used to,” says Kane, who grew up in New York. She loved the mountain views but couldn’t wait to begin filling in the empty spaces around the house with trees and ornamental plantings of all types. “Like Scarlett O’Hara,” she jokes, “I grabbed a handful of dirt, and started planting.”

She’d done very little gardening before then, but had nurtured her creative spirit with serious study of dance and writing. Gardening fed the same urge

to “make something out of nothing,” but she found it easier than writing. “Maybe I was an estate gardener in England in another life,” she says. Armed with horticultural bibles by writers like Michael Dirr and Henry Mitchell, Kane “made a life’s study of horticulture. I read and read and read.”

And, of course, she planted. The starting point was a former bullpen just south of the house, where rich, dark soil made a welcoming home for a collection of roses. This formal garden— enclosed by tall boxwoods and marked out in symmetrical beds and gravel walks—is the first in a series of traditional “rooms,” perfectly

“Like Scarlett O’Hara,” jokes homeowner Katherine Kane, “I grabbed a handful of dirt, and started planting.”

aligned on a long axis that begins at the house’s kitchen door.

From the clamor of color in the rose garden, a small arched opening leads to the next room: the yew garden, where curving hedges of the dark evergreen shrub, more usually associated with English gardens than the mid-Atlantic, form a lovely and restful space. “You don’t see it in Virginia much; it’s too hot and humid,” says Kane. “But I was determined.” A quiet, minimal fountain—water cascading over a stone sphere— provides a perfect focal point in the center of the yew hedges.

Crabapples mark the corners of this space, and on the far end the yew gives way to peonies, propped up by custom-made metal supports.

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shape of a new bed or the span of a tree. For several years, a proposed reflecting pool beyond the yew garden was marked out this way, and Kane laughs when she relates that she would walk around it, as though it were already full of water. Now it really is, and it gives back images of a goldenrain tree at one end of the garden axis, and mature maples and ashes at the other.

“If you fail to put water in your landscape, you’re missing half the world: all the goings-on of the sky,” says Kane.

Two of Kane’s dozens of Japanese maples flank the stone steps up to the final “room”: a butterfly garden, where sedum, butterfly bush, Joe Pye weed and other species beloved by pollinators create a carefully orchestrated profusion of color and texture.

Kane estimates that she and her staff have planted thousands of trees, many of them within the eight-acre zone around the house. Some were even moved from woods on the property, but most are species chosen for their ornamental qualities (and, in the case of cryptomeria and loblolly pine, for their quick growth). In the fall, “The Japanese maples are glorious,” she says, and a Parrotia tree, Persian in origin, brings an extraordinary yellow to the mix.

Not only the eyes are stimulated: When the leaves of the katsura tree fall, a fragrance of crème brûlée drifts through the air.

From the end of the series of formal gardens, one can stroll back toward the house via a shade walk, sheltered by pines and enlivened at ground level by hostas, rhododendrons and azaleas. A poolhouse, designed by local architect Bahlmann Abbott, features walls mostly composed of screen.

It overlooks a pool within a stone surround.

Kane named her property Waterperry Farm, after England’s first horticultural school for women. She hopes to open it to small weddings and events by the end of 2016.

The team’s most recent work has been on the north side of the property, where a “tiny farm pond” has been greatly expanded and is fed by a new waterfall cascading 140' down the hillside.

Around the flowing water, Kane has planted a bog garden studded with rocks and boulders, and featuring Asian-influenced plantings like dwarf Japanese juniper. A collection of conifers occupies beds that dot the slope beyond.

These trees are still relatively small, but the older plantings, in their rich and ever-changing beauty, prove that time is indeed on the gardener’s side.

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“Our sons have been best friends since they were 5,” says Turner. “I knew my son would be out here having dinner” in the very room she was to design.

That made the project personal. What’s more, the Lovings’ ties to this house run deep: Joel’s family has owned the property since the 1860s, when the original section of the house was first built. It is a classic Virginia farmhouse, situated in the heart of a working cattle farm, with views of stately trees and green pastures.

“This truly is a farmhouse,” says Turner. “The kitchen needed to have a seamless connection between the house and the landscape.”

Generous existing windows along the eastern wall of the kitchen did a lot to provide that connection—barns, fields and a beautiful nearby oak tree draw the eye outside. But inside, the kitchen, which Joel’s parents had installed in 1995, “was not visually pleasing,” says Turner. “It was a quirky mismatch of elements.”

Betty was especially nonplussed by the cabinets’ dark finish and the empty space above the upper cabinets. “It didn’t feel finished,” she says.

An odd layout with two islands wasn’t helping, either.

On the other hand, the room’s size and shape were working well. “I try and make the house give you as much as it can,” says Turner. “The kitchen is very central and already interacted with the rest of the house beautifully”—opening, as it does, onto the living room and the dining room.

It’s not an open plan, but it does have easy flow.

The generous proportions of the room led Turner to propose a galley layout, with a large island separating the main bank of cabinetry from a custom-made farm table under the windows.

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A large island separates the main bank of cabinetry from a custom-made farm table under the windows. The galley layout is “very efficient,” says designer Karen Turner.

“It needed to have room for two people to work.”

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“A galley is very efficient,” she says. “It needed to have room for two people to work.”

The kitchen packs in storage without seeming crowded. Turner added a second upper row of cabinets, accessed via a library-style ladder that rolls side-to-side on a metal rail. “The upper cabinets make the room feel finished,” Turner says, “and the beams and soffit make the cabinetry feel grounded.”

In a corner near the table, Turner and Loving considered squeezing in more cabinetry but ultimately opted to fill the spot with a pie safe from Betty’s grandparents: a pitch-perfect piece that lets the room be spacious and harkens to the past.

Turner’s primary aesthetic goal for the new kitchen was a quiet feel. To that end, she created a low-key palette that centers on the unusual blue-gray of the cabinets. “The mountains here can be that nice blue-gray,” she says. “The color palette is inside-outside. The walls are the color of the fields in fall.” A subtle touch: the backs of the cabinets are painted the same color as the walls, letting them recede a little bit more.

Minimal window treatments contribute to the serene feel, as does something else that many visitors wouldn’t consciously notice: None of the finishes are shiny. Metal fixtures are brushed nickel, the soapstone and quartzite countertops are honed rather than polished, and even the paint on the cabinets is a satin finish.

The palette may be contemporary, but the history of the farm is clearly in evidence. Existing heart pine floors give the perfect touch of authenticity, and Turner added ceiling beams that were salvaged from a barn on the property.

“It’s a beautifully built farm,” says Turner. “The quality of the materials needed to match that.”

A local craftsman made the walnut farm table and bench. And the kitchen’s most unusual element, the Mediterranean-inspired Tabarka backsplash tile, is a tribute to artisanship.

The Lovings eventually plan to move to their farmhouse full-time, and the new kitchen is an integral part of making this house their own. “It needed to feel like ours,” says Betty. And the sons—now in college—have already tried it out.

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Frederick R. Drake (as we’re told by the current owners of the house Drake built in 1981) invented some machines whose products we’re all familiar with. Among them are the machine that wraps hot dogs in clear packaging and the machine that packages individual slices of cheese.

When he tried his hand at architecture, he seems to have applied the same mad scientist spirit.

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It’s an eye-catcher from the second you spot it from a quiet, residential Afton road. Set among mature pine and maple trees, it has an angular contemporary form, a deck stretching the full width of the second floor and attractive red trim that pops out from the board-and-batten siding.

This façade, which faces south, is more glass than otherwise. One of the forces driving Drake’s questered inside a square cabinetry layout, under design was an interest in passive solar heating— fluorescent lights. When working at the sink, an idea which, in 1981, was enjoying an extendyou’re facing a wall. When standing over the ed moment. stove, you can see the outdoors but only by lookHere’s where it gets weird. In most of the ing through another room. For our money, that spaces behind that south wall (that is, bedrooms equals claustrophobia. and living room), there is a series of angled freeAs it shakes out, the best views are from the standing wall sections, standing a few feet back oddest spaces: a laundry room and a secondfrom the big windows. They’re about as wide as floor screened porch, both facing the backyard you can stretch your arms, and made of concrete with its pleasant little garden spot. block, which, on the window side, is painted black The other circumstance that will give many to soak up and then radiate the sun’s warmth. buyers pause is the datedness of some of the The upshot is twofold. On the one hand, free finishes. The master bathroom, in heat! On the other hand, from inside particular, is a wonder of questionthese rooms, there’s an aesthetic frusable design decisions. Picture two tration factor: You know the giant different kinds of floor tile, comwindows are there, but you’re always pletely unrelated, butting up against looking around or between the solar Address: 696 Rockfish School Ln., Afton each other along a zigzagging walls to be able to see the view.

MLS#: 531078 boundary. Wow! Lack of visual access to the lovely Year built: 1981 Of course, no matter what a bathsurroundings is, in fact, this house’s Bedrooms: 3 room looks like, it can always be biggest downside. Outside are ma- Bathrooms: 4 ture trees (magnolias, sweetgum, a Square footage (finished): refurbished, which brings us to our ultimate point about this house: It’s prize dogwood) and parklike acre- 3,927 interesting enough that it’s worth tryage, but you just never feel like you Acreage: 1.97 Extras: Large attached ing to see it with the eyes of a renocan really see it. workshop vator. For example, if we were buyWhen in the kitchen, for example, List price: $399,000 ing this place, we’d be tempted to you’re deep within the house, se-

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Sure, energy efficiency is muy importante, but so are the sightlines. Without the solar walls, those big Southern windows would be such an asset.

Let us not be misunderstood: There are a lot of things we like about this house. The big fireplace, with its oversized stone surround and steel front that stretch all the way up to the vaulted living room ceiling, is dramatic and scores a few more passive-heating points, too. The yard is lovely and the neighborhood a gem.

And, for somebody with the hobbies (or serious material undertakings) of a Frederick R. Drake, this place has one notable entry in the plus column: the incredibly enormous workshop.

Actually, make that workshops, plural. There are at least three separate areas for tinkering, building, running a business, making Hummer-sized sculptures or whatever it is you’re driven to do.

Big ideas don’t always fly, but they’re preferable to the same old tired saws. Though Drake’s architectural creation might not be perfect, it has plenty to recommend it. We say it deserves a loving steward to not only fix it up nicely, but re-envision it for the next few decades.— Erika Howsare ABODE 51

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