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Home.

JANUARY 2016

Stern style

Lewis & Clark center nods to the nautical

Making the case Designed right, stairs will be showstoppers

Hammer home

Five local classes for savvy homeowners

Better baths With form and function, these 14 local lavatories get our vote

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HARDWARE RIVER TRACT - Private setting, river frontage, 6 miles from Charlottesville! The elevated site overlooks the Hardware River and lush bottomland that would make an excellent soccer/sports field. Very convenient to town, I-64 and the new Wegmans shopping center. MLS#539823 $120,000.

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Interior architect Jennifer Greenhalgh’s definition of “design”; the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center goes the nautical mile; why having stairs doesn’t mean treading lightly on style; Stedman House’s Nicole Fagerli on color, texture and Gone with the Wind.

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n November 2015, Design Intelligence—which since 1995 has ranked schools in areas of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and industrial design—put UVA’s graduate architecture programs among the best in the nation.

With that in mind, this month’s ABODE calendar continues the education trend, with five local classes for home and garden.

UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies The Art and Science of Successful Pruning

Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Workforce Services Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms Saturday, March 19, 9am-noon In this three-hour class, learn to grow different types of mushrooms in wood, straw and compost. Plus, get hands-on experience inoculating logs to cultivate fungi. $75, pvcc.edu.

Introduction to Beekeeping

Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm (February 10-March 2) Taught by Cathy Clary, a longtime SCPS instructor and former gardener at Albemarle House and Monticello, this six-session workshop delivers the basics: why and when to prune, what tools to use and your plants’ growing habits. $180, scps.virginia.edu.

Saturday, March 5, 9am-noon Nelson County Extension Agent Michael Lachance leads this morning lecture on constructing a hive, plus get answers to questions about honey bee biology, protecting bees from pests and more. $49, pvcc.edu.

The Tricky Landscape

Wednesdays, 6-8pm (March 2-23) Interested in raising your own pigs, sheep, goats or cows? This class will help you become more self-sufficient and answer questions about how to create a small business raising livestock, from logistics to marketing. $99, pvcc.edu.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30pm (April 5 to May 2) Also taught by Clary, this class will address common issues in your home garden and arm you with basic principles to turn them into opportunities for unity, proportion, rhythm and contrast. $180, scps.virginia.edu.

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Blueprint A LINE TO DESIGN

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Jennifer Greenhalgh works from big to small

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Why interior architecture?

I grew up in a construction family so being around a job site comes very naturally to me. I was constantly surrounded by plans, and my father always encouraged me to take an interest in them. After college, I moved to San Francisco, where I worked for Pottery Barn Kids in their furniture design department. Being in a very creative environment sparked my creative energy, and I knew I wanted to pursue design in some form. While still living in San Francisco, I tackled my first large-scale renovation, and I fell in love with the design process. I decided to go back to school and study at the Academy of Art in San Francisco to follow my passion. After moving back to Virginia, Kelly [Carwile] and I started Jackson + Park Design.

Why did you choose to practice in Virginia?

My husband and I are both from Virginia and our families are here, so settling back in Virginia just seemed to make sense. I grew up in Charlottesville and my husband and I both graduated from UVA undergrad, so Charlottesville was familiar and felt like the right place to come back to.

What was your life like as a child and how did it lead you to design?

I grew up in the country, next door to my cousins, and we were always building something outside. We would build these elaborate forts—at least, elaborate for kids! Recently we were renovating my parents’ house, and my mom found a box of drawings that I did when I was about 7 or 8. The box was full of floor plans and elevations for a tree house that my cousins and I planned on building behind our houses. Unfortunately, 10 ABODE

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s an interior architect, Jennifer Greenhalgh of local design firm Jackson + Park oversees multiple aspects of a home renovation project—from its structural design to its décor. Accordingly, the word “design” takes on a few different meanings as she approaches a new client; she and partner Kelly Carwile may be reinvisioning a room’s entire layout or dreaming up a statement-making dresser.

For Greenhalgh, “design” is an all-encompassing concept that boils down to one thing: Where you live helps you determine who you are.

“There is a great quote from Winston Churchill: ‘We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us,’” Greenhalgh says. “We believe that where you live or work can have a positive impact on you.”

We asked her to tell us about her early influences, her favorite kind of project and a treehouse she designed when she was 7.—Caite White

we could never convince our parents to build the treehouse, but seeing the plans brought back such great memories. It also made me see that even at a young age, I loved interior design. Throughout my life I have always kept that passion for interior design, and I knew it was something that I wanted to pursue as a career.

then, based on that, we create a concept for their space. We often create a concept board to provide us with a clear vision of where we would like the design to go. From there, we pull furniture, accessories and textiles that fit their lifestyle. We want to give our clients a space that makes them feel happy, comfortable and inspired.

Tell us about your college studio experience. Was there a standout teacher who had a lasting impact on you?

I was fortunate to have had a lot of great teachers. At the Academy of Art, Sam Rosen, my portfolio teacher, had a lasting impact on my design process. He really pushed me to go for designs outside my comfort zone and to analyze my work and my process. Throughout our review and design process, he urged me to examine my final designs to see where I could make edits and improvements. Often when you think a design is done and perfect, you can tweak one little thing and make the design extraordinary.

What inspires you?

We draw inspiration from our travels. We often take inspiration from things like architectural details, tile work or textiles from one of our trips.

We believe that travel is an essential part of design. It gives us a new perspective on spaces.

Your process: How does it begin?

Our clients give us a list of needs and desires and

How does the site or sense of place inform interior design for you?

We believe it depends more on the client than the place or site. For instance, currently we have a client that owns an old farmhouse. They have a very modern aesthetic and want to integrate the new with the old. They are doing a large modern addition and we are marrying the new addition and the original house by making the original spaces a little more contemporary. We

personally love mixing styles, and believe that Clockwise from top left: An outdoor space provides this gives a space a unique feel.

What’s in the studio at the moment?

For one of our projects we are designing a client’s dining room. We have samples of this beautiful Galbraith and Paul lotus wallpaper, which was the jumping-off point for the whole dining room. We have Perennials velvet fabric for the dining chairs. We joke that people might think that we rep Perennials fabrics because we recommend them so much. We have finish samples for the dining table, mirror and bar. Having samples in addition to our renderings helps our clients envision their finished spaces.

How would you assess the state of interior architecture in our region?

The great thing about Virginia interior design is that it is so varied. In Charlottesville, we have everything from Jeffersonian style to ultra modern and everything in between. We think anything goes—you can mix modern furnishings with a traditional house. The design just has to match your personal style and the way you live.

ample space to relax and entertain; a once closedoff kitchen now opens to the living room, with a large island for entertaining; Greenhalgh removed the ceiling in the entry to a client’s farmhouse to allow for more light; a modern bathroom addition boasts a light color palette and sleek lines.

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The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center in Darden Towe Park draws inspiration from traditional boat forms and materials, a nod to the explorers’ expedition.

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On the waterfront Lewis & Clark center builds river connections

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ne can sometimes forget that Charlottesville is a river town, but Alexandria Searls keeps the Rivanna firmly in mind.

As director of the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center, she’s helped influence the choice of its location (overlooking the river in Darden Towe Park) and its mission (educating visitors, especially kids, about boatbuilding and naturebased aspects of the Lewis & Clark expedition).

“The river is an historic part of this community,” she says.

So it’s fitting that the center’s new home—a building designed by Hays + Ewing Design Studio and completed in October—harkens to the Rivanna, both in the river view that it prizes and in the boatlike form of the building.

Nestled into a hillside, the center is mostly invisible from its parking lot. “The building is something you discover,” says architect Allison Ewing—Lewis and Clark and their crew were often surprised by what they found in the landscape of the American West. “In a lot of paintings you see Lewis and Clark standing on overlooks,

looking at landscapes,” says Ewing. “There’s a sense of heightened arrival.”

The center, whose programs began in 2001, recreates that iconic moment by presenting visitors with little more, on first sight, than a green roof that seems to grow organically from the hillside. Follow it out to the far edge, and you’ll find yourself taking in a view of the Rivanna from what amounts to an architectural precipice. It’s only by skirting around the side of the building that you’ll find the entrance.

“We wanted it to blend in with the environment, like the Mandan Villages,” says Searls, referring to the Native American community, in present-day North Dakota, where the Lewis and Clark expedition spent its first winter.

Yet the roof overhang, as it faces the river, also resembles the prow of a boat, slicing into space.

It echoes the 55' keelboat that sits nearby, a replica of the expedition’s flagship built by some of the kids who have been part of the programs here.

In fact, the new building takes many cues from traditional boat forms and materials. Cambia

wood (a thermally-treated, eco-friendly choice) lines the underside of the eaves and harkens to the keelboat’s own wooden hull. So does the building’s board-form concrete exterior—a technique that leaves wood grain visible in the finished walls. Along the side of the building, as visitors descend steps to the main entrance, they may see stormwater from the green roof running through a riverstone channel.

Once inside, a north wall made mostly of glass helps keep people connected to the river.

A large dual-purpose room (it houses rotating exhibitions and hosts activities) and the adjoining library are crisp and attractive, though they’re made of basic materials like concrete floors and white wallboard. Large photos of North American animals, formerly hung in Downtown Mall trees as part of the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, bring color and life to the space.

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When creatively designed, stairs don’t have to be space hogs

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thicker, lest they feel bouncy or sag. Those aren’t traits that make a homeowner feel safe. “Some people get a little nervous if they can see through the stair,” Marshall says.

Architects are also getting creative with the spaces beneath staircases. The classic design is to stack the stairs from, say, the first floor to the second floor, on top of the stairs down to the basement. But powder rooms and storage closets—you can “add a door on the high side for tall storage and build drawers in the lower area,” suggests Meadows—are ever-popular, and some homeowners even want the space beneath their stairs to be a showpiece.

“If you have a stair that is open on one side… people are doing creative things like making open bookcases and things using the angle of

The stairs themselves can be a design element, with paint, runners or carpeting beautifying surfaces and risers.

DAVID MARSHALL

homas Jefferson hated stairs. Not personally. Architecturally.

A design nut who conceptualized Monticello and parts of the Virginia State Capitol, Jefferson disdained the space stairs took up. According to the Monticello Foundation, he favored narrow, steep stairs with tight turns so the hulking masses wouldn’t rob him of space for more exciting design features.

These days, that shortcut won’t fly, according to Alan Meadows of local building supply company Better Living Inc. If you want to build stairs, you simply have to “add more space,” he says. “By building codes, builders cannot make a narrow/steep stair.”

Fortunately, designers can employ a variety of strategies to maximize the positioning of stairs in a home.

David Marshall of Albion Cabinets & Stairs favors a winding staircase—not least because that’s his specialty. Although challenging to engineer, such stairs are not only a space saver but can be a striking centerpiece.

“You have options: how much it rotates, whether they go clockwise or counterclockwise, and where you get on the stairs at the bottom determines where you get off at the top,” he says.

Marshall says corner landings can also maximize the use of a space but conceded even spirals can only save so much square footage. You still need at least a 5' diameter for the smallest column staircases.

Meadows agrees. It’s not just code that keeps stairs from being excessively steep and narrow, it’s comfort. “A steep stair is not a comfortable climb or descent,” he says. “[Spirals] only save

inches and make for a difficult stair to travel and a nightmare to move furniture.”

Riser-less stairs can give a room the appearance of airiness, according to Marshall, though they seem to be going out of style. And like winders, they make for some engineering challenges.

The riser is a critical part of the structure of the stair, Marshall says, so floating stairs have to be

the stairs—paneling on the wall below the stairs or other design elements,” Marshall says.

And of course the stairs themselves can be a design element, with paint, runners or carpeting beautifying surfaces and risers. Railings and newel posts, too, can be a place to put your own spin on your stairs.

“The railings can have the ballasted look or be spindly or turned nicely with a prominent newel post at the bottom or top,” Marshall says.

TJ, of course, would likely have none of it.— Shea Gibbs

Deck the stairs Get creative with your stairs and make a case for them being the best-looking part of your home.

Runners: The workhorse of stair décor, runners are 2' to 3' rugs for stairs, extending down the center of the staircase but not reaching the sides. Runner design can range from subdued solids to bold, colorful stripes and Persian patterns.

Dust corners: Dust corners are a throwback, but they can add a punch of vintage interest to bland stairs. Small, usually brass pieces that fit into the corners between stair surfaces and risers, they’re also useful at, you guessed it, keeping dust from collecting in hard to reach places.

Railings/banisters: The woodwork around the stair is the perfect opportunity to accentuate your staircase, be it with intricate newel posts or funky banisters made with reclaimed materials. “The bottom line is to let it complement your house,” says Alan Meadows of local building supply company Better Living Inc. Paint: Stairs are a great place to contrast paint colors between risers and surfaces. Or if you don’t want people to stare, go with a simple paint scheme.

Tchotchkes: Wide stairs are like having a row of stacked mantels, the sides of each panel offering a place to put seasonal decorations or (hopefully nonbreakable) trinkets.—S.G.

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Designer Nicole Fagerli says that, in general, her favorite room in a home is the kitchen, but in her own house, the living room takes top prize. “I have used my favorite colors, and it contains some of my most-treasured possessions,” she says.

We asked Stedman House interior designer Nicole Fagerli to tell us about her design influences, her favorite room and growing up in the furniture business.

Antique or modern? Antique for sure. I love the patina that antiques add to a room.

lighting can do to a room. It can highlight art or it can help set a mood.

City or country? Country. I just love the city

Favorite designer? Susan Kessler. I love the way

life, but I am a country girl at heart. I love the open spaces and long to see mountain views.

she incorporates contemporary items into a classic space. Her rooms feel timeless.

Which colors do you gravitate toward? Pink

Design rule you like to break? Scale. I like to

is my favorite color, but I don’t often use it in interiors. I prefer to use it sparingly to help make statements in a room. I like to use the soothing greens, blues and neutrals that are found in nature with pops of color as accent.

introduce large art or lighting to a space. It can often be the focal point.

Does your home look like the one you grew up in? Yes, very similar. My family owns a furniture manufacturing company, Suter’s Furniture, in Harrisonburg. The company is in its sixth generation and is run by my mother. The style of furniture is classic traditional, and I have many of my favorite pieces just like the ones I grew up with in my home.

What’s one thing that can really transform a room? Lighting. People don’t realize what

What is your most treasured possession?

My grandmother Suter’s china. I have the fondest memories of holidays and family dinner on Sundays at her house. We always sat in the dining room and used that china.

What do you wish you could do without?

Television. I get pulled into a show that isn’t that good; it is such a time waster. Later I think of all the productive things I could have done.

What are you afraid to DIY? Lay tile. It just seems daunting to me.

If you could live in one historical figure’s house, whose would it be? The Breakers. It is formal and lovely, but still on the water. I love the feeling of being at the beach and those soothing colors just make me feel good.

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When Elizabeth Birdsall hired Formwork Design to transform her Western Albemarle house, she asked for a stronger connection between indoors and outdoors. The design included a renovation of an existing house (whose original mishmash style Birdsall jokingly called “Japanese Tudor”), plus construction of a new wing and a glass bridge connecting the two.

“Elizabeth wanted privacy between the public and private parts of the house,” Formwork architect Cecilia Nichols explains. “She likes to have a retreat” for reading and sleeping. Housed within the new wing, the master bedroom and bathroom each have one entire wall made of glass: a sweeping, timeless view of the trees.

The house takes every opportunity to let in light and invite the gaze outside. One result is that it feels much bigger than it is. The rhythmic changes of the landscape have a large pres-

Say “om” To the rear of this Park Street house, the master suite is all about privacy and calm. Dark bamboo floors usher you from bedroom to bath, where a freestanding soaking tub “provides deep water and full back support for a relaxing escape,” says architect Candace Smith. The triple window there provides a wide view of the sky, as well as a lower garden, forest and stream.

The shower floor boasts soft river rocks (“to massage tired feet,” says Smith), which are also used as an accent in the tile shower walls and tile wainscot throughout the room. Natural light streams in from the interior window overlooking the tub and from an exterior window within the shower itself.

All in all, this bathroom is for deep relaxation.— C.W.

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ence in the house, from the daily movement of the sun to the slower shifts of the seasons. In winter, leaves fall and reveal the nearby river more fully.

Standing in the master suite, with its massive windows facing west, Nichols says, “As architects, we’re trained to minimize western exposure,” which invites afternoon heat gain. But in this case, “The leaves are a natural louvre.” In winter, the leaves drop and the heat is welcome in.

The bathroom is minimal in its style and neutral in its palette. The bathtub sits near the windows, while a spacious shower in earth-tone tile spans one end of the room. Mirrors over the double sinks reflect the woodsy view.

Birdsall considered adding an outdoor hot tub to her property. But, she says—especially with the big windows open—this indoor tub is close enough.—E.H.

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Barn life (right) “It’s lovely when sky meets a grassy hill—very clean and minimal,” says Bushman Dreyfus architect Jeff Bushman of this Albemarle project. “If you squint your eyes, it could be Midwestern.”

Within this environment, homeowner Sue Sargeant envisioned an homage to the architectural touchstone of any rural American landscape.

As she and Bushman worked through the concept, it also came to mean, as he put it, “an almost severe geometry.” The house eventually manifested as a pair of barn-shaped sections, slightly offset from one another, joined by a short connecting volume.

Behind the kitchen is a sort of backstage: a combination laundry room, pantry and general storage, lined with cabinets. This is the ligature of the house, the connector between two main sections. The rear “barn” comprises a long hallway from which bedrooms, exercise room and bathroom look onto the wooded eastern property line and a magnificent white oak tree.

“I love taking a shower and looking at the sky and the trees,” says Sargeant. “I wanted to be able to see the stars at night.”—E.H.

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Core instincts (below) The union of opposites—modern and vernacular—is at the heart of this Churchville project. Rightly so, as Fred and Kathryn Giampietro, who collect fine art and furniture, wanted a house that would match their sensibilities while bowing to something larger: the rural landscape that spills out in every direction below the ridgetop site.

It also meant that the design should follow from the character of the materials the clients had selected. Their preferred palette is pared down, but warm and earthy: lots of amber-

toned wood, brown fieldstone and buff-colored concrete floors.

Behind the kitchen is what architect Jim Burton (of firm Carter + Burton) calls a “core”: a long wooden box housing bathrooms, utilities, storage and other “introverted” spaces.

Wrapping around and above the core is the master bedroom, from which one enters the master bathroom through a walnut pocket door. Inside, small floor-to-ceiling tiles decorate a simple tub while, overhead, a pool of light from high windows falls into the room.

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“It was designed from the inside out. Every space was motivated by the experience and the views, and how it fit into the circulation pattern—those daily rituals,” says architect Richard Williams of this Rappahannock County home. The aim was that the clients be “somewhat removed from, but utterly immersed in, the viewshed.”

So, yes, there are big windows, the largest of which locate near what Williams calls “places of repose”: sitting areas, the dining table, the master bedroom.

In other spots, like the master bathroom, the views come in with more restraint, like in this space, where a tall, skinny window lets in a sliver of light and a hint of the view beyond.—E.H.

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“My ancestry goes back to the Swiss,” explains homeowner and architect Richard Shank. “Form follows function. It’s got to work.”

A particularly beautiful spot in the Ivy home he shares with his wife, Linda, is one that could have been a throwaway: the hall between the master bathroom and closet. Defined by glass block walls and lit by a skylight running along its length, it’s full of pearly, subtle light, while the big view lies straight ahead through the large windows in the exercise room at the end of the hall.

Not only is the space visually striking, it has a deep quiet—due to the mountaintop location, as well as to a floor built from precast concrete that blocks sound (and contains radiant heating tubes for comfortable temperature control).

Shank says he learned many lessons from his two previous houses and brought them to bear in the technical and aesthetic aspects of this home.

“When you design your own house,” he says, “you can design it to live like you’d like to.”—E.H.

Family affair (left)

A tight materials palette unifies this Rappahannock County house designed by architect Jim Burton of Carter + Burton. The black granite from the kitchen shows up in the bathrooms as well; vanities and mudroom cupboards echo the design of the kitchen cabinets; walls are white to allow the Pittingers’ colorful possessions to visually step forward.

Lynn Pittinger built kitchen cabinet doors, bedroom furniture and other built-in and freestanding pieces for Pond View. Much of his raw material came from the property—for example, a fallen walnut tree became the bathroom vanities. Simple, clean designs repeat throughout the house, allowing Lynn’s workmanship to shine and unify the home.—E.H.

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When kids (who will be teenagers before you know it) are sharing a bathroom, it better be a hardworking space. A Charlottesville family enlisted Wolf Ackerman to design a bathroom that could serve not two, not three, but four kids— and deliver a modern look into the bargain.

The house, a story-and-a-half structure whose upper floor relies on dormers to bring in light, had previously been renovated downstairs, but, says Dave Ackerman, “the upstairs had never really received that attention.” The firm found a way to fit in a trio of bedrooms plus a shared bath upstairs, by locating bedrooms on either end of the house and placing the bathroom in the middle.

But it’s not just a bathroom. It’s really three separate rooms—two powder rooms flanking a central tub-and-shower space. Each one has its own windows, and frosted glass doors between them allow even more light to circulate.

As many as three people can use this bathroom at once, each in privacy.

The clients, says Ackerman, craved real, not plasticky materials. The designers obliged with custom cabinets made from rift-cut white oak— a method of milling lumber that produces a straight grain pattern. There’s white subway tile on the walls, large-format gray floor tiles and a large standalone frosted glass panel demarcating the shower stall. One can walk around either side of this panel to enter the shower.

A linear LED fixture hidden in a recess at the top of the shower wall “creates a nice wash of light down the special tile on that wall,” says Ackerman, “so it’s got a little more sparkle.”—E.H. ABODE 27

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What’s an art collector to do about the bathroom? You can’t hang valuable paintings in there. But Don and Allison Innes—who own an impressive collection of American representational art—found a way to bring their passion into even the smallest rooms of their home.

The couple, whose 1949 Rugby neighborhood home was due for a double bathroom renovation, asked Alloy Workshop to come up with designs based on two of their favorite abstract painters. For the small bathroom off the entry hall, De Stijl master Piet Mondrian would be the inspiration. And in the larger master bathroom it would be Gene Davis, member of the Washington Color School, known for his compositions of vertical stripes.

The Mondrian bathroom dances with playful squares and rectangles of primary colors on a white field—all executed in small glass tiles made by the Italian company Mosaico. The color blocks not only reference Mondrian’s geometrically pure compositions, they delineate spaces and features within the room—like a red field marking where one would stand to use the sink, or a yellow pathway leading from shower faucet to drain.

Local soapstone tops the sink counter, and a builtin wall niche handles all the toiletries. Squarish Kohler fixtures are the perfect complement to the tilework.

In the master bathroom—built in 1990 as part of an addition undertaken by the Inneses—a tall ceiling had made for a cavernous feel. The Alloy designers lowered it in most of the room but left it high in the shower area, lending contrast that’s enhanced by daylight from a light tube. From the top of the shower wall, the Davis stripes, in unusual color combinations like green-blue-brown or pink-orange, flow all the way down and across the floor.

This may not be Davis’ biggest canvas (he added similar stripes to streets in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia), but it is certainly a dramatic one. The white-and-gray background for the stripes finds an echo in the Carrara marble countertop, added along with cylindrical metal hardware to update the existing wooden vanity.—E.H.

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Key elements (below) With plenty of visual interest outside of this Blue Ridge Parkway-situated home, says STOA’s Michael Savage, the design task was to stay out of the way.

Both clients and architects wanted a crisp, simple look for the house that would allow the views to dominate.

One means to that end was a tightly limited materials palette. Whereas the original interior featured lots of beige walls, gold faucets and fussy trim, STOA pared it all down to a few key materials. Rich walnut wood plays against dark gray steel, stone and tile, and otherwise nearly everything is white: walls, trim, ceiling and counters.

The house is conceived as a whole, so that the dark gray floor tile in the master bathroom, for example, echoes the hue of a steel fireplace surround and granite hearth a couple of rooms away. “We tried to tie absolutely everything together,” says Savage.

The simplicity of style here makes it hard to overlook the fine craftsmanship that animates each surface. A few special touches provide luxury, like the large tile on the master bathroom walls, with its wavelike relief pattern.—E.H.

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The westward view from this open, slightly elevated Fauquier County site is magnificent— a far-reaching rural tapestry laced with stone walls and regularly traversed by foxhunts. “The house needed to address that view,” says architect Adams Sutphin. The rear of the home, including living room, kitchen and most of the bedrooms, frames the landscape through many windows and French doors.

The house has a quiet luxuriousness, a result of the clients’ and architect’s careful handling of details, as in the master bathroom, where a continued use of the same custom wide-plank

white oak flooring found throughout the house lends unity to the spaces. Walls and trim are, in many rooms, painted the same color.

“That kept it calm,” says Sutphin. Statuary white marble tile tops a custom vanity designed by Sutphin and lines the three-side frameless glass shower.

From every room—whether a private guest suite on the first floor or the master bathroom on the second floor with its marble-tiled shower—the outside views beckon with a changing seasonal palette and occasional equestrian passersby.—E.H.

Alloy Workshop’s Dan Zimmerman says the principle of universal design plays out in three ways in the bathroom: technologically, functionally and stylistically. “Universal design allows kids to reach the faucet in the bathroom, or if you are impaired, it allows you to roll into the shower,” says Zimmerman.

In the case of this Charlottesville home, Alloy drastically altered the footprint of the 1980s home’s existing bathroom to accommodate an occupant with compromised mobility.

Stylistically, Zimmerman says a natural material palette seems to jive best with the principle of universal design. Natural stone and tile, soapstone and slate are popular because they are easy to maintain and are durable, he says. Here, color is eschewed in favor of texture: Tiles of various size, format and material complement maple flooring. For added warmth, both physical and perceived, Alloy installed radiant heat into the flooring.—S.G.

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Conceived of as a sanctuary, this warm, richly textured space is what design-build firm Alloy Workshop calls a “trapezoidal wet zone”—a rain shower and soaking tub with a sculptural surround for relaxation in a hot bath.

A niche wall—for candles or other bathroom accoutrements—separates the tub and toilet area and ties to the rest of the room with Carrera marble accents also found in the vanity. And, says Alloy designer Kate Tabony, “Penny tiles create an interesting contrast to the calm, smooth finish of the tub and subways tiles.”—C.W.

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As homeowners Tom and Jenny Becherer— who head an IT firm together—searched for an architect to design their Western Albemarle house, they perused a book about modernstyle farmhouses. “We wanted something that evoked an earlier period, but we liked the clean lines of modern architecture,” says Tom. They were drawn to a house in the book designed by Washington-based architect Robert Gurney. In particular, they loved a wall of windows in that project, and pointed to that photo when they eventually found themselves meeting with Gurney to begin the design process. “I want my whole house to look like that,” Tom remembers saying.

With light and views as a priority, Gurney arrived at a scheme that would maximize visual contact with the outdoors. The basic design is a trio of pavilions arranged in a U shape.

A glass-enclosed bumpout on the third pavilion makes room for the master bath and adds surprising complexity to the form of the house.

Gurney channeled his clients’ wish for timehonored materials (wood, stone, metal) into a building that’s rigorous in its modernity. “If you look at a lot of contemporary homes, I think they’re cold,” says Tom. In this case, white walls are meant to recede so that the exterior views, entering through sweeping windows divided by black framing in Mondrian-like compositions, can provide color and warmth.—E.H. ABODE 33

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his is a full circle kind of story. A couple of years ago, on this very page, we got some advice from local contractor Troy Yancey about renovating an Earlysville ranch house that was then on the market. Troy recommended opening some walls to improve flow, adding a fourth bedroom and a few other fixes.

Well, the house stayed on the market for a while until Amy and Darian Cochran bought it in June. Both realtors, the pair felt that the local market was lacking in older homes under $300,000 that had been updated with quality finishes. “We thought we’d give people an option for a nicely built home,” says Amy. They set about taking this 1975 house into the new century. There was plenty to dive into. A previous owner had begun and abandoned a renovation, leaving a zone in the rear of the house unfinished. A former carport had been enclosed as a sunroom, but wasn’t a very inviting space. And, as you’d expect, many finishes were just plain dated.

To create a more open concept layout, the homeowners took down a wall between the kitchen and living room, making it one continuous, contemporary space.

The Cochrans took many walls down to the studs.

That included the one that separated the living room and kitchen, which in the new floor plan are essentially one space. “We kept the layout of the kitchen,” says Amy, “but replaced everything.”

The kitchen now looks thoroughly contemporary, with dark gray granite countertops, white cabinets and gray subway backsplash tile. A stainless steel range hood telegraphs modern style.

Across the bar from the kitchen, the living room looks fresh with new crown molding, baseboards and engineered hardwood flooring, plus a whitewash finish on the brick fireplace.

Capacity boost “We tried to get more storage where we could,” Amy says—for example, by adding a pantry near the eat-in part of the kitchen. The laundry/mud room had space to add built-in cubbies and hooks. A coat of white paint on the existing cupboards freshens up the look of the room.

That closed-in carport is now a one-car garage and storage area, which clearly was its destiny all along.

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Just off the kitchen, a would-be dining room was impractical to access, to say the least—imagine carrying platters of food through the mudroom, outside onto the deck, then back in through French doors! Now, a wide cased opening allows flow directly from the kitchen into this space.

“We tried to leave it open; it could be a dining room, playroom or office depending on what a person needs,” says Amy.

Two-way street The Cochrans, in fact, were aiming for flexibility when they figured out a way to allow access

to the master suite from two directions. If a family needed more privacy, either of these routes could be closed off.

Currently, the master suite opens off the dining room and also to the bedroom hallway. The suite includes bedroom, bathroom, walk-in closet (with window!) and an extra room that, again, could fill different needs depending on who lived here. It might be a nursery, an office, a den or a studio—or, closed off from the master, it could function as a standalone bedroom.

Both bathrooms have received the royal treatment, with new vanities, tile and fixtures in a contemporary, unfussy style. Oil-rubbed bronze details in the master bathroom are especially appealing.

All systems go We’d be remiss not to mention the nitty-gritty improvements: new plumbing, electrical, insulation and windows. And, of course, the all-around aesthetic boost from fresh paint, the removal of popcorn ceilings, new carpeting and flooring, and better lighting choices.

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I would use them again in a heartbeat. Great job! “

“The Savage Team are wonderful Realtors to work with. They know their stuff. Anytime I had reached out to them, they responded promptly. Out of the three real state agents they gave us the most realistic estimate on our home. We needed a quick transaction and got 3 offers on the first day of being on the market.”

“Judy was an ideal realtor.

She responded quickly when we decided to list our home. In the initial walk through she provided specific guidance on how to best present our home to buyers explaining the reasons behind her thinking. She was open to discussion if our thoughts differed from hers. The photographs of our home accurately portrayed our home to prospective buyers”.

“The Savage team is incredible. They helped us buy and sell a home this year and did so in record time. From the professional photographer they brought in to take pictures to using their moving truck free of charge to their incredible work ethic, they are great. “

“Due to my career, we have moved around and sold several houses. We have never had someone work as hard for us to make the process work as The Savage Team.”

“The Savage Team did an excellent job of working through a sales process that required a fair amount of negotiating.

They were very patient and pragmatic in their approach. They staged my empty home as needed and was definitely a large value add to my selling process. “

Judy & Tara Savage (434) 951-9244 www.SavageTeam.com 943 Glenwood Station Lane, Suite 203 Charlottesville, VA 22901

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Retro robots have always been a favorite subject of artist and graphic illustrator Andrew Stronge. “I enjoyed drawing and painting them and it resulted in me getting them as gifts,” he says. “Then it started spiraling out of control.” His collection numbers in the hundreds now; he finds them at flea markets, antique stores, Etsy and eBay. And while he admits to having spent more than $100 on one, it’s his family and friends he blames for the ever-growing array.—Caite White

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SLATE HILL - Built from the heart and hand crafted from a unique original design combining traditional Virginia farmhouse style with an elegant touch of Swedish charm. The home was designed

by Bethany Puopolo, a renowned architect of classic Virginia estate homes. When Slate Hill was featured in Southern Living, the design was instantly lauded for its graceful blend of motifs & its comfortable open spaces & elegant attention to timeless details. There are 3 quarries on the property, fenced paddock and a 2BR guest cottage.

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OLD HALL, c. 1830 - A solid brick home overlooking the historic river town of Scottsville. Formerly the James W. Mason House, Old Hall is considered to be early Greek Revival, but shows Federal elements.

High ceilings, impressive grand mantels, beautiful woodwork and authentic heart pine flooring. On the National Historic Register and the Virginia Landmarks Register.

Frank Hardy 434.296.0134

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SILVER SPRINGS - Stately brick home in Blandemar Farm Estates. Just over 25 acres with a pond and Blue Ridge Mountain Views. The 8175sf home covers three floors and is custom built

by Greer Associates. Features include elegant limestone foyer, mahogany thresholds and copper guttering. First floor master suite has his and hers walk in closets and marble bathroom. High ceilings throughout. Formal dining room and parlor. Acreage has an abundance of fruit and nut trees.

Ann Hay Hardy 202.297.0228

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HARD BARGAIN c.1878 - National Register of Historic Places. First time offered for sale in 72 years, situated on the largest Downtown parcel consisting of 3.5 park-like acres. Classic Victorian with some Italianate characteristics. Tall windows and high ceilings make the large rooms seem even more spacious.

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DRAMATIC COMPOUND ON 121 ACRES

IMMACULATE WITH BLUE RIDGE VIEWS

6801 Blackwell lane $2,295,000

Rarely does a property come along showcasing the construction, interior and landscape design quality of Willow Creek. Improvements include the breathtaking main house surrounded by panoramic views and complete with 24 foot ceilings, exposed beams and 2 fireplaces in the great room. Across a pool and gardens from the main house is the 2 bedroom/2 bathroom guest house. Additional improvements include equipment garage, 3 bedroom farm manager’s house, green house and restored chestnut barn. Total privacy. 6 tax map parcels: good easement candidate.

176 CLAYMONT DRIVE • $669,000 This Gaffney-built home on an extensively landscaped, private parcel overlooking the Blue Ridge could not be in better condition. Truly, every finish and system is in perfect condition and the floor plan, including 1st floor master, is spot on! 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 3 car garage.

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3 CANTERBURY ROAD • $2,075,000 The original residence offers gracious entertaining rooms complete with tall ceilings, extensive woodwork and four fireplaces. The current owners enhanced these elegant, character-rich spaces with an addition comprised of a large family room off the kitchen, extensive home office/mudroom/catering/laundry spaces, plus pool bathroom.

1210 MOWBRAY PLACE • $355,000 Wonderful Downtown location for this solid brick home with 2-car Garage! 1st and 2nd floors were recently renovated including new Kitchen, and two new bathrooms. Walk-out Basement with Family Room & 2nd fireplace is comfortable & perfect play space or to watch sporting events. Tommy Brannock (434) 981-1486. MLS# 538765

1073 DURRETT RIDGE ROAD • $329,000 In northwest Albemarle. Potential to create a noteworthy country property, retreat, estate or family compound with multiple building sites & 2 division rights. Set well off a quiet lane for total privacy & tranquility. A meandering stretch of Rivanna North Fork defines the rear boundary. Dennis Woodriff (434) 531-0140. MLS# 536409

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152 POORHOUSE LANE • $319,000 Only 5 minutes to shopping at Zion Crossroads, Martha Jefferson & UVA Hospital satellite offices & restaurants. Total of 5 bedrooms, including separate studio apartment. All kitchen and laundry appliances included. 10 private acres with 1 acre of fenced yard and gardens. Elizabeth Feil Matthews (434) 284-2105. MLS# 538432

1563 VISTAS CONDOS • $199,500 Savor the views from the private deck in the summer, and in front of the fireplace in the winter. Bedroom with floor-to-ceiling windows. Two full bathrooms, one located en suite with the bedroom for enhanced privacy. Kitchen is open to the great room with raised eating bar for casual dining. Billie Magerfield (434) 962-8865. MLS# 534190

1248 TURNER MOUNTAIN ROAD • $1,995,000 This brick & slate, c.1961 residence rests on one of the most dramatic, serene & protected sites in Albemarle County and yet the 13 acres are only 10 minutes to town. More than 180° views of the Blue Ridge & Ragged Mountains, Charlottesville & farmland surround this stately 4-5 bed, 4.5 bath home & guest cottage. MLS# 538038

1730 lamBs Road $945,000

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1411 CHERRY AVENUE • $259,000 Less than a mile from UVA Hospital. Remodeled eat-in kitchen with granite counters, updated bath with floating sink, large living room with fireplace, separate dining room, wood floors throughout first floor, and a large private yard. Expansion potential in full basement with second fireplace. Joan Jay (434) 906-1806. MLS# 536667

MINI ESTATE OVERLOOKING IVY CREEK

4 bedrooms, 4 full, 2 half baths, pool, pool house with half bath, Ivy Creek frontage, serious privacy and tranquility SO CLOSE to town. This property is an incredible value for the right buyers.

The residence offers abundant formal and casual living spaces inside and out, all immaculately maintained. All 4 full bathrooms recently renovated beautifully. Gardens, level lawns, even an indoor racquetball court that can be used for general recreation.

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