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A LOVE OF Beauty.4

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The Hogstens love of flowers, and patience, got them through a home remodel of 1930s house

Story Benita Heath | Photography Jeremy Holtzapfel

Karen and Tony Hogsten took a shell of a house and turned it into their pearl of a home.

Their secret is a simple game plan of teaming diligence with panache. And keeping a steady eye on the Internet.

“I buy everything online,” Karen said.

Their canvas was the property at the corner of 29th and Hackworth streets built in 1935 by Dr. William Gambill, who lived there with his wife, son and daughter. The doctor’s son was killed in a car accident, days after he earned his medical degree. His bedroom was kept the way he left it until the Gambill family sold the property.

Hackworth was, from the 1930s to 1960s, sort of a street of family doctors. A block from this house was the home of Dr. John C. Hall, who practiced from an office on the side of the house. In the back of his house, Hall kept chickens in a white frame coop. Whenever he wanted some fried chicken, he’d just pop outside and dispatch a fowl, sending its spirit to hen heaven and its breasts and legs to his frying pan. Often light sleepers in the neighborhood were awakened by the crow of the rooster from this coop in the early morning.

The Hogstens are the fourth family to own the property to which a former owner added a back wing in the 1990s.

Ironically, it was a project that took guts, because “gut” is a word Karen Hogsten uses often to describe the restoration work.

For example, as she takes a visitor through the seven bedrooms, 5,000 square foot house, she casually says, “We gutted the kitchen.”

And turned it into a 21st century room where creating meals becomes an easy job.

Granite is the material that dominates the newlydesigned kitchen. But this time, the granite is in earth tones, rather than the more common darker shades.

That gives the kitchen a perpetually airy, sunny feel.

Also, Karen said this shade of granite is practical. It doesn’t show fingerprints.

Walking into the kitchen, eyes go quickly to the sink. Stainless steel is not in any way a design theme here.

This sink, a pinkish pale gray granite, looks like sculpture, not something just to have a place to scrub up pans.

“The plumbers were not happy,” Karen said.

Its beauty eluded them when they were called to install it. Their problem? It weighs 400 pounds.

Off the kitchen is the butlers’s pantry with glass-faced panels.

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The original circa 1930s oak flooring in the main house meant updating.

“All the floors were stripped and refinished,” Karen said.

Again, this turned oak, which can look dark and heavy, into a mellow appearance, adding to the warmth of the house.

Besides following their own tastes, the Hogstens called on the expertise of Tim Quade, of Interior Motives. He picked out for one room the floral wallpaper with its noir background where peonies dance across.

In no way does this wallpaper look dated. Rather it blends the old and the new sides of the house with ease and a modern appeal.

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Two themes throughout the house show Karen’s passion for flowers and horses.

The floral motif comes from Karen’s lifelong nurturing of flower beds, a love she developed as a child.

A serious equestrienne, Karen takes that passion and makes it visual. There are paintings of horses everywhere. One fireplace features horse andirons.

“I got them from Craigslist,” Karen said. “They came from a doctor’s house in Atlanta.”

Not many can say they’ve turned part of their house into a stable. No, not for a real horse. But the size of one.

Wild Paint, that takes up a goodly portion of a living area room, Karen bought at a special Lexington auction. This was when throughout the city of Lexington, the arts council installed colorfully painted statues of full-sized horses. Some of the statues went to auction. Karen placed the right bid on Wild Paint, designed by Kathryn Wise of Georgetown, Kentucky.

How did she get it home? A horse trailer, of course.

Karen is always on the lookout for special touches to enhance their home. One of her especial finds she found close to her backyard — A cameo chandelier.

“That came out of the basement of the house next door,” she said.

And that is the decorating secret. Curiosity. Patience. And a love of beauty.

The Hogstens’ pearl of a house glows. a

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