Range 2016 Issue 4

ISSUE 4 / 2016

MUST HAVE —

Fireplaces & Accessories TEN TIPS —

Tile NEIGHBORHOOD —

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Remodel ISSUE

Make a log cabin modern.

Turn a modular home into something special.

Stay sane when things go wrong.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS features

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A HOUSE BECOMES A HOME

Locals Sally and Mike Brin turn a standard West Jackson house into something special.

By Lila Edythe

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ALL IN THE FAMILY

A couple remodel an inherited house to suit their needs while staying true to their relative’s feelings for the place.

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SEEING THINGS IN BLACK & WHITE

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A log house is made modern.

By Dina Mishev

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Photograph by David Agnello

By Maggie Theodora

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10 / WHAT INSPIRES ME

Travis Walker, artist and founder of Teton Artlab

28 / ARCHITECTURE: STAYING GROUNDED

A home design speaks to the surrounding landscape

and reaches for the sky.

12 / FAVORITES

What we want this season

30 / ON THE MARKET

Properties currently for sale, from $650K to $7.6 million

16 / MUST HAVE: FIREPLACES & ACCESSORIES

Valley professionals share ideas to warm up your home.

32 / SHOPPING TRIP: SALT LAKE CITY

Once the place to go for less-expensive flights, Utah’s

capital is now a destination itself, especially if you’re

interested in architecture and design.

18 / NEIGHBORHOOD: GILL ADDITION

This area in East Jackson has been town’s hot spot for decades.

38 / DESIGN: THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

Done well, cabinetry can be an important design element.

20 / TEN TIPS: TILE

Whether done yourself or by professionals, tile is a

space changer.

64 / HOME SWEET HOME

Home is where the gear is.

24 / ARTISAN: JILL ZEIDLER

This artist’s functional, whimsical ceramics bring art to

everyday life.

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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

I WAS TWENTY-TWO when I signed a lease of my own for the first time. The apartment was a second-story space above a garage that itself had been converted into an apartment. The groundfloor garage apartment, with its plywood walls, sunken floors, and one window, was gross. Mine was open and light-filled. I didn’t care that mold grew in two corners of the carpet. The walls were once whitish, but, by the time I moved into the place, were beige on the way to brown.

The linoleum kitchen floor wasn’t just rippled, but had whitecaps. The kitchen counters were canary yellow Formica. The fiberglass shower stall was half-size, and pretty much in the middle of the living room. Its “door” was a curtain. In the ceiling above one of the moldy corners was a hole in the drywall. Insulation, and sometimes water, occasionally fell through. The place needed some help, but I loved every inch of it.

I put up the artwork I wanted—posters, really—wherever I wanted. I invested in a new shower “door.” It wasn’t long before I wanted to do more. “Do you mind if I paint the walls?”

I asked my landlord. He agreed to it, and even

reimbursed me for the paint. He didn’t care what color(s) I used. A couple of months later, the carpet started looking shabby against the new walls. The landlord then allowed me to buy new, inexpensive carpet. Without asking, because he really didn’t seem to care, I installed new shelves—the open kind—in the kitchen. Within a year of my moving in, the place had been completely redone (but still had a hole in the ceiling).

When I bought my first place several years later, I was able to do real remodeling: Concrete floors were torn up, and wood was put down; kitchen cabinets were refinished; every room was painted (some multiple times); bathroom vanities were upgraded; the shower was tiled; and an addition was built onto the deck. With the completion of each project, I marveled at how much it transformed the condo, whether it was new paint or a new wood floor.

If you consider painting remodeling, which I do, most everyone remodels a living space at least once in their life. And whether it’s big or small, it’s always intimidating, yet also exciting.

Many of the articles—and all of the features—in RANGE ISSUE FOUR 6

this issue of Range focus on remodeling, from what tile can do for a room (p. 20) to turning a traditional log cabin into a bright, contemporary space (p. 56). We spoke to valley contractors, architects, and realtors about remodeling here (p. 43). Even coming at it from different perspectives, all agreed on one thing: The future of building in Jackson Hole is remodeling. Most of the lots that can be privately owned already have homes on them.

Whether you’re looking at updating your kitchen or transforming a nondescript home into something spectacular—or need inspiration to make a change—this issue should be helpful.

As always, you can trust that everything in Range, from products to homes, is in it because it has merit, and we think deserves to be shared.

We hope you agree.

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CONTRIBUTORS

MARK HUFFMAN,

(“Neighborhood: Gill Addition,” p. 18), is a native Californian who has been back to that state once since uprooting himself in 1978. Today he writes for Jackson Hole magazine and edits copy for the Jackson Hole News&Guide.

JULIE FUSTANIO KLING (“Design: Custom Cabinetry,” p. 38) is a regular contributor to Range and Jackson Hole magazines. She organizes TEDx talks in the valley, and formerly covered politics, police corruption, and financial futures for publications in Chicago and New York. Her last piece for Range was a feature story on the Grove, the first affordable rental units built by the Teton County Housing Authority.

PUBLISHER Kevin Olson ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Adam Meyer EDITOR Dina Mishev ART DIRECTOR Colleen Valenstein COPY EDITOR Pamela Periconi CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lila Edythe Mark Huffman Julie Fustanio Kling Jeremy Pugh Maggie Theodora

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WHAT INSPIRES ME

Graphic Novels I learned how to draw from copying comic books when I was younger, and that eventually evolved into painting. My work is still pretty graphic. Now, I’ll look at graphic novels and not necessarily pay attention to what’s going on in the story. I get into the way artists create space and how they put a picture together. There are a couple that I read, though, like the Sin City series.

TRAVIS WALKER

Video Games About Wyoming I grew up playing tons and tons of video games. I don’t have as much time to play them now, but I’m into them in the same way I’m into books. There’s this game Firewatch that is set in the wilderness of Wyoming. It tells a story, and the visuals are gorgeous and have influenced stuff I’m working on now. In the game, the whole landscape is covered by smoke. I’ll pause the game and do a drawing. In the game, you can just run around the world they’ve created and look at things. You don’t have to kill anything. And the game The Last of Us has this huge section that takes place in “Jackson County.” The game has re-created a version of the Teton landscape, and that’s part of what makes it so amazing. firewatchgame.com

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By Dina Mishev ∙ Portrait by David Agnello

Tourists I live downtown and see lots of buses. I like watching tourists. I’ll wander out of my studio and take photos. I feel like [Jackson Hole-based nature photographer] Tom Mangelsen stalking these people. I’ve been doing paintings with tourists as subjects since I moved here. They take a lot more time for me than a painting of the Teton Theatre does, though. I’ve done an Amish family in front of Old Faithful, and an older couple with a giant moose sculpture (Dangermoose, shown here) right in front of my studio. They’re generally funny, and not dark and isolating like a lot of my other works.

The painting of the Amish family makes me happy.

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Mike Piggott and Wendell Field’s Art Studios Every time I go to Mike and Wendell’s studios— they’re in a building that has the studios of ten artists—it is humbling. They’re better at their craft than I am. I don’t know if they feel that way, but it’s how I feel. Mike (work shown above) is one of the few people whose advice I’ll take on things. He’s like a sage to me.

And then Wendell, he’s an interesting artist who’s very inspired by the landscape around him. Studios open by advance appointment, 307/413-4850 or 208/709-7273, 160 S. Cache; Piggott’s work can also be seen at Tayloe Piggott Gallery, 62 S. Glenwood Photography (Sin City books and Teton Tiger sign): David Agnello

Vintage Signage in Downtown The new sign for the restaurant Teton Tiger is probably one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s not vintage, but it looks old.

Every business should have to make their signs like that. I did a residency in Vermont with a guy who made these signs, but since he was getting fewer and fewer commissions, he turned it into art and was making these crazy sculptures with the materials you’d make a sign out of. I look at old photos of Jackson’s downtown and see how the signs have changed for the worse. The Cowboy Bar sign is the only one left. I hope it will survive.

PAINTER TRAVIS WALKER FIRST SAW the Tetons in a mall in Delaware when he was a teenager. Walker, forty, worked at the mall, where a poster shop had reproductions of Ansel Adams’ photographs of the West. “The poster store was my favorite in the mall,” Walker says. Walker and his wife, Lisa—a graphic designer whose line of apparel is sold at Persephone, Workshop, and Habits—moved to the valley in 2002. “We moved here for her job,” he says. “I don’t do the Jackson stuff like ski or bike.” Walker spends his time outside painting. “It never occurred to me to paint outside all the time until I moved to Jackson,” he says. “I tried it a couple of times as a student and liked it, but never got hooked until moving here.”

In 2007, Walker founded Teton Artlab, which supports artists by providing affordable studio space, housing, stipends, and creative opportunities beyond the studio. In 2012, Altamira Fine Art began representing Walker. “I’d never been in a gallery before,” Walker says. His show at the gallery, Out There, hangs from September 20 through October 4. Here, Walker shares some of the things that ignite his creativity and inspire his work.

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FAVORITES PLATED BRONC Artist Conner Baldacci, of Gillette, came up with a new way to portray Wyoming’s trademark bucking bronc: using vintage license plates. Baldacci made his first license plate bronc four years ago, at the ripe age of fourteen, for the local fair.

They were immediately popular, and he has since designed different sizes and expanded to use different metals. If you have a collection of old license plates sitting around, Baldacci will make a custom bronc. From $92, MADE, 125 N. Cache, 307/690-7957, madejacksonhole.com

BEAR NECESSITIES We can’t decide if these bear-topped glass jars (10 inches tall) look better on the kitchen counter or in the bathroom. In the former, we’ve got one on the countertop stuffed with cookies. In the latter, it’s perched on the vanity and holds bath salts. $50, Lily & Co., 95 W. Deloney Ave., 307/732-2211, lilyandcompany.wordpress.com

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’BROIDERED BISON Coral & Tusk’s whimsical embroidered home decor items have been sold in the valley for several years. Starting this summer, though, founder Stephanie Housley has a workspace in the back of the boutique Workshop. (Formerly based only in Brooklyn, New York, Housley and husband Chris Lacinak recently bought a house in nearby Bondurant.) Watch as Housley draws on fabrics before embroidering over the design, and then buy one of these bison pillows she made earlier. From $105, Workshop, 180 E. Deloney Ave., 307/733-5520, workshopjh.com RANGE ISSUE FOUR 12

Photography (bear jar, bronco, blanket): Jeffrey Kaphan

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FAVORITES

MEOW Yes, a cat cave is a thing. And yes, this sleepy one with ears made by Lithuanian artist Indre Naujokiene is the cutest one ever. Naujokiene, who also does gorgeous felt sculptures in addition to pieces for pets, uses 100 percent natural felt to hand-make each of these cat caves, available in different sizes. Custom orders are possible, too.

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STICK A FORK IN IT Flatware is often overlooked—one of those details you don’t think about until you’re holding a fork and it feels wrong. The balance of Fortessa Tableware Solutions’ Arezzo flatware is perfect, and its rustic-yet-sophisticated lines are perfect for Jackson Hole. Arezzo is available in three finishes: brushed gold, copper, and stainless steel.

Right now we only have eyes for the brushed gold. From $58, food52.com

DOG DREAMS Your dog probably prioritizes comfort over looks; you’re probably concerned with both. San Francisco-based P.L.A.Y. designs dog beds with everyone’s needs in mind. P.L.A.Y.’s beds are filled with the perfect amount of PlanetFill filler (made from 100 percent post-consumer, certified-safe recycled plastic bottles), and covers are machine washable and dryer-friendly.

Our dog loves the ergonomics of the Urban Lounge Bed; we love how the simple, dark blue denim cover trimmed in mandarin orange looks in our living room. If you want to make more of a statement, P.L.A.Y. makes beds with graphic patterns designed exclusively for them by dog-loving artists in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. From $98, petplay.com

3 Squares’ TIM3 MACHIN3 doesn’t do the grocery shopping, but can pretty much handle everything in the kitchen once you’re home. The stainless steel, programmable slow cooker does rice (nearly twice as fast as many other rice cookers), steams food, and makes yogurt. Quinoa? Before it cooks it, it toasts it. Seriously.

And it gets better: The TIM3 MACHIN3 comes with a steam tray—cook rice or quinoa and steam an entree at the same time. Don’t even get us started on how easily it makes yogurt; just know that we’re now eating about a quart of it a day. Each. $69.99, allmodern.com

FUNCTIONAL ART Artist Nate Padavick created this cute and quirky custom illustration of the valley for our sister publication, Jackson Hole magazine. Belle Cose had the brilliant idea to print it on reusable canvas totes. $27, Belle Cose, 48 E. Broadway, 307/733-2640, bellecose.com RANGE ISSUE FOUR 14

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FIREPLACES & ACCESSORIES

By Molly Absolon Valley designers and architects (and us!) share some of our favorite fireplaces and accessories below. We’ve even found a way to bring fire to spaces that, for whatever reason, can’t have a traditional fireplace or wood-burning stove.

Shannon White Burns of Shannon White Design is crazy about the ceramic, stackable modular stoves designed by Adriano Design and manufactured from natural clay by Italian company La Castellamonte Stufe. The clay modules, finished with glazes in a variety of colors, hold heat for hours after the fire goes out. From $8,995 plus $2,300 for shipping; available in the U.S. through distributor Todd Smith of API Design in Saranac Lake, New York; apidesign.us, stackstoves.com/en

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Brad Hoyt of CTA Architects Engineers in Jackson says he is always on the lookout for the right project for the Fireorb. A futuristic, ovalshaped woodstove, the Fireorb is suspended in midair to create the impression of a fire floating in space. “It’s what George Jetson would do!” Hoyt says. “It sets a tone that is definitively not rustic.” The Fireorb is available as wood- or gas-burning. From $5,900, fireorb.net

Inside Design Studio designer Jessica Travis Ginter likes to give clients looking for a wood-burning stove an economical choice—but not at the expense of good looks. “I love the beautiful minimalist design of stoves from companies like Wittus,” she says, “but they are pricey and hard to find.” Ginter says the Hearthstone Bari 8170, available in black and gray soapstone, has similar lines but is more affordable and can be purchased locally. From $4,999, Leisure Time Inc. Idaho Falls, leisuretimeidahofalls.com

Freestanding Flames When a traditional fireplace with a flue or chimney isn’t an option, look at the freestanding fireplaces by EcoSmart Fire. They can be placed in a room like any piece of furniture and cast cozy flames by burning bioethanol, a renewable and clean fuel. No venting required. The Fusion model is glass-framed in black, red, or white. Smaller spaces have the Ghost, made of glass and steel. Ghost from $2,652, Fusion from $6,470, ecosmartfire.com

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Striking Out

“The Cowboy Cauldron is not your average fire pit,” says Hayden Jones, an interior designer and the owner of Festive Living. “It’s an amazing addition to your outdoor entertaining space.

You can enjoy a campfire in your own backyard, and you can even grill on it. It’s a conversation piece of supreme quality that you will enjoy for a lifetime.” From $1,500, Festive Living, 13 S. Main St. Victor, Idaho; 208/787-3378, festive-living.com, cowboycauldron.com

Strike a match directly on Farmhouse Pottery’s special stoneware and it ignites. Gather compliments on the cuteness of its Milk Bottle Match Striker, which looks like its name implies and holds matches instead of milk. From $38, farmhousepottery.com RANGE ISSUE FOUR 16

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Interior designer Agnes Bourne likes Tuell and Reynolds’ Montana Fire Tool Set, handmade in Northern California from architectural bronze and stainless steel, and available in a variety of finishes. “The collection is artist-made and -designed, and good for a western lifestyle, either modern or traditional,” Bourne says. Price available upon request, tuellreynolds.com

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Architect Hoyt loves the simplicity and utility of Danish company RAIS’ fireplace tools. RAIS makes a number of different models, but Hoyt favors the Buteo line, made of black steel with contrasting stainless steel handles, for its graceful curved form.

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Designer Bourne again picks Tuell and Reynolds when asked for a favorite fire screen. Their Venice model features a light, airy web made from bronze. Slices of Brazilian agate embedded in the weave change color and hue with the intensity of the flames. “The Venice screen makes the fireplace a work of art,” Bourne says. “It has a practical use and also creates beauty.”

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LEWIS GILL WAS A GAMBLER—he liked cards, and he liked pool.

The Missouri native came to Jackson Hole in the 1930s by way of Idaho. Here he ran the Log Cabin Bar, on the Town Square where Lee’s Tees is currently located, and also the Home Ranch Hotel, now the site of the Home Ranch parking lot on North Cache.

Gill liked games of chance, and was smart enough to know when to get out. In 1950, combining his winnings with money he’d made through hard work, he bought what many might have thought was a loser—a pasture that, at the time, was on the edge of town. “He got smart, and when he won some money he bought property,” says his daughter, Sharon Gill, now seventy-one years old and a lifelong Jackson resident. “Instead of gambling it all away again, he would invest it.”

Gill bought the pasture when he was about sixty-eight. The

seller was Grace Miller, the widow of Robert Miller. (Robert Miller was one of the first settlers in the valley, the namesake of Miller Butte, and the founder of Jackson State Bank, which was later bought by Wells Fargo.) Gill gave Grace Miller $9,000 down toward the $33,050 price tag for thirty acres.

From the beginning, the Gill Addition was town’s tony subdivision, the place where the valley’s professional class lived.

“It was all local people who had businesses in town,” says Liz Gill Lockhart, Lewis Gill’s granddaughter and Sharon’s niece. “They would save up and get a lot and build a home. It’s not like now, with people moving from outside. They were all from the area.”

Sharon Gill says, “It was the elite neighborhood.” Jackson realtor and developer Greg Prugh, who lives in the Gill neighborhood today with his wife and three kids, remembers the same. “When

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my parents moved here [to the valley] in the early 1970s, that was the place to live,” he says.

The Prughs didn’t live there at the time, but Greg went to school across the street, had friends who lived in the Gill Addition, and, “I thought, ‘What a great place to live,’ because it was right in town.”

Lewis Gill knew from the start he didn’t want anything haphazard or low-class. The covenants he established, about thirty typewritten lines including the legal description, banned any commercial activity and required residents to build houses of at least 850 square feet, costing no less than $8,500. Many people bought two lots, or more, with a bigger house or yard in mind.

The Gill Addition is located between Jackson Elementary School and St. John’s Medical Center, north of Broadway to the boundary of the National Elk Refuge. Gill divided his land into 155 lots. All but two of them were 50 feet by 150 feet, the typical town lot size at the time.

Lockhart remembers living in the subdivision in the 1950s. It was only partly developed, with many empty lots; the big cottonwoods and pines that now shade much of the area were saplings.

“It was barren; there were no trees,” she says.

As was common in 1950s neighborhoods across the country, kids roamed the area, though they didn’t go far beyond. “We didn’t wander over to other neighborhoods,” Lockhart recalls, even those only a few blocks away. “We never went over to Redmond, and they never came over to where we lived.”

One early Gill buyer was Grant Larson, later a Jackson businessman and a sixteen-year Wyoming senator for Teton County. He looked the place over in 1957 with his wife, Maralyn, when he was still in the Air Force. Gill showed the couple lots on Teton Avenue, along the Elk Refuge fence. Sales in that part of the addition were slow, Larson remembers, because people didn’t care to live along the fence and because “it was too far out of town.”

The Larsons, though, liked the spot and bought two lots. They were $550 each. When Larson asked about financing, Gill told him he would carry a note at 6 percent. “How much down?” Larson asked. He remembers Gill staring at the clouds for a moment, considering, and then asking, “Could you give me a hundred dollars?” The deal was made.

A few years later the Larsons bought a neighboring lot from its first owner, “but the

price had gone up,” Larson says. “We paid her $900.” The Larsons built first on their original two lots, eventually expanding onto the third with a house that grew to about 2,900 square feet and still had a big backyard. They raised two kids and continue to live there today, happy they found the place. “We handpicked our lots, and we still love it,” Larson says. “We love being right up against the refuge fence and having that view with the Tetons behind it. We like to have breakfast on the back porch and just look.”

The Gill Addition is now entering its next stage of life. Old houses are being torn down and replaced, and the new houses are bigger and closer together. “In a perfect world it would be nice to build one house on two lots,” Prugh says.

“People would like to keep it single-family houses on large lots, but that’s not realistic.” Prugh says two lots in the Gill Addition today would cost about $1.3 million. “It’s difficult to buy and rebuild and not maximize the floor area.

That’s what the market is asking for,” he says.

Prugh thinks the area will continue to be coveted, given that “people love being in downtown Jackson” while retaining the quiet that comes with having no through traffic.

Prugh has been one of the leaders in the changes to the neighborhood. In January, he bought an 1,800-square-foot house built in the 1970s on two lots near his home. He scraped it and is building two new houses; each is 2,800 square feet, with additional basement and garage space. The trend in the Gill Addition, and elsewhere in downtown Jackson, is to build up to the zoning limit: 3,000 square feet on a 50-by150-foot lot.

When Prugh’s homes are finished, they’ll be on the market for close to $2 million, he says. That kind of price tag pushes the Gill Addition further and further away from a neighborhood the traditional local professional class can afford. Listings in the Gill Addition are commonly in the $2 million to $2.5 million range. In October 2015, a 3,674-square-foot house on four lots along the refuge fence sold for almost $5 million. Recently, a house on four lots where Teton Avenue and Moose Street meet was listed for about $6 million.

“I drove over there the other day and I was shocked,” says Sharon Gill, who now lives south of town. “I talked to one friend and she said, ‘I’m scared to leave my house—I’m afraid it’ll be scraped while I’m gone.’ ”

THE LARSONS LIKED THE SPOT AND BOUGHT TWO LOTS. THEY WERE $550 EACH. WHEN GRANT LARSON ASKED ABOUT FINANCING, LEWIS GILL TOLD HIM HE WOULD CARRY A NOTE AT 6 PERCENT.

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TILE PREDATES THE IDEA OF a Do It Yourself (DIY) project by many, many thousands of years.

Glazed brick found at a temple in southwestern Iran has been dated to the 13th century BC. The most skilled of Mesopotamia’s tile craftsmen traveled around the Persian Empire practicing

their art. It is only recently that ambitious homeowners have begun tackling tile projects themselves. “If you have access to the proper equipment, a small area of tile can be a great DIY project,” says Meghan Hanson, architect and founder of Natural Dwellings Architecture and a tile DIYer. A week after Hanson weighed in, while standing in line at Ace Hardware, I overheard a thirty-something woman in front of me say, “It was the best and worst home project I ever did.” Even if she hadn’t gone on to specify that it was tiling that she was talking about, the grout embedded under her nails and in her hair gave it away.

Whether you’re looking for a project to do yourself or are ready to hire a tile professional, you should find inspiration in the following tips from three area designers/architects.

KRISTIN FAY OF TRAUNER FAY DESIGNS, AND A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS (ASID), REMODELED THIS MASTER BATH FOR CLIENTS. “THEY WANTED TO STAY TRUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR HOME AND COMPLEMENT ITS HAND-HEWN RECLAIMED OAK WALLS WHILE MAKING THEIR MASTER BATH MORE MODERN WITH CLEAN LINES,” FAY SAYS. 3 The shower’s straight, stacked tiles are subdued and understated, allowing the room’s more decorative tile to pop.

4 Placing an organic tile like these pebbled ones next to an organized one like these honed travertine squares creates an interesting juxtaposition—balanced lines versus movement.

A pebble-tile backsplash creates texture and adds variety while balancing the smooth features and finishes elsewhere in the room.

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Want to add interest but not color? Try using textured tiles.

Fay brought the pebble tiles from the floor to the ceiling in the shower to carry interest upward and keep it exciting. The cap of the shower usually gets “left out,” Fay says. “I like to add detail and interest on a space that is sometimes forgotten.”

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2 The classic travertine tile in 24” x 24” squares grounds the room without competing against other elements, and it feels good on the feet.

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DESIGNER AGNES BOURNE, ASID, SAYS, “THE FINISHES OF AN EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR COMPLETE THE FORMS STARTED BY THE ARCHITECTURE. TILE FILLS AN IMPORTANT FUNCTION PROVIDING DECORATIVE, DURABLE SURFACES IN HIGH-TRAFFIC AREAS, GUARDING AGAINST WATER AND ABRASION DAMAGE.” BOURNE’S NEW JACKSON HOME, ESPECIALLY THE MASTER BATHROOM, IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS.

Wyoming consists of wide-open spaces and beautiful, verdant landscapes; textures and varied colors are authentic to that. Heath Ceramics glaze differs from tile to tile within a single color range. Here the variation in Heath’s Heron Blue glaze provides visual depth and rhythm to an otherwise flat surface.

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Tile and stone combinations tell stories about natural and manufactured environments, and contrasting shapes and scale enliven the narrative and energize a room.

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Using cut stones native to an area’s geologic composition gives a natural connection to the outdoor environment and brings a sense of place inside a home. Various colors of pebbles offer color options for accessories such as towels and wall finishes.

Natural stone like this slate can be used elsewhere—in the foyer, kitchen, and other heavy-use areas—as a functional, unifying element. When sealed, its surface and the grout lines become water- and wearproof. Install natural stone tile for maximum durability.

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YOU’LL BE HARD-PRESSED TO FIND A MORE COLORFUL HOUSE THAN THIS CARNEY LOGAN BURKE ONE IN DOWNTOWN. THE HEART OF ALL OF THE COLORS—TURQUOISE, BAMBOO, DARK BROWN, AUBERGINE, ORANGE—ARE THE GLASS SUBWAY TILES IN THE KITCHEN.

A backsplash is the perfect place to play with color.

Modwalls’ 3” x 6” lemongrass glass tiles pop here against neutral cabinets and counters.

Using a bold tile color can make a kitchen feel larger and give it more visual depth.

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Whether shopping at a local store or online, be sure to order sample tiles. This is especially important when using colored tiles. Place the sample in the space you plan on tiling to get an accurate idea of what it will look like.

Photography by Audrey Hall

Look for unique places to use tile, like the exposed back of a kitchen island, but don’t go overboard. Because this kitchen’s backsplash already makes a statement, a neutral textural tile (Dune tiles by modularArts) was chosen for the island.

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JILL ZEIDLER

This artist’s functional, whimsical ceramics bring art to everyday life.

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INSIDE WORKSHOP, an art and design boutique in downtown Jackson, Jill Zeidler’s pottery stands out for its simple elegance. Zeidler, who took up ceramics at age nineteen, crafts each piece by hand from a slab of clay in her new studio and shop, which opened in June in Big Sky, Montana.

Susan Fleming, the founder and owner of Workshop, and an artist herself, has carried Zeidler’s pottery since she opened the boutique in 2010. “Jill’s work bridges the gap between modern and classic,” Fleming says. “It can be a part of a modern home or sit on a giant farm table amid rustic interiors.”

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ARTISAN to neutrals and soft pastels, and she does both glossy and matte glazes—is as comfortable being used to serve food and drink to family and friends as it is on a shelf as a statement piece. Zeidler sometimes stamps pieces with imagery, a process called xerography transfer, inspired by the landscape: Some pieces at Workshop have honeybees, flowers, or arrows on them. “[Collectors] of my work seem to enjoy the simplicity, the colors, and the unique shapes,” Zeidler says.

“Whether they are purely

sculptural or meant to serve food, their modern, organic look is a draw.”

As a young girl, Zeidler spent hours at craft fairs with her grandmother, a seamstress. Days spent working alongside her—whether sewing or selling—left a mark. Zeidler started studying ceramics at Northern Arizona University before temporarily transferring to Montana State as part of the National Student Exchange program. After she graduated (from NAU) in 1998, Zeidler made her way

“[COLLECTORS] OF MY WORK SEEM TO ENJOY THE SIMPLICITY, THE COLORS, AND THE UNIQUE SHAPES. WHETHER THEY ARE PURELY SCULPTURAL OR MEANT TO SERVE FOOD, THEIR MODERN, ORGANIC LOOK IS A DRAW.”

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back to Montana, where galleries throughout the state exhibited her work, which, at the time, was predominantly sculptural and inspired by the Southwest landscape familiar from her college years. “My body of work was large-scale sculptures that were relevant to rock formations and mimicked nature’s found objects,” Zeidler says.

Around 2005, Zeidler began to apply the same style she used in her sculptural work to functional pieces. She says the transition was natural and that it is still evolving. “The biggest difference is now every time I make something functional, I work on how it will perform: how a teapot pours, how a mug handle feels in the holder’s hand, and how deep a bowl should be,” she says.

Whether sculptural, functional, or a mix, Zeidler’s work is organic and loose. She works with slabs, hand-stretching and joining them as you might a sewing pattern. For example, her “gourd”-style bowls start as two separate pieces: a bottom and then the rim/ring. Both are cut from clay using patterns before Zeidler joins them, placing the ring on top of the round bottom slab. Each bowl has its own character, which becomes a unique part of that piece’s look. “That is just the way they are born,” Zeidler says.

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STAYING GROUNDED This home’s design speaks to the surrounding landscape and reaches for the sky.

By Molly Absolon

SQUARE FEET: 4,400 | BEDROOMS: 4 | BATHS: 3 FULL, 1 HALF | LOT ACREAGE: 4 | COMPLETION DATE: FALL 2016

A HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION on a ridgeline of West Gros Ventre Butte seems an extension of the ground. Its colors and lines complement rather than compete with the surrounding landscape, which falls away steeply on three sides to create 270 degrees of valley views. “It was very important to celebrate the views and have the interior spaces enhanced by the backdrop of the surroundings,” says Jamie Farmer, founder of Caliber Architecture and the project architect.

“The form of the house is oriented parallel to the topography of the steep hillside, which allows it to stay under the height limit while taking advantage of the views from both the basement and the upper level,” Farmer says. “The resulting form mimics the hillside while allowing for a walkout basement and dramatic elevated views from the second level.”

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A basic rectangle with a shed roof paralleling the slope of the hillside, the 4,400-squarefoot house has a “reverse living” layout: The great room and kitchen are upstairs, and four bedrooms and a family room are on the lower level dug out of the hillside. Porches wrap around the southern end of the upper level. On the lower level, porches run east. Farmer positioned the porches to create microclimates: No matter the time of day, the homeowners can find a sunny spot or a shaded spot. A couple of covered areas ensure they can sit outside even during a rain shower. Farmer added levels, slate barriers, and intricate angles to give porches privacy.

Built from steel, glass, and stone, the house’s simple palette blends into the landscape. A glass wall running across the home’s eastern elevation is dramatic and provides passive solar heating and natural ventilation.

Because the southern side of the building envelope has expansive views of the southern half of the valley, Farmer sited and designed the house for the great room to be there. He placed the two-car garage and utility room at the home’s northern end, where there are no views.

The home’s entry could have the most dramatic views of all, but instead of giving visitors immediate gratification, the space teases them. You walk in the front door and come faceto-face with a wood-sided cube (inside are the mudroom and pantry). “The intent is to slowly reveal the dramatic views,” Farmer says. He wants to entice guests deeper inside. So, “The cube hides some of the views from the initial entry into the space.” Hints of what lies outside peek around the cube—a glimpse of sky or of Sleeping Indian.

A narrow skylight runs the length of the entryway, providing natural illumination and casting changing colors and shadows onto a wall of Oakley stone to the cube’s left. Farmer continued this wall onto the home’s exterior, linking inside to out and further grounding the house in its setting. But the home isn’t all about its connection to the earth. Farmer makes the space fly with a floating staircase to a skybridge that wraps around the eastern side of the cube.

Standing on the bridge will leave one with the impression of skywalking, East Gros Ventre Butte in the backdrop and Coyote Canyon six hundred feet below.

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$5 MILLION+ The basics: In Stonecrop, off Spring Gulch Road, this 8,000-square-foot home sits on 41 acres. It has four bedrooms, six bathrooms (four of them are full), a media room, outdoor living areas, and landscaped lawns, among other amenities.

Why you want it: With a generous sitting area, private terrace, his and her vanities and dressing areas, and a wet room lined with black slate tile, you’ll never want to leave the master suite … until you see the views from the northwest patio.

Can be yours for: $7.675 million Why it’s worth it: Built in 1992, most of the home’s three levels were recently remodeled. Architect John Carney made the home brighter and more open.

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$1 MILLION - $2.5 MILLION The basics: This four-bedroom, four-bath (three full) farmhouse-style home sits on 3 acres in Polo Ranches, a bucolic subdivision south of town popular with equestrians and families.

Why you want it: E/Ye Architects remodeled the house.

Although this happened ten years ago, the remodel was ahead of its time—flooding the home’s first floor with light and bringing a modern feel to the original design.

Can be yours for: $2.25 million Why it’s worth it: Mature landscaping and an end-of-the-

road location make this home incredibly private.

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one-car garage and a second-floor kitchen and living room.

Why you want it: Despite serious design constraints—it couldn’t be more than 478 square feet (not including basement and garage), and it had to fit an existing footprint—the basement master bedroom and bath still have 9-foot ceilings, and there’s a Euro-style guest bath off the upstairs living room.

Can be yours for: $650,000 Why it’s worth it: Snow King trails are almost right out the

front door, yet the immediate neighborhood is one of the most urban-feeling residential areas in town.

Contact: Greg Prugh, Prugh Real Estate, 307/413-2468

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By Jeremy Pugh

FOR JACKSON HOLE RESIDENTS, Salt Lake City (SLC) is often the place to go for less-expensive, more convenient flights (direct to Paris, London, and Amsterdam, anyone?). But these days, the city in the shadow of the Wasatch is a destination itself. CityhomeCOLLECTIVE (cityhomecollective.com) is a SLC design and real estate shop specializing in midcentury modern and historical homes with urban flair. Its founder and a tireless booster of the SLC design scene, Cody Derrick, puts it this way: “In this time we’re living in, everyone is giving everyone else permission to do what they want. Open a rad little coffee shop.

Be artistic. Be creative. Open a Zen center. Whatever. Be bigger

and better at being who you are. In Salt Lake it is rampant, and that’s why I’m here.”

It was members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) who founded Salt Lake City in 1847. And, in 2015, it was Salt Lake voters who elected the nation’s first lesbian mayor, Jackie Biskupski. This push and pull between the sacred and secular runs through life here and informs the city’s creativity. Salt Lake’s artists, chefs, and makers freely admit that the early Mormons who settled here—literally building the city out of the desert—did a bang-up job designing a clean, orderly place that sometimes feels like a blank canvas. Today, the wide, long streets on a sensible grid juxtapose old SLC neighborhoods with new urban spaces and high-rises. An apartment building boom is on in Salt Lake, and a great transit system, bike-friendly roads, and active Uber and Lyft services have created a perfect storm of new urbanism.

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world: It has a 21,000-seat auditorium, a 7,667pipe organ, and not a single visible support pillar.

Free tours daily, templesquare.com/tour Utah’s historic Mansion Row begins around the corner from Temple Square. The Utah Heritage Foundation offers tours and information on this area, which was developed by silver barons—non-Mormon entrepreneurs who capitalized on an early Mormon proscription against mining, starting around 1880. The oldest homes here date to the turn of the twentieth century. 801/533-0858, utahheritagefoundation.org If Temple Square is the religious heart of the city, Library Square is its premier secular space.

Designed by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie, the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library opened in 2003. The six-story, curving 240,000-square-foot building is home to more than 500,000 books, and a rooftop garden with 360-degree views of the city. 210 E. 400 South, 801/524-8200, slcpl.org

Temple Square, in downtown Salt Lake and the spiritual headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a good starting point for an architectural tour, which is free and offered multiple times a day. Today, the square is thirtyfive acres, but it was originally platted as ten.

These ten acres and the buildings on them are on the National Register of Historic Places. Included in the larger square is the Salt Lake Temple, multiple gardens, the Tabernacle, the Supernacle (more on that name shortly), the Victorian Gothic Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the former home of LDS president and Utah territorial governor Brigham Young, and two visitor centers, among other things. The imposingly multitowered temple—it has elements of both Gothic and Romanesque architecture—took forty years to build, and it was finally consecrated in 1893. It’s not open to visitors, but its exterior is impressive.

(Note the Masonic symbols carved into its sides.) Looking at The Beehive House, Young’s former residence, you’d never guess it was designed by the same architect as the temple, Young’s brotherin-law Truman O. Angell.

Both the Old Tabernacle, where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs free concerts every Sunday morning, and its successor, the LDS Conference Center (jokingly called “the Supernacle” by locals), are open for tours. The acoustics in the former are legendary, and tours include the famous “pin drop.”

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BRING IT HOME There’s a concentration of furniture, book, antique, and consignment stores on 300 South Street between State Street and 300 East. The Green Ant features a beautiful selection of midcentury modern pieces in excellent condition for fair prices. 179 E. 300 South, 801/595-1818, thegreenant.com At the densely packed Ken Sanders Rare Books you’ll likely find Mr. Sanders himself holding court in his comfy armchair. Sanders has been an agitator and countercultural rabblerouser in SLC since the 1970s. His store is a mess of rare books, Mormon historical oddities, and regional books. You can often catch his act on

PBS’ Antiques Roadshow. 268 S. 200 East, 801/5213819, kensandersbooks.com Feel like a kid again at Jitterbug Antiques, filled with whimsical vintage toys and collectibles from old cribbage boards to racecars and erector sets, Snoopy phones, and John Wayne cowboy duds. If you were born before 1975, you’ll no doubt recognize childhood treasures in this trove. 243 E. 300 South, 801/537-7038 Across town, in the 9th and 9th neighborhood, you’ll find another selection of boutiques; these are anchored by the city’s beloved arthouse cinema, The Tower Theatre. 900 East and 900 South Stop in to the Stockist to find high-quality designer goods by burly hipster brands like Red Wing and Danner, jeans by Made and Crafted,

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and hard goods by Woolrich. 875 E. 900 South, 801/532-3458, thestockistshop.com The Children’s Hour sells children’s books and unique and imaginative toys from European makers like Vilac. There’s even stuff for moms—a well-curated selection of clothing and shoes by Camper and Melissa (kids shoes, too), Eileen Fisher, and Gentle Souls to name a few. 898 S. 900 East, 801/3594150, childrenshourbookstore.com

WHERE TO PLAY The Wasatch Mountains are Salt Lake City’s backyard. Millcreek Canyon (slco.org/ recreation/parks/millcreekcanyon) is a popular place for easy-access rigorous hikes. Start hiking right in downtown from Memory Grove, a collection of memorials and monuments below the Utah State Capitol.

From here, you can hike into City Creek Canyon; walk to the end of the canyon and it’s a four-mile round-trip. You need only go a few minutes to feel like you’re out of the city, though—sidewalks are quickly gone, replaced with a shady creek in undeveloped foothills. 300 N. Canyon Rd., slcgov.com/ cityparks/parks-memory-grove Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort’s tram can’t compare to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s, but it still allows for easy access to high alpine hiking trails from Hidden Peak.

You can hike down into Mineral Basin, Peruvian Gulch, or Gad Valley, or brave one of the black diamond downhill mountain biking trails into Gad Valley. The resort’s new Summit Lodge, at the top of the tram, serves lunch and spectacular panoramic views daily, year-round. Just like at JHMR, if you do the tough, 3.5-mile hike from the base area (8,100 feet) to the top of the tram (11,000 feet) the ride down is free. Every weekend from August 13 through October 9 is Snowbird’s annual Oktoberfest, which will keep you entertained with Bavarian food, music, and beer. 9600 Little Cottonwood Canyon Rd., 801/933-2222, snowbird.com

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Salt Lake is fast becoming a foodie town; an emphasis on craft and quality and chefdriven menus abound. Stanza, an Italian bistro, features fresh ingredients and classic dishes like Veal Saltimbocca in a modern, glass-walled, two-story space nestled on a quiet SLC street. Local booze booster Jimmy Santangelo designed Stanza’s cocktail and wine program. 454 E. 300 South, 801/7464441, stanzaslc.com Stanza’s sister restaurant, Current Fish & Oyster, is currently (pardon us) the hot new restaurant in town, with a sleek outdoor patio space (complete with fire pits) and seafood flown in fresh daily. The adjacent, cheekily named Under Current (notice its subtle nautical theme) is the perfect place for pre- or post-dinner drinks. Mixologists serve handcrafted cocktails at an impressively long marble bar. 279 E. 300 South, 801/3263474, currentfishandoyster.com For something more casual and easy, try Buds or Blue Poblano. Buds is an all-vegan sandwich shop (509 E. 300 South, budsslc. com) with communal picnic-style tables and a walk-up window. Blue Poblano (473 E. 300 South, 801/883-9078, bluepoblano.com) serves classic street-style tacos and burritos with Dia de los Muertos flair in a colorfully embellished space adjacent to Dick N’ Dixies, a favorite SLC neighborhood watering hole.

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accents left from the building’s former avocation as a bank. 15 W. 200 South, 801/595-0000, monaco-saltlakecity.com It’s hard to miss the tombstone-like fortress hotel at the bottom of Main Street, the overly grand Grand America Hotel. Grand America’s over-the-top styling dances the line between luxe and gauche, but its spa and pool are not to be missed (day passes are sold if you just want to drop in). Movies are shown poolside through September. The hotel shops are also a draw—namely, the darling French sweet shop La Bonne Vie and the fantastical toy store JouJou, featuring a selection of educational and international toys in a please-touchand-play setting. 555 S. Main St., 801/258-6000, grandamerica.com

Although Salt Lake is experiencing a cultural renaissance of sorts in food, art, and nightlife, it still wants for hotels. The Monaco is the exception. (The city has yet to see the likes of a hip Ace or Chelsea-style hotel.)

A Gotham-esque hotel in the heart of the city, The Monaco is the perfect place to park it after a day of adventures in the 801. Enjoy a daily wine hour in the signature striped Kimpton lobby (accented with, yes, the signature Kimpton scent, because that’s a thing). The pet-friendly hotel’s bar and restaurant maintain the big-city style, with street-level views and

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Done well, cabinetry can be an important design element.

By Julie Fustanio Kling

KRISTEN CARTER SITS at the drawing table and swivels back and forth between sketches of a shelf across a windowpane for dishware and a sliding barn door that hides a kitchen pantry.

“Kitchen designs in Jackson can certainly get tricky because of the large windows that emphasize the view, and the open-concept kitchen and living spaces that result in very little wall space,” she says. It’s a good thing Carter taught high school math before founding Bison Custom Cabinetry ten years ago—she’s now up for solving any problem.

Carter begins the design process by brainstorming with clients.

She asks what they want to do in their kitchens. For example, do they entertain? Carter once designed a kitchen island with three different levels: a high counter for serving, a low counter for kneading bread, and a counter at standard height. The client was a serious baker.

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Last fall, Carter worked with a skier to design cabinets for a bright red cargo van.

The client wanted his to be the ultimate backcountry skiing vehicle, with hooks to hang wet backpacks, shelving for hats and gloves, and custom slats for skis. And, “He specifically wanted a place to set a cold beer while he pulled off his wet gear after a day on the slopes,” Carter says. In a corner next to the ski rack she designed Carter put a ledge that doubles as a drink holder. The client also wanted a couch that converted to a bed. Like a day skiing in the backcountry, “Custom cabinetry provides great satisfaction,” she says.

Cabinets for gear storage aren’t always as specific as Carter’s van project, but, since Jackson Hole homes are so ruled by gear, Dave French, the co-owner of Grow Woodworks, says requests for equipment storage and organization are common: “I’ve done some great ski lockers with built-in boot dryers and pans below.”

And, as more people make their homes in the valley their primary residences (rather than vacation homes), kitchens are becoming more important—in size, efficiency, and organization. Today the lion’s share of French’s work is kitchen-related.

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“KITCHEN DESIGNS IN JACKSON CAN CERTAINLY GET TRICKY BECAUSE OF THE LARGE WINDOWS THAT EMPHASIZE THE VIEW, AND THE OPENCONCEPT KITCHEN AND LIVING SPACES THAT RESULT IN VERY LITTLE WALL SPACE.” [ KRISTEN CARTER, BISON CUSTOM CABINETRY ]

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design elements from other parts of the house—colors, styles, and textures—into the kitchen.

French does a lot of recycled barnwood and rift-sawn white oak. Finishes include a variety of stains and lacquers. He and Grow Woodworks partner Paul Lauchle work exclusively with wood they cut and sand themselves. A recent project was a set of extra-wide drawers for a client who needed a space to store art.

French considers himself more of a problem solver than an artist. Before he makes his first cut, he can see the finished product in his mind’s eye. “A lot of people can’t see it, so they need to design as they go,” he says.

Carter orders her designs from two custom cabinetmakers, one in Minnesota and the other in Oregon. These makers work with a variety of materials, from stainless steel to ceramic tiles with a faux-wood grain. Carter says gray and other muted colors are a current trend, and white is the most popular. Pastels and bright colors are making a comeback, as are retro appliances. “One project included pulling a unique color from one of the designer’s fabrics to create a custom paint color used on the kitchen island,” she says. “I have done a deep red vanity and green and yellow kitchen cabinets. Finishes—that’s really where cabinet design has personality.”

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• The Remodel Issue •

TAKE 2 Remodeling can be fun, and there’s going to be more and more of it in Jackson Hole’s future.

IT’S A NUMBERS GAME. Even before Jackson Hole was a perennial contender for the best town in America in publications as diverse as Outside and Forbes, it had issues with its supply of available land.

Ninety-seven percent of this valley is protected as national park, wildlife refuge, or national forest. Of the 3 percent of land available for public purchase, 50 percent of that is underwater or in a flood plain and can’t be built on. And that has been the case since the 1950s. Today, the valley’s population is many multiples of what it was back then; vacant land is more difficult to come by than a parking spot on the Town Square in August.

“With inventory as low as it is, buyers that want to be in Jackson Hole need to start looking at properties with the mindset of, ‘We can make this into what we want,’ ” says Jill Sassi-Neison, a realtor at Jackson Hole Sotheby’s International Realty and the 2015 Teton Board of Realtors President. “I have buyers who show up knowing what they want, but then can’t find it. I advise them to find something with seven out of ten main wants, the first being location. If you find the location that is right for you, we can figure the rest of it out.” Five of Sassi-Neison’s next seven closings are on properties the new owners plan to remodel in some capacity. “Some are smaller remodels—bathrooms or kitchens—and a couple are going to be complete remodels,” she says.

Scott Diehl, a contractor in the valley since 1996, agrees. “There were lots of homes built in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s that are on prime pieces of property,” Diehl says. “Not everyone can afford to scrape them and start over, and many don’t need to be scraped.”

Sassi-Neison says, “We’re fortunate to have a good number of great architects and designers that can help with a remodel; they can get something done and make it truly fantastic.” Part of the real estate education she gives new buyers, especially those looking for the mountain modern aesthetic that is popular right now, is showing them homes local architects have remodeled. “I want them to understand this is a look that can be achieved with local talent,” Sassi-Neison says.

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Sally and Mike Brin outside of their Boise Cascade modular home. It was built in 1973, and the couple remodeled it in 2015.

A HOUSE Becomes a Home

Two locals turn a standard West Jackson house into something special.

By Lila Edythe ∙ Photography by David Agnello

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ecause planning a wedding for two hundred people wasn’t enough, Sally and Mike Brin decided to almost completely remodel their 1,638-squarefoot, split-level home at the same time. (There’s a 500-square-foot garage, too.) The first step was replacing all the windows, which were original from the home’s 1973 construction. Contractor Scott Diehl did that in October 2014. And then he began the process of transforming the couple’s Boise Cascade modular home, of which there are dozens in West Jackson between the library and post office, into an open and airy space with nice flow. The Brins love entertaining and wanted a home that allowed them to do just that.

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Above: Preremodel, Sally Brin’s piano couldn’t fit downstairs because the staircase was too tight. The remodel, though, opened the stairs up, and Sally now has a downstairs piano room.

Opposite: Opening up the staircase, which is in the home’s entry, makes the whole space more inviting and functional.

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The top of the kitchen bar is custom-made by a childhood friend of Sally’s, Andy Sovick, who is now a contractor in Crested Butte, Colorado. “I called him and told him we’d love something cool made from beetle kill,” Sally says. “He called me back and said he had wood that worked. He got all the specs from [our contractor] Scott, and now we have this special piece in the kitchen. It was his wedding gift to us.”

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Sally and Mike imagined and assembled the fireplace surround themselves. They had scrap pieces of reclaimed barnwood from a remodel at Teton Mountain Lodge, where Sally is a manager.

“We invited friends over one evening to help,” Sally says. “We assembled it like a puzzle on the floor and then Scott later tacked it up. It was really fun.”

Diehl had until June, when the couple were hosting a wedding event at the house, to finish.

“That was a definite deadline,” Mike says. Even though Diehl ended up needing to rewire about 70 percent of the house—“We were expecting we’d have to do maybe 30 percent,” Mike says—the couple moved back in in late January.

“Sometimes during the process it felt like things went really slow, but for the transformation that happened, it’s amazing it went so fast,” Sally says.

Sally bought and moved into the house in 2006. “It appealed to me because it was turn-key,” she says. “The house wasn’t anything special, but

the backyard is amazing, and I love the location. I figured there were little things I could do over the years that would make it special.”

When Mike moved in in 2013, the couple immediately started talking about doing big things. “We had a lot of unusable space, and the kitchen was tiny,” Mike says. “We spent about one day looking through real estate before deciding we weren’t going to find a better location with a better backyard in our budget.” The couple quickly pivoted to talking about remodeling the kitchen and the master suite, both on the upper floor.

Like many remodels, though, the scope quickly grew. Sally has an upright piano that, if the upstairs was being remodeled, needed to be relocated downstairs. “We couldn’t get it down the stairs the way they were,” Mike says. “So we decided to blow out the walls around the stairs.”

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Top: Sally and Mike made their dining table themselves, from reclaimed pine. The couple stripped the dark stain from the wood, which was a large, built-in bookshelf in its prior life. To get the width they wanted, Mike fastened several shelves together.

They filled holes with aqua green sand before finishing it with a high-gloss, natural stain. “The red legs bring a pop of color to the space,” Sally says.

Bottom: The downstairs wood-burning stove is original to the 1973-built home. Sally and Mike still use it to help heat the house in the winter.

“THE HOUSE WASN’T ANYTHING SPECIAL, BUT THE BACKYARD IS AMAZING, AND I LOVE THE LOCATION. I FIGURED THERE WERE LITTLE THINGS I COULD DO OVER THE YEARS THAT WOULD MAKE IT SPECIAL.” [ SALLY BRIN, HOMEOWNER ]

with a custom railing by welder Alex McFarland (of Butte West), “is one of the cooler parts of the house,” Sally says. “That railing was probably a splurge, but it was worth it.” Opening up the stairway makes the living room on the lower level more practical, too.

“We didn’t really use it that much when it was closed off,” Sally says, “but since the remodel we are always down there, using it as our main living room while the upstairs is more for dining and entertaining.”

To make the kitchen larger, the couple got rid of the adjacent bathroom and replaced a sliding door to an outdoor deck with a standard swing door. “We knew what we wanted to do with the floor plan, but we weren’t as sure about the details,” Sally says.

The couple saved money during the remodel by forgoing hiring an architect, but did go to Bison Custom Cabinetry for kitchen help. “Kristen [Carter] really knows how to make the most out of a space,” Sally says. “She had suggestions we never would have thought of that make the kitchen really user-friendly.”

The home’s original floor plan did not have a master suite, but did have two bedrooms on the upper level. Diehl combined these to create a spacious master suite. A window was added in the new master bath. “Natural light in a bathroom is so nice,” Sally says. “All of the light in the whole house now is great. This house was fine the way it was, but now it is special and works for our lifestyle.”

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All in the Family

A couple remodel an inherited house to suit their needs while staying true to their relative’s feelings for the place.

By Maggie Theodora ∙ Photography by David Agnello

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he founding music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, Ling Tung, had several properties in the valley during his many decades here. But it was a quirky twobedroom log cabin on five acres of land south of Wilson that was his favorite. When Tung unexpectedly passed away at age seventyeight in 2011, his will left this house to his nephew, Ted Wong, and wife JoAnn. “Immediately we thought of how we could fix it according to Ling’s wishes,” Ted Wong says.

“Ling loved what was here,” Wong says. Tung made some major changes after buying the cabin in the 1970s from the trapper who had built it himself, using logs cut from the property, in the 1950s. “He got help from the architect that designed Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village,” Wong says. “For Ling this was a special retreat, a little hideaway.”

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Above left: Ling Tung in this home’s distinctive “octagon” room Opposite: What started as a remodel of the guest bathroom became a complete remodel after numerous problems were discovered in the foundation, floors, and ceilings of the home.

An addition doubled the home’s size.

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Left: A stairway with hickory treads and Douglas fir newels helps give the house a flow and openness it did not have before.

AFTER SIXTEEN MONTHS OF DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION, “I THINK WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE ABOUT ONE-TENTH OF IT. THE GUEST BEDROOM IS ALMOST ORIGINAL, BUT WE RAISED ITS CEILING TWO FEET.”

Right: The settee in the entryway was passed on to the couple from Ted Wong's uncle, Ling Tung. It is one piece and made from a single tree root.

Opposite: The Wongs did not want the remodeled house to be “over-thetop decorated.” They wanted simple and comfortable, and for the interiors to speak to the area’s western character.

[ TED WONG, HOMEOWNER ]

When architect Chris Moulder first visited the home, “little” was among the words that first came to mind. “I’m six foot six and had to duck to get in the front door,” he says. “I think all of the ceilings were seven feet.” These proportions didn’t bother the Wongs, but there was one thing that did: “From all of our time staying in the house visiting Ling, JoAnn and I always had a problem with the guest bathroom,” Wong says. “To use it from the guest bedroom you had to walk through the kitchen.” The couple wanted to be able to get from one room to the other without passing through the kitchen. Moulder encouraged the Wongs to think bigger, but they stood firm on “making only a few enhancements to what was

there already,” Moulder says. As soon as construction started, though, “The rubber hit the road,” Moulder says. “The roof lines appeared to be straight, the walls appeared to be straight, and things appeared structurally sound, but we quickly discovered looks were deceiving.”

There was a rodent infestation, and mold. Water that leaked into the roof had made it all the way to the basement. The kitchen ceiling needed to be reinforced. The home’s foundation was crumbling. “We always wondered why the kitchen floor had a crown in the middle,” Wong says, “but thought maybe the floor had just warped.”

Still, demolishing the house and starting with a clean slate wasn’t an option for the Wongs. “Because of the memories of being in this house with my uncle, we wanted to maintain as much of the structure as we could,” Wong says. After sixteen months of demolition and construction, “I think we were able to save about one-tenth of it,” he says. “The guest bedroom is almost original, but we raised its ceiling two feet.”

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The Wongs had started out adamant that the home’s footprint remain the same. “Once we learned the foundation had failed and we needed to do a new one, Chris [Moulder] suggested, ‘Let’s make it bigger,’ ” Wong says. “Once we knew we couldn’t keep the original foundation, we were open to bigger changes.” So the couple decided to add a garage, with a new bedroom over it. Since the kitchen ceiling had to be reinforced, it might as well be raised to eight feet from the original seven. Redoing this affected the master bedroom above; the Wongs took that opportunity to raise those ceilings as well and ditch the room’s gambrel roof, which had JoAnn bending over every time she made the bed. Moulder pointed out that the master suite should be the nicest bedroom in the house. Even with the higher ceilings, the original master wasn’t as nice as the new bedroom over the garage, so the Wongs made that room the new master.

“If we had been told at the beginning what the final price tag was, we wouldn’t have started the job, but now that it’s done, we’ve certainly ended up with something that was worthy of the effort,” Wong says. “It would have been much easier to start from scratch, but even saving the little we could was worth it to us, and now we’ve got this crazy house that no one will ever duplicate because doing what we did wouldn’t make sense to anyone else. To us it’s perfect, though—it has the memories and feeling of my uncle while being substantial enough in size so we can share it with family and friends.”

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This page: Architect Chris Moulder placed the windows in the master suite, one of the areas that was added to the existing home, to capture views and allow for furniture.

Opposite: This field-built, Douglas fir door is the home’s original front door. After the remodel, it was too short to meet Teton County’s building code. The Wongs wanted to use it somewhere else in the house, though. The brands on it are from Jackson Hole ranches.

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SEEING THINGS in BLACK & WHITE

A log house is made modern.

By Dina Mishev ∙ Photography by David Agnello

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Opposite: This living area was the heart of the original log cabin. Now remodeled to be bright and contemporary, the room’s high ceilings are accented by a Brendan Ravenhill chandelier from the studio’s Pivot Family and a custom steel staircase. An Anuar Patjane Floriuk photograph hangs over the hearth. Floors throughout the home are European white oak.

fter looking for several years in multiple mountain towns for the perfect home, a couple finally found it here in the Indian Paintbrush subdivision. “The location, the house in general, the views—it was all perfect,” the wife says. Almost.

There was an Endless Pool on the lower level that the couple had no use for. They tore it out and remodeled the space into an expansive guest suite with French doors opening to the backyard, from where you can see the Grand Teton, Sleeping Indian, and Snake River. At that time you could also see a small log cabin and garage on the property below.

That cabin and garage had been on the market for a couple of years.

“It was a bit of an ugly duckling,” the husband says. “The configuration was bizarre—a one-bedroom house with a detached garage.” Because the couple had so enjoyed the small remodel they did in their own house up the hill, when they looked at the property below, they didn’t think “disaster.”

“We looked at it and saw a little gem,” the wife says. “We thought, ‘Gosh, we could do so much with that. It could be such a fun experience.’ ” The wife sketched out her vision: keeping the two log buildings, turning the garage into living space, and connecting the two with a new structure.

“Our intent was ‘cool log structure, let’s contemporize it.’ ” The couple knew it was possible; they saw a home in a design magazine that they say was “kind of a Scandinavian log cabin that was pretty modern and all black and white. We didn’t copy it, but it showed us what was possible.”

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Gilday Architects updated the original logs and stone by staining them black. The new siding is clear fine line cedar, stained natural.

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Top: A 1,500-square-foot “connector” was built between the two existing log buildings. The new structure’s east wall is almost entirely glass.

Bottom: To keep the exterior colors simple, the new standing seam roof is dark bronze.

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When they interviewed architects, the wife says some “walked in and looked up and were like, ‘Ugh.’ One architect even said, ‘We just don’t do this.’ But Peggy’s [Gilday] initial reaction was really excited. She walked in and could see what we did.” Gilday says, “I am usually up for a challenge, and when [the clients] and I met at the house, my first thought was that this is a particularly big one! I trust my intuition when there may be interesting possibilities, and with a remodel, the biggest issue is understanding the tipping point of when it should be a teardown. Although the log structure was quite odd, with a solid client fit and a beautiful site, we could see through the ‘funky’ stuff and pare it down to its essence. It came out beautifully and has great character that may not have been there if starting from scratch.”

Although scraping what was there and starting from scratch might have been easier. At one point early in the building process the couple say the construction superintendent called and asked them if they were sure they didn’t want to tear the cabin and garage down. The couple were sure.

Two and a half years later, as Teton Heritage Landscaping plants the final trees around the house, the original structures are unrecognizable. The logs and stone are still there, but painted black. The logs are black on the inside, too. Walls that aren’t log are white Vasari plaster or sheetrock. There are windows everywhere.

“This property has beautiful views, but the prior structure didn’t even remotely take advantage of them,” says John Stennis, an associate at Gilday Architects.

This page: The kitchen is the heart of the structure Gilday Architects designed to connect the two original log buildings. The homeowners found the fixture over the kitchen island, Edge’s Cirrus Float D1 Lens Center, on Lightology.com. The custom cabinetry is white oak.

Opposite top: The master bedroom, on the ground floor of the original log cabin, was made modern with Vasari plaster walls and by painting the original logs black.

The bedroom opens directly onto the east lawn. Linens by Restoration Hardware. The vintage Erling Jessen Danish chairs come from WRJ Design.

Opposite bottom: The cabinetry in this basement guest bathroom matches the white oak in the kitchen. Floors are Ascend honed marble in Candid Heather from American Olean.

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This page: The open dining area adjacent to the kitchen features sofas and a dining table from Restoration Hardware. The homeowners met photographer Drew Doggett, whose piece hangs above the gas fireplace, when he traveled through Wyoming last year as part of his project, Shadows Alight: Portraits of the American West.

Even though the plan at the start was to do the remodel and then sell the home, when I ask the owners if they now think about selling their original house and moving into the newly remodeled one, both are quick to answer: “We think about it every day.” Project manager Chris Jaubert says, “Never once did [the clients] treat this project as a spec home. They didn’t want to compromise on design and their taste just because they were planning on possibly selling it.” The wife says, “We designed a house that we would live in and enjoy. We like serene, refined, clean, and lots of light.”

The husband continues, “We might live in it for a week, but, honestly, it is too much space for us, even if it did turn out better than we imagined.”

Opposite: The homeowners commissioned the Ebb bench in the entryway from Rhode Island School of Design-trained artist Matthias Pliessnig. Pliessnig uses steam-bent wood to make furniture and sculptures.

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HOME sweet HOME

HOME IS WHERE THE GEAR IS

By Jeffrey Kaphan, as told to Maggie Theodora ∙ Photograph by Ryan Dorgan WHEN I MOVED FROM a three-bedroom home with a garage to the 1,388-square-foot live/work space I’m in now, I really had to think about gear storage. I ended up getting almost all new furniture for the upstairs living area, but I spent a lot more time planning and thinking about how to organize my gear in the downstairs than picking furniture.

I needed to come up with storage options that were efficient, but I also needed things to be accessible. In addition to skiing, camping, climbing, fishing, and biking gear, I’ve got photography equipment and a jewelry studio.

The space under the stairs was wasted when I bought the place, so I added walls and a door. It’s not big enough to be a man cave—it’s about thirty-three square feet. It is more like a toy box. Camping, fishing, and climbing gear and bike parts are in bins on one side. On the other wall, I’ve got packs and skis hanging.

Even with that space, I’ve got two bikes that live in the entryway during the summer— my townie and either a road or mountain bike. Whichever bike isn’t in the entryway fits into the toy box. Two pairs of skis live year-round in the entryway, too.

Most of my visitors are friends coming from Montana or Colorado and live the same lifestyle we do here in Jackson, so they’re not fazed when they walk in. Instead, they notice the organization and how I store certain things. They’ll look at things and say, “I love the way you did that, I’m going to try that,” or, “That’s a great use of space.” I have had some visitors this lifestyle is foreign to; they are certainly in awe of all the gear.

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