ISSUE 7 / 2018
From the OUTSIDE IN The owner of Flower Hardware has expanded into interiors.
WHAT INSPIRES ME
DESIGN
ARTISAN
Adam Janak
Wallpaper
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TABLE OF CONTENTS features
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TELL IT!
A couple shares the unvarnished truth about remodeling the main floor of their home. (Spoiler alert—in the end, it’s all worth it.) By Lila Edythe
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DREAMS CAN COME TRUE
Pick the right team, and you can design and build the exact house you imagined. By Joohee Muromcew
FROM THE OUTSIDE IN
The founder of Flower Hardware has expanded into interiors. Her own remodeled home is her best advertisement.
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By Dina Mishev
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Photograph by David Agnello
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10 / WHAT INSPIRES ME Adam Janak
26 / ARTISAN: STEVE FONTANINI Blacksmithing is an art form.
12 / FAVORITES Functional art
30 / ARCHITECTURE: THE DOG TROT RESIDENCE Simplicity in design and materials makes this home stand out.
16 / MUST HAVE: TURN UP THE HEAT A fire pit enlivens any outdoor space.
32 / TRAVEL: SPRINGDALE, UTAH Because you have to leave Jackson sometime
18 / NEIGHBORHOOD: SCHOFIELD PATENT This Wilson subdivision has unassuming homes built in the 1980s and a resident elk herd.
40 / DESIGN: HANGING UP Today’s wallpaper is not your grandmother’s wallpaper.
20 / TEN TIPS: WINDOW TREATMENTS Done right, shades and drapes are equal parts style and substance.
64 / HOME SWEET HOME A diamond in the rough
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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY from your sofa, but my sofa might be the most comfortable in the world. And, right now—literally as I’m writing this—I’m burrowed into one end of it. Between the overstuffed down cushions beneath me and the twenty-pound Gravity Blanket (it’s a thing and I LOVE it; gravityblankets.com) covering me, I’m definitely the coziest person in the valley right now. And that’s before you count the burning candles (always unscented) on every appropriate surface within a ten-foot radius of the sofa and the smell of baking chocolate chip cookies wafting over from the nearby kitchen. When not editing Range (and Jackson Hole magazine, and a couple of other titles), I write travel articles for publications like The Washington Post. That newspaper recently published stories I wrote about Greenville, South Carolina, and bike riding in the mountains of northern Italy. Of course, I pinch myself because I get to visit these places and it’s work. Still, I love not traveling and being at home. On my travels, I meet many people on vacation. Often, at some point in our conversations, they’ll lament that they have to go home in three days, or five days, or ten days. However many more days of vacation they have, they’re already sad about the fact it will end. On every trip I’ve taken, I’ve found something that has piqued my curiosity or that I’ve fallen in love with, but, even so, never have I lamented that a trip will end. I’m excited to get home! Of course, part of this is because I live in Jackson Hole, itself a fabulously gorgeous vacation destination. But
a bigger part of it is because I love my home, in which I include not only my house, but also my community. This issue of Range celebrates other valley homes that are loved, and also some of the community’s style setters. “From the Outside In” (p. 56) celebrates both. It brings us into the home of Cecelia Heffernan, a longtime local who has grown her successful flower and landscaping business into a boutique lifestyle and design firm. In the feature article “Tell It!” (p. 44) a local couple opens up about how hard a major remodel is, and how worth it all the stress and work were. Writer Joohee Muromcew shares how she and her husband ended up moving into the exact house they dreamt of in “Dreams Can Come True” (p. 48). We also asked designers, architects, and other industry pros to share their favorite fire pits. And, just in case selecting window treatments makes you as nervous as it does us, we have professional tips for how to do it. As always, I hope you enjoy this issue of Range as much as I have enjoyed putting it together. More important, I hope that there’s at least one thing in this issue you find useful in making your house a space you love. Thanks for reading.
– Dina Mishev
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CONTRIBUTORS
JEREMY PUGH tells us why Springdale, Utah, is a good destination in this issue’s Travel department (p. 32). Although he loves Springdale, and its neighbor, Zion National Park, Pugh’s home base is Salt Lake City. He authored the book 100 Things to Do in Salt Lake City Before You Die and is the former editor of Salt Lake magazine. Pugh’s writing also appears in SKI, Sunset, Utah Style & Design, and Salt Lake magazines. His book is available on Amazon and at verydynamite.com, and he invites you to share your SLC experiences on Twitter at @100ThingsSLC.
Never before have we had a writer share her firsthand experience of building a house. In this issue, JOOHEE MUROMCEW, a valley resident whose work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Departures, Town & Country, and City Secrets: Paris, and who serves on the board of directors of Teton Science Schools, shares how she and her husband managed to design and build their dream house in the feature “Dreams Can Come True” (p. 48). Hint: It’s about teamwork.
PUBLISHER Kevin Olson ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Adam Meyer EDITOR Dina Mishev ART DIRECTOR Colleen Valenstein COPY EDITOR Dorothy Jankowsky CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lila Edythe Mark Huffman Joohee Muromcew Jeremy Pugh Maggie Theodora CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS David Agnello Cole Buckhart Tuck Fauntleroy
ADVERTISING SALES Deidre Norman - deidre@tetonmediaworks.com
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AD DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Sarah Wilson Taylor-Ann Smith
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DISTRIBUTION Kyra Griffin Hank Smith Jeff Young Mark Whitaker Kal Stromberg
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DAVID AGNELLO (“Dreams Can Come True,” p. 48) photographs structures and their inhabitants worldwide. Architecture, interiors, and the people who utilize the built environment are his most common subject matter, from modern dwellings in the American West to resorts in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The interaction between nature, structure, light, and human interface is the driving force behind Agnello’s photography.
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JAMES TURRELL and ROBERT IRWIN both create art and large-scale installations with light, and light is such an important part of architecture. Their work is different from each other—and they work as individual artists—but the work of both men is just so mind-boggling and -bending. Your perspective is challenged. The first time I walked into Turrell’s Skyspace at the Henry Art Galley on the University of Washington campus, I lost all sense of where things start and stop. [There are more than 80 Skyspaces of Turrell’s around the world.] Although the two men don’t collaborate, in the 1970s, they both did installations in the same Italian villa and there’s a book about it, Robert Irwin James Turrell: Villa Panza. I just bought it as a gift to myself. $65, amazon.com
WHAT INSPIRES ME
I’ve always had an affinity for brown water. Emily’s from Kentucky and her family has done a lot of marketing and work for different distilleries. We had a BOURBON bar at our wedding. I’m kind of picky about the bourbon I drink, but not really. I generally like it neat, although a good Manhattan or Old Fashioned cocktail works, too. And WYOMING WHISKEY—I’ve come to really like it. When some of the other Northworks guys come into town, we’ll sometimes do what we call “genius hour” in the office. We’ll have some bourbon or whiskey, and all loosen up. It can help get the creative juices flowing. wyomingwhiskey.com
I love my FILSON ORIGINAL BRIEFCASE. It’s American-made, and just really basic. It’s authentic and not gimmicky—both of which inspire me. It is utilitarian, works with a suit or jeans, has plenty of pockets for keeping things organized, and fits a 15-inch computer. The one problem with it is that it’s so well-made: You just buy one in a lifetime. It’s not leather, but instead made from a really rugged twill that’s water-repellent. $325, filson.com
Every time I go into MOUNTAIN DANDY, it is calming and soothing, and interesting. Emily and I often go in together, and the fun is that we never know what we’re going to find. If we see anything that intrigues us, we generally walk out with it. Last fall, we walked in the day two chairs made in Sweden in the 1950s by Dux [and designed by Folke Ohlsson] had just been put out on the showroom floor. We weren’t looking for chairs, but they were something we couldn’t live without. They’re walnut with an open back and [Mountain Dandy owners] John [Frechette] and Christian [Burch] had had them reupholstered. I’ve also gotten smaller things here—glass barware and books about obscure artists and designers. Showroom: 265 W. Pearl Ave., 307/690-2896, mountaindandy.com
ADAM JANAK Architect/Director at Northworks Architects + Planners
By Dina Mishev ∙ Photography by David Agnello THE DIRECTOR OF THE Jackson Hole office of Chicagobased architectural firm Northworks Architects + Planners (NAP), thirty-five-year-old Adam Janak has been designing commercial and residential buildings in the valley since 2006. The southern Idaho native moved to Jackson immediately after graduating with his master’s degree in architecture from the University of Idaho. “I got a really good job offer here [Janak was with CTA Architects Engineers from 2006 to 2016, when he left to found the NAP office] and loved the idea of being so close to the outdoors and in a small town that still had tons of culture,” he says. When not designing spaces, Janak, first with a business partner, Paul Kinnard, and now with his wife of two years, Emily Janak, builds homes. Janak is currently working on his fifth project, the restoration of a historic log cabin on East Hansen Street. He and Kinnard previously built new homes, which Janak designed, including a modern twist on a traditional farmhouse on Cache Creek Drive. Janak took a break from designing and building to share some of the things he draws inspiration from. RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 10
TURPIN MEADOW RANCH is one of our favorite places in the valley. It’s where we got married two years ago, and we keep going back. I love the history of the place—it’s a log lodge surrounded by restored log cabins—and that you can escape reality there. As much as we love Turpin, though, a log cabin is something I never thought in a million years I’d ever work on. When the opportunity came along, though, Emily and I took it. We’re restoring the house at 240 East Hansen ourselves and it has changed my perception of logs. If we’re out there working, every couple of hours someone walking by will stop with questions. And, we’ll get visitors stopping by to say, “thank you,” which you never hear when you’re building a new house! Cabins from $149, turpinmeadowranch.com
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FAVORITES FUNCTIONAL ART Looking for something to give to the person who has everything? There’s little chance they’ve got a handmade, elk antler-handled pizza cutter. Although the pizza cutters are made in Georgia, the elk antlers are from Jackson Hole: The makers come out to the Jackson District Boy Scouts of America Elk Antler Auction every year. Each pizza cutter is unique. Mountain Dandy also carries elk antler bottle openers by the same artisan. $120, available at Mountain Dandy, 125 N. Cache St., 307/690-0606, mountaindandy.com
ONE(S) OF A KIND The idea is that every Alex Marshall plate, bowl, tumbler, mug, and creamer be different. And, it’s not just Marshall’s forms that subtly vary, but also the patterns in her glazes. Mountain Dandy carries much of Marshall’s line of Classic Place Settings in a range of neutral colors, and has samples of more than twenty different colors you can use to order a custom set. Dinner plates from $49, available at Mountain Dandy, 125 N. Cache St., 307/690-0606, mountaindandy.com
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As we write this, the mother-anddaughter team behind Page & Company (Lizzie Page Watson, daughter, and mom Anne Page Watson) are off in Kyrgyzstan shopping for traditional felt pillowcases and area rugs (shyrdaks in Kyrgyz) so you don’t have to. Not that these colorful, patterned, 100 percent wool pillow coverings and rugs aren’t worth flying halfway around the world for. From $85, available at Penny Lane Cooperative, 307/264-2388, 185 Scott Lane, pageandcompanycollection.com
We’re thankful that textile designer Alexa Pulitzer—who has worked on designs and silk printing for brands from Prada to Ferragamo— turned her attention to stationery full time in 2004. Pulitzer is 100 percent New Orleans (she was born and raised there), but her quirky and elegant designs, which often feature animals, are 100 percent Jackson Hole. For example: Her Hornabet line takes the letters of the alphabet and renders them in a font that looks like horns. Paper & Grace carries the entire Hornabet line of monogrammed notepads. $17, available at Paper & Grace, 55 N. Glenwood St., 307/733-8900, paperandgrace.com RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 12
Photography by Cole Buckhart
Pam Barlow makes each Copperdot leather bag to “outlive you,” she says. “I couldn’t find a bag that could live up to my lifestyle. I’m tough on things,” says the lifelong horsewoman. Barlow saw a scrap of chap leather at Flat Creek Saddle Shop, the perfect size for two satchels. Every Copperdot bag pairs supple leather with solid brass or stainless steel hardware, interior cow hair pockets, and straps that “have the same conditioning and feel as my good bridles,” says Barlow, who still makes each bag by hand. From $420, 307/690-4564, copperdotleather.com
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FAVORITES
SHOP TILL YOU DROP What do you do when you need a new sofa, chair, bench, or table, don’t have the budget for exquisitely restored vintage pieces, and want style and value? Meet Article, an online-only furniture company with contemporary designs, a thirty-day, no-questions-asked guarantee, and top-notch customer service. (One of our benches arrived very slightly damaged; a new one was on the way immediately.) Article’s Sven chair (pictured with a Mara side table) is our new favorite nesting spot. Oh, did we mention that Article ships anywhere in North America—even Jackson, Wyoming—for $49? 888/746-3455, article.com
SMART ENTERTAINING Want to change the look of your table without investing in new linens? Meet the napkins, fiber napkins (and tablecloths, runners, and coasters) that look and feel like textiles. The Swiss-designed, Italian-made napkins come in a variety of colors and styles, including dinner, appetizer, and cocktail napkins, and even hand towels. From $17.50, available at Paper & Grace, 55 N. Glenwood St., 307/733-8900, paperandgrace.com
WEAR WILDLIFE Of course you’re going to get something interesting when an Army veteran and a ski instructor team up to design clothing. Friends Spencer Hirst (the ski instructor) and veteran Ben Agee’s Western Range Clothing makes pearl snap button-down shirts for men and women, and bow ties and neckties with an antler pattern on them. For spring and summer, it’s hard to go wrong with their Antler Logo hat. From $26, available at Penny Lane Cooperative, 185 Scott Lane, 307/264-1890, westernrangeclothing.com
Bird & Buffalo, the quirky and creative brand established by local Courtney Leavell, makes dish towels with prints of Jackson Hole wildlife. Right now, we’re loving her bison and bear designs, but every time we pop into Penny Lane Cooperative, which also sells Leavell’s block-printed cards, gift bags, and T-shirts, we find a new favorite. $22, available at Penny Lane Cooperative, 185 Scott Lane, 307/699-0769, birdandbuffalo.com
“RWAR” MEANS BEDTIME OMG. Seriously!? We want a seven-year-old kid just so we can buy this Dinosaurus Rex duvet cover and pillowcase for their bed! Designed by Dutch company SNURK and manufactured in Portugal, the set is 100 percent cotton and 178 percent fun. The company also makes astronaut, fairy, soccer player, firefighter, pirate, mermaid, and knight designs (among others). All designs are available in twin size, and some, including Dinosaurus Rex, are also available in queen size. From $125, available at Linen Alley, 185 Scott Lane, 307/734-7424, linenalley.com RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 14
Photography by Cole Buckhart, (chair and table) courtesy Article, (dino duvet) courtesy SNURK
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MUST HAVE
TURN UP THE HEAT A fire pit enlivens any outdoor space.
By Maggie Theodora NINETY PERCENT of the clients of landscape architecture firm Agrostis want a fire element in their yard. “Regardless of the style of design or overall aesthetic, if someone sees a fire element, they instinctively know that is the place where people congregate,” says Jason Snider, cofounder of Agrostis with Heath Kuszak. “In Jackson Hole, a fire pit can extend the usability of an outdoor space beyond summer into typically colder seasons, and allow people to be outside almost year-round.” Danette Burr Dixon, whose company Style Jackson Hole has staged home and/or fashion campaigns in the valley for clients including Ralph Lauren, Pottery Barn, and Dooney & Bourke, puts it more simply: “Fire pits are such an easy way to literally warm up an outdoor space and create a cozy setting, and celebrate being outside.” Here are some fav fire pits from local pros who have installed, or even made, more than a few.
Jackson-made “No two of my artisan bonfires are the exact same,” Jackson local Shannon McCormick says. “I can get close depending on the materials I have, but right now, every fire pit is different in some way, shape, form, size, or color.” McCormick uses high-heat paint to customize colors. “This is paint that will last, but it also means that you can repaint it a different color every year if you want. That’s kind of fun,” he says. From $425, available directly from McCormick and also at Fighting Bear Antiques and Penny Lake Cooperative, 307/413-3032
Italian style
Timeless
The Italian-made Toast fire pit from Ak47 is “a cool, steel wood-burning fire pit that incorporates wood storage,” Jason Snider says. Also, it serves both of its functions—fire pit and wood storage—while being eye-catching. This fire pit makes a statement: “My owner has discerning, unique style.” The top is oxidized steel and the legs are galvanized steel. At fifty inches by fifty inches, it’s ideal for small- to medium-size spaces. Add the dedicated stainless steel grill kit—sold separately—to turn Toast into a BBQ. From about $4,000, +39 0341 286547, ak47design.com
The Baltic Rectangle Fire Table from Woodland Direct is “beautiful, with a sleek, organic, ‘mountain modern’ look,” Danette Burr Dixon says. Made from lightweight fiberconcrete and heavy gauge steel, it’s not the best option if you’d like something portable. “But if you’re looking for a timeless look, this is a great choice,” she says. $1,599, available at woodlanddirect.com
Mother Nature’s candle The Grand Candle isn’t a new idea—Swedes have been making something similar for centuries, called Swedish Torches. Local artist Bland Hoke gave these temporary fire pits Jackson Hole flavor: They’ll all made from logs he finds locally. After Hoke finds the log he wants, he cuts it up and then hollows out the pieces. Logs are further prepared for fire by having some wax and a giant wick placed inside, so they’ll ignite more effectively. A small Grand Candle, about ten inches in diameter and about sixteen inches tall, will burn for approximately two hours. A large one, about sixteen inches in diameter and twenty inches tall, will burn for about four hours. Hoke and a partner also design and manufacture steel pans that can be used to cook on top of a Grand Candle. From $35, 307/690-0097, 1215 Gregory Lane, Suite 102, thegrandpan.com RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 16
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Spacey The eclipse might have been last year, but if you’re still obsessed with outer space, Fire Pit Art hires Tennessee artisans to make forty-one-inch diameter, steel fire pits whose wide-ring design is inspired by the planet Saturn. The model’s official name (so you can shop for it online) is a mouthful—Fire Pit Art 41-in W Iron Oxide Patina Steel Wood-Burning Fire Pit—but that’s where its unwieldiness ends. “This is a gorgeous fire pit that is both rustic and contemporary,” Burr Dixon says. Expect its iron-oxide finish to darken over time, but its carbon steel construction withstands all weather conditions and requires no maintenance. $1,090, available at lowes.com
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Custom This wholly custom fire pit by Agrostis takes on the rustic character of the boulders used in the nearby retaining wall, which defines the surrounding stone terrace and lawn. “Each boulder was hand-selected to properly fit the space, and each terrace stone was scribed to fit the unique border faces for a clean, finished look,” Snider says. From $7,000, 307/413-1883, agrostisinc.com
Take it with you “Portable fire pits are always fun,” Style Jackson Hole’s Burr Dixon says. “The Firebowl [from SunnyDaze Decor] is only thirty inches in diameter and has handles, making it perfect to use for events, parties, and general fun.” Two holes in the bottom allow for drainage. Brass tack style detailing along the top edge gives its otherwise contemporary look a little western flair. We love its affordability, too. $150, available online at wayfair.com
Associate broker Steve Duerr topped all other agents in sales volume last year at JHREA • Steve Duerr and Jackson Hole Real Estate & Associates achieved leading status for ranch brokerages in the Rocky Mountain West. • 20 years real estate experience. • 35 years practicing law in Jackson Hole. • Served on the Teton County Planning Commission; land-use master plan. • Executive director of the JH Chamber of Commerce and Murie Center in GTNP.
Concrete, done better “[Hart Concrete Design] does some cool things with concrete fire pits,” Agrostis’ Snider says. The rectangular Boardform Plaza and Block Quadra models come in eight different colors, a range of sizes, and can be ordered for a local natural gas hookup or a hard line hookup. Since they’re concrete, both of these models will last forever, even in our extreme climate, although they’re not easy to move around. Hart also does custom designs that Snider says are relatively affordable. From $2,300, 866/716-4278, hartconcretedesign.com
• Serving in his 28th year as General Counsel for the regional electric & gas cooperative utility. • Pioneered the Jackson Hole Power of Place brand, seeking to strike the right balance between commerce and conservation, people and wildlife. • Received the JH Chamber’s Power of Place Award for his leadership in business and conservation in Jackson Hole and Wyoming.
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This Wilson subdivision has unassuming acre homesteads the family started FOR MORE THAN SEVEN DECADES with, though they eventually owned after the Schofield family filed with the homes built in the 1980s and a resident about 1,100 acres around Wilson. In federal government to claim it, their elk herd. 1916, Schofield and his brothers bought land on the south side of Wilson had no a lumber mill that they moved from use save to grow hay and run cows. But By Mark Huffman Cache Creek to near the base of Trail in the early 1970s, Jackson businessman Photograph by Tuck Fauntleroy Creek. They were proud that they Robert Russell approached the last of picked trees to cut and didn’t clear the Schofields with a proposition: Was cut. Twice over the decades their mill he ready to sell? burned down, and they finally quit in the mid-1950s. Russell saw the land as a place to be developed as housing. For an By 1977, the year after his brother and housemate, Bill, died, aging Howard Schofield, the last of his pioneer family in the area, Schofield told a Jackson Hole Guide reporter that “I’m the last of the the answer was obvious. “I had met him and knew he was kind of Mohicans.” broke, and that he was getting up in age,” says Russell, now 89 and Russell had first visited Jackson Hole just before World War II, sent living in Helena, Montana. Russell recalled Schofield, who died in with his brothers by their mother to experience some ranch life. He 1981, as an old fellow “in bib overalls and rubber boots ... the kind served in the Army Air Corps late in the war and of guy who went to the Stagecoach on Sunday to kept returning to Jackson, eventually abandoning watch people dance.” a high-finance job in New York City in the late “I asked him to sell, and he said, ‘Yeah,’ ” 1960s and moving here to live in what’s now Ely Russell says. “And, he liked the idea of having it Springs. With partners, he ran the Jackson Hole named after him.” Racquet Club, now The Aspens, and also the local In an area known for colorful characters, cable television company. Schofield stood out. He went to the Wilson Sometime before the Schofield Patent Market and later Hungry Jack’s General Store [ ROBERT RUSSELL, DEVELOPER ] subdivision idea came to him, Russell was talking and bought butcher scraps so he could feed the to a friend and “she was complaining that there ravens and magpies. He lived for fifty years in a was no inexpensive property for locals,” he says. house just east of the Wilson Post Office, in his Russell “had met Howard Schofield a long time last years with a dog named Soup, an estimated before” and was inspired to approach him. 18 cats, and two skunks that made a home under his shed. The deal was for $500,000, Russell recalls. Lewis Robinson, a Schofield was born in Park City, Utah, in 1900, one of four partner of Russell’s in several businesses, says that “it was just a raw brothers and two sisters. The family arrived in Wilson by horsepiece of land.” The acreage was subdivided into thirty-three lots in drawn wagon in 1902. The Schofield Patent was one of two 160-
“It was quite slow starting.”
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1973, with meandering roads named Shoshone, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and Dakota. The lots range from just over two acres to about seven; twenty-six acres in two pieces were left as open space. Russell remembers that he did the county’s first environmental study for a subdivision. During the first sales effort, you could buy a lot, one ad said, at prices “from $22,000, 10 percent down, and excellent terms.” Jackson real estate agent Bland Hoke made many of the original sales. “We tried to set the prices as low as possible and provided terms,” Russell says. “We asked 10 percent down and often took a note for that. The original owners were all local people.” He also wrote rules to keep the place nice, including a covenant that banned what was apparently a concern at the time: You couldn’t buy a lot and put a trailer on it. “We didn’t want to let that happen,” Russell says. Despite good prices and being close to “downtown” Wilson—just south of the Hardeman property that’s now home to the Teton Raptor Center—“It was quite slow starting,” Russell says. Reynolds Pomeroy, a founder of Westbank Anglers and now an agent at Jackson Hole Real Estate Associates, the local Christie’s affiliate, was in the second wave of Schofield owners. In a month in 1986, he started the fishing business, bought a 1,800-square-foot house on three acres in Schofield, and married Bettie Bair. The owner-built house they bought—“It didn’t have a square room or a flat floor,” he says—has grown to about 3,000 square feet. Bettie is still his wife. Pomeroy wasn’t initially impressed with the house. However, Bettie didn’t want the usual resort lifestyle: “She said, ‘We’re not renting with roommates,’ ” he says. The couple made a “lowball” offer of $115,000, and got the house and land. They thought it seemed like a big investment. It turned out to be a wise one. “If we hadn’t bought then,” Pomeroy says, “we might have been living in Idaho.” Thirty-two of Schofield’s thirty-three lots have been developed. Many of the original 1970s and 1980s homes remain, and are “relatively modest,” Pomeroy says. Resales aren’t common, but when they occur, the prices show that people like the area. “A recent sale was an older home—modest, but nice—from the mid-eighties, which sold for a million-five,” he says. Another recently changed hands “for just under three mill.” Pomeroy expects that future sales are more and more likely to be “scrappers,” sales to people who like the location and the neighborhood, but not the existing house. There’s one big new house being built, with five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a two-bedroom guesthouse, and a barn. During construction, the county estimated its value at $3.4 million. Despite the changes, Schofield “is still a pretty vibrant community,” Pomeroy says. “We’re all known to each other.” Other advantages of Schofield — Patent include that it’s close to the IT WOULDN’T BE A NEIGHBORHOOD without some crazy history, and Schofield center of Wilson but essentially has a little: on a dead end, reached off Wenzel – In April 1981, a woman who lived in a house here with her daughter told Lane, and it also has a local elk herd police that she’d had an argument with her boyfriend, Larry Krambeer, who had and “more moose now than when threatened to burn down her place. She loaded up her daughter and went to I got here,” Pomeroy says. The area Boise, Idaho. A few days later, she received a call from thirty-eight-year-old has retained some old Jackson Hole Krambeer, who told her he had kept his promise and torched the place. A character—neighboring spaces have couple hours later, he turned himself in. Krambeer was sentenced to serve cabins and yurts. When Pomeroy two to five years in the penitentiary. first looked at what was to become – In 1977, the Schofield homeowners’ association went to court to stop his house here, his reaction was that a resident, Mo Strandemo, from operating a business—splitting and selling “there was nothing much taller than a firewood on his property. Strandemo, owner of Mo’s Bike Shop and known as a blade of grass. I thought, ‘Who would skier, resisted but lost. Within weeks he was listing his log home at $89,500—a want to live here?’ Thirty years later, deal, he said. Strandemo moved away and finally sold the house at an even here I sit.” lower price.
Howard Schofield lived for fifty years in a house just east of the Wilson Post Office, in his last years with a dog named Soup, an estimated 18 cats, and two skunks that made a home under his shed.
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These drapes are double-width, lined, and interlined. Interlining (sometimes referred to as a “bump”) is lining used inside the drapes. It adds insulation and helps to not let light through, so the fabric is more prominent.
NOT TO PUT ANY PRESSURE ON YOU, but, “draperies make or break a space,” says Glenda Lawrence, the interior designer behind Matterhouse, a showroom and design firm founded in 2012. Designer Nanette Mattei, who was an executive with textile superpower Kravet for years before moving to the valley to open her own design firm, makes getting draperies sound a little less intimidating: “The right window treatments add warmth to a room, showcase personal style, and at the same time [are] functional. The wrong ones can look forced and aren’t functional.” With these tips from Lawrence, Mattei, and Jim Schulz, the founder of Grand Teton Floor & Window Coverings, you can make sure you get your window treatments right.
A neutral drape is always safe, but I love pattern. Sometimes that investment will make you happy for years because you took that risk, and you’ll always love that you added such a unique touch to your space.
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IN THIS HOUSE SOUTH OF TOWN, NANETTE MATTEI USED A HANDBLOCK FABRIC SHE BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM THE SOURCE: “I LOVE SUPPORTING TEXTILES DESIGNERS AND STUDIOS BY GOING DIRECTLY TO THEM,” SHE SAYS. HAND-BLOCK FABRICS ARE AN “ALL-TIME FAVORITE” OF MATTEI’S. IN THIS HOUSE, SHE USED DIFFERENT PATTERNS IN EACH OF THE THREE BEDROOMS, AND MADE THINGS CONSISTENT BY USING THE SAME 100 PERCENT COTTON, DARK BLUE BACKGROUND FABRIC.
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“IT SEEMS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THAT THERE HAS BEEN INCREASED DEMAND FOR CUSTOM INTERIOR SOFT FURNISHINGS LIKE DRAPERIES,” GLENDA LAWRENCE SAYS. IN THIS APARTMENT IN TETON VILLAGE’S NEWLY FINISHED CALDERA HOUSE, SHE WORKED WITH A SHEER FABRIC TO CREATE DRAPERIES IN THE LIVING/DINING ROOM THAT HANG FROM THE CEILING AND SHADE A TWENTY-TWO-FOOT-WIDE SPAN, AS WELL AS A MUCH SMALLER ROMAN SHADE. 1 We used a system here that I’ve been installing a lot lately—cubicle track. If you make this choice early enough in the design process, which we did here, the builders can recess it into the ceiling so it’s kind of hidden. The hardware to do this is pretty affordable, too—it doesn’t cost as much as traditional rods and rings and brackets. Cubicle tracks don’t need to be recessed into the ceiling. If you’re doing a remodel, the track can be surface-mounted as well. 4 These drapes are opened by a wand because they’re light and it’s easy. I was doing an installation of really heavy drapes on another project, though, and came to the conclusion that you’re supposed to touch and move draperies. These were luxurious and felt so good to touch. So, don’t be afraid to touch. You might not want to do drapes you have to move by hand in a commercial space, but in a house, I love the idea of them.
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FIRE & BRAWN It was blacksmiths who forged the first weapons and tools from metal millenia ago. Today, blacksmithing is an art form.
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JUST FOR FULL DISCLOSURE, during our interview at his shop in Hoback Junction, master blacksmith and artist Steve Fontanini gave me a little gift. I admit this up front because I am totally charmed by it: It’s a small steel leaf the size of a half-dollar coin, with the subtle detail of a center vein and the stem a tad curved. In the past, Fontanini has made hundreds of them at a time for decorative detailing on yards of gatework and railings. He smithed it for me while we talked, firing up his gas-fueled forge. “This makes noise,” he softly warned before a thunderous blast of sound, heat, and light had me touching my eyebrows to make sure they were still there. A rod of steel sourced from Idaho Falls went into the forge until the end to be worked turned a bright orange, indicating a temperature of about 800 degrees. Just “hot” would be a dull red, and veteran blacksmiths like Fontanini can judge the temperature simply by color. I nearly dropped my notebook and pen when he picked up the “cooler” end with his bare hands. Having just burned my hand while picking up a hot saucepan over the holidays, I
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“THIS MAKES NOISE,” HE SOFTLY WARNED BEFORE A THUNDEROUS BLAST OF SOUND, HEAT, AND LIGHT HAD ME TOUCHING MY EYEBROWS TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE STILL THERE.
winced at this otherworldly tolerance to pain. “It’s not that hot,” he gently protested. The rod was dipped in water to slightly cool, and then Fontanini began pounding it against an anvil. It was really loud; many of the shaping tools can easily weigh more than your average bowling ball. The rod was returned to the forge, and after four more rounds of heating, hammering, and shaping, a leaf shape began to emerge. With a smaller hammer, he tapped in the curved stem and the center vein. Fontanini polished it with an oil finish. And then, a delicate aspen leaf appeared in my palm, a little talisman of hard work and artful creativity. The artist Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” Fontanini discovered an aspen leaf inside a rod of black steel and a roaring fire. 27
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He explained that some in the trade merely cut patterns out of sheets of steel or “customize” prefabricated products with hammered or machined textures. But true blacksmiths work with a raw material and shape it with the power of fire and brawn. His shop is filled with midcentury and older machinery that looks like it’s out of the Industrial Age, some of which he uses to produce anvils for other blacksmiths. Fontanini’s work for clients mostly entails making gates and railings, fireplace accessories, and some furniture. His creative work is currently represented by a gallery in Cody, and he was the 2010 recipient of the Best Artist—Metal award at
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the Western Design Conference. Every commissioned project begins with a long discussion and, ideally, a visit to the client’s home. Fontanini gets a feel for their aesthetic and for the scale of how his work will fit into an existing or potential space. He sketches. Clients stop by to see examples of work. And then, by any definition, it is a feat of extraordinary artistry and strength to forge even small-scale projects. When I visited, a massive gate-and-railing project for a client in Kansas was taking shape in his shop—more than thirty-five feet of railing and three gates, every post, newel, and joint smithed by hand.
Despite technological advances in so many other parts of the building trade and arts, blacksmithing is having somewhat of a revival, and Fontanini’s face lights up when he talks about how he’s kept that fire burning. Fontanini is one of those soft-spoken people who can make themselves heard without shouting, even over the deafening pounding of his industrial hammering machine. He spoke about his early days as a farrier, traveling around the world to shoe racehorses, and recalled the many apprentices he’s trained over the years. Despite technological advances in so many other parts of the building trade and arts, blacksmithing is having somewhat of a revival, and Fontanini’s face lights up when he talks about how he’s kept that fire burning.
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THE DOG TROT RESIDENCE Simplicity in design and materials makes this home stand out.
By Dina Mishev
HIRED BY OPEN-MINDED CLIENTS to design a house on a flat, treeless site near Wilson, Carney Logan Burke Architects (CLB) saw the possibilities as endless. “With that site, and knowing that we could show the [clients] anything and they would at least consider it—when you know you’re not limited and don’t have to water something down—that makes projects very interesting,” says CLB project manager Bryan James. When the Jackson-based firm presented its first sketches to the clients, “We showed them what the house should be and hoped they would like it, but we also knew that they could hate it,” James says. “It was something really pure, simple, and modern.” RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 30
materials contribute to this approachability as The clients loved it, and then went on to “push much as the design. The entire exterior, roof us to make it that much more pure, simple, and included, is rusted metal. “This makes it appear modern. The main moves of the initial design we like it’s just emerging from the landscape,” showed them did not change,” he adds. James says. The form of the house really is as simple as can Inside, “The form of the house is solid on be—it’s a 160-foot-long, 37-foot-wide rectangle either end—two solid bookends—and open and with a long, asymmetrical gabled roof and an glassy in the middle,” James says. The master 80-foot-long arm with a matching roofline. The bedroom is at one end; home’s garage is the arm, two guest bedrooms are and it is detached, although at the opposite end. The visually it looks like the glassy interior contains the same building. “At first, we home’s public spaces. pushed them away from All the interior rooms, having the garage separate with the exception of an from the house: ‘Are you intimate map room, open to sure you want a detached spill onto outdoor terraces. garage in Wyoming?’ we “The outdoor space is as asked. But it ended up being [ BRYAN JAMES, CLB PROJECT MANAGER ] important as the indoor a key move,” James says. space in this house,” In the earliest drawings James says. The outdoor of the home, the garage terraces at either end of wasn’t an arm, but was the main volume include connected to the house by one of James’ favorite details: “The rusty metal a skinny covered walkway. “It bothered us that siding seamlessly transitions to a transparent this wasn’t substantial enough,” James says. perforated siding,” he says. “The shape and That was when the firm came up with the idea form of the siding extend out to wing walls for of “one full-length roof that corresponds to the the terraces at the ends, but all of a sudden it’s width of the garage.” Between the garage and the transparent as a screen. It protects from weather home, this roof serves as a forty-foot overhang. and sun, and also plays with the light.” Initially, “Basically, we extended the fascia of the house this transition to transparency was designed to the garage, and it connects the two volumes only for the terrace off the master bedroom. as one form. It also creates this amazing entry “The master gets western sunlight, and we knew sequence,” James continues. it would be really harsh,” James says. “Then, we While CLB sought to add substance to the saw that it just made sense to complete that form design with this decision, because the site was on the east side and copy that detail. The overall flat and treeless, the firm knew that “we wanted form and shape of this project often seemed to the house to be unimposing,” James says. “It has a design itself.” strong presence, but it is not imposing.” Exterior
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Zion is one of the biggies in the national park lineup.
SHAKING OFF WINTER IN JACKSON HOLE can be slow. Spring tends to be muddy, overstay its welcome and, at times, rudely act like winter. Ignore these slights and distract yourself by planning a trip to a less-moody climate, like Springdale, Utah’s, for example. There are few things that summon up summer like a road trip to a national park, and Zion National Park is located conveniently on Springdale’s doorstep. Zion is one of the biggies in the national park lineup. With regard to splendors, it’s on par with Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. Every year, four-million-plus visitors affirm its awesomeness. And, they all go through Springdale, which is literally right outside Zion’s main entrance. The small town embraces its role as Zion’s gateway and has an enlightened selection of interesting galleries, scrumptious eateries, and top-shelf lodging. In many ways, it’s like a smaller Jackson, if you substitute rock cliffs and desert for conifers and high-alpine mountains.
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GET YOUR ARCHITECTURE (AND HISTORY) ON Established in 1919, Zion was the first of the five national parks in Utah—Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands are the others. President William Howard Taft first drew attention to the area ten years earlier, in 1909, when he created the Mukuntuweap National Monument. In 1918, the National Park Service’s (NPS) assistant director, Horace Albright (who went on to become superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and also have a mountain, Albright Peak, in Grand Teton National Park named after him), was expanding the footprint of America’s parks and sought congressional approval to elevate Taft’s monument to national park status. In the process, he opted to change its name to Zion, a Biblical term co-opted by Mormon settlers as a sort of holy nickname for Utah. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed the congressional proclamation and Zion National Park was officially born.
Springdale was originally a Mormon farming community, but today appears more beholden to Zion than to any religion. Its prevailing architectural style is “early twenty-first century tourist town.” Buildings blend nicely with the desert surroundings. They are inoffensive, but architecturally don’t have an overwhelming sense of place. There is one very special architectural treasure: Zion National Park Lodge (1 Zion Canyon Scenic Dr., Springdale, 435/772-7700, zionlodge.com), the only lodging located inside Zion National Park. It is one of the grand park lodges designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Underwood graduated from Harvard in 1923 and then lucked into the gig of a lifetime working for the Union Pacific Railroad to design and build infrastructure in NPS locations to lure people to the parks out West. The railroad commissioned him to design lodges. Zion Lodge was one
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of his first, constructed in what would come to be known as “Parkitecture style,” a rustic approach that featured rough-hewn local materials. Construction on Zion Lodge was finished in 1927, about the same time the architect was remodeling Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone and building lodges in Bryce Canyon and on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. (Underwood went on to also design, in Yosemite, the hotel formerly known as the Ahwahnee. The Ahwahnee was recently forced to change its name to Majestic Yosemite Hotel after a lawsuit.) The Zion Lodge burned down in a fire in 1966 and was quickly rebuilt without the original rustic look. In the 1990s, it was restored to Underwood’s original design.
On the way into Springdale, traveling west to east on Route 9, you’ll pass through two historic towns, Grafton (graftonheritage.org) and Rockville. They’re worth doubling back to explore (or stopping the first time you go through). Rockville is the site of a historic steel truss bridge spanning the Virgin River. The bridge, built in 1924, is the only surviving “Parker through truss” bridge in Utah and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. You’ll cross this very bridge east of Grafton, a collection of well-preserved frontier buildings that are the remnants of a small farming community that went ghost town around 1945. Grafton was used as a set in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was the location where actors Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katherine Ross rode bicycles accompanied by Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.”
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Springdale is essentially one main drag that includes all the usual tourist shops selling trinkets and all-I-got-was-this-lousy-T-shirt kind of T-shirts. But it’s also home to an enclave of artists from painters to potters. Nick Blaisdell is a ceramicist known for his enigmatic pots that evoke both Native American and Oriental designs, but somehow are neither. You’ll find his work along with an excellent selection by other standout artists at LaFave Gallery (1214 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435/772-0464, lafavegallery. com). On the way into town, you will likely see displays of beautiful wind sculptures in local yards and adorning businesses and restaurants. These whirligigs are most likely the work of desert-dwelling artist Lyman Whitaker. He calls them kinetic wind sculptures, but we just call them fun. You’ll find a selection of his creations at Worthington Gallery (789 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435/772-3446, worthingtongallery.com).
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You came here to explore and get involved with some national-park-level beauty, right? The truly adventurous will want to consider a technical canyoneering adventure in the slot canyons and wild areas in and around Zion. Zion Adventure Company (36 Lion Blvd., Springdale, 435/772-1001, zionadventures.com) offers guided excursions and instruction as well as gear rental, maps, and advice. For something that doesn’t involve wearing a helmet and a climbing harness, consider renting river tubes from Zion Outfitter (7 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 36
435/772-5090, zionoutfitter. com). In spring and early summer, floating the Virgin River is one of the most fun and refreshing ways to see the area. As a side effect of the world’s love for Zion National Park, the main road up Zion Canyon is closed to cars during the summer months. (By the way, Zion gets about as many visitors as Yellowstone, but is about one-fifteenth the size.) Visitors must use the park’s shuttle service to explore. But there is a loophole: The road is always open to cyclists. Because the only traffic consists of shuttle buses and the few drivers who are staying at Zion Lodge, it’s a uniquely peaceful road-biking experience and one of the best and most convenient ways to see the park. Zion Cycles (868 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435/7720400, zioncycles.com) has a selection of bikes from upright cruisers to, for the spandex set, carbon-fiber racers. It also rents electric bikes. Hiking, however, is Zion’s central activity, and there’s a range of trails from strenuous whoppers like Angels Landing to what are essentially nature walks, like the Emerald Pools and Weeping Rock. You will have no doubt heard of Angels Landing. One of the most iconic (and strenuous) hikes in the National Park System, the trail was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) well before there were lawyers on the NPS payroll. Its last bit is too steep and precipitous to “hike” without using your hands. The CCC installed, in the rock face, swags of linked chains for hikers to use to pull themselves up (and also
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to hold onto to keep from falling off). Angels Landing is not for the faint of heart. Despite the fear factor, it is nevertheless one of Zion’s most popular (read: most crowded) hikes. Lines of people having varying degrees of fitness and fear of heights pick their way along the chains. If you opt to do this hike—it’s bucket list worthy, so please do, unless you have paralyzing
acrophobia—wear solid footwear with grippy soles and don’t be too proud to go slow. Don’t let the idiot in the Converse Chuck Taylors rush you. If the chain section sounds too daunting, you can hike to where it starts and still enjoy an amazing view. Zion’s other bucket list “hike” is the Narrows. We put hike in quotes here because trekking the
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Blvd., Springdale, 435/772-0336, brewpubspringdale. com) to taste the local brews. As you plan your outdoor excursions, pick up provisions and a picnic lunch from Sol Foods (995 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435/7723100, solfoods.com), a hip little market with a deli counter in the back. For an ice cream treat, stop by Hoodoos (35 Lion Blvd., Springdale, 435/7723101, hoodoosmarket.com). For your big dinner out, try either The Spotted Dog Café (428 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435/772-0700, flanigans. com) or Bistro H (281 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435/216-1639, bistrohspringdale.com). The former is a Springdale mainstay serving up variations on wild game, fish, and pastas. Bistro H’s menu specializes in succulent, slow-roasted meats—it’s hard to go wrong with the featured chef’s choice roast—gourmet burgers, and flatbread pizzas. Both restaurants have lovely outdoor patios for patrons to enjoy the scenery as the sun sets.
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“Grandma’s bathroom.” Arrivistes! Nevertheless, for my next project, I might take a page from Jackson designer Jennifer Prugh Visosky, who brings a fearlessness to choices that transform her clients’ spaces. Rob and Patty Hollis, owners of Frost Hair Salon, opened a second location, Frost2, in the very back of the Altitude boutique on the Town Square in September 2017. Rob Hollis described the space as “nothing, just storage.” Now, though, when you walk into Altitude, your eye is immediately drawn to the salon in the former storage space at the rear of the store. The back wall—covered in a dramatic, edgy, oversized floral print— commands the salon space, a fairly stark white cube aglow with mirrors and bright lighting. The paper is from Ellie Cashman, a European designer who is among a new generation of textile and paper designers who are revolutionizing the very idea of wallpaper with innovative materials and a contemporary aesthetic. Visosky provides some background on how just one decorative element can define an otherwise unremarkable room: “Frost2 needed an element of drama to take away the ‘white box’ effect. The scale Patty chose is perfect for the volume of the space; if we’d gone any larger, it would have been overblown. The pattern needed to be seen and repeated. It also plays well with the industrial lighting, [achieving a] subtle feminine and masculine balance.” RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 42
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A couple shares the unvarnished truth about remodeling the main floor of their home. (Spoiler alert—in the end, it’s all worth it.)
Tell It! Above: Having a two-inch lip on the kitchen counters was more important to Allison Arthur and Brian Upesleja than flooring, so they went with laminate flooring instead of real wood. Allison and Brian often use the island as a workplace. “I [like] the island as my ‘office’ rather than the desk downstairs because it is in a central spot in the house,” Allison says. “And I make us a salad or green bowl for lunch every day that I don’t have a work meeting.”
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llison Arthur, who with her husband, Brian Upesleja, remodeled the main floor of their home on Pine Drive during the fall and winter of 20162017, doesn’t mince words when talking about home improvement. “I think people, when they start a remodel, shouldn’t imagine it’s going to be great and easy and fun, and that they can control it,” she says. “This might not be what people want to hear, but it’s the truth, and if you know that going in, maybe you won’t be as frustrated as I was. Know that it’s going to be hard and take longer and cost more than you planned. But, eventually, you will love it.”
Opposite: “I used the space that is under the lip of the island and harder to reach, to build shallow shelves that house my cookbook collection,” Allison says. The window above the kitchen sink and the French doors onto the deck are wide open all summer, except on the hottest days. “These create an indoor-outdoor feeling and double our living area,” Allison says.
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Brian doesn’t just do remodels; he also “dabbles in art,” Allison says. He carved and painted the fish hanging near the ladder access to the loft.
Prior to starting this remodel—their second major one; previously they remodeled their home’s basement apartment into a master suite—Allison developed spreadsheets of the project’s expected budget and timeframe. Respectively, these were three years of their savings and three months. “I’m a control freak, and I approached it like I do my job,” says Allison, who is the co-editor and co-publisher of Dishing, a magazine about the valley’s food scene. “I was meticulous.” By the time the two were able to move back into their house, though, both the budget and the timeframe had doubled. “The last three months were really, really hard,” Allison says. “It was a very trying time in our lives.” Brian adds, “I know two couples who remodeled and are divorcing now.” Chatting with Allison and Brian—still happily married—in January, nine months after the remodel was finished, though, it’s evident they love the end result. “It did take us a little while to get over the process before we could fully appreciate the work we [ ALLISON ARTHUR, HOMEOWNER ] did,” Allison says. “But now we’re superpsyched on it.” When asked if they’d do anything different if they could, all the couple came
“KNOW THAT IT’S GOING TO BE HARD AND TAKE LONGER AND COST MORE THAN YOU PLANNED. BUT, EVENTUALLY, YOU WILL LOVE IT.”
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- ALLISON’S TIPS 1. Utilize professionals. We worked with an architect and a cabinet designer, and also sought out opinions from other industry pros. Think of remodeling as a collaborative process—you don’t know everything—and it will come out better. 2. Plan a budget and a timeline, and then double them. We were on budget with our materials. It was the time and labor for all the things we never could have predicted that killed it. 3. Know when to splurge and when to save. This is individual. I really cared about a big stove and also a two-inch lip on the countertops. But I didn’t care as much about flooring, so we went with laminate. 4. Know your roles and trust each other. Brian deferred to me on purchasing and picking finishes and design details. I deferred to him on getting everything done. 5. Price out everything like materials and appliances online, and then see if local companies will match it. We’re both small-business owners and it was important to us to support other local businesses, but we didn’t have an unlimited budget. Sometimes we could get prices matched locally and sometimes they wouldn’t. But, we gave them the opportunity. 6. As frustrated as you get, know you’ll love it in the end. We spent way more money than we anticipated, but don’t regret any of it.
Top: “The pantry and pullout cabinet offer an incredible amount of storage space to house the way-too-many spices/oils/vinegars I collect and the larger kitchen gadgets I love having but only use a few times a year,” Allison says. She says she and Brian got the idea of the pullout cabinet by consulting with a cabinetry professional. “If we weren’t open to suggestions, we never would have gotten that, and it’s become indispensible for me.” Bottom: Kristin Fay from Trauner Fay Designs helped Allison pick out the fun chandelier above the kitchen island. The pink armchairs predate the remodel. “I got them for us for our seventh (I think) anniversary,” Allison says.
- BRIAN’S TIPS 1. Get a dumpster delivered right to your front door. You accumulate so much trash in the demolition and throughout the project. This can save the time of going to the dump all the time. 2. Expect delays.
up with was that they might go back and make a second side of the kitchen island overhanging so stools would fit against it. So, what made it so frustrating and budgetbashing during the six months of work? There was a big window that arrived with its frame bent in half. Last winter had record snowfall. Their Viking appliance package literally fell off the delivery truck. The removal of the old dishwasher revealed that a leak from it had rotted most of the kitchen’s subfloor. And, and, and. “Expect a problem at every step,” says Allison, who’s happy to share what she and Brian learned going through the process. “I think remodeling is inherently hard—you never know what’s behind and under what you’re tearing out—but it doesn’t have to be as hard as I made it. Sharing what we learned is fun ... now that it’s all over for us.”
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Pick the right team, and you can design and build the exact house you imagined.
The south-facing sunroom—a bright, warm place for morning coffee or afternoon doodling—was an early request in the design process. The author’s potted Meyer lemon trees, beloved reminders of a Bay Area garden, will soon move in for winter. Materials, finishes, and color choices were
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kept to a minimum. Farmhouse white, black trim, rich woods, and low-key hardware create an elegant backdrop for judicious use of color, like the Cabot-red barn guesthouse. Opposite: Volume and height can be a challenge, but the horizontal lines of the
beadboard and abundant light from above keep the entryway from being cavernous. The French doors, painted in a custom shade of Pilgrim blue, open to an antique Oushak rug. Craig Spankie’s Number 815 above the antique altar table speaks to the design’s historic-modern, organic-linear balance.
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his ended up being exactly the house I imagined. How did that happen?” I asked our architect, Peggy Gilday of GYDE Architects, and Alex Romaine, owner of Wind River Builders, as we sat down to a sadly wineless postmortem in our newly built home in the Dairy Ranches subdivision. It’s rarely the case that a client’s vision of a home ends up being the one they unpack their dishes in. “Well, first, it was a good fit,” Gilday said. So true. Before my husband, Alex, and I had even bought the property, my favorite chapter in Jean Rehkamp Larson’s book, The Farmhouse: New Inspiration for the Classic American Home, featured Gilday’s former residence in Wilson, a modest, red, barnlike home with clean lines, minimal variation in materials, and warm finishes. Perhaps a year later, Alex and I found ourselves looking at an aggressively grand house on the West Bank. While the main house wasn’t our style, its guesthouse captivated us. It was a modest stone structure with a beautiful, modern interior that felt historic and contemporary at the same time and was very low-key and quiet. The architect? Gilday. (She didn’t do the boorish main house, just the charming guesthouse.) I googled her like a fangirl, pinning photos
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Top: The kitchen design fulfilled an ever-growing list of needs and desires to be the heart of the home. Wired-glass cabinetry from a farmhouse vernacular, wood beams, and a double country sink warm up the coolly elegant lines of the Sonneman Lighting Tribeca lamps, white tile backsplash, and black granite and white marble countertops. Left: A beautiful view from the sink was imperative, as was the Aga six-burner range.
of sexy architectural details like a sliding barn door and a corrugated steel wall to my Pinterest page. I finally met Gilday after we bought our first lot in Dairy Ranches (long story!). We immediately fell into shorthand conversation as I could reference her house in Wilson and that stone guesthouse. For our sweeping fifteen acres of flat former ranchland, I had strong views on the project’s aesthetic—a contemporary take on the iconic American farmhouse, crisp and tidy, with a Cabot-red barn and a stone icehouse. I also had a bunch of random details I wanted somewhere in the house, like wired-glass cabinetry, wall space for a to-be-commissioned Jared Sanders painting that would relate to the view on the opposite wall (wherever that might be), and a sunny southfacing room to drink coffee in while watching my Meyer lemon trees grow—you know, the usual checklist. Alex had quite silly ideas like adequate storage, proper lighting, and a functional home office where he could drink coffee while working. Each of our four kids wanted their own bedroom and bathroom, and, unlike most people who are not your grandparents, we wanted a formal dining room and formal living room. RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 50
A departure from open living plans, the main house maintains a sense of intimacy in its spaces. Black doors with frosted glass open to a sun-filled playroom and the children’s bedrooms. The breezy lightness of northern and southern exposures winks at Craig Spankie’s Take It To The Bridge. 51
I had strong views on the project’s aesthetic—a contemporary take on the iconic American farmhouse, crisp and tidy, with a Cabot-red barn and a stone icehouse.
And, we wanted a ground floor guest suite in case we got old or fractured a pelvis. Creating a place for Alex’s wine collection was like accommodating a fussy in-law, always needing the right temperature and humidity—not too much light!—and having to be very carefully moved from one resting place to another. Our needs were many and some were admittedly extravagant. And, it was important to me to work with an architect who would deliver a work of architecture, not just draft whatever we carelessly said we fancied after a fun trip to Rome or somewhere, which is something we totally did. (Gilday has a gentle way of saying, “It’s just not something we do well,” when a directive is too far from GYDE’s sensibility.) Gilday managed to propose schematics that turned our daydreamy ideas (minus our Roman fascinations) into sophisticated interpretations of a farmhouse estate, and always with a point of view. Looking back on this long process, which started in Spring 2014, we can see that finding the right architect—one in accord with our aesthetic sensibility and with whom we could have a collegial working relationship—was the most important decision in setting us up to move into the house we had envisioned in our heads. Gilday says the third leg of the “stool” supporting any
successful construction project is the builder, and Romaine certainly kept things from getting wobbly. Even though a client may set an overall budget, the builder is accountable for it, and a seasoned professional is invaluable in deciding when to splurge and what can be value-engineered. As Romaine puts it, he “treads lightly on design. It’s not about my having ‘good taste.’ It’s about being discerning about the work and materials.” I was frequently reminded of that old adage “measure twice, cut once” as we went through so many iterations of siding, exterior paint colors, stone, and siding again, as Wind River and Gilday’s team worked to build consensus on some very expensive decisions. I tired of this part easily, though my husband had endless interest in seeing infinite variations of stained, but not polished, though buffed, quartersawn oak, and also of Montana moss stone. There were months of mindnumbing mechanical engineering gobbledygook (which my husband loved). I was grateful to have trust in our architect and builder so I could at times distance myself. Eventually, though, every paint color, countertop, door handle, and cabinet pull in this 10,000-square-foot house had to be selected. Alex and I had done an extensive remodel and built new construction before, but with this project—because
Below: Alex’s home office, part of a two-room office-library suite, is anchored by a writing desk designed by Mariette Himes Gomez and an Oushak rug, but the Mount Glory views might prove distracting. Gilday’s team designed clever concealment for printers and cords in the cabinetry.
Opposite: “Design in Everything” is GYDE Architects’ working ethos, and this view into the family room, kitchen, dining room, and beyond presents all elements—design, family, dog, life—in one perspective. Every point of view was intentionally framed. Note the window beyond the kitchen, drawing the eye outdoors.
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Left: The master bedroom faces the Teton Range and its glassy reflection in the one-acre backyard pond. A pair of Verellen wing chairs are invitingly cozy, but nothing could be sexier than the Poltrona Frau dressing table made of saddle leather, Canaletto walnut, and brass. Bottom: The master bathroom is spa-like and elegant in its simplicity, yet just feminine enough with the mosaic tile inset on the floor and a double-slipper bathtub. GYDE designed and framed views in every room, even here where the lines of the black-trimmed windows speak to the rafters and the Tetons beyond.
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of its scale and level of commitment—he had a hard time envisioning rooms based on paint chips and tear sheets. I was fine leaving most of this decision-making to Gilday’s team; Alex wanted to be more active in the process, but he lacked the vocabulary to express himself, though he tried. We had some pretty tense and difficult meetings pondering squares of granite and cabinet paint against potential floor stains. We needed an interpreter of sorts, and that’s where Rush Jenkins came in. The highbrow luxury of Jenkins’ namesake studio, WRJ Design, can be intimidating at first— why not choose those European-mounted elk antlers once owned by Kaiser Wilhelm for your family room?—until you relax into a comfy Ralph Lauren sofa, and one of Jenkins’ sweet dogs curls up at your feet like you own the place. Jenkins immediately honed in on Alex’s need to see and touch furnishings and finishings in their spaces without a lot of designer vernacular. We visited several of WRJ’s clients’ homes, and Jenkins was able to draw out what Alex did and did not want. While touring one of these homes in the Gill Addition, I seized upon a stunning bathroom wall covered in an opulent white marble mosaic. It was feminine in its delicate details, and mesmerizing in its geometric intricacy. GYDE’s John Stennis raised his formidable eyebrows,
letting me know right then that this could blow our entire tile budget. We had seven bathrooms to consider. Stennis presented a design solution for our squarish master bath, proposing a center inset of the gorgeous tile mosaic surrounded by a complementary plain white border in matching stone. The floor of the shower would also be finished in the mosaic, making two perfect focal points that produced the desired effect. Romaine was still coughing politely in the corner about the budget, but he found savings elsewhere that Kaiser Wilhelm would never have noticed. The elegant simplicity of Gilday’s design and Romaine’s careful attention to craft elevated all of the finishes, whether highend or value, to a higher level of aesthetic sensibility. The house that Gilday designed, that Romaine built, and that Jenkins furnished is truly the house I imagined, a statement that astonishes anyone who’s built a new home. Neither I nor my husband will ever be an architect, builder, or designer. The most we can take credit for is bringing together an extraordinary team to execute our desires for our home. It really was all about collaboration.
ROMAINE WAS STILL COUGHING POLITELY IN THE CORNER ABOUT THE BUDGET, BUT HE FOUND SAVINGS ELSEWHERE THAT KAISER WILHELM WOULD NEVER HAVE NOTICED.
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The white farmhouse discreetly disappears into the winter landscape, while the Montana moss stone garage and red barn guesthouse break up volumes and space in classic American farmhouse fashion.
Cecelia Heffernan’s kitchen table is “a very simple iron garden table,” she says. “It was the perfect size for my space, so I brought it inside.” She paired it with French leather 1930s chairs found on a buying trip in Paris. “My buying trips span
Europe—mainly France and Belgium—and all over the U.S. I love the hunt,” she says. “My next buying trip is planned for Scandinavia.” The horse head is by folk artist O.L. Samuels, whose work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American
Art Museum. Heffernan says Samuels carved this piece from driftwood in front of a classroom of schoolkids “to show them how to sculpt. Not everyone would love this, but I fell in love with it because it looks like my horse, Iris.”
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From the OUTSIDE IN The founder of Flower Hardware has expanded into interiors. Her own remodeled home is her best advertisement.
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’ll always be a florist,” says Cecelia Heffernan, who opened Flower Hardware in Wilson in 2000 when she was only in her twenties, and soon after authored two books about plants and flowers. For most of the first decade of this century, your event in Jackson Hole wasn’t an event unless Heffernan had done the flowers and décor. She brought a style to flowers that hadn’t yet been seen in the valley. Heffernan expanded from flowers into landscaping and enjoyed continued success. And then she seemed to disappear, although Flower Hardware, which eventually moved from a large space in The Aspens on Teton Village Road to its current (smaller) location just east of the Town Square, has never closed. “I was at a transition where I either needed to get bigger or smaller,” she says. “I downsized.”
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Top: A 1940s German leather gym bench sits inside the front door, which, along with all of the interior doors, Heffernan designed herself. The concrete floor is acid stained and polished and purposely was not scored. “I have always loved old concrete floors in warehouses and specifically asked my contractor to not score the concrete to prevent cracking because I love the cracks and blemishes of worn concrete,” she says. Bottom: The first thing Heffernan did after buying this house was to plant evergreens in the front yard. “I wanted the house to be nestled, almost hidden, in the trees,” she says. The rest of the home’s landscaping is green and white. The antique garden urns are planted with simple green moss and the exterior sconces are from Urban Electric Company in Charleston, South Carolina.
“MY MIND DOESN’T STOP, EVEN IF I’D LIKE IT TO. I’LL SEE A DRESS IN MY CLOSET I HAVEN’T WORN IN AGES, AND I’LL GET A VISION FOR A NEW DRESS TO CREATE OUT OF IT. I CAN’T HELP MYSELF.” [ CECELIA HEFFERNAN, HOMEOWNER ]
While she pulled back on work, Heffernan’s creativity never ebbed. “My mind doesn’t stop, even if I’d like it to. I’ll see a dress in my closet I haven’t worn in ages, and I’ll get a vision for a new dress to create out of it. I can’t help myself.” Or, she’ll see a ramshackle, twostory rectangular building constructed in the 1970s and “immediately see the gorgeous finished product.” Heffernan spotted that 1970s house, on Millward Street in downtown Jackson, around 2000. “It was the cheapest house in town,” she says. But price was only part of the reason she asked her friend, a real estate agent, to show it to her. “I saw what it could be,” she says. The building was in such bad shape that her friend wouldn’t get out of the car and go in with her. “He told me I shouldn’t buy it,” Heffernan says. But she had seen its future—it’d need a top-tobottom remodel, but it would be a gorgeous home. (At the time, the ground level was being used as a day care center and the top floor was an apartment.) Heffernan bought it, but didn’t start remodeling right away. “I’m such a particular person,” she says. “I didn’t want to skimp on anything, so I didn’t do anything until I could afford it.” Around 2010, finances and necessity lined up. “It got to the point where it needed to be torn down or renovated,” she says. RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 58
The guest room on the main floor has become Heffernan’s study. “This is one of my favorite rooms because it has a door and window into my side garden, which is very beautiful. It is a great place to escape,” she says. The leather chaise is a Charles Limbert from the early 1900s and the orange chair, still upholstered in its original fabric, is 1960s Italian.
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“My bathroom is my escape,” Heffernan says. “The burnished metal bathtub is my most favorite spot to relax. Being in this room always feels like an indulgence.” She created a classic, luxe aesthetic by combining timeless materials like Statuary marble for the counters and tile, slate floors, and walnut cabinetry with modern faucets, lighting, and mirrors. Her cat, P-Tat, approves of the sinks.
Opposite: Heffernan didn’t want to spend a lot of money on ceiling lighting so she could instead splurge on decorative fixtures. In the upstairs hallway she used porcelain keyless fixtures and “dressed them up by using silver tip light bulbs,” she says. “I love long hallways and kept my walls clean and simple to elongate the hallway to the end room. The quiet hallway is a nice aesthetic before entering the decorated space at the end.”
Today, Heffernan says she’s still not finished— she’ll start on the detached garage in the back this summer—but the house itself “looks just like I knew it would when I bought it.” Relaxing on an early 1900s French leather club chair in the bright, concretefloored living room, Heffernan says, “I am very good at transforming existing spaces. I think that was why I was good at parties and weddings. But I really love the remodel process.” Heffernan grew up in Augusta, Georgia, with a mother who was “a big gardener and flower person.” When young Heffernan got in trouble, the punishment was yardwork, which wasn’t much of a deterrent since she loved it. Still, Heffernan never planned on being a florist. But then she moved to Jackson and couldn’t find flowers she liked. For a dinner party she was hosting, she went to Albertsons—the only big grocery store in the valley at the time—bought plants and “cut
them up and made arrangements,” she says. Guests “went crazy over the flowers, and I was like, ‘This could be a thing here.’ ” Despite her talent, success, and interest, Heffernan says she is “the worst person to be a florist. I’m a perfectionist and all about quality. I jeopardize my profit to make the product perfect.” Also, flowers are so ephemeral. “I remember I’d do a wedding or a big party, and I’d go to clean up the day after and it was so sad.” She found landscaping more satisfying and also enjoyed the hard goods she began to stock at Flower Hardware. “It was very rewarding for me to find the perfect objects for
When young Heffernan got in trouble, the punishment was yardwork, which wasn’t much of a deterrent since she loved it.
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people’s gardens, and even houses,” she says. As she began cutting back the number of projects she took on, Heffernan also sought to expand the scope of the ones she did accept— growing from focusing on just plants and flowers to creating overall interiors. She founded CH Garden House Design about two years ago. Her goal with Garden House isn’t to become the valley’s “it” designer, but to work with clients who “appreciate the extra steps we’ll have to do to get a really great finished product,” she says. Hallmarks of Heffernan’s finished spaces are timelessness and authenticity. She says, “I am very careful to pick details with the consideration of, ‘Will I still like this years from now?’ and ‘Will this hold up over time?’ ” In her own home, she carefully considered every detail, from faucets to doorknobs, lighting, cabinets, and materials, and says, “eight
to ten years later, the house has aged really well.” (She even had Rocky Mountain Hardware fabricate doorknobs that she designed; the company now sells Heffernan’s design as part of its line.) Her living room has old, peeling plant urns sitting on mid-1970s stone cubes. “I love mixing looks,” she says. “The result is always a unique space.” Remodeling the living and kitchen/dining area of a client, Heffernan mixed 1970s details— including a de Sede sofa—with eclectic touches like vintage Navajo pillows, an antique wood trunk she had painted a high-gloss white, and a 1960s Renato Zevi chrome rocking chair. The result is a surprisingly modern-looking space. “Many clients have said they like my style because it doesn’t look like an interior designer did it,” she says. “I remind them I am not an interior designer. I’m more of a life stylist.” RANGE ISSUE SEVEN 62
Great Dane-border collie mix Oscar, a rescue, makes himself at home beneath a 1960s nude artwork Heffernan found at an antique street fair in Belgium. “I fell in love with it,” she says. “The painting is very funky, but the colors and shades are beautiful.” The nightstand is a circa 1830 Biedermeier cupboard and is graced by a mid-century architect lamp. The small table was an unexpected flea market find. Heffernan found its lines lovely and elegant. Opposite: Heffernan reupholstered this 1960s sofa in an electric blue mohair fabric. She found the fabric on a buying trip; it was a set of old theater curtains. “I purchased the curtains because I loved the color,” she says. On the wall behind the sofa is Silent Trees by artist Mike Piggott. Heffernan dug out the garden urn, which is one of a set, while at an estate sale. “They have chips and cracks, but I love how the age and patina plays against the mix of other interior elements.”
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THE TRIANGLE As told by Leslie Bahn Steen and Scott Steen ∙ Photograph by Cole Buckhart THIS HOUSE HAS HISTORY, and has that old-school ski town past that you don’t see as much in East Jackson anymore. And, we love living in a triangle. That’s what we call it, “The Triangle.” We like that it’s an A-frame and built for real Jackson winters. For the two of us being nonprofit workers [Scott is executive director of Slow Food in the Tetons and Leslie is Snake River headwaters project manager for Trout Unlimited], we think it’s pretty amazing we were able to buy a house. We feel pretty lucky about that. When we were on our house search, East Jackson was our pie-in-the-sky location. We drove by this house and the front yard was all overgrown, but we saw something in it other people didn’t. We thought it was a diamond in the rough and felt like we’d stumbled onto a little secret. But, we knew it could be totally gross inside. When we walked in for the first time we were ready for anything, and we were so pleasantly surprised: It was very well kept up and cozy, and it was so well-built. It was “for sale by owner” and we ended up signing the papers on Halloween 2012. We did it over drinks at Sidewinders. The sellers, Bob and Denise Bolduc, had owned it and several
other properties on the block since the seventies. We got the feeling they wanted to sell it to people who were going to live in it and stay here and be a part of the community. A year after the sale, Bob even came up and helped us fix something electrical. As much as we love this house, which is about 1,200 square feet, we are working with a professor at the University of Wyoming who specializes in net-zero architecture. Our dream is to build a modest, modern, energyefficient home on the front part of the lot. We’d love to do this without tearing down our existing house so we could rent it out as workforce housing, to help with both the shortage of affordable rentals in town and also help bankroll the construction of the new house. It doesn’t quite fit the town requirements for an accessory residential unit, though. We’re hoping the town will see the intent of current building regulations and that there will be some wiggle room. And, if this ends up not working, we do love The Triangle. In our five years in it, we haven’t really made any changes. If it turns out there isn’t a new house in our future, we’d probably finally get around to doing some upgrades.
WE THOUGHT IT WAS A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH AND FELT LIKE WE’D STUMBLED ONTO A LITTLE SECRET.
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