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Teel, Hoffman Home
5 2013 Summer Edition 5 Cindy Teel, Barry Hoffman home
The front entry to the Teel-Hoffman home.
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Cindy Teel has made many changes to her home since she and her family moved in, she said.
The biggest addition, however, has been the glass conservatory added to one end of the house, Teel said.
Having floor-to-ceiling glass gives a gorgeous view of the outdoors, Teel said.
“It’s really nice when it rains or when you want to sit and look out,” Teel said. “People can’t see in, they only see a shadow, but you can see everything going on outside.”
Cindy Teel and Barry Hoffman with their pet Zoe.
An antler chandelier hangs over the couple’s formal dining area.
Cindy Teel met her husband Barry Hoffman on match.com only six months before they married in June 2012. He lived in Granite Bay, Calif., and she lived in the Country Club area of Muskogee.
He owns a home in Moore and has rental property in the Oklahoma City area because the demographics show more people in Oklahoma rent than own a home, he said. Cindy is a top real estate agent. It seemed like the perfect match.
Before Barry came to visit, Cindy told him she lived in a “country house.” She didn’t think it would be nearly as nice as what the retired prosthodontist from the greater California area would be used to. He described it as a “highend community.” He also has trav eled while spending 20 years in the U.S. Navy, 16 years in group practice and two years lecturing for Denstply Implants. He’s already taken Cindy to New York to see where he was born. They plan to do more traveling.
Cindy was a little nervous about how he would feel about living in her home. Outside, the house in the River Bend addition has brick and stacked stone and is nicely landscaped with green bushed and plants, and red roses. When the iron front doors opened, Barry was amazed.
A see-through fireplace is made of blended stones in different sizes that reach to the ceiling.
The kitchen features beautiful granite countertops.
“Walking in the door I thought, ‘Oh my God,’ My eyes went to the ceiling,” Barry said.
The 25-foot ceiling has knotty alder beams. A see-through fireplace is made of blended stones in different sizes that reach to the ceiling. The distressed pine floors came from Edgar Mercado of Tulsa. Travertine
flooring is in the laundry room and baths. Terry Swanner of Green County Painting in Fort Gibson painted her home.
Teel knows what she wants when building a house — lots of windows and hardsurfaced floors, because they are cleaner. She’s built seven houses and remodeled several more. She built this one four years ago. She and Barry plan to build a home together eventually. Cindy would like to have a house with a courtyard in the center and a house that sits up high on a hill.
“I think we would enjoy the creative pro cess,” he said.
They added on to the back of the 3,500-square-foot home when they married,
Exotic prints and animal decor accent the entire home.
doubling the size of the master suite. Louie Slape built the space for Barry to have an office with desk, sofa and TV. There are large wooden shutters made into doors between the two rooms that allow Cindy to lie in bed and watch her favorite TV shows on her TV while Barry watches his from the sofa in his office, giving each of them privacy. He has photos of his father, who was a dentist in New York, and other collectibles.
The furniture is “eclectic,” Teel said. She’s had many of her large furniture pieces for years. Barry brought a few of his favorites to the home like a koa coffee table from Hawaii. The only new furniture they’ve bought is a bedroom group for the master from Restoration Hardware in Tulsa. The master bath has an oval tub with alder wood cabinets. Built-in shelves hold antique head vases that Cindy has collected. In other
parts of her home are her collections of flow blue dishes, and Hull and Roseville pottery.
In the mix of leather embossed sofas and animal skin chairs in the living room is a water buffalo mount Cindy got from Roy and Billie Flinn, who owned Tony’s for the Outdoors. It was in their business. The Black bear mount was a thank you gift from John Hill to Cindy for being a great Realtor.
One of Cindy’s favorite things in her home is a buffalo painting hanging on the fireplace. It was done by the late Roger Davis. He had painted a buffalo for her son, Christopher Teel of Tulsa, and she loved it so much she asked Davis to do one for her.
Nearby is the country French dining table that came from a mansion in Chicago.
The home features a beautiful covered patio with a built-in gas grill and plenty of room for entertaining.
A 6-foot mirror and a few other furniture pieces came from Harold’s Clothing in Tulsa.
Across the room is a door to Cindy’s mother’s suite. Jerry Baker has a living area, bedroom and her own bath. At the end of a short hall is another bedroom that Cindy is going to redo for her first grandchild, Zadie Beth, 8 months, daughter of Christopher and Katie Teel.
The kitchen has stormy night granite counters and knotty alder cabinets. The bar stool seats are crocodile skin from Thayer Upholstery in Muskogee.
Off the back of the living room is the outdoor kitchen with a fireplace and water feature with stacked rocks created by Thomas Torrez Landscaping of Muskogee. There’s a porch swing at one end of the long covered patio. At the other is a bar and sink.
“We eat out here almost every night,” Cindy said.
