Spring Home Improvement 2014

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Featuring: From the ashes of a fire that destroyed their old house, Ty and Janell Neevel have built a new home on Northwest Road bringing out their unique rustic interests............................................. C3

The idyllic setting of river and forest was already there; the Prys and their designer adapted a 1970s split-level house to better fit into the outdoor scene.................................... C19

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Rustically Welcome Family rebuilds ‘home’ after devastating fire

The "rustic" look of the Neevel house starts on the exterior, with ample use of stone and wood. (Courtesy photo/JWR Design)

Custom touches dominate Neevels' space

By Tim Newcomb tim@lyndentribune.com

LYNDEN — Cowhide in every room.

Whether draped on the wall of a bedroom, softening the hardwood in a great room or merged into the cabinets in the kitchen, Janell Neevel offers up a fun smile when she talks about incorporating, well, different fabrics into the overall

scheme of her new home.

But it hasn’t always been fun smiles for Janell, husband Ty and their two kids.

Not in the least.

The Neevel family started the process of building and moving into a new home against their will. A fire forced them into it.

Living on farm property west of Lynden for about six years — actually an old farm off Northwest Road — Janell came home from an evening out with her daughter on Feb. 1, 2013, at about 8 p.m. The two had been gone for about

two hours and Ty and the couple’s son had stayed home. Ty lit a fire after the girls headed out and by the time Janell returned home she saw an odd “smog” around the 1920s-built farmhouse.

“What I thought was smog was actually smoke,” she said. “I knew something was weird.”

Fire officials later told the Neevels that with so many additions to the home over the past 90-plus years, a small chimney fire had smoldered in the second story of the home ever since the fire was lit early that evening. The opening of the

front door actually ignited the flame right next to their son’s room. Everyone made it out of the home safely, but not without a total loss to the structure. Nearly all that remained of the home were the memories they shared there.

In the aftermath of the experience, pain and sadness eventually got replaced by a truer understanding of gratitude, friendship and God. “I didn’t want help,” Janell said of her first reaction. “I just didn’t want anyone here. But we got to the point where we See Neevel on C9

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The Neevel home in photos

Left: Stone — with a cross worked in — gets featured throughout the house, including the master bathroom. Also, the kitchen features custom touches, and heirloom bedroom furniture was salvaged from the fire. (Brent Lindquist/ Lynden Tribune)

Caption. (Brent Lindquist/Lynden Tribune)

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Above: Janell Neevel used a blowtorch to customize a counter and cabinet in the guest bathroom, darkening the light wood. Right: Vintage pieces give personality throughout the home. (Brent Lindquist/Lynden Tribune)

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Neevel: Style is 'rustic' rather than true Western Continued from C3 couldn’t do it on our own and I had to get through all those raw emotions and say it is okay to get help.”

And the help came.

Through the fire-charred rubble came a project, one this berry farming family took on as the lead contractor and main laborers. They built "not just a house,” as Janell said, but a home, a place in which they could create a new set of memories with an array of folks.

With Ty as the “rock” to keep things moving, Janell said her first inkling of happiness about the project was a realization — while she was literally on her knees staining a board, since she stained every single board in the house herself — that God took everything away to show the family how much of a gift they had.

“Anybody can go through that as long as they stay on their knees,” she said.

From the February fire, the family — after living in a travel trailer for a while — moved into their new home on Oct. 12, 2013.

The family lives on the 3,100-squarefoot main floor. They plan to finish the 2,100-square-foot daylight basement as a completely separate unit, a place for people in need to stay, But that will happen later, likely this fall.

The Neevels started their home project by knocking on the door of someone whose home they liked the look of from the outside. Then quickly Jerry Roetcisoender of JWR Design — he was the designer of that original home and thus did the same for the Neevels — turned them toward a more custom situation, a theme that permeates the home.

From an oversized stone fireplace, vaulted wood-lined ceiling, dark wood throughout and more, Janell said the style isn’t so much Western as “rustic.”

From the outset, she wanted a focus on creating a place people — especially her kids — would want to be, but still with room for “dirty boots” and normal See Neevel on C10

A great vintage find of an old chandelier, situated in the middle of the vaulted great room ceiling, gives plenty of character to the main living space of the home. (Brent Lindquist/Lynden Tribune)

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Neevel: Vintage finds comprise much of home's decor Continued from C9 life. So Janell balanced that door-isalways-open mentality with a peaceful retreat, seen in the peek-a-boo shutters on the oversized double-door entry.

Every room is big, albeit some bigger than others. The outside entry gives a taste of what to expect on the inside, with a wood-lined entry and a full-stone home exterior. The wooden doors with black wrought-iron accents — and the saddles and other décor — leave little guessing about what you’ll find inside.

And while there’s plenty more of the same, Janell’s penchant for vintage fleamarket finds does offer up more rustic than Western as you tour the home.

The welcoming entry opens up to the oversized great room with an enor-

mous all-stone fireplace highlighting the space, an emotional addition for Janell.

“I fought the fireplace for a while,” she said while thinking back to how the old house fire started. “It was hard, but one day on a date lunch at Bob’s in Lynden we sketched it out on a napkin.”

An A-framed ceiling over the great room gives vaulted height.

Lined with Janell’s stained boards, the ceiling opens up the room while giving space for stained beams to form architectural interest — from vintage lights found a decade ago that embed in the stone mantel to a gargantuan chandelier that hangs high above.

“The chandelier was my fun thing,” she said. “I was going to make something, but I found this on Craigslist.”

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The Neevels' living room (lower left), featuring a large stone fireplace, and dining room complement each other. (Courtesy photo/Janell Neevel) the entry.

To the right of the entry is a short hallway leading to the two kids’ rooms, each with cowboy and cowgirl themes and a Jack-and-Jill bathroom connecting them. As generations of Janell's family were ranchers in New Mexico, the Neevels were able to salvage from the fire some bedroom furniture from the 1920s that had family meaning, and it is set up in one of the bedrooms.

A small desk area in the hallway gives the children some shared work space. On the same side of the house, but on the opposite side of the fireplace, is the family office.

The kitchen and small dining area bleed right into the great room with a granite island serving as the go-between on the opposite side of the fireplace. The main kitchen doesn’t overwhelm in size — although the cowhide worked right into the face of the cabinets does offer

a bit of a touch you don’t see every day — but don’t let that fool you. Janell has created a separate prep kitchen through what one would think is a utility-room door.

In the prep kitchen, complete with its own sink, sits the bulk of storage, plenty of counter space, another sink and all of her kitchen appliances, neatly stowed away. She also has an old hutch displaying her family’s china dishes, something she knows doesn’t interest visitors, but still holds a special meaning for her.

Beyond the prep kitchen, though, is the most versatile utility room around.

With tiled floor for easy cleaning, an open space, counters for laundry and tons of storage, the utility space keeps everything in its place. And it allows for those dirty boots too. The family can enter the utility room from the garage or through a side door to the outside.

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There’s a door to go into the prep kitchen, another to go directly out to the great room and yet another — the fifth door in the room leading somewhere other than a closet — that goes into a small shower room. That shower room is connected to the guest bathroom off the great room.

The master suite sits beyond the kitchen (the cowhide is embedded in the furniture here), with the feature attraction a stone wall separating a soaker tub from a walk-through shower. The stone wall, actually inspiration from a visit to another berry family’s home while the Neevels were displaced after the fire, has a cross built into it to signify a moment Janell shared with God while in a bathroom the very night of the fire.

For the home, from oversized mirrors and light fixtures to floral arrangements and more, Janell scoured for vintage. “It was pretty easy,” she said. “If you really want it, you can go and find it.”

In the end, Janell said, there isn’t a single thing about the new home she’d change and all those extra custom touches are “what makes it the home” she’d wanted, not to mention they saved money finding old pieces and doing work themselves.

Janell was given a bit of advice early during the design and construction process, advice that spoke not only to the building project, but also the loss they experienced with the fire.

“It is not material things, but what we make it,” she said.

Now the family has a new home to create memories in, memories that may just have cowhide serving as a backdrop.

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LAUREL — Stone countertops have been a popular feature in homes for quite some time, but they seem to be more affordable than ever.

There’s a reason for that, said Creative Stoneworks co-owner Stephanie Stremler.

“The stone countertops aren’t something new, but I think they’re definitely more attainable for the common homeowner these days,” she said. “It’s a lot more accessible, pricewise.”

The reason is largely due to more affordable shipping costs.

“It’s so popular that the freight and shipping of the slabs coming from different countries is a lot cheaper, so we’re able to pass those savings on to customers,” Stremler said.

Aside from the aesthetic appeal, stone has become popular partly because it increases a home’s resale value in the long

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Stremler, along with her husband, Brandon, bought Creative Stoneworks from Brandon’s father, Marv Stremler, back in 2003. The business, located at 6050 Guide Meridian Rd., offers granite, marble and other natural stones, and engineered stone (quartz).

According to the Creative Stoneworks website (www.CreativeStoneworksnw. com), granite is a good choice for homeowners looking for a strong, durable stone countertop.

“Granite is not as porous as other natural stones,” the site reads. “Its high density allows you to eliminate cutting boards and trivets. Granite is extremely hard and durable, and is practically scratch-proof.”

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One trend in furniture is to accommodate ‘down-sizing’

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LYNDEN — Gary and Gloria Bode, owners of Colony House Furniture for 37plus years, are excited and optimistic about their new store space at 303 Front St. What’s new in the furniture store is just how many inventive furniture options have become available to the down-sizing consumer. Your home’s available space may be smaller than before, but you will still be able to live large with multi-function furniture pieces or units that expand.

For example, new dining tables with a small footprint can expand to accommodate seating for 10 or 12 people. Some tables offer self-storing “butterfly” leaves.

Wall beds, or Murphy beds, are back in popularity, allowing folks to utilize a great room or a spare bedroom into dual functioning spaces for overnight guests. Sleeper sofas are available in a range of sizes such as twin, full and queen. We’ve seen the return

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Two Lynden yards merge into one garden

Neighbors Lorraine Patterson, yellow house, and Lois Polinder, white house, have merged their yards into a blended garden in the 700 block of Liberty Street, Lynden. There is no grand plan, they said — they just talk and share their gardening interests. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

Lorraine Patterson and Lois Polinder pulled up sod and got creative

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LYNDEN ­— No neighborly competition here. How about cooperation instead?

The Liberty Street properties of Lorraine Patterson and Lois Polinder started out by sharing only an old backyard fence that needed replacing. Together, they talked about it and decided to put in pyramidalis instead.

It was an occasion for good neighbors to talk. They found out they each were garden lovers in their own way and that neither really liked to pay the bill for grass mowing.

An idea was put out. They each thought about it for a bit and then decided “we’re in.”

They would merge their entire yards into a blended garden.

The sod came out and fresh topsoil and compost went in. Plantings of trees, flowers and shrubs replaced grass. A new picket fence went up across the front of both lots.

This year will be the women’s fourth in the horticultural partnership.

There is not a grand united plan. The two just talk out their ideas for their own

part of the property and they usually find a pleasant agreement.

“Isn’t this fun?” said Lorraine, who will spend hours per day tending to all the open soil and greenery. “I kind of have an idea in my mind what I want to do.”

But, she added with a laugh at the height of all the garden beauty last September, “That’s why I have a very sore back.”

For years before retiring, she operated the Homespun General Store in downtown Lynden.

Children in the neighborhood love to walk on the stepping stones. Birds splatter in bird baths. People will stop along the alley to get a better look into Lorraine’s backyard.

It hasn’t been a lot of extra expense,

as the pair are adept at finding sales and, of course, put in so much of their own labor.

For now, in early spring, most of their work is indoors getting plants started in pots.

Lois said she always has had an affinity for geraniums and ferns because they are so hardy. So they continue to anchor her yard, joining plantings of andromeda, rhodies, azaleas, barberry and roses.

“We love it. It’s not work,” Lois said of her and Lorraine’s commitment. “You have to love something in order to have it flourish.”

Lois sees life as a “garden of the heart” which needs to be tended well because both good and bad things can grow in it.

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In September the two yards are at the height of their horticultural color and diversity. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

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LYNDEN — At Grandiflora Home & Garden, people are always asking us, “What’s the next new thing?” It’s an easy question to understand. We all want to get a glimpse of what’s coming around the bend.

Frankly, after a winter crammed indoors staring at the same ol’, same ol’, who doesn’t want to see something new and exciting?

While we pride ourselves on being educated on what’s coming next, sometimes it’s a little difficult not to want to jump ahead.

But thanks to online sites like blogs, Instagram and Pinterest, locals are seeing new and exciting things and they want to know where to find them. That’s where Grandiflora comes in.

Combing the markets, we look for the trendy, the tried and true, and the exotic.

Somewhere in between all of this searching, we find the “next new things.”

This year, the next new thing is truly color. We’ve watched closely the predictions of well-known designers, Pantone color forecasts and even our past customer purchasing patterns.

It might be oceans of indigo, pallets of industrial salvage, gardens of florals or maybe bright color mixed with subdued neutrals, or black and white geometrics with bright plum. Who knows?

Ultimately, buyers — while keeping up with the trends — decorate on their own intuition, doing whatever their heart desires.

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Vaulting a View Remodeled home along Nooksack River puts focus on the outside

By Tim Newcomb tim@lyndentribune.com

A new-look exterior creates an inviting entrance for the Pry home on the banks of the Nooksack River in east Whatcom County. (Courtesy photo/Haven Design Workshop)

DEMING — Never mind the location nestled next to the Nooksack River east of Deming. The house that stood on the wooded property eyed by Daniel Pry was as boring as you can get, a basic 1970s split-level, said Sean Hegstad, home designer with Ferndale’s Haven Design.

No longer is that the case.

Hegstad and Pry worked together to reimagine the three-bedroom home, opening up more views of the river and mountains and giving a completely reborn home a modern flair.

The Prys had been eying the home for a few years, just down the road from where they lived. At some point along the way the house became abandoned See Pry on C20

The use of metal in the kitchen was a creative reuse of a roofing order gone wrong. Plus, wrapping the original fireplace location in stone helped tie rooms together. (Courtesy photo/Haven Design Workshop)

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Pry: House is described as 'Whistler/Asian blend' Continued from C19

Bringing exterior materials inside the entry helped merge the inside-outside space. (Courtesy photo/Haven Design Workshop)

and went into foreclosure, so the Prys jumped at the opportunity to purchase a mold-infested home in poor shape. At that point, there was room only for improvement.

With river setback rules well changed since the time the house was originally built, the redesign couldn’t move the structure any closer to the river, which was already quite close. Instead, the design made room for plenty of changes inside.

“Originally there was a vaulted ceiling, which was nice, but it was going the opposite direction from the view, so all that view was blocked,” Hegstad said.

“We tore that portion of the roof off and replaced it with a shed roof we pushed up about three feet. That allowed tons of view out to the mountains and you can see bald eagles fly by now.

“You can truly experience the views.

It is wonderful.”

Major changes start on the outside.

A new path of oversized exposed aggregate steps gave a “more attractive way

to approach the house.” The entry features stone and wood — the wood was reclaimed from the home’s original roof structure — and gets highlighted by a new front door with sidelight.

“It looks like a piece of furniture as you enter the house,” Hegstad said. “It is definitely exaggerated, but it works well and lets light into the stairway directly behind it.”

The house, described as a Whistler/ Asian blend, aimed at using wood and colors to warm the environment, but still with the right touch of stone for a natural feel.

The feel of the outside flows inside, with a carryover of flooring materials and interior stone moving into the entryway.

Inside, what was a chopped-up house that didn’t even allow a view from the kitchen into the dining or living rooms turned into a new-style split-level with a completely open concept. But there was an issue of how to work around an existing fireplace that would have taken extreme effort to relocate.

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The use of high ceilings and extra windows to bring in natural light allowed designers to have fun with the interior lighting. (Courtesy photo/Haven Design Workshop)

tion to see from the kitchen, dining and living rooms,” Hegstad said. So he and the Prys celebrated the look, wrapping the fireplace in stone from floor to ceiling and giving it central focus.

While completely redoing the rooflines, the house got higher ceilings for more natural light in the heavily wooded area and three new skylights in the back section of the house. All the glass helps

bring the outside in.

While the basement consisting of a bedroom, office, bathroom, laundry space and recreation room didn’t change much, it was the upstairs where the

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The opened main floor plan created See Pry on C23

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Door inspection should be on spring checklist Therma-Tru lists some dos and don’ts MAUMEE, OHIO — Every spring, homeowners take stock of their home exteriors and renew effort on household maintenance projects. One task should definitely be to inspect exterior doors to assure years of long-lasting beauty and service.

“Entry doors are like other key features of the home because they require routine maintenance,” said Chris Maulucci, technical sales manager with Therma-Tru Corp. “Owners of fiberglass doors enjoy reduced yearly maintenance efforts, but there is still a checklist of items to inspect and adjust periodically on any door.”

Here are some things: • Clean the exterior and interior of the door with a mild soap and water solution.

• Inspect the weatherstrip and door bottom sweep for wear, and replace as needed.

• Inspect the door’s corner sill pads for wear, and replace as needed.

• Check and maintain all door sealants.

• Inspect the finish of the door and frame. Re-apply paint (for a painted door) or topcoat (for a stained door) as needed, which usually depends on the amount of outdoor exposure the door receives.

• If needed, adjust the sill cap on the door using the dollar bill method described in the troubleshooting video at http://www.thermatru.com/customersupport/installation-instructions/index. aspx.

• Check and adjust the adjustable strike plate for the door as needed so that the weatherstrip is properly compressed when closed.

• Check the security of the door’s hardware and tighten screws as needed.

• Seal the sill cap (the hardwood cap only) with a solvent based sealer, like linseed oil or an oil-based stain.

• Lubricate door hinges as needed.

Just as important as the checklist of “what to do” for yearly door maintenance is the list of items that homeowners should not do. This is what the experts at Therma-Tru say: • Don’t leave the door unfinished.

Doors must be finished (either painted or stained).

• Don’t paint over a stained woodgrain door without using a compatible primer first.

• Don’t use lacquer-based paints on doors.

• Don’t use harsh chemicals to clean doors. A mild soap and water solution is best.

• Don’t use a pressure washer on door exteriors.

• Don’t clean the brick around the door with muriatic acid, as it will mar the finish if any splashes onto the door.

• Don’t use caulk to fill in worn weatherstrip. Instead, replace the weatherstrip.

• Don’t adjust the sill cap too tightly.

This can cause the door’s bottom sweep to bind.

• Don’t change out a doorlite (the glass insert in the door) without using an adjustable torque screw gun placed on the proper setting for the size of the doorlite.

• Don’t drill holes or screws into the door to hang wreaths or holiday decorations.

“If, while performing your annual

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Another factor to consider is what’s on the inside of your door. The dense polyurethane foam used in the core of Therma-Tru fiberglass doors helps the doors achieve high thermal performance values.

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The Pry home on the banks of the Nooksack River uses wood and stone to create an inviting appearance. (Courtesy

a completely new kitchen, filled with stone, wood cabinets and roofing materials. Yes, roofing materials. A mix-up in an original roofing order went awry and Pry, an interior designer himself, couldn’t send it back. So he set to making the metal work inside. Using it in conjunction with the wood and stone, Pry blended it together to create a modern effect for the greatly opened-up area.

“We were really intentional to open up and communicate it all in one space,” Hegstad said. “We made sure it was a very livable space that was attractive, warm and flowing.”

The upstairs master suite also took on new life, eliminating the small master and second bedroom that were there, merging them into one. A two-way fireplace connects both the bed and the tub in a suite that contains a walk-in shower, window seat and ample space to relax.

While Hegstad and Pry tried to reuse as much as possible, the completely new insulation and drywall (erasing all remnants of the mold that was there) and windows help make the home more energy efficient. And the fresh take on the Nooksack River also makes enjoying the view more efficient.

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