2012 Fall Home Improvement

Wednesday, September 26, 2012The Lynden Tribune & Ferndale Record present

A supplement of the Lynden Tribune and Ferndale Record

Home ImprovementFeaturing

Modern country, natural light....... C5

Finishing touches............................ C17

Making new out of old................... C21

Fall

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Home Improvement

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FALL HOME IMPROVEMENTC2 Lynden Tribune | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Ferndale Record

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Make your home fall-ready, both inside and out, in a few weekendsDo final painting, trim shrubs, inspect your heating system With cooler temperatures on the way, it’s time to be checking items off the home improvement to-do list. Several projects are “must-do’s” and should be completed before the harsher weather arrives. Most are simple enough to accomplish in just a couple of days. Complete these projects this weekend and spend the rest of fall enjoying your home and family. Paint it: Fall is the perfect season for painting, as you’re able to open your win-dows just enough to keep the air clean as you apply a fresh coat of color to interior walls. Painting is a quick and doable week-end project that provides instant results. Inspect it: Regardless of the type of heat source used in your home, be sure to have an inspection done before the tem-peratures drop. If your home has a fireplace and chimney, hire a professional chimney sweep to remove any accumulated soot that could catch fire.

Winterize it: Cover grills and air con-ditioner units and store outdoor furniture in a shed to prevent rust and damage from the elements. Winterize any pipes that are exposed to outdoor temperatures, and consider installing door and window draft guards to keep your home warm and effi-cient. Protect it: Newly installed decks and permanent, wooden furniture may need protective stains or varnishes. Be sure to apply the proper protection to the surfaces prior to the arrival of weather that could damage any untreated wood. Spruce it up: Give all shrubs and the lawn one last trim before winter to keep your home’s curb appeal looking great well beyond the first frost of the season. Remove seasonal plants that won’t last the winter to also ensure the outside of your home keeps looking well-maintained. If it looks too bare for your liking, consider a few potted mums on the porch or stoop for added fall color. Keeping the plants in pots will save the effort of digging into the frozen ground when their life span is through. Repainting exterior doors during this time is a fun way to make a statement and

deliver an entirely new look to the outside of your home. Add a wreath or swag to your newly painted door to showcase your per-sonal style. By taking the proper precautions and

completing these weekend projects, you’ll save time and money, all while keeping your home well-maintained, looking great and ready for the winter.

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New technology can help you keep your home secure, energy-efficientControl lights, doors, thermostat from your smartphone With its shorter days and cooling tem-peratures, autumn brings many changes that can affect your home. Now is the ideal time for homeowners to prepare to be secure and energy-efficient. With some easy updates and modern tools, your home will be ready for fall with surpris-ingly little effort. Start by making your home safe for all members of the family. Cooler tem-peratures mean fewer hours of light, es-pecially when Daylight Saving Time ends Nov. 4. Shorter days can leave a house more vulnerable to intruders since it’s easier to break into a home unnoticed at night. Smart homeowners will check to make sure there is ample outdoor spot lighting and motion detector lighting around their home. A well illuminated house is less at-tractive to criminals. Door hardware is another great se-curity feature to update in the fall. There’s no need to fumble with keys in the dark — many companies now offer a touchpad lock that can be opened hassle-free with a unique code or with the click of your smartphone through the use of modern cloud technology. You can also keep your home safe, secure and energy-efficient wherever you are with modern tools like the Iris Smart Kit that allows you to manage home tasks right from your smartphone and operate as an affordable security system. Auto-matically turn the light on in your living room as you approach the house at night, receive a text when your kids arrive home from school, or receive an alert when the motion sensor on your front door is acti-vated while away on holiday vacations. Available at Lowe’s, this easy-to-use

home automation system is affordable for home owners and renters. To save energy and cut back on heating costs, the kit in-cludes a programmable thermostat that allows for remote control of the thermo-stat through the Iris app. Also included is a smart plug that can remotely control devices in the home, such as lamps, and report back on the specific device’s cur-rent and historical energy usage. The motion sensors and contact sen-sors in the kit also include a temperature

gauge, so if you notice that the tempera-ture by your window or door is colder than the rest of the home, take some time to add weather stripping or caulk around areas where cold air can creep in. You can also detect air leaks by simply holding a piece of paper or a feather near doors and windows to detect airflow. Since heating accounts for the largest portion of your utility bill, with 45 percent going to space heating (U.S. Department of Energy), using technology to identify

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Letting in the lightEast Lynden home a ‘country modern’ take on residential living LYNDEN — Jeff and Jennifer De-Ruyter’s east Lynden home has a bit of a complex: This is a medium-sized home acting much bigger than it is. And you can thank the pure customizing of the space for that. Coming in under 2,500 square feet — on the larger side of medium, certain-ly — this two-story, four-bedroom place may look routine at first glance, but it is all those individual touches that give the Larkspur Street home its character and ample space for a bustling family. After poring over hundreds of plans, the DeRuyters teamed up with JWR De-sign to draft plans for builder Mike En-gels, both of whom Jeff said he couldn’t be more pleased to work with. With design molded by Jennifer in an effort to create a “modern country” feel, the open layout home prizes light over all else.

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But even with openness and light comes a need for separation and quiet places, so the DeRuyter home has that too. You get the individuality in the home straight away, with a mini-foyer, complete with a vaulted ceiling that shuffles visitors down a short hall. Jeff said the separation gives the family of six privacy when in their living space — people can’t peek through the front door and see into the living area. It also gives the family a chance to show off their chandelier cascading from the vaulted ceiling. A short walk on the engineered wood floor — a past house had hardwood and the couple didn’t like how it wore — lets visitors choose between heading toward the stairs, turning left into the kitchen-dining-living space or ducking into Jeff’s home office to the right. Within the front office is a mar-riage of light and privacy. Glass double doors allow light from the outside to pass through into the main living area, but also offer separation from noise when Jeff is on an important work call. The room also goes studious with a fully customized three-wall bookshelf by Riv-erside Cabinets. In the great room, the modern

Light: Openness complemented by separation, quiet

See LIGHT on C9Jeff DeRuyter's office features a three-wall bookshelf designed by Riverside Cabinets and several sources of natu-ral light, including windows and glass double doors.

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Above left: The DeRuyters' back yard showcases the abundance of win-dows that allow light into their house. Above: The mini-foyer, along with its vaulted ceiling, features a chandelier that remains visible at eye level after heading up the two-story home's stairs. Left: The DeRuyters do much of their entertaining on the outside table, which sits right next to their spa-cious back yard.


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country flair comes through, especially in the kitchen. With three times as many windows as in a house of similar size, the entire back wall seemingly soaks up the sun, while giving back views of the Twin Sis-ters mountains. The all-white cabinets with modern handles mix country into the kitchen, especially with the oversized white farm sink set into dark counter tops and a white subway tile backsplash. But the centerpiece of the kitchen area is the custom-designed island with an oversized butcher block serving as the tabletop over a darker cabinet. “With the wood island, we wanted it to be like its own piece of furniture,” Jeff said. The center island serves as the life-blood of the room, handling everything from homework to party snacks. Under the wood block, the cabinet provides storage and shows off built-in lighting. In the pantry, tucked into the back of the kitchen, an extra window brings fresh light not only into that space, but also — via another high window — straight into an interior powder room, a trick to get natural light into spaces even without exterior walls. The dining space sits squarely be-

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See LIGHT on C11 The DeRuyters wanted their kitchen's custom-designed island to feel like its own piece of furniture.

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Light: Open living room still feels like different space

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Brian and Joyce Hendricks, with the help of contractor Toby Janzen, tackled the task of finishing a partially built home behind Bender Fields in the summer of 2011, and Janzen had the place finished before 2012.

New owners finished off half-built home that sat for years near Bender Fields LYNDEN — Through the out-of-control grass, you could still tell the half-finished home tucked behind Bender Fields had plenty of personality. It just needed a bit of direction ... and a new owner willing to fin-ish off a project that had sat untouched for about two years. The new owners turned out to be Brian and Joyce Hendricks. They had driven by the home while killing time before a barbecue and they fell in love with the possibilities they saw, even if they weren’t in the market to buy. The new direction came in the form of Toby Janzen, the contractor who had started the home originally in 2007. Just shy of 4,000 square feet, the expan-sive two-story home was originally the whim of a Major League Baseball player Janzen knew personally. With drawings done by Lynden’s JWR Design, Janzen went to work. But the ball player had a change of heart (and cash flow) when he retired from base-ball. With the walls up, roof on and windows in, the athlete decided to pull out of the proj-ect before it finished. So the house sat. In a “zero-to-100 in two weeks” buying situation, the Hendricks couple stepped in during summer 2011, and Janzen had the home finished by the end of the year.

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“I was really excited about being able to see it through,” Janzen said. “I thought it was a great plan and while it was definitely chal-lenging, I hated to see it just sit here. It was fun to complete.” With the interior walls already framed, there wasn’t a lot of wiggle room in the makeup of the house. But that suited every-one just fine, as the layout was pretty much spot-on for the new owners too. But a few changes were made. “We picked up right where we would be with a new construction,” Janzen said. “There were a lot of decisions that needed to be made in a hurry.” One thing that didn’t need any changes, though, was the expansive great room, com-plete with a two-story, floor-to-ceiling fire-place and a host of exposed beams. Janzen calls the moment you walk into the home the selling point — “the money part of the house” — as a full-on experience of openness, views onto Fishtrap Creek and light streaming in through ample windows. With the fireplace already in a box just waiting for installation, that feature contin-ued to play as the major focus of the great room. The engineered hardwood floor wraps from the foyer toward the kitchen and stairs to the right and toward a formal dining area and master suite to the left. But straight ahead is the carpeted heart of the great room

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and that dominant fireplace. “I’d never seen one that big and since we inherited it, we stayed with it,” Brian said. To give the fireplace a personal touch, Janzen made a mantel and added special-ized lighting to accent a painting that has special meaning to the couple. The kitchen, open to the great room, lays angled to the right, with the same stone as the fireplace’s enclosing the oversized oven (scaled down from MLB-sized plans). Kolin Veldman of K&S Woodworks did the mahogany cabinets that complement the granite and exposed beams. Tucked behind the kitchen, connecting the foyer area to the far side of the home is a pass-through laundry room that also con-nects to the garage and features a change room (the original 2007 plans included a full pool, deleted in the restart) and a powder room. A pantry fits snugly around a corner from the kitchen, in quick proximity to the countertops, but out of view of visitors. The laundry room, lacking natural light, boasts natural cherry cabinets to lighten up the room. Past the pantry and beyond the kitchen is a stairway up to a bonus retreat area in-cluding a rec room with a wet bar over the garage, a spare bedroom and another pow-der room (original plans had the extra space as a “cigar room”). Back downstairs, off the great room and to the left of the foyer is a formal dining room (originally planned as an office) closed in by glass French doors. Farther down the hall is the master bed-room, featuring a double fireplace that heats up both the bedroom and the master bath-room, sitting above the soaker tub. The bedroom is laid out as an octagon to best capture views outside. The five-piece bathroom has an over-

sized walk-in shower, an inherited design that Brian calls a “human car wash” due to its number of nozzles. The size of the shower meant the Hen-drickses couldn’t install a tankless water heater. Instead, they put a timer on their tanked heater to ensure hot water in the morning. The slate bathroom floor warms up eas-ier with heating underfoot. Upstairs, a guest bathroom serves two bedrooms. What was originally a catwalk over the foyer was enclosed on one side to create a loft-like library space. But the vaulted ceiling, even up that high, bathes the walkway — and subsequently the great room — with natural light. Since nothing had yet been done on the exterior when the new owners took charge, it was an open canvas to work on. Janzen wrapped posts in wood and put in exposed aggregate walkways. Brian, who loves landscaping, put spe-cial care into the back yard, ripping out inva-sive plants and replanting new native plants that also give him a better view of Fishtrap Creek (including blue herons and river ot-ters) past his perfectly manicured lawn. By working with a neighbor, Brian was also able to add new drainage and create a step-down place that allows access to the creek and doubles as city-approved runoff overflow space. The back patio, fully covered and with a wood-burning fireplace, serves as an exten-sion of the great room and yet is set apart by stamped concrete. Brian said the entire process was a bit crazy, but he certainly had fun helping give a half-finished home a fully complete per-sonality. Story by Tim Newcomb; photos by Mark Reimers.

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Above left: The Hendrickses' bedroom is octagonal in shape, capturing beautiful vistas provided by the room's windows. The adjacent bathroom features underfloor heating. Above: The living room's tall fireplace features a mantel built by Toby Jan-zen and specialized lighting to accent the featured painting. Below: Kolin Veldman of K&S Woodworks did the mahogany cabinets in the spacious kitchen.


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Refreshing your home — some of the older styles can be enhanced If you were to take a look at a typi-cal neighborhood today, you would see patterns of familiar home designs such as split-level, ranch or colonial. Most of these American styles were built be-tween 1955 and 1985, when there was a need for mass-produced housing. Due to this suburban sprawl, many homes lost the originality and architectural ap-peal of classic styles built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If you, like so many others, current-ly live in one of these houses, its lack of personality and curb appeal may have you thinking about making a change to the exterior. But the overwhelming amount of home design choices may have you wondering how to get started. “Many times, homeowners are afraid to do more than replace existing windows or siding with new versions of the same product, simply because they can’t visualize the possibilities for their home exterior,” said John Stephenson, senior vice president of marketing for Ply Gem, a leading exterior building products company. To help picture what’s possible in exterior home design and simplify prod-uct and color selection, homeowners now have the option to turn to digital home remodeling tools. Online visualizer tools, such as The Designed Exterior Studio by Ply Gem, al-low consumers to find inspiration and experiment with renovation ideas, even before meeting with a contractor. Us-ers can virtually update a home exterior with new colors and style options for

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siding, stone veneer, windows and more. Homeowners can save their designs for easy sharing with a remodeling contrac-tor. “When meeting with a contractor about a remodel, doing research and having a visual of a preferred exterior style and color palette is a great way to get the conversation started,” said Stephenson. “The existing American housing stock has so much potential for

beautiful design and architectural styl-ing. New online visualization tools are designed to help both home owners and their contractors realize the potential for these older homes.” Before getting started on an exterior remodel, it’s also important to under-stand the level of changes you want to make. Ply Gem offers the following tips on making the most of an exterior ren-ovation and provides some insight on

how to prepare and get started: • If your home has great bones but lacks curb appeal and originality, a sim-ple refresh with new siding, windows and accents in different colors and tex-tures can make a big difference. • New windows are also a notice-able architectural feature with the added benefit of increased energy efficiency in the home. Some key elements to consid-er for beautiful window design include style, grille pattern and color. • For an even more personalized home exterior upgrade, consider cos-metic, nonstructural architectural changes. “Adding elements to the roof such as window dormers or gables, or chang-ing the entryway with a porch, can give your home personality and create a look that is reminiscent of classic architectur-al styles,” said Deryl Patterson, principal of the BSB Design architecture firm. “These additions also provide visual in-terest to the exterior, giving it balance and elevation. In combination with ap-propriate material textures and colors, you can transform your home into an architecturally authentic style.” By envisioning the type of exte-rior changes you want to make to your home, and sharing that vision with your remodeling contractor, you will have a significant head start in making your dream home a reality. Visit www.plygem.com for more tips, inspiration and tools that show the possibilities in exterior home renova-tions.

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Selling your house: Which ‘fixes’ are worth it to lure buyers?A good-looking roof is definitely a curb-appeal requirement Okay, don’t panic. If you’re one of those home owners who’s trying to sell your house now, your bargaining power — you remember that concept, right? — hasn’t been complete-ly devastated in the current market. Even in spite of a foreclosure prop-erty in your neighborhood, the thing to remember is this: Most buyers today are only interested in homes that are “move-in-ready,” so if yours isn’t ... well, there’s your problem. “Buyers generally look at ‘as-is’ properties that need work, and say ‘I’ll pass,’” said Patsy O’Neill, a sales as-sociate with Sotheby’s in Montclair, N.J. “That’s why I tell clients it’s worth making certain strategic fixes if they’re looking for quicker and more profitable sales.” So, which “fixes” are worth it, and which aren’t? Read on:

Worth It: Addressing major mainte-nance and safety issues. Would you buy a house with faulty electrical wiring? Enough said. Not Worth It: Major bath renova-tions. “Whatever you do might not suit the buyer,” says O’Neill, “and mean-while, you’d have spent as much as tens of thousands of dollars.” Rather, stick to things like repairing cracked shower doors, and save your visions of a mod-ern-day spa for your own new abode. Worth It: Ripping up old carpeting. Whether you replace it with new carpets or refinish the underlying wood floor is less important than getting rid of an eye-sore. Not Worth It: Major kitchen reno-vations. Same reasons as for baths — you're taking a risk as to the “tastes” of the buyer. Worth It: Anything that enhances “curb appeal.” If the first thing prospec-tive buyers notice even before exiting their cars is that, for instance, your roof looks like it’s been whipped by a tornado, chances are you’ve already lost the sale. One cosmetic turn-off makes buy-

ers predisposed to find even more things they don’t like, said O’Neill. GAF, the largest roofing manufac-turer in North America (www.gaf.com), can deliver the look of luxury shingles, but at very affordable prices, with its

Value Collection Lifetime Designer Shingles. Worth It: Cleaning up all clutter. The less of “you” there is about the property, the more likely prospective buyers are to imagine themselves happily living there.


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