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Winter 2016 ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES

R E S T O R A T I O N

42 So Worth the WaitA modest, misunderstood 1915 bungalow in San Diegois restored, slowly but surely and largely by its owners,to become the familys forever dream house.

by Thomas and Phyllis Shess |photos by Gary Payne

T H E G U I L D

50 Craftsman TilesThe revival in small-batch art tile has never been morevibrant, as youll see in this contemporary work.

by Mary Ellen Polson

N E W W O R K

54 Falling for a New Craftsman They spent a decade restoring a 1908 house, only to finddelight in a newer Craftsman with period elements.by Donna Pizzi |photos by Blackstone Edge Studios

O U T S I D E

64 Bones of the Winter Garden Find tips on creating a period-inspired garden with

structure and plantings for off-season interest. by Tovah Martin

COVERA breakfast nook in the new kitchen for a mid-century houseremodeled with Craftsman sensibility. PHOTOGRAPH BY RI CMARDER

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06 Editors Letter08 Art + Craft 14 UpFront 14 News + People 16 Books

Spanish Colonial style.18 Events + Exhibits

20 Pilgrimage Insiders Pasadena tour.

by Sarah Hilbert

25 Utility Spaces Unique layout, revival motifs.

by Patricia Poore

31 Details Creative fireplaces in tile. by Patricia Poore

35 Bringing It Back Fireplace layout precedents. by Mary Ellen Polson

70 Advertiser Index 71 Footnotes80 From the Archives

Cozy corner eclecticism. by Bo Sullivan

contents

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ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2016

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Patricia PooreSENIOREDITOR Mary Ellen Polson

MANAGINGEDITOR Lori Viator

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E D I T O R S L E T T E R &

Advice worth repeatingHOWDOYOUKEEPCOMINGUPwith new ideas? people sometimes askpeople who know Im decades into an old-house career. The answer tran-

scends magazines or Arts & Crafts, of course. Anyone who is deep into a

subject knows that knowledge leads one deeper still; there will always be

another layer to plumb (not to mention another bathroom).

Ive had to be mindful, in fact, to come up with oldideas. Certain

advice reveals its wisdom only when we hear it again and find it still

applies. Ive been thinking about what Id be sure to tell the new owner

of a Craftsman house or bungalow. Heres a start. Send me your rules!

DONT RUSH IN: Good advice for everyone, perhaps especially for owners

of 20th century houses, who may see them as old but not historic. Learn

about your style before you tear out the little fireplace windows or

inglenook benches. Corollary: Clean it first. (A lot of

times we are overreacting to filth.)

ASSUME YOU CAN FIX almost any well-built com-

ponent of the past. Both lumber and general crafts-

manship were better than todays average. Windows,

for example, may be patched, scraped and painted,

then rehung. New replacement windows will notably

change the look of the house and introduce modern

systems designed for replacement or obsolescence.

DONT OVER-LIGHTwith ceiling spots, recessed cans,and bright bulbs in an effort to lighten dark rooms.

Like white-painted walls against a dark oak wainscot, strong lighting will

make the woodwork appear black. For a bungalow ambiance you will

come to love, stay mellow to bring out the woods highlights. Install dim-

mers. Related: Dont paint varnished woodwork, especially not white.

CREATE SE ATING ARE ASin a long or wide living room that spans the

house. It doesnt work to put furniture against the walls and leave the

middle open. Consider separate conversation groupings, using area rugs

for definition. Direct traffic with the furniture plan. (to be continued)

Patricia Poore, [email protected]

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Offering hundreds of resources, we showcase

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SPANISHCOLONIAL STYLESanta Barbara and TheArchitecture of JamesOsborne Craig and MaryMcLaughlin CraigBy Pamela Skewes-Coxand Robert Sweeney.Rizzoli, 2015. Hardcover,256 pp., $55

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visitors all year. Sunshine drew wealthy vacationers and new resi-dents along with notable architects. On most streets, youd be hard

pressed not to spot a bungalow or Craftsman-influenced structure.

Greene & Greenes Gamble House (top,

bottom), and the 1913 Colorado Street

Bridge, which is listed on the National Register.

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inspired by Venices Santa Maria della Salute,

a picturesque site visible throughout the city.

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only remnant of the esteemed Raymond Hotel

(razed in the 1930s). Its Craftsman details are

a charming backdrop for dining. 1250 S. Fair

Oaks Avenue.

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rim of the watershed valley that runs

through the city. Pasadenas Arts &

Crafts epicenter looks to be out of

a plein-air painting, with dappled

sunlight filtering through the heavy

oak canopy. Homey bungalows and

stately Craftsman and English Arts &

Crafts-style homes line South Arroyo

Boulevard near the Colorado Street

Bridge. Tilemaker Ernest Batchelderonce settled here; his home, a private

residence, is at 626 S. Arroyo Blvd.

Grab a bite in Old Pasadena,

the revitalized shopping and dining

area in the historic commercial core

along Colorado Boulevard. Adapt-

ed two- and three-storey buildings

date from the 1890s through the

1930s and house cafs, national

store chains, and galleries. Myri-

ad styles are reflected in the store-

fronts: Art Deco, Moderne, SpanishColonial Revival, and Beaux Arts.

The stunning HispanoMoresque

Revival Castle Green (at Raymond

and Green streets) is Old Pasadenas

most historic attraction. This former

hotel has been converted into resi-

dences. Tours are offered only twice

a year, but passersby will admire its

grandeur and detail from the street.

Venture just one block south to eat

at La Grande Orange, housed insidethe 1935 train station that retains

Spanish and Southwestern details.

You must visit the famous

Bungalow Heaven Landmark Dis-

trict, a 16-block neighborhood filled

with intact bungalows and Historical

Revival homes. Its especially charm-

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and cultural resources. Founded in 1977, it is now one of the oldest historic-preservation groups

in Southern California and the second largest in the state. Among countless other successes, the

organizations legacy includes preserving Old Pasadena, the iconic Colorado Street Bridge, the

Huntington Hotel, and the Greene & Greene-designed Blacker House,

Consider timing your visit with Pasadena Heritages Craftsman Weekend, a spectacular

annual event that showcases the citys Arts & Crafts contributions with bus and walking neighbor-

hood tours, social receptions inside exclusive historic residences, lectures, and a vendor exhibition

featuring period and contemporary furnishings and decorative arts. The 2015 event is scheduled

for November 1315, and advance reservations are strongly advised.The organization hosts several regular tours and educational events. Its Old Pasadena

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REMODELINGTHEKITCHENwas a major project in this owners upgrade of a Long

Island house built in the 1950s. The old kitchen was dated and confused:

Colonial Revival mouldings on stock golden-oak cabinets, a tiny island with

clipped corners, low-end laminate countertops and white appliances, all with

a smattering of generic wallpaper. Homeowner Robert Jackman hatched the overall

design and suggested many of the details.

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the Greene & Greene houses in Pasadena. Over time, I became more and more a

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IN THE LANGUAGEOF CRAFTSMANa Cabinets get a period look from the use

of quarter-sawn oak and traditional join-

ery; each door has a framed, solid wood

center panel, another traditional detail.

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A zoned floor planDuring the full-out renovation of the undis-

tinguished 1950s house, the kitchen grew

to become the heart of the home. Its careful

layout, though, breaks it into various workand living spaces, giving the room a human

scale not seen in most open-plan kitchens.

The working corner of the kitchen

moves from range to baking (or pizza prep)

area to pantry and fridge. The breakfast

nook, set near a large window, is cozily

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Jackman and his wife, Naomi, knew theyd look to the Arts & Crafts vocabu-

lary for the renovation. He chose traditional wood species: quarter-sawn white oak,

American cherry. This is new work, frankly embracing a professional-style range and

a large, built-in refrigerator. (All appliances are by Sub-Zero and Wolf.) The design

uses motifs of the past; the range is built into a hearth-like niche, for example, and a

colonnade divides the room. The period-inspired kitchen features framed white-oak

cabinetry, a wide-plank wood floor, and banquette seating that evokes a breakfast

nook. Lighting is transitional, alluding to the gaslight and early-electric eras.

Because of my work in cabinetmaking, I was fussy about joinery, Jackman says,

insisting on traditional mortise-and-tenon and dovetail joints. He himself built some

key pieces, including the kitchen table, several doors, even the basement staircase.

The center island features a 2"-thick end-grain countertop in a checkerboard

pattern (alternating walnut and maple) with a mahogany border. The prep area near

the stove is a pizza station featuring a low-height marble slab for kneading dough.

The use of copper in the roomfor the stove backsplash, the farmhouse sink, a

breadboxlooks back to its predominance in art metalwork. The golden chartreuse

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REVIVAL HEARTHS

BEFORE 1915, fireplace surrounds

in both builders bungalows and

fine Craftsman homes likely were

done in brick. What we think of as Arts

& Crafts tile really dates to the 1920s, in-

cluding, for example, the work of Ernest

Batchelder and tiles produced by Malibu

Potteries and Catalina Clay Products. Art

tile is appreciated more than ever in to-

days revival, so its no surprise that tile

is so often chosen for new work that be-

comes the focal point.

As youll see here, new installa-

tions run from period-correct surrounds

in earthy colors to unique interpretations.

Look for nature themes, mosaics, and mo-

tifs borrowed from Greene & Greene, C.R.

Mackintosh, and others.

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SUZANNE CRANERemodeled for a 1969 Ranch:botanical 8" Dogwood with Red

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Leaf & Acorns border. Tiles approx. $5,500.

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a big, focal-point fireplace is

essential to an Arts & Crafts

housenot just for warmth, but as an

emotional center and offer of hospital-

ity. No wonder bungalows from South-

ern California to Miami were built with

fireplaces! But what does a true Arts &Crafts fireplace surround look like? Fac-

ing materials could be almost anything

that wouldnt burn: brick, rubble stone

or river rock, tile, terra cotta, cast stone,

even concrete. Despite the present-day

perception that an Arts & Crafts fire-

place should be clad in art tile, the most

common material for builder bunga-

lows and many other houses of the peri-

od was probably brick, especially before

1920. (Even tilemaker Ernest Batchel-

ders home, built in 1909, started life

with a brick fireplace.)

Proportions and massing are just

as important as the material used on

the face. Unlike the classical propor-

tions of fireplaces in most homes built

from the 18th to early 20th centuries,

Arts & Crafts fireplaces are broad and

sometimes blocky, often flanked by

bookcases or bookended by seating

areas termed inglenooks. In transi-

tional fireplaces with tall and narrow

coal-burning fireboxes, the brick or tile

is scaled down to fit a smaller, narrow-

er hearth; glossy lozenge-shaped 1" x

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especially in brick and tile. If you are

lucky enough to have an original brick

or tile fireplace in good condition, do not

feel compelled to paint, reclad, or other-

wise jazz it up. Even a deceptively simplebrick or tile surround is an authentic bit

of Arts & Crafts decorative history.

BRICK

For centuries, bricks have been standard-

ized at 4" wide x 4" tall x 8" long. One ex-

ception is Roman brick, favored by Frank

Lloyd Wright in many of his Prairie fire-

places. Narrow Roman bricks measure 4"

wide x 2" tall x 12" long. These standard

dimensions lend themselves to a run-

ning-bond pattern, where the joints in each

row are staggered by half a bricka classic

look for Craftsman and Prairie styles.

If the running-bond pattern is

most typicalespecially given the stoutwidth of many hearthsvertical run-

ning bond also appears, often where the

hearth is taller than it is wide. In oth-

er instances, the running-bond pattern

might be interrupted by sections of brick

turned at right angles or fanned to cre-

ate arches and other pattern variations.

In some cases, single bricks are inserted

below the mantel in lieu of corbels, or

rows of projecting bricks laid to create a

recess or its illusion.For real texture, though, it was

common to intersperse a mantel most-

ly made of brick with locally available

stone, an accent tile or two, or (most de-

lightfully) clinker brick.

Once a low-cost alternative to

standard brick, misshapen and vitrified

clinker bricks gave a fireplace a sought-

after organic appearance. Period brick

colorations are earthy, running from light

pink and buff to deep reds, purples, andbrowns. Clinkers, of course, offer a more

extreme range of colors, from fire-engine

red or flaming orange to blackish-purple.

Another exception is bricks clad in terra

cotta, offering a more smoothly finished

look than regular brick.

TILE

Tile installations from the early years

of the Arts & Crafts era look subdued

compared to contemporary installations.Theyre often subtle, geometrically simple

compositions of matte-glazed field tile.

In a fireplace in a 1910 California Bun-

galow designed by architect Glen Jarvis,

for example, the field tile is scaled to fit

the proportions of the fireplace surround

enclosing the firebox opening. The legs

at left and right of the opening are exactly

two tiles wide. The bridge between the legs

(i.e., the center over the firebox) is exactly

two rows deep.

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usual before about 1915. (In 1910, Ernest

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rived in a big way. Much of the art tile we

think of as Arts & Crafts actually reflects

the styles, designs, and glaze colors made

by dozens of potteries in the 1920s, when

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Smaller accent tiles on a given themeflowers

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an ad for a house in our price range. I have a good feeling about

this one, she said before wed laid eyes on it. The candidate was in

North Park, an older urban neighborhood near downtown and next door

to Balboa ParkSan Diegos version of Central Park. How bad could it be?

Well, we can laugh about it now. Lets just sayfor Tomit wasnt

love at first sight. Curb appeal was so-so, and the neighborhood was strug-

gling. Phyllis, however, was elated: I knew it in my heart that we could

turn this fixer-upper into our dream home. She liked the open floor plan

of 2,000 square feet, the multi-pane windows with wavy glass. A large

family room had been added in the 1960s, as well as a swimming pool.

But all Tom could see was Pepto-Bismol pink everywhere. The sell-

er had decorated the 1915 Craftsman Bungalow with her beloved Victori-

ana. The family room had flocked wallpaper and a Roaring Twenties motif

complete with a lava-rock fireplace flanked by red plastic sidelights, and agiant pool table. The deferred maintenance in the kitchen was staggering

and the house needed a new roof.

Of course, we bought it.

TOP The new art glass features a

Dard Hunter rose design. RIGHT

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Tom and Phyllis Shess restored the bungalow,

once painted yellow and white. Today, a curvedwalk leads to the original front porch in brick;

they added the river stone-veneer enclosure and

the pergola behind it. The North Park Dryden

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server is from a trip to Beijing; its wisteria is a reminder

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piece of furniture was the Stickley leather settle.

Reproduction lamps warm the golden room at night.

With our every nickel gone to the down payment, home

improvements had to wait. The delay afforded us time to re-

search the Arts & Crafts genre. After absorbing period-archi-

tecture magazines and attending several Craftsmen Weekends

in Pasadena, we came away Born Again. Though this modest

house was one of dozens built to house professionals for the

191516 PanamaCalifornia Exposition in Balboa Park, we en-

visioned one day having our own mini Greene & Greene home.

Our journey was worth every dime and every minute we

spent. It started with Tom scraping off at least seven layers ofinterior paint. When it was down to bare wood, ghosting re-

vealed where original elements had been. To our joy, we found

pristine pocket doors covered up in a 1919 remuddling; now it

was easy to turn the front parlor into a private guest room.

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loon motif in the family room to create a comfortable media

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master suite. We re-stained the original Douglas fir trim and

wainscoting in the front rooms. As is typical, woodwork in the

bedrooms, bath, and family room is painted.

The same summer, an economic downturn found Tom

with hundreds of hours to spare and a heat gun in hand. Off

came the exterior paint. I only fell off my jerry-rigged scaf-

folding twice, Tom says. Next we hired a landscape designer,

and soon had a south-side brick patio and fountain, an outdoor

kitchen. In our first oh no! moment, we realized we had to

go around the house from front or back to get to the new side

garden. All along we had focused on maintaining the original

architecture. Now we eyed the plate-glass window overlooking

the new garden. Old wavy glass or not, we decided to replace it

with double French doors matching those in the house. Good

call: The setup looks original, and we use those doors every day.

We put off the kitchen until we could afford to do it right.Eventually we hired a bungalow-savvy contractor with the pa-

tience to put up with Phylliss detailed and determined over-

sight. The contractor, himself an artist, designed and built the

Mission-style table and storage benches.

Our crystal ball hadnt revealed that North Park would

become what Forbesmagazine and the New York Times called

one of Americas hippest neighborhoods. Wed no idea wed

made such a good investment. To us, this was simply the forev-

er home. Recently retired, we just celebrated our 30th wedding

anniversary in our favorite place. This little bungalow. a

TOP In the bathroom, only the tub was original,

so the room was overhauled in period fashion.

The medicine cabinet is based on a 1916original.

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CARREAUX DU NORDCARREAUXDUNORDmeans tiles of the north, fitting

not only because of the location of this small tile

company in northeastern Wisconsin, but also be-

cause tilemakers Beth Vienot and Ned Guyette have

French-Canadian roots. The

couple met in a design class

at the University of Wisconsin

at Milwaukee. Ned was very

skilled, way beyond anyone else

in the class, recalls Beth. Ned

notes that Beth is a superb

painter with a talent for decorative design: We have

done a few reproductions, but 95 percent of what we

make comes from Beths fertile brain.

Ned was experimenting with medieval tech-

niques used to create encaustic tile. Realizing the

process was too time consuming to be profitable,

he turned to low relief tiles, our launching pad for

making handmade tile. He and Beth founded their

company in 1995. Customers buy tiles as art, but

the firms bread and butter is small-batch archi-

tectural tile, like accents recently installed in new

structures at Chicagos Lincoln Park Zoo. Designs

show English and American Arts & Crafts influ-

ence with a touch of Art Nouveau. Neds glazes are

hand applied, which results in slightly thicker or

thinner coats. This signature of the hand is what

gives Carreauxs tile its distinctive appearance.

Ned presses up to 60 tiles per day. The archi-

tectural tiles are ideal for artistic installations, from

backsplashes to murals and fireplaces. The show-

room is in the former game room of the couples

1927 Tudor Revival home. Were not getting rich,

says Ned, but we love what we do. a

BETHVIENOT&NEDGUYETTE

Carreaux du NordTwo Rivers, WI

(920) 553-5303carreauxdunord.com

FROMLEFTNed Guyette and Beth

Vienot in their showroom in Wisconsin.

A detail of the owl decorative tile in

an Evergreen gloss glaze. The bee tile

artfully depicts bees on a honeycomb.

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PASADENA CRAFTSMAN TILEAPRACTICINGARCHITECTfor many years,

Cha-Rie Tang has multiple talents.

She is also an artist in kiln-fused

glasswork, working with her husband,

Bruce Hubbard, whom she met asan undergraduate at MIT. Tang has

had the good fortune to have lived in

Pasadena since the 1970s. Intrigued

by its architecture, she discovered

her passion for

Batchelder-style

tile when a friend

unearthed (in his

backyard) numer-

ous molds from

the Batchelder Tile Company and

brought them to her.

After years of slip-casting

Batchelder reproductions, Cha-Rie

began to carve her own designs. She

based many of them on Owen Jones

The Grammar of Ornament, which

she, Bruce, and Steve Hubbard had

transferred to CD-ROM during the

tech boom. Tangs original designs

caught the attention of Isabelle

Greene, a noted landscape designer

and the granddaughter of Charles

Greene. Cha-Rie made some 6" x 6"

tiles for Isabelles fireplace. That ledto a commission for a fountain from

the owners of the Robinson House,

Mark and Phaedra Ledbetter. Cha-

Rie says, Phaedra is quite a talent-

ed lady herself and took a chance on

me. The cherry-tree design is based

on a motif from original furniture in

the house and features carved tiles.

The project was completed in record

time with me tending the clay day

and night with fans and heat, Cha-

Rie says. At the time I did not have a

slab roller. I had carpal tunnel prob-

lems for months afterwards.

Shes gone on to produce

carved fireplaces, fountains, walls,

floors, backsplashes, and art pieces.

With one of the largest collections of

Batchelder molds in the country, she

continues to produce revival tiles. a

CHA-RIETANGPasadena Craftsman Tile

Pasadena, CA(626) 793-8387

pasadenacraftsmantile.com

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wall behind an outdoor fountain at the Robinson house features a cherry-tree

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After spending a decade restoring a 1908 house, this couple was pleasantlysurprised to find theyd fallen for a newer Craftsmanone built in 2008!

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B L A C K S T ON E E DG E . CO M

SOMELIFECHANGEShad this couple looking to move from

Albany, Oregon, to Portland, after theyd spent ten

years restoring an old house that had both Victorian

and Craftsman details. Elva Van Devender, who is a clinical

pharmacist, and her chemical-engineer husband, Tye Dodge,

were about to purchase a house when they ran across a new-

old house in Portlands Multnomah Village. Coincidentally,

Elva was familiar with the house next door, a model called The

Tabor, which shed seen a year earlier. They found this one,

dubbed The Multnomah, while checking out The Tabor on

Googles street view.

Inside the 2008 house, the spacious open plan was a

pleasant surprise; the couples transitional house had had

small, compartmentalized rooms. (This house has two full sto-

reys and a third-floor lofta bonus room that can be outfitted

as a home office, media room, or play area. The 3,278-square-

foot residence has four bedrooms and two and a half baths.)

A period-style colonnade and built-ins, two working fireplaces,

glass pocket doors that afford privacy in the den, and floors

of Brazilian cherry with walnut inlays were undeniably hand-

some. The kitchen was large, as was the laundry room. A fir

tree grew protectively over the back porch, the tidy yard, and a


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The previous owner had upgraded the lighting, selecting

reproductions from Rejuvenation and art-glass shades. Elva

and Tye say they especially like the built-ins provided by thebuilder. Nevertheless, they felt the dining room cried out for

another, so they soon bought a rescued piece at Aurora Mills

Salvage, now used as a sideboard that fills one wall. It had been

torn out of a hundred-year-old bungalow in Corvallis by own-

ers who wanted a more modern look. We just couldnt believe

anyone would discard such beautiful craftsmanship, Elva says.

REMARKABLY, THEFURNISHINGS from their old Albany house fit

perfectly hereeven the antique stained-glass windows,

which the couple had purchased to create privacy from the

street. Unique etched-glass windows, ca. 18901910, were re-

purposed into a wardrobe and TV cabinet by Bill Storch of

Corvallis, who also reworked the salvaged built-in as a free-

standing sideboard in the dining room.

At least one thing has seen the couple through all their

moves: an oriental carpet that never met a room it didnt

like, as Elva puts it. When her mother planned to throw away

the 1960s-vintage rug, Elva took it to her grad-school flat. It

has since graced floors in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Port-

land, Maine, before the Albany and Portland (Oregon) houses.

The couple love to attend LoneSomeVille Potterys

twice-yearly sales to pick up some of Northwest artist Danny

Hills renowned Arts & Crafts pottery. We love talking with

Danny and Wayne and spending time in the beautiful Lone-

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Winter 2016 A RTS & C RA FTS HOM E S

After three viewings, ElvaVan Devender

and Tye Dodge were all set to buy an older

house in Cedar Mill when Tye discovered

an Arts &Crafts-style home in Portlands

Multnomah Villagebuilt by Skye Homes

in 2008. Initially, they went to see it to rule

it out, Elva recalls. But the moment we

came in, it felt like our house. I couldnt

talk myself out of it.

Skye Homes owner Bruce McIntosh

dubbed this design The Multnomah, and it

was a keeper, from its battered porch columns

and bungalow-era gable to its colonnades

and pocket doors. The couple had thorough-

ly enjoyed restoring and living in their old

house, which was built in 1908. But they came

around to appreciate the advantages of a new

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such venues as Yosemites Ahwahnee Lodge, the Gam-

ble House in Pasadena, the de Young Museum in San

Francisco, and The Inn at Torrey Pines.)

Three Bengal cats are in residence: Nyah is the

oldest, Angus the only male, and Merida the youngest.

They find great pleasure in this house, prowling about

the semi-open plan, sprawling in front of the fire, curl-

ing up in a Morris chair. Everyone feels at home. Elva

and Tye say they envision a long succession of hap-

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A strong underlying architecture is important whenthe garden goes minimalist for the winter.

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FORABUNGALOWORCOTTAGE,create an Arts & Crafts garden that holds

off-season appeal. Consider architecture in the snowa pergola or gate,stone walls, the rhythm of a fence. Use garden ornament or large shrubs

to create focal points. Rely on plants that are stalwarts when it comes to

late fall and winter interest. Perennials may lie beneath the snow and

deciduous trees are but silhouettes,

yet the garden remains.

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In a poignant vignette behind garden writer Ken

Druses house, tall and feathery grasses tower

over wooden chairs in a landscape of brown and

grey. BELOWGrasses and stonecrop heads in the

snow. OPPOSITE Holly (Ilex). Conifers and broadleaf

evergreens keep nature alive at Greenwood Gardens.


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A great garden never slumbers. In fact, garden designers argue that

winter is when a thoughtfully constructed garden really shines. The secret

lies in selecting elements that stand out when the garden is stripped down to

its bare-naked truth. In many parts of the country, the off-season lasts for five

or six months. Plan your garden accordingly, and that time can be riveting.

FENCES, GATES & WALLS

Considering the winter damage done by deer in many regions, a fence is a

wise move from a purely practical standpoint. But a fence performs critical

visual functions as well. A fence contains a space, announcing a garden lies

here even when the evidence is partially buried. Solid stockade fences may

look more like blank barriers and less like artif you must put one up, con-

sider softening it with birdhouses or other embellishments. On the other

hand, wooden zigzag, picket, rustic, lattice, and wrought- and cast-iron fences

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dormant garden, but wintertime can

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(apropos for Arts & Crafts homes) become eloquent when their lines stand out

against the snow. Even purely utilitarian wire stock fencing gains prominence and

character, suggesting delicate lacework. Fences give winter birds a stable place

to perch. Unpruned, the meandering stems or branches or vines add a weaving

rhythm against the straight lines of a fence (or arbor). Wisteria is a heavy load to

shoulder, but you can select lonicera or clematis. A gate may provide the opportu-

nity to add color, perhaps matching body or trim on the house. When competing

visual elements are erased, our color-starved eyes go straight to a handsome gate.

Its hard to go wrong with a stone wallno matter what type you select, a

wall divides space while providing strong texture in the quiet landscape. When the

thaw finally comes, stone walls return to color even before the world turns green.

GARDEN ARCHITECTURE

Pergolas, arbors, and freestanding gazebos punctuate the garden. Stark against

the sky or wearing a snow cap, garden structures hunker down and look magical

in the winter. They also give birds shelter. All sorts of styles, from rustic to Spanishto classical, work in an Arts & Crafts setting. Even a tool shed provides interest and

can be styled to reinforce an Arts & Crafts theme, perhaps through windowboxes.

Cedar or metal tuteurs gain prominence when denuded; multiple tuteurs

marching down an alle are particularly eloquent.

GARDEN ORNAMENT

Cement orbs, ornamental hose guards, birdfeeders, and containers provide focal

points or mark paths. Be aware that most pots will not survive a freezing win-

ter uncracked. Some containers, like the reinforced urns and pots by the Maine

company Lunaform, are designed to be left out; follow recommendations. Pottery

birdbaths may be ruined; stone is a safer bet. Statuary is poignant in the barrengarden, but much of it, too, should not be left out unprotected. Most homeowners

choose to protect statuary by bundling it up in attire to deflect moisture and thus

protect against freeze/thaw cycles. a

ABOVEEmptied and protected, a glazed

container lends scale to the arch-framed

view at Greenwood Gardens (Short Hills,

N.J., by William W. Renwick, 1915). LEFT

Snow draws attention to the willow

and a red bridge in a private garden in

British Columbia. OPPOSITE Two glazed

ceramic stools and a cast-iron urn ona cement baluster are reminders of

habitation in Ken Druses semi-rural

NewJersey garden. INSET Lunaforms

Ebro urn with a snow lid in place.

JE RR Y PAV IA ( L E F T ); KE N D R U S E



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