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High-altitude house: Restoring the spirit of a midcentury gem

Abode | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

The driveway is so steep it seemed like a no-go. On the day in 2009 when he first visited, “I drove up the driveway and told myself ‘Whatever’s at the top of this I can’t buy it,’” remembers the owner. “But then I got up there and thought, ‘Oh, I do have to buy this.’” […]

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Photo: Virginia Hamick

Starting over: An energy-efficient house rises on an old foundation

Abode | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Mark Graham was actually relieved when he discovered that the first floor of his house was rotting. He’d planned to add on, not tear down. But when crews prepared to build a second story onto the 1980 brick ranch house in Ivy, they discovered some problems. “It turned out the walls had holes from rodents […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

Spiritual aesthetic: Vitae breaks with tradition

Abode | Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

Vitae Spirits is conscious of its distilling forebears. But owner Ian Glomski has always embraced modernity when it comes to his product and brand, and he hasn’t changed a bit in unveiling his new downtown spirits tasting room design. “We’re really trying to be forward-looking in general,” Glomski says. “We are not trying to emulate […]

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Photo: Courtesy Mike and Isobel Sadler

Minimal modern: A new kitchen gets down to the basics

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Mike and Isobel Sadler move every few years. They’re the third-generation owners of Charlottesville Area Builders, and they usually occupy a house their company has recently built—both to showcase new features for potential clients and to test-drive floors, appliances and so on. This summer, they moved again, to a contemporary home in Ivy looking toward […]

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The second floor directly above the Jefferson Theater features four suites with bedroom, bathroom, and a living area that includes a pull-out couch. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Rockin’ retreat: New boutique hotel tucks in above the Jefferson Theater

By Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

The new Jeff Hotel above the Jefferson Theater on the Downtown Mall was designed with no common areas. But the strategy had nothing to do with the virus currently scaring folks away from such spaces. The boutique guesthouse relies on modern room-booking trends and technologies to do away with the traditional lobby and onsite customer […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

Coming to pass: A concert-goer’s souvenirs get a place of prominence

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

As any music fan knows, amassing a collection of concert tickets is almost as fun as going to the show. (If you don’t display them, were you even there?) So when Rit Venerus, a business manager for entertainers with Cal Financial Group, decided to renovate his company’s office in the spring, his wife, Barb, enlisted […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

What meets the eye: A home renovation and expansion fills an Albemarle couple’s growing needs with a modern touch—and some hidden surprises

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The wife—a 40-something fitness trainer with a compact build—is standing beside the distressed-wood dining table that serves as the transitional element between the simple, serene kitchen and the airy living room, which has a vaulted ceiling accented by two triangular timber trusses and a pair of mod pendant chandeliers that look like giant bows, made […]

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Photo: Peter LaBau

Little big house: A Charlottesville reno grows in scope—and charm

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

It started small. When Brad and Cathy Coyle decided to buy a house in the Lewis Mountain neighborhood, they knew it needed some work. But they thought it would be mostly a vacation rental property, plus an occasional weekend pied-à-terre for themselves, and they figured the scope of work was minimal. “It was just a […]

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Photo: Courtesy Quad Audio

Sound investment: How to build a rad component stereo system for your home

By Erin O'Hare | COMMENTS

So you want to put together a home stereo system—but you’re not sure where to start. Rather than turn to the overwhelming bounty of information on the internet, where gear talk can be confusing, seek the advice of an expert, instead. Ours is Wavley Groves III, of EccoHollow Art+Sound in Staunton. Groves knows what he’s […]

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To sketch, perchance to build: A local architect uses an old-fashioned skill to bring new projects to life

To sketch, perchance to build: A local architect uses an old-fashioned skill to bring new projects to life

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Jessie Chapman is standing in the shower of her Charlottesville home. She’s fully clothed and the water is not running. Architects do this sort of thing when they’re trying to give someone an idea of the scale of a particular place. “It really is very comfortable,” says Chapman, the co-principal of Goodhouse Design. At a […]

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Kevin Burke, left, stands under the north-facing sawtooth roof of 1212 Bordeaux, the California office building his Charlottesville firm built for Google. Image: Google/Prakash Pratel Photography

Ancient future: From Google to Charlottesville, Parabola brings deep awareness to design

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Inside a North Downtown live-work space called Timepiece, the groundbreaking firm Parabola Architecture is quietly tackling some of the big design questions of our time. Co-founders Carrie Meinberg Burke and Kevin Burke designed Timepiece 20 years ago as a place to house both their family and the architectural practice, envisioning the building as a “focusing […]

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The kitchen and living room are the heart of the renovation. A suspended partial ceiling made of reclaimed wood defines the cozy space with the fireplace. Photo: Andrea Hubbell

Building trust: For a Belmont farmhouse makeover, a couple gives their friends carte blanche

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Enlisting your best friends to design and manage the renovation of your home can be a risky endeavor, particularly when you encourage them to exercise creative freedom in designing what you hope will become your dream house. If you don’t like their work, can the friendship survive? That was the question friends often asked photographer […]

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A wall covered with clematis vines provides a buffer, while the garden bed below—defined with cinder blocks and planted with blueberries and strawberries—anchors one end of the yard. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

The DIY backyard: How to install a home landscape that’ll make you proud

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

We have all seen the perfectly groomed gardens on TV house-flipping shows and in magazines, including this one. Pinterest is a slideshow of landscapes that are intended to inspire creativity but often just lead to feelings of inadequacy. It’s as if these picture-perfect settings were chia pets—just add water and watch them grow! The truth […]

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With 12-foot-tall walls made of 19,400 bottles, the interior lights up beautifully during the day, with sunlight filtering through the bottles. Photo: Stephen Barling

Glass act: A local winery’s new tasting room is all bottled up

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The empty bottles were piling up at Free Union’s Glass House Winery. The recycling service that co-owners Jeff and Michelle Saunders relied on for years had begun hauling the glass to a landfill, which the environmentally conscious couple couldn’t tolerate. At the same time, the winery was increasing production, having gone from six acres under […]

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Like Common House, the annex is an older structure, built in the early 20th century, and it’s got the same artsy, rustic, DIY, antique-furnished vibe. Photo: Amy and Jackson Smith

Room to grow: Common House opens annex as business expands

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Before it opened in 2017, Common House—the co-working, networking, meeting, dining, and events club on Market Street—sent membership invitations to 100 people, giving the impression that it would be an exclusive place. But not long after it launched, 500 people had joined. Today, with more than 1,000 members and plans to open locations in Richmond […]

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Long walks in her new neighborhood of north downtown—and seeing the many colors and styles of the front doors there—inspired Lyndsey Brown to start her Instagram feed. Photos: @cvilledoors

Knock, knock: Lyndsey Brown is at your door, which may end up on Instagram

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The door photography craze can be traced to 1970, when a New York ad exec created a colorful collage of 36 arched Georgian townhouse doorways he shot while on a project in Dublin. As the story goes, the adman showed the assemblage to the head of the Irish tourism office in Manhattan, who commissioned copies […]

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The Monticello Hotel, designed by Stanhope Johnson, opened in 1923 and featured a lavish dining room. It is now the 500 Court Square apartment building. Photo: Courtesy Carolyn Gills Frasier

Landmark maker: Architect Stanhope Johnson’s local legacy

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Stanhope Spencer Johnson doesn’t pop to the top of the list for most architectural historians, but the Lynchburg-based designer was remarkably prolific in his seven-decade career, and some of his better work—including two buildings on the National Register of Historic Places—can be found in Charlottesville. No one knows Johnson’s work better than our own Carolyn […]

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The Tenth Street Warehouses project encompasses Peloton Station restaurant and bike shop, a new outpost of the Mudhouse, and a handful of apartments, along with more commercial and residential space in the former Coke bottling factory. Photo: Stephen Barling

Sense and the city: A Charlottesville developer chooses preservation with a retro-modern twist

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The concept of urban placemaking surfaced in the 1960s, when writer and activist Jane Jacobs successfully led the fight to block a planned highway through New York’s Greenwich Village, and urban planner William “Holly” Whyte began the Street Life Project, documenting how built environments shaped the way people behave and interact. Today, Jacobs’ The Death […]

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Osheim’s aesthetic reflects mid-century modern style and her Scandinavian roots. Photo: Christina Osheim

Form and color: Christina Osheim’s sublime ceramics

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

Christina Osheim distills a wealth of fine arts education and diverse influences into her ceramics. She studied at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art before establishing her Charlottesville studio, Möbius Keramikk, at 1740 Broadway St. Her wheel-thrown objects (cups and tumblers) and items with stenciled […]

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Tucked into a hardwood grove, the house lives up to its nickname, A Walk in the Woods. Photo: Peter LaBau

A family home: The couple retired near Keswick, but the kids are always welcome

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

After meeting in college, the couple got married and pursued their respective careers—she as a librarian and he as a patent attorney—living for many years in Delaware. About two years ago, when the time came for them to retire, there was little question they’d end up near Keswick, specifically, on a piece of land connected […]

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A balcony perches outside the third-floor, which is used as a meditation room. Beneath the exterior cladding, foam panels envelope the house, increasing its energy efficiency. Photo: Prakash Patel

Back to nature: A graphic artist creates a great escape in Nelson County

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The graphic artist, web designer, and bookbinder worked in Charlottesville for many years, running her own business. She shifted gears, taking a full-time job at a non-profit. But after a while, she wanted to get back to being her own boss, and to find a way to spend more time in the country, gardening, hiking, […]

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Over the past three years, the chef's garden has grown from a few herb beds into a small farm that provides a diverse bounty. Photo: Eric Kelly

Hyperlocal: At Pippin Hill, the produce is just outside the kitchen door

By Cathy Clary | COMMENTS

Chef Ian Rynecki and gardener Diane Burns modestly refer to their creation at Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards as a kitchen garden, but the result of their collaboration is nothing less than the ideal template for farm-to-table cooking. Before making his way to Albemarle County in 2017, Rynecki had climbed a ladder with a basket […]

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Dark features such as the dining table, bar walls, and cabinetry hardware accent the room, where white stone, tile, and painted surfaces dominate. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Heart of the townhome: A bright kitchen anchors a modern rowhouse

By Joe Bargmann | COMMENTS

The Charlottesville woman grew up in California wine country—St. Helena, to be precise. Her home, where she lived until she was 16, had a farmhouse feel: open, airy, and not fussy in the least. It was a place for family and friends to gather and literally see one another, without too many walls getting in […]

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