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The open layout of the kitchen, living and dining area makes a strong, minimalist statement. Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Design on display: A Nelson home becomes an art collector’s haven

Abode | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

When Kristen and Glenn Martin dropped their daughter off to begin her college career at the University of Virginia in 2013, they weren’t planning on renovating a house in Nelson County’s Stoney Creek development. But, less two years later, that’s what the Pennsylvania residents found themselves doing. “It was very outdated,” says Glenn of the […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

One step at a time: An Albemarle County landscape takes shape in phases

Abode | Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Time is always a key element in landscape: Plants grow and change, seasons come and go. In some cases, it takes time for a design to bloom, too. That was true at Shady Lawn, a Western Albemarle property where landscape architect Anna Boeschenstein, of Grounded, created a master plan five years ago. Her design is […]

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Photo: Matteus Frankovich/Skycladap

From the A-School: What does urbanization mean for design?

Abode | C-VILLE Writers | COMMENTS

Editor’s note: Beginning this month, each issue of Abode will include a column written by a graduate student at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, providing a glimpse into the considerations of the next generation of architects. The world is entangled in complex sets of relationships and nothing is what it seems. Design disciplines […]

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In Stanardsville, a 700-acre organic beef farm and horse pasture required expansion into organic orcharding and a master plan for the barn complex and living quarters. Photo: Wolf | Josey

For Mary Wolf, landscape architecture affords variety

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Just as a home has a history, so, too, does a landscape. Only, a landscape’s story, as Mary Wolf attests, is multilayered. Take, for instance, her grandmother’s property, a Civil War battlefield site where she spent her weekends growing up. The appeal of that spot of land—that it connected our national, geological and human history […]

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The view from this A-frame in Afton is its biggest seller. Photo: Courtesy Frank Quayle

Above it all: Off the parkway, a character of a house

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

A lovely view is lovely, but a spectacular one might be life-changing. Think we exaggerate? Get ye to Elk Mountain Road in Afton on a clear day, and feast your eyes on the kind of vista that can truly alter your outlook. Number 885, which faces east from a lot just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, […]

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Plant your daffodils, like these in southern Albemarle, around Thanksgiving. Photo: Robert Llewellyn

Turn, turn, turn: Getting your garden prepped for autumn

By Cathy Clary | COMMENTS

Until the equinox on September 21, we bask in late, late summer. Walnut leaves are yellowing, black gums turn scarlet at the edge of the woods and the soil is warm as a sunny lake on Labor Day, more hospitable to root growth than the cold clay of March. Ample rainfall makes for ideal conditions […]

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Ten Flavors' co-op office in the Treehouse Building downtown features high ceilings, an open layout and a communal conference room to accommodate 11 businesses that share the space. Photo: Stephen Barling

A workplace that works: Design co-op settles into the Treehouse

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Ten Flavors, a co-op that includes 11 mostly design-related businesses, has been around for about 35 years. Members have come and gone, and the co-op has moved offices several times, always on the Downtown Mall. But Jim Gibson, a longtime co-op member, says the Ten Flavors folks really, really liked their last home, a high-ceilinged […]

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Give the heater a break—upgrade your insulation

Give the heater a break—upgrade your insulation

By Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

They say the human body loses most of its heat through the head. So when it’s cold out, you put a hat on. Before winter approaches (or even autumn!), invest in a hat for your house. According to Austin Craig, sales consultant for Davenport Insulation, attic insulation is critical to maintaining a constant temperature in […]

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Photo: Bill Mauzy

August ABODE: On stands now!

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

In this issue, you’ll find a an artist-architect, a symmetrical Fluvanna pool, Vinegar Hill’s second act and more. Here’s what’s inside: Jessie Chapman‘s visual approach. Vinegar Hill’s second life in film. Why your home might benefit from a portico. Michelle Adams‘ design influences. A pool we love! A city home in need of reconfiguration.   […]

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Photo: Virginia Hamrick

A finer farmhouse: Making an 1800s home function for the millennium

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

This place looks nothing like a hay barn. Yet there was a time, at some point in the early 20th century, when the Somerset farmhouse now belonging to David and Sissy Perdue was in fact used to store hay. Built in the 1880s as a two-over-two home for a family of chicken farmers, the house […]

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Photo: Bill Mauzy

Time travel: A country landscape spans the centuries

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

The weekend home of a Washington, D.C., couple sits not quite in the middle of their 76-acre property north of Charlottesville. They didn’t choose the most lofty site for their cottage, but instead gravitated toward a spot that snuggles into a treeline and offers a broad, rolling view of fields and woods. “This was our […]

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The renovated Vinegar Hill Theatre space now houses Light House Studio, and has a simple, bare-bones look of white walls and gray flooring. Photo: Stephen Barling

Vinegar Hill, the sequel: Designing a second life for a beloved theater

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

When Vinegar Hill Theatre closed its doors in 2013 after 37 years of showing independent films, many cinephiles in Charlottesville mourned its loss. So when the downtown building became the home of Light House Studio in May 2015, says Light House’s Brooks Wellmon, “There was a ton of community interest in preserving the theater.” Light […]

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Michelle Willis Adams says her favorite room in her home is the light-filled family room. “I enjoy looking out at the ever-changing colors of the treetops,” she says. Photo: Eze Amos

Early inspiration: At home with designer Michelle Adams

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

A second-generation interior designer, Michelle Willis Adams grew up “assisting” her mother, who had a design business in New York and Rappahannock, Virginia. She can remember sitting at her mother’s clients’ kitchen tables, “listening to them discuss fabrics and furniture arrangements,” she says. “I also remember browsing many antiques shops and going to auctions with […]

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Photos: Philip Beaurline

Porticos not only look nice but can serve a porch-like function

By Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

You want a porch. But you’re afraid of commitment. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with a whole deck hanging off the front of your house? Getting cold feet is understandable. Perhaps a portico is more your speed. “Generally I think of a portico as purely shelter for a doorway, […]

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Photo: Bill Storer

Road warrior: Sizing up potential in a tricky location near the 250 Bypass

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

The first very important question for would-be buyers of 622 Watson Ave. is this: How much imagination do you have? The question is key because the house, a 1930 foursquare, is ripe for a reno. It’s one of the older houses on the street, and in general it’s not the handsomest feller at the hoedown. […]

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Photo: Stephen Barling

The water’s fine (and we have pool envy!)

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

Designer Ann Nicholson admits she borrows inspiration from unlikely places—Edgemont, a historic Albemarle residence possibly designed by Thomas Jefferson; a pool house in the Hamptons belonging to designer Tory Burch. But the pool at Lowfields Farm in Fluvanna, where she resides with her husband? That was all her. Installed by Charlottesville Aquatics, the double lap […]

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Photo: Virginia Hamrick

July Abode: On stands now!

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

A tour of Lynn Easton’s home (inside and outside), a chat with Bob Paxton, a look at solar paneling—the July issue of Abode is on stands now. Here’s what’s inside: Bob Paxton‘s early influences. A place in the sun—you can afford it! A modern log cabin with room for improvement. Nancy Wardle takes inspiration from […]

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Sweet spot: Lynn Easton’s city house revels in a woodsy landscape

Sweet spot: Lynn Easton’s city house revels in a woodsy landscape

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

The old saw about real estate—“location, location, location”—also sums up what Dean Andrews and Lynn Easton Andrews appreciate about their house. They love the neighborhood, Lewis Mountain; they love the landscape that surrounds their home; and they love the spot it occupies in Charlottesville history. “We are crazy for it,” says Lynn. That’s not to […]

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Designer Nancy Wardle says her favorite room in her house is the den. "[It's] where I enjoy relaxing and [where] I used my favorite colors." Photo: Amy Jackson

Ecclectic influences: At home with designer Nancy Wardle

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

From her childhood, spent in places like Peru and Venezuela, to adulthood, interior designer Nancy Wardle has spent a lifetime soaking in the riches of travel and allowing those disparate adventures to spark her creativity. “The abundance of art in Peru including silver and goldsmiths, alpaca weavers and woodcarvers, the quality of the fabrics produced […]

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Rooftop solar panels are more affordable now than ever—and will pay for themselves in less than 10 years. File photo.

Sun salutation: Solar arrays are the hottest thing in energy savings

By Shea Gibbs | COMMENTS

If you’ve ever been sitting in your yard and thought to yourself, “Boy, do I wish I had more shade,” take heart. You’re likely a great candidate for powering your home with solar energy. Rooftop solar panels are more affordable now than ever, and for homes with adequately slanted, shade-free, south-facing roofs, they’ll pay for […]

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Dalgliesh Gilpin Paxton's renovation of this Keswick home—which required a reconfiguration of interior and exterior spaces to open the home to the landscape—was featured in an issue of Architectural Digest. Photo: Philip Beaurline

Staying power: Bob Paxton makes a lasting impression

By Caite Hamilton | COMMENTS

With a body of work comprising Colonial Williamsburg, Monticello, the Virginia Governor’s Mansion, the Lincoln Memorial and various estates, the intent of renowned architect and preservationist Milton Grigg when he began his Charlottesville firm in 1933 was clear: Create structures that are both beautiful and long-lasting. Architect Bob Paxton is one of three principals currently […]

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Photo: Daniel Afzal

Grounded getaway: The weekend home of a D.C. couple downplays its size

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

When Jim Burton began designing a weekend home for Burton and Yardly Gray, he took a cue from the direction they’d be traveling to reach the house from their primary home in Washington, D.C. The getaway would be an hour and a half south, and a world apart from the city. Its site, overlooking a […]

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Photo: Virginia Hamrick

Shady place: A tapestry of forest plants on an Albemarle hillside

By Erika Howsare | COMMENTS

Even though Cole Burrell has lived and gardened at Bird Hill, his wooded Free Union property, for 17 years, there are still visible signs of the previous owners written into the garden. “I want to honor the place and how it was used by the people who lived here before,” says Burrell, a garden designer […]

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