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4 Fit For Life
BY NICOLE TSONG
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5 The Grapevine
Kathy Andrisevic
BY ANDY PERDUE
10 Beachy Keen: Paige Stockley
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makes her beach-cabin dream come true.
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18 Back To The Future: Architect
Helen Hald puts the polish on John
Fluke’s forward-thinking home.
24 It’s The Water: Architect John
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7 Natural Gardener
BY VALERIE EASTON
DeForest maximizes views with elegance
and style.
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8 Taste
BY PROVIDENCE CICERO
The bathroom of this Holly,
Wa., beach house is split
across the central hallway.
This side holds the large,
inviting tub. Homeowner
Paige Stockley says simply,
“I wanted a bathtub room.”
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Walking on Sunshine,
Yeah…
My mom. Boy, did she love to dress to the nines to go
shopping. She was a stay-at-home mom who didn’t get
out much. But when she did, she’d put on her cream coat
and patent shoes. When we walked, she swung me by
the hand. I still remember that sweet smell of home baked
bread, as we walked from storefront to storefront. I
treasured having mom all to myself for our “girl time.”
Now, “girl time” is still hand-in-hand but that’s because
I need to keep her from wandering into traffic. She
doesn’t realize where she’s going. She forgets my name
and suddenly yells at me. It hurts. Alzheimer’s has stolen
a lot of the mom I once knew. Now our walks sometimes
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F IT FOR LIFE
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by Nicole Tsong | photo by Benjamin Benschneider
sweat F
screen
Video games can entice,
even guilt-trip you into action
WITH THE
Nicole Tsong works out
with an electronic “personal trainer” on the Xbox
360 game “Your Shape:
Fitness Evolved.”
IRST, A DISCLAIMER. I am not reviewing video games. I don’t
own a gaming console and am unqualified. That’s what technology
reporters are for.
But I know something about working out. I wanted to see if I could
get a workout while playing video games. After wrestling with video
game consoles, the conclusion: Yes.
The degree of workout depends on the player and the console, I
quickly learned. I spent most of my time with the Xbox 360 and the
Xbox One, but dabbled a little with the older Nintendo Wii.
Video consoles are fancy these days. The Xbox comes with a Kinect
sensor, which scans your body and reads your movements. Some
games put an eerily similar version of you on screen. The Xbox One
has been lauded for reading your heart rate. I found it creepy watching it read my resting heart rate. Thankfully, you can shout, “Xbox,
off!” and it will obey.
The best thing about the Kinect is it holds you accountable. With
the sensor waiting, you have to stand up and jump around to play. In
some games, it pauses if you leave its view, so there’s a minor guilt
trip waiting whenever you return.
I loved “Dance Central” on Xbox (available on both 360 and the
One.) If you want to work up a sweat, go for the hardest level right
away and wing it. Every time you get a move wrong, the game will
highlight the body part you messed up. I laughed hysterically during
“freestyle,” when the Xbox 360 recorded my moves and played it
back at high speed.
I chose a 25-minute personal-training segment on “Your Shape:
Fitness Evolved” (Xbox 360). It’s an old game, but it has good choices,
and a personal trainer voice will tell you to lift your knees or back
higher during workouts. I didn’t like the slow pace. If I squatted faster
than my “trainer,” I’d lose points, so I did slow, painful push-ups.
At the end of 25 minutes, I burned 61 calories. Is that it?
“Kinect Sports” series (Xbox 360 and One) was entertaining and
surprisingly aerobic. I loved track and field. To run, I jogged in place
with my knees high. Running in place and jumping over hurdles or
the long jump was fun. I jogged so fast I broke the world record in
multiple sports. Go ahead, try to beat me.
I was disoriented by boxing. You can box and get an upper-body
workout, but if your opponent whaps you in the right spot on the
head, the screen goes starry and doesn’t respond to your punches. I
wasn’t into fake concussions.
“Just Dance 2” on the older Wii is fun, though the graphics are not
so dynamic. Technically, you could sit on the couch, flick your wrist
with the Wii Remote and the Wii would give you points. There’s more
in the Wiiverse now, with Wii U and updates to the Balance Board,
which measures weight and your center of balance in yoga, and other
ways to track steps and more. I didn’t venture into the world of Play
Stations, which also have some fitness games.
It is possible to stay fit with video games. If you have 20 minutes,
you’ll get your heart rate up, sweat a little and maybe inspire someone else at home to join. It’s not my favorite way to get fit, but if I had
to choose, I’d throw myself a dance party every now and then. Just
for fun.
Nicole Tsong teaches yoga at studios around Seattle.
Read her blog at papercraneyoga.com. Email: [email protected].
Benjamin Benschneider is a Pacific NW magazine staff photographer.
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started the winery in Monroe.
This came after working for
more than a dozen years at famed
Quilceda Creek Vintners in Snohomish. His work there started
as a harvest job and turned into
a seasonal position that allowed
him to work at the winery for six
months, then head back to school
for the other six months. During his time at Quilceda Creek,
Patterson honed his winemaking
abilities, which led him to launch
his own brand.
In 2007, Patterson moved his
operation to Woodinville’s Warehouse District and slowly began to
gain admirers, thanks to the high
quality of the wines he produced.
This helped him gain access to
some of the Columbia Valley’s
top vineyards, including Boushey
and Willard in the Yakima Valley,
Quintessence and Red Heaven on
Red Mountain and Seven Hills in
the Walla Walla Valley.
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wines a bit each year, but some of
his best efforts include cabernet
sauvignon, syrah, chardonnay
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Patterson Cellars is producing a
stellar lineup of wines, including cabernet sauvignon, syrah, chardonnay
and a red blend called BDX.
and a red blend called BDX. He
also crafts dessert and sparkling
wines, primarily for his wine-club
members.
One of his biggest contributions to the local wine industry,
however, is a service he offers to
more than 20 other Woodinville
wineries during harvest. In the
alley behind his winery, Patterson stations crush equipment
and wine-grape presses that he
provides to other producers.
These are expensive necessities,
often costing tens of thousands of
dollars — a steep price for a small
winery struggling to start up.
In addition to providing a
valuable service, Patterson also
receives a steady revenue flow
throughout the year.
Though Patterson already has a
strong presence in the Warehouse
District, he has now opened a
second tasting room across town
in the Hollywood District, not far
from Chateau Ste. Michelle. At
first, Patterson was concerned his
new tasting room would siphon off
customers he already had, but he’s
found he can significantly increase
the number of wine lovers he
reaches, with sales up nearly 40
percent as a result.
Like so many wineries, Patterson is deeply invested in the
Woodinville wine scene, and he
is reaping the benefits while producing some of our region’s best
wines.
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NATURAL GARDENER
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by Valerie Easton
“The Living Landscape” explores how to design and care for
gardens where humans and butterflies, like this one freshly
emerged from its chrysalis, can coexist and interact.
“Small Space Garden Ideas,”
by Philippa Pearson (DK Publishing, $22.95). Keep your hand in
the garden all winter with these
clearly explained and temptingly
photographed DIY projects. Each
is scaled to fit onto a windowsill,
staircase, porch, patio or balcony.
Some of the projects are quick and easy, like filling a
flowered teacup with a sweet little mound of moss.
Others, like making a bowl-shaped planter out of concrete, are more daunting. My favorite idea is the Air
Plant Chandelier crafted of plastic cups. Or maybe the
Edible Planted Wall . . .
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B
y mid-October, gardeners are plotting spring as they tuck bulbs into the
ground. These four new books are certain to inspire, entertain, instruct
and just plain get you through the winter until it’s time to go back outside and dig in the dirt again.
“The Living Landscape: Designing for
Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home
Garden,” by Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy
(Timber Press, $39.95). Here’s the book of the
season, worth contemplating all winter long
for the heartfelt and elegant practicality of its
environmentalism. The authors take on the
difficult question of how to create a garden as
pleasing for humans as it is safe for creatures.
Darke’s beautiful photos stress the interconnectedness of nature, while illustrating how to
create healthy ecosystems that serve humans,
plants, animals, insects and birds.
“The Creative Shrub Garden:
Eye-Catching Combinations for
Year-Round Interest,” by Andy
McIndoe (Timber Press, $29.95).
We needed an update on shrubs
and how to combine them, and
this book is almost it. The author,
managing director of Hillier
Nurseries and Garden Centres in Hampshire, England, knows his shrubs. His advice on how to combine
shrubs visually and culturally, on pruning, growing
shrubs in containers, and planting for seasonal interest
are so useful. But I wish the photos were larger and
crisper; they don’t do these beautiful plants justice.
And we need to see, not just read about, the plant
combinations McIndoe suggests.
“Cultivating Garden Style:
Inspired Ideas and Practical
Advice to Unleash Your Garden Personality,” by Rochelle
Greayer (Timber Press, $35). The
freshness and international perspective of this manual, half DIY,
half “where-to-shop,” is intriguing. The author is a landscape
designer, editor of “Pith & Vigor” and co-founder of the
defunct “Leaf” magazine. The book’s design is colorful
and frenetic, with drawings, sidebars, dozens of little
product photos and case studies. The lively text ranges
from planting sacred meadows to instructions on how
to make a mini-gabion cage. But why aren’t the photos
identified? (Is that the mowed path at the Bloedel
Reserve? I think so . . .) Here’s a partial list of the kinds
of gardens Greayer explores: Hollywood Froufrou,
Wabi Sabi Industrial, Plush Yoga, Low Country Shaman, Sophisticated Taj and Arty Islam. Oh, and Playful
Pop. This Pinterest of a book won’t bore you.
Valerie Easton is a Seattle freelance writer.
She can be reached at [email protected].
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Bravo for Brodo
Bring good cheer with a broth
that enriches so many dishes
I
N ITALIAN, brodo simply means broth, but
in the hands of chef Holly Smith, brodo is a
magical potion and a ubiquitous ingredient at
her Kirkland restaurant, Cafe Juanita. Enriched
with bones, meat, aromatics and cheese, brodo
becomes the basis for her zuppa della sera or
seasonal risottos. Reduced, emulsified and
brightened with acid, it’s the foundation of
sauces for meat or pasta.
Chef pals have jokingly dubbed Smith’s
brodo “barnyard broth.” That’s not far off. At
the restaurant, all kinds of poultry, game and
meat end up in the stock pot. But even without
pulling a couple of rabbits or a guinea hen out
of the fridge, Smith says home cooks can work
a little magic of their own.
In her Richmond Beach kitchen, with her
10-year-old son, Oliver, playing sous chef, she
demonstrated how to turn everyday chicken
soup into the golden elixir she calls brodo.
Start with basic chicken stock. You can even
use a commercial boxed broth or “Better Than
Bouillon,” something Smith — a single, working
mom — confesses she has done.
“Oliver loves soup, and it’s a quick dinner,”
she says. While Oliver plucks thyme leaves
and trims the rind from Parmesan cheese, his
mother pours about six quarts of pale chicken
broth into a stock pot and adds raw meat on the
bone. “You can just use chicken parts, but I find
rabbit clarifies the stock naturally, because of
the albumen in the bones.”
Parmesan rinds and prosciutto or pancetta
are key to the flavor. Ask at the deli counter
for prosciutto or pancetta ends, she advises.
Save Parmesan rinds in the freezer, along with
thyme and parsley stems and shallot trimmings,
which go into the stock pot as well.
Bring the pot to a simmer, until tiny bubbles
just break the surface. This takes nearly an hour
for about 6 quarts. “Don’t let it boil or the soup
will be cloudy,” she cautions. “Simmer for at
least two, three hours or as long as you can go.
Periodically skim off the scum and foam that
rise to the top with the widest ladle you have.”
Cafe Juanita chef Holly Smith
uses her rich brodo to make
a soup with chopped kale and
charred cherry tomatoes at
her home kitchen in Richmond
Beach.
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This yields a rich, golden-brown
brodo for soup or risotto. Strain the
liquid through a cheesecloth-lined
colander and discard the solids. You can
use the brodo right away, freeze it or
reduce it further into a sauce.
For zuppa della sera at home, Smith
says: Sauté some minced garlic for
about a minute in two tablespoons of
extra virgin olive oil. Add the brodo and
some chopped kale or other greens, carrots or chickpeas, marjoram or grated
ginger, chili or lemon grass. Whatever
you like. Simmer until the vegetables
are tender.
Meanwhile in a skillet in the oven,
blister some cherry tomatoes in olive oil.
When the soup is ready to serve, microplane a little lemon zest into each bowl
and ladle in the soup. Add the cherry
tomatoes, dressed lightly with extravirgin olive oil and kosher salt. Finish
with grated Parmesan.
To reduce brodo for a sauce, bring
it back to a simmer or low boil. Smith
adds a splash of sherry vinegar at this
point, and again later. “Getting the acid
balance is tricky,” she admits. “I’m still
learning.”
Figure on reducing a quart of brodo
to make a sauce for two to four guests.
When it has reduced by three-quarters,
the color and body start to change. Once
it achieves the intensity you want, whisk
in some butter and a bit more vinegar
to taste. Says Smith, “I love this with
simple roasted chicken or as a sauce for
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Daisy and her dad, Steve Lerner, crash in the living room. “French farmhouse,” says Paige of her thoughts for the beach house.
She bought the antique limestone mantel even before design began. Over it is an old Kitsap County map. “I put up maps
because even 99 percent of my Seattle people don’t know where Hood Canal is.”
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A Hood Canal home plants roots
with a friendly, French-farmhouse feel
Paige Stockley puts
an olive-oil finish
on tomatoes, mozzarella and basil.
There’s plenty of
room left at the
marble counter for
houseguest Andrea Carral Gadea.
The Italian tiles are
from Ann Sacks.
Beachy Keen
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W
OU REALLY have to go to Holly to get there.
It is unincorporated and way out of the
way; the place where the road ends, hunkered down beachside behind brambles along
Hood Canal in the southwestern corner of Kitsap
County. Even Wikipedia will tell you that Holly
is known for its isolation.
But that’s also what makes it so very special.
“It’s inspiring for me to be at Holly,” says
Paige Stockley. “It’s important for me to be at
Holly.”
Paige looked at a weedy, soggy beachside lot
whose only features were a choked-near-to-death
creek and a “Breaking Bad”-type double-wide. Her
sister saw the place and called it grisly.
Paige saw home.
“This is real,” she says. “This is not about making
a fire by flipping a switch.”
Paige and Holly. Quite the pair. They’ve been
friends all of Paige’s life. Her grandfather had a
place across the cove. Her mom and dad, Peggy
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Beachy Keen
and Tom Stockley, brought Paige and her
sister to Holly since they were babies.
The girls’ parents, though, are gone now —
two of 88 people killed Jan. 31, 2000, when
Alaska Flight 261 crashed off California on
the way back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
(Tom Stockley was the wine writer and assistant editor of this magazine.) But when Paige
is here, they are with her.
And this, this roots-tangled-into-your-soul
feel for family, is what Paige, a professional
cellist who teaches at Cornish College of the
Arts, and her husband, Steve Lerner, want for
their own daughter, Daisy, 9.
“When she and her friends are out here
they just play, play, play, play, play,” Paige
says.
Over the course of the morning a lemony
sun burns away a driving rain. Paige grabs a
bucket, pulls on her boots and clomps down
to the beach. It is carpeted in Pacific oysters.
These will be lunch.
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Guests have the option
of enjoying their stay in the
separate guesthouse, which
opens to become a pavilion.
Landscape design is by landscape
architect Brooks Kolb, who connected the buildings with a path of
rocks, boulders and native plants
that encircles both structures.
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Paige has been coming to Holly
all of her life. Her grandfather
had a cabin here. For her house,
Paige told her architect, Andrew
Borges, that she was old-fashioned-oriented. “The house is a
thing of real beauty,” she says.
“It not only fits me, but it also fits
in with the landscape.”
There are two bedrooms on either side
of the upstairs sleeping room. The
hanging cabinet is Ikea wrapped in
fir. Rooms are kept peaceful and inviting. “Michelle (Burgess) says that
if someone’s not going to a room
there’s a problem,” says Paige of her
interior designer.
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If it’s summer, meals are outside near the beach and the once-again-salmon-bearing
creek that Paige and Tom Smayda of Smayda Environmental Associates worked hard
to rehabilitate. “The creek’s name is Thomas Creek,” says Paige. “It was meant to be.”
Paige’s father was Tom Stockley.
After buying the land in 2009, Paige
immediately began rescue work on the
creek. She is delighted to report that
once again (and it is hard to hear this
over the creek’s roar) these waters host
a healthy run of chum.
The concept for her 2,500-squarefoot Cape Cod/Northwest-style retreat,
guesthouse out back, came from a set
of Target’s Thomas O’Brien dinner
plates (they recalled France) and an
antique limestone fireplace surround.
After a few requests (the look of the
nearby shingled schoolhouse, a wideplanked floor, big windows, tilework,
fat porch, a good kitchen) she let the
pros take over. As she puts it, “I didn’t
go to architecture school. I didn’t go to
design school.”
Andrew Borges of Rohleder Borges
Architecture set about designing it, Dan
Hiatt of Hiatt Construction and Robert
Kim crafting it, Brooks Kolb designing
a hospitable native landscape brought
to life by Robin Richie, and Michelle
Burgess dressing it in creamy relaxed
luxury, a “what-if-the-south-of-Francecame-to-the-West-Coast?” fantasy.
Construction began March 2010 and
was finished that December. “I wanted
it fast-tracked for Daisy, before she
headed off for college,” Paige says.
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“We call it Kelp Drops,” Paige says of
the dining-table chandelier designed by interior designer Michelle
Burgess. The table is from BoBo
Intriguing Objects. The chairs, from
Macy’s, are wicker.
The wraparound porch is as welcoming as a hug, and offers a buffer zone
between indoors and out during the
winter months.
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The wraparound porch is the welcome.
Inside, the trim (which Burgess stained
a sandy color Paige calls “Michelle’s
Special Sauce”), floors and beams are
fir. Most furnishings and walls are white,
accented in weathered wood and blackened metal. The downstairs holds two
bedrooms. Upstairs, there’s a large sleeping room with bunks built in: Perfect for
girls and pajama parties.
“We had a rule,” Paige says of it all.
“Everything had to be TDF: to die for.”
In summertime, the house is thrown
open, and Holly’s breezes have their
way with the place.
“It’s perfect,” Paige says. “It’s TDF.”
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The living room now has a wall of built-in cabinets and shelves done in rift-cut white oak treated with Daly’s Driftwood stain for a beachy feeling.
The oak box behind the sofa defines the prep kitchen. The remodel was completed June 2013.
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T WAS THE view that drew John and
Elizabeth Morse to the house. But it was
a Fluke that they bought it.
“We came and looked at this only
because we saw a picture of it in the Puget
Sound Business Journal. It was the view,”
says Elizabeth. “The house, though, was so
dated. We went home and went, ‘Oh well.’ ”
A month later John asked Elizabeth if she
still had thoughts about the house they’d
seen in the estate-sale ad. She said, “I do.”
They went back.
Yes, there was Pepto Bismol-pink tile in
one of the bathrooms. Walls were dirty,
rooms dark and closed off. There was an
odd and not-working indoor-outdoor water
fountain cut into the living-room floor.
But there was something else about this
stone rambler on a North Seattle bluff. It
was old, but it was also from the future.
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The irreplaceable
terrazzo floors were
both a gift and a
curse. “The conversation always went
back to challenges,”
says architect Helen
Hald. Before work
began, floors were
infrared mapped
to prevent drills
from piercing the
radiant-heat system.
The chandelier is
original.
Happy stands at the top of the terrazzo
stairs to what was once the basement and swimming pool. The terrazzo here is 1½ inches thick. “They
don’t make them like that anymore,”
Hald says. New living spaces downstairs make the home 4,654 square
feet. The railing is a Fluke original
painted an aluminum color.
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Future
Designed by
a genius,
a dated house
finds its soul again
BY R EBECCA TEAGA R D EN
P H OTO S BY BE N JA M IN BE N S CH N EID ER
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Hald replaced the old slider with new ones from Fleetwood. The stain on the oak cabinets and shelves mimics the color of the exterior stone.
This granite compass rose
replaced a pink-tiled
indoor-outdoor fountain.
It points to true north. The
ceiling fixture is original.
“John Fluke built this home for his family
in 1958,” says architect Helen Hald, to whom
the couple turned for a respectful update of
the house they could not resist. “He was this
electrical genius guy, right? There’s nothing
conventional about the construction of this
house. It’s either concrete or concrete block
everywhere. The electrical was all low voltage with little button switches. The glazing
is commercial storefront. All the toilets were
wall-hung. He put radiant heat in the floor in
1958!”
And more. Fluke’s life was one of exploration and experimentation. He was the
owner of patents, friend of David Packard of
Hewlett-Packard, namesake of Fluke Hall at
the University of Washington and, not the
least, founder of the Fluke Corp. in Everett.
His home life was no exception. Fluke
designed and built much of it himself. A lover
of the railroad (it is said that Fluke would
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Hald placed the kitchen in the old family room, just off the front door. To the right is the prep kitchen. Counters and the backsplash are honed granite. “I like white,”
says Elizabeth, the homeowner. “I had to have granite with a true white in it.” Hald found one that is both white and looks like beach sand.
John Fluke designed the
house and built a lot of
it himself for $60,000
in 1958. The exterior
was restored; cedar
restained, windows
replaced (Marlin
commercial grade).
“Some days it’s like
the mountains are lit
up,” Elizabeth says of
the view. “There are
eagles everywhere
here.”
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pile the kids in the car and chase trains), he laid
track for a line on his three-acre property. In the
basement there was a giant switch, which could
be thrown to take the house off the power grid.
There was also an indoor pool. With the polio
epidemic in full swing, Fluke would not allow
his three children to swim elsewhere.
Hald was the second architect to work on this
project. The first couldn’t figure out how to dig
in. The conundrums were many. (How do you
rewire a concrete house?)
“We were like archaeologists and investigators. We were just trying to get in Fluke’s head,”
Hald says. She is seated in the newly white and
open living/dining room, her gaze stuck to the
Olympic Mountains.
The main floor, and the sweeping stairs to
the lower level, are white terrazzo. Irreplaceable. Before workmen could begin, floors were
infrared mapped to prevent drills from piercing
the radiant-heat system.
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But Hald is something of a mad architectural scientist herself, seeing a problem only
as the precursor to the solution. New outlets
are hidden from view, soffits serve in many
ways, pocket doors fit where they should
not. She put the kitchen in the old family
room, just off the front door. Installed a new
gas fireplace, a new island and prep kitchen.
Windows have been replaced, Marlin commercial grade. Cabinets are rift-cut white oak
with Daly’s Driftwood stain: “I wanted it to
be like the beach.”
Both the architect and the homeowner say
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Now, when Elizabeth, an outdoors type,
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Architect John DeForest’s mission was to create a welcoming modern home with seamless connection between indoors and out. He
warmed contemporary construction (steel, glass, concrete) with walnut and limestone floors. “It all just blends in together,” says
homeowner Gail Klemencic.
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With windows and sliding doors,
all is open to the outdoors
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AIL KLEMENCIC rocks.
“See all those chairs outside?” she says.
“Rockers. I grew up in Montana, and I love
to rock. On sunny days I sit out and rock. More
than I should.”
When you are surrounded and comforted by
your version of the perfect home, it all comes
down to delights as simple as that.
“I think I love it more now,” Gail says as a
couple of ducks skitter across the water in takeoff.
It has been two years since Gail, her husband,
Ron, and the kids moved to the northern shore
of Lake Washington. And while the Klemencics
might not have had it all figured out from the
beginning, they knew right where to start.
“We wanted low bank on the water,” says Gail.
“It was always a dream to live on the water.”
Floor-to-ceiling lift-slide doors
from Weiland and a hidden
steel structure maximize
the sense of openness. The
kitchen, living and dining rooms share a central
fireplace. “It’s homey,”
Klemencic says. Warm,
earth-toned interiors are by
Nancy Burfiend of NB Design Group. The home was
built by Prestige Residential
Construction.
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For five years they looked, and waited, before finding a narrow lot wedged between a small private lane
and the lake.
When they began interviewing architects to design
their new home (built by Prestige Residental Construction), they said this: “I want to wake up and look
over my toes and see Mount Rainier.”
John DeForest of DeForest Architects was listening.
“Look, he photoshopped toes and Mount Rainier
on the cover of his proposal,” Gail says, opening their
project scrapbook.
DeForest, of course, got the job.
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“John gave us blocks to play with, to move spaces
around. Then he made us list every place we’ve ever
lived and a wish list from each of those. Mine were
comfortable, warm and peaceful spaces.”
Although the family was living in a contemporary
home during the design of this one, Gail was concerned about her wish list.
“When I heard about the tall ceilings, 11 feet,
concrete and steel beams, and glass I thought,
museum. I never imagined something so soft and
warm, things that people can really sit on.” Around
her are furnishings deep and soft in the colors of
a slate-blue sky, golden earthy tones, created and
curated by interior designer Nancy Burfiend of NB
Design Group.
“I told Nancy to pick three things and show me,”
Gail says. “I didn’t want to be drug all over town.”
And so she did.
Sure, the entire package is gorgeous. But every
square foot is put to work. Besides the grand living/
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As much living as possible is done outdoors
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The architects’ (project
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that within moments is
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main-floor structure has
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Lift-slide glass doors peel
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remove even transparent
separation between man
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Streetside, it’s a substantial private garden
courtyard (behind a
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plantings by Randy Allworth of Allworth Design.
Pivot open the front door
and visitors are practically
already at water’s edge.
From here it’s a short walk
to the dock.
Gail stands near the
bed in the master, and
it’s easy to see: The view
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state’s premier peak.
“I couldn’t have
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Forces of Nature
In a woodsy place of solid simplicity,
the creative spirit rises
“I wake up, make
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NNA HOOVER is the kind of person who got a Weed Eater
from her mother for her birthday.
Anna Hoover, 29, is also the kind of person who thought
that was a great gift.
Because Anna Hoover, daughter of the late contemporary Native
Northwest artist John Hoover, has absolutely no fear of a chore.
“My dad allowed me to be in his studio, but he would give me a
project. I had to respect his space and I had to work,” she says.
When the elder Hoover, an Aleutian Chain Native American,
wasn’t carving, painting or casting sculpture in the waterside
woods along Key Peninsula, he was fishing for sockeye out of
Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Six months an artist here, six months a fisherman there.
Like father, like daughter.
“Through fishing you really learn a work ethic,” says Anna, who
now manages the family fishing operation. And carves, prints,
teaches, writes, shoots documentary films and runs her own foundation to promote indigenous art and culture, First Light Alaska.
“That’s the best thing my dad ever said, that I had that ethic.”
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Construction of Scavenger Hut began the week Hoover’s father died, an evolution she finds comforting. “An artist friend said to me,
‘Be sure to take risks.’ This was a risk to me, of money, time and trust.” The structure was a collaboration between Anna and
architect Les Eerkes of Olson Kundig Architects, built by Schuchart/Dow.
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Forces of Nature
In the evenings, Hoover climbs into a bed made from her father’s carving wood. She sleeps indoors, yet, when the ply panel is rolled open she is exposed to the moon and stars and water.
“I thrive in a place where I’m perfectly content,” she says.
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Anna is a force of nature who
is refueled by having it all around
her. (Currently, a large deer, utterly
unconcerned and rump deep in
lunchables, feeds outside her door.)
And when she’s not off fishing,
she does that from her freecycled,
recycled 693-square-foot cabin on
family land, a place its designers,
principal architect Les Eerkes and
Olson Kundig Architects, call Scavenger Hut. The path outside leads
through the woods to the house
where Anna grew up. Her mother is
there now.
“My parents got me a printing
press (she learned printmaking at the
University of Washington while earning two bachelor’s and two master’s
degrees there) so I wanted to build a
studio. Plus, I really like architecture.
I was thinking about a space and how
I would use it, and a friend said to
get Tom (Kundig).
“I sent him an email with a
picture of the view. I was a grad
student and I told them, “I’m not in
any position to even approach you,
but I am.
“They said, ‘Sure, come in for a
meeting.’ ”
“Here I work and have time to
reflect and plan,” Hoover says.
A sculpture by John Hoover,
Anna’s father, stands in the
corner. She writes poetry and
carries sketchbooks, but “carving is the easiest thing I find I
can make time for.” Much like
her father, who died three years
ago. The woodstove is her sole
source of heat.
Anna Hoover’s bedroom
cantilevers out from
the box. The big red
panel, technically, is
for ventilation, but,
spiritually, Anna sees it
as an invitation to her
father’s creative spirit
to stop by and inspire
her. Six footed posts
allow the home to sit
lightly on the land.
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“I have a bit of a fear of being a jack of all
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Other finds included materials for the stair treads, the wood
stove, cabinets. Bathroom cabinets are Ikea, from the sale room.
A porthole window came from a
used marine-products store. The
Viking range? Brown, and so, on
sale. (But it matches the Masonite
flooring, which Anna painted herself.) The project was completed
for $205 per square foot.
“A friend of mine calls it a
view with a room,” Anna says.
She pours tea and slices peaches
unseasonably delicious. Her own
place in the woods to create, or
not. Space to just be. As she says,
“Sometimes you gotta let your
soul catch up.”
Before long it will be time for
Anna Hoover, artist-scholardirector-daughter, to head up
north. To become Anna Hoover
fisherman.
As she says, “I leave home to go
home.”
Rebecca Teagarden writes about architecture and design for Pacific NW magazine.
Benjamin Benschneider is a magazine
staff photographer.
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N OW & THEN Q by Paul Dorpat
Leary Way will throw drivers a curve
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COURTESY OF PAUL DORPAT
THEN: With his or her back to the original Ballard business district, an unnamed photographer looks southeast on Leary Way, most likely in 1936.
JEAN SHERRARD
NOW: On Sept. 17 Jean Sherrard took this “repeat” with the 2 Bit Saloon on the far left. It
was the last day and night for the tavern, which timed its finale with that month’s Backfire
Motorcycle Night in Ballard.
HIS WEEK we look south-southeast into
a somewhat befuddling Ballard intersection where Leary Way, before curving to
the east and heading for Fremont, meets
17th Avenue Northwest and Northwest
48th Street. The photographer of this
picture was working for the Foster and
Kleiser billboard company, so the intended
subjects were the big signs on the far side
of the curving Leary Way.
On the left, between the Mobilgas flying horse (named Pegasus by the ancient
Greeks) and the OK Texaco service station
is 17th Avenue Northwest. In the early
1890s, 17th was the eastern border for
Gilman Park, an early name for Ballard.
In 1936, the likely date of the photo,
this intersection was obviously devoted
to filling stations, billboards and power
poles. Unlike the many brick landmarks on
Ballard Avenue, one block to the west, the
buildings along Leary Way were mostly
one- and two-story commercial clapboards
and manufacturing sheds.
Leary Way was named for Seattle capitalist John Leary, the first president of the
West Coast Improvement Company, which
through the 1890s shaped Ballard into the
“Shingle Capitol of the World.” Writing in
1900, pioneer Seattle historian Thomas
Prosch called it the “most successful” real
estate enterprise connected to Seattle. The
town was named for Capt. William Rankin
Ballard, who with Leary was one of the
company’s principal developers. Ballard
explained that in the first three months of
the township venture he made 300 percent
profit on the property he had “won” as a
booby prize in a gamble with a friend. Ballard did not live in Ballard, but recounted
this from his First Hill mansion.
Soon after Leary passes under the
north approach to the Ballard Bridge (the
bridge’s trusses appear at the far right) it
turns at 11th Avenue Northwest, cutting
the shortest possible route to Fremont
through streets lined with well-tended
workers’ homes. This neighborhood just
east of Ballard or just west of Fremont has
cherished nicknames; sometimes it’s called
Ballmont, and other times Freelard.
Check out Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard’s blog at
www.pauldorpat.com.
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