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PubDate: 06-03-07 Page: 1 H Edition: 1 Replate: User: lsellas Color:C K Y M Coming next Sunday Online Wind song DOWNTOWN SHOWCASE AP PODCASTS Tinkling chimes delight in the garden H9 City Hop profiles condos Dispatch.com HOME&GARDEN SUNDAY JUNE 3, 2007 H For breaking news, visit Dispatch.com. CHRIS RUSSELL DISPATCH Salvia attracts a bee at the Ohio Division of Wildlife garden. SHARI LEWIS DISPATCH PHOTOS The master bathroom of the Heitmeyer Homes’ entry in the Parade of Homes features a large one-way glass window overlooking landscaping. Gardens please the eyes, Earth By Jenny Jacobs TURNING THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH INSIDE OUT By Kevin Kidder Parade of Homes designs focus on bringing the outdoors indoors THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH T Stringtown Rd. P kw y. 71 B uc GROVE CITY e key W h i te R d . 2007 Parade of Homes P in PINNACLE GOLF CLUB . n a c l e Cl ub Dr 0.25 N MILE THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The Windsor Homes family room features a two-sided fireplace that also can be used from the brick patio. his year’s Parade of Homes is in the lush countryside of Grove City, surrounded by rolling golf-course fairways and the occasional lake. Bringing those views, that atmosphere, that fresh air, into homes would be ideal. Many of the builders for the Parade of Homes seem to think so, and they’ve done their best to integrate the outdoor environs into the houses they’ve constructed. Eleven homes ranging in price from $540,000 to more than $1 million will be showcased at this year’s parade, which runs June 9-24 at Pinnacle Estates in Grove City. At Heitmeyer Homes’ southern California mission-style home, the outdoor patio is designed as an extension of the first-floor living space. “Basically the growing trend and what a lot of consumers want is to bring the outdoors into the home,” said Jason Heitmeyer, vice president of Heitmeyer Homes. Windsor Homes features a gathering room with more than 12 large windows facing the course, along with an indoor-outdoor fireplace in the lower-level room. See PARADE Page H2 PRIVATE SPACES RICART STUDIO Caterpillars nestle between the fingers of the pearly everlasting plant as bees tickle the tops of purple salvia flowers. Such scenes aren’t rare at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources office in Grandview Heights, but they are easy to overlook in the midst of everyday tasks and schedules. Between noon and 5 p.m. today, the public will have an opportunity to peek inside eight public and private gardens — including the Division of Wildlife creation — and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature’s heartbeat. Simply Living, a group that educates the public on how to live sustainably with the earth and with others, organized today’s Simply Elegant Garden Tour. The tour focuses on gardens that are aesthetically pleasing as well as environmentally conscious. The event was planned in conjunction with the Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed and the local chapter of the National Wildlife Federation. “We hope to show that environmental responsibility and beauty are not mutually exclusive,” said Jen Lucas, the group’s tour coordinator. See SIMPLY Page H10 Rose festival to show off blossoms of stalwarts By Kevin Kidder THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ricart strums to the beat of Downtown Once a month, Home & Garden visits a central Ohioan’s home to peek at the room most readily associated with his or her line or work or play. By Kevin Kidder THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH His guitar-strumming is about as famous as his car-selling. Anyone visiting Fred Ricart’s homes would have seen how serious he is about his music — with the elaborate $35,000 studios that he installed and the guitars lying around. He has studios in his homes in Florida and Granville. And he has a studio in his newest home, in Miranova. But it isn’t as obvious. The suite includes a contemporary living room with a glass wall that overlooks Downtown Columbus. Some errant guitars and a mandolin are the only sign that someone might like playing. A golden antique-looking table, inset gas fireplace and two plush couches belie the fact that, behind closed doors, there are amps, speakers and more amps. The entire western wall of the room is a large cabinet housing the electronics along with an 80-inch Hitachi plasma television. On a rolling glass cart, a flat-screen display connects to a Power Mac G4 computer, with the audio program Pro Tools running on the screen. This is Ricart’s new recording studio — the room where many of those folksy commercials are acted out. The decor has been handled by his wife, Lynne, but the choice of electronics was Ricart’s. One morning he shared his thoughts on life and the new hightech studio that vanishes into the cabinetry when it must. See RICART Page H2 TOM DODGE DISPATCH Fred Ricart sits next to his amplifiers and computer at his home in Miranova, with his Martin guitar in hand. Forget their reputation. Not all roses have to be babied, local experts say. Some new varieties look majestic without the need for constant spraying. The new Earth Kind roses, including a Yellow Knockout variety that hasn’t been released to the public, will be on display at the 2007 Columbus Rose Festival, which will take place Saturday and next Sunday at the Park of Roses in Whetstone Park. The free event will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. both days at the park, 3923 N. High St. The new exhibition garden of Earth Kind roses was planted in May, said Jim Barraco, president of the Columbus Rose Club and the Central Ohio Rose Society. “It’ll give the public an idea of how easy it can be. No care, no spray, no water — these are the kinds of plants that survive under extreme conditions,” Barracco said. See ROSES Page H3 PubDate: 06-03-07 Page: 2 H Edition: 1 Replate: User: dpoole Color:C K Y M H2 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH RICART FROM PAGE H1 Q: So this is your studio? A: This doubles as a living room and a studio for me. This deal here on the end (pointing to speakers and amps) kind of disappears into the cabinet. It closes, and you don’t know anything is there at all. I used to have a 16-track Scully (tape machine) with 2-inch tape in it, like what the Beatles used. We had to get that thing ramped up — get up to speed before you did your thing. If you messed (with) it, which I normally did, you had to spin it backward, hit the brakes, find your mark and then redo it. Well, that system, which took an entire room, is on a computer now. Q: Is this where your commercials are recorded? A: If I’m doing a radio voiceover, a lot of that stuff is done right here, watching TV, playing guitar all afternoon. I’ll put it right in my computer. This is the new world. And I can e-mail it to my guy Alex down at Ricart. Or let’s say I don’t like it; it’s just not hitting. I e-mail it to Danny Green in Hilliard at Amerisound, and he’ll e-mail it back to me an hour later. All of the radio stuff you hear, it’s done right here on this machine (motioning to the Power Mac). Q: What about TV commercials? A: We’ve got a camera here. There has been stuff shot on the green screen. The green screen puts you anywhere. The goal is to inexpensively do all of this; we’re not paying any talent costs. Q: When did you start playing? A: I went to Case (Western Reserve University), and my roommate played, and when Neil Young’s Harvest came out, we ended up playing at a place called the Olive Tree in Cleveland. I did the Neil Young set for a year there, and James Taylor, Fire and Rain, (Neil Young) Old Man, that whole thing, and, when I came home to Columbus from Cleveland, I ended up playing with different bands around town. Q: When do you play? A: I play guitar when I’m watching TV. I’ll be watching 24, and I’ll be online and playing the guitar. And I start to calm down. Q: You have said you’re a night owl. How late do you play? A: Four o’clock sometimes. I think about things, and I can’t sleep, so I wake up at 3 o’clock or 3:30 every morning. It’s nice having this view out here. It’s a killer shot at night. I’ve done that all my life. I’m kind of an insomniac. Q: Do any of your neighbors ever complain? A: No one has ever complained, and either they really like it, or they can’t hear. They probably can’t hear it; the walls here are thick. Q: Who handles the decor? A: It would be fair to say Lynne does all of it. Here’s the deal: I can have all of the amps and everything as long as I can go and put it away when my mother-in-law visits. Q: So why did you move here? A: I think we’ve been here three years. I like being Downtown. We’re always going back and forth (between Florida and Columbus). [email protected] HOW TO REACH US HOME & GARDEN EDITOR Cindy Decker .............................614-461-5027 [email protected] E 060307 C14846-1 Home & Garden fax ...................614-559-1754 Home SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2007 BREAKING NEWS: DISPATCH.COM PARADE FROM PAGE H1 At the Tuscan-themed house built by Dani Homes, the buyers will be able to watch projected theater movies either from inside or outside. Heitmeyer built a wet bar under the covered porch of a carriage house. The porch also shelters a plasma television. Another plasma television will be installed on a covered patio off the main house, and ceiling fans have been mounted on the porch ceilings, both to create a breeze when there isn’t one and to keep bugs away. “It’s literally another room of the house,” Heitmeyer said. (The televisions must be covered when not in use so they are protected from weather.) Speakers for the integrated entertainment system will be placed around the patio — including several that look like flowerpots. From the great room, a double-sided indoor-outdoor gas fireplace and twin double doors open onto the patio to allow for entertaining indoors, outdoors or both. At least four of the homes on the tour have fireplaces that bridge the division between inside and out. “Integrating the see-through fireplace helps connect the two areas,” Heitmeyer said. Inside, two cupolas have been designed to bring natural light into the heart of the ranch-style home. The master bathroom features a wall of one-way windows that will look out on gorgeous landscaping, Heitmeyer said. The liberal use of windows is just as pronounced at Dani Homes’ Tuscan-themed house, where a back window provides a view of the backyard and serves as a giant movie screen. A projector inside the casual SHARI LEWIS entertainment room on the lower level will throw the image onto the specially designed window, which has motorized blinds to help it act as a screen. If a homeowner flips a switch, the projector will invert the image so viewers can watch the movie from outside the home, said Nilay Bhatt of Dani. The patio includes a fire pit, and an adjacent deck includes an indoor-outdoor doublesided gas fireplace. Adjacent to the entertainment room, a large hall that can house a pool table connects to a bedroom complete with its own bathroom. Bhatt said he asked customers what they were looking for in a lower-level area. “Some of the things they said: They want a game room; they want a theater room; they want storage; they want a bedroom,” Bhatt said. “Here, you don’t have to sacrifice anything. House watch Single-family houses in Franklin, Delaware, Madison, Morrow and Union counties and some of Fairfield, Knox, Licking, Logan, Marion and Pickaway counties, according to the Columbus Board of Realtors. DISPATCH The Windsor Homes entry in the parade includes large windows that offer a view of the golf course. 5/31/07 6/1/06 Houses on market 18,548 17,407 Average price $224,902 $224,865 Days on market 117 103 More statistics on Page H4 View a slideshow of the Parade of Homes at Dispatch.com/multimedia. home for casual entertaining,” Libertini said. Windsor owner Pat Zimmer presents a patio that merges with a lower-level room via an indoor-outdoor fireplace and We wanted it open . . . casual.’’ rustic stack-stone walls that Adjoining the patio will be a blend with the outside stone. bocce-ball field. “It marries the two rooms From the top floors, large together,” Zimmer said. “You windows were specifically could easily entertain 40 placed so the homeowner people in the house.” could take in the Columbus He has used those indoorskyline. Before starting the American outdoor fireplaces in other homes. Heritage house, builder Gary “It was a big hit,” he said. Libertini wandered the lot. He Like other homes on the considered the views the site parade, he built the house with would have — sheltered from a lot of windows to take the clubhouse by a finger of advantage of the panoramic woods, a lake to the left. He views. A gathering room, which knew the design had to take is just off the kitchen, features advantage of the setting. 12 large windows with views of “We obviously had a great the course. view of the course,” he said. Upstairs, the master bedOff the master suite, he built room is designed to take a large balcony, designed to allow a breeze. If nature doesn’t advantage of its two windows, looking out on a pond and cooperate, a ceiling fan can trees beyond. take over. “The first thing you see is the Below the balcony, a patio is outdoors,” Zimmer said. sunk 2 feet into the ground, In fact, that’s true of most surrounded by landscaping designed to create a 3- to 4-foot every room in the house, Zimmer said, especially the kitchen barrier. and gathering room. Inside, most of the wall fac“Anywhere you sit in that ing the course is windows, area, you have great views. In taking advantage of the views. the kitchen, the cook will have “We wanted to do a multigreat views, too.” level home, geared toward a [email protected] 50s-plus couple that wanted a