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Our year-long, 20th anniversary series focuses on 20builders whove survived and thrived for 20 years or more

20 After 20 By Bruce D. Snider

Ask Mitch Handman how the economy has affected his company an

he wont sugarcoat it for you. Business is, I would say bad, say

Handman, president of Malvern, Pa.based R.C. Legnini. The residen

tial side is very, very slow. Our retail work has slowed to a crawl. Ou

office interior work has stopped. Ecclesiastical projects are providin

a flying buttress for his volume. Theres lots of church work and som

synagogue work, Handman reports, adding with a laugh: We kee

praying here. But even appeals to a higher power have their limits

Last year churches accounted for about $7 million of our business,

he says. This year, if wer

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million. We laid off eight o

our guys in the last 14 months. But the market that taketh away also giveth to those able to spot an opportunityand Handma

sees one in rental properties. Ive been actively going after foreclosed buildings, he says. The same conditions that are hammering

residential constructionunemployment, tight credit, and a glut of foreclosed propertiesalso have created, in his view, the mothe

of all buyers markets. Handman has bought and renovated eight small multifamily properties, all of which are now fully occupied

While residential sales have slowed, Handman observes, rentals remain strong, at least where we are. The folks who go to wor

every daythey need a place to live. Handman has invested in real estate before, but when values skyrocketed years ago he

cashed in his chips, expecting never to get back in. Current prices, though, are too good to pass up. In our lifetimes, were not going

to see values like this again, he asserts. The only problem is youve got to have a fair amount of cash, and theres not an unlimited

supply of that. But Handman says builders who muster the wherewithal can kill two birds with on

stone, building their own portfolios while keeping their crews busy. People in our business know wha

a good property is; we know what a good location is. While builders everywhere recalibrate the

retirement plans, Handman actually may have improved his prospects of a graceful exit by directing

resources toward income producing investments. I never made any money in the stock market, he ob

serves. Over the years, Ive always made money by owning properties because its something I know.

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The doldrums that stalled the construction industry in the past three year

have forced many builders to rework their retirement plans, but Finley Perr

remains right on course. I sold the business to Allison [Iantosca, Perry

daughter], Bill Cosman, and Brad Gardner three years ago, says the Boston

area custom builder and remodeler. Since then, he adds, theyve been good

enough to employ me as a business development/sales guy. Smart move. I

his last turn at the tiller, Perry has helped his company maintain headwayand even growin the slowest residential constructio

market in a generation. Weve had to really look at the margins, Perry says. Every single [subcontract] is getting three bids

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We can identify the trade partner that is most suitable to do the work, but we also push hard to get the

right number. Maintaining the bottom line has meant ramping up volume. After a decade of comfort-

ably averaging $5 million in annual work, Perry reports, the company has billed $8 to $12 million in

each of the past three years. Before the real estate crash, the company diversified into maintenance

and repair work, which now accounts for some $2 million in volume. Most crucially, Perry adds, Weve

had a big, two-year project that started for us in March 2009, which gave us the sense that we would

have cash flow to cover our overhead. The company owes its steady progress in large part to Perrys experience and standing i

the high-end Boston market (a stalwart of the local building community, Perry is a past president of his local HBA and served as

state representative to the NAHB). But he credits the new management team as well. Allison has run this great sales and market

ing effort, he says, and Cosmans interest in high-profile new-home projects opened a rich new market for a company that bui

its reputation on luxury remodels. The combination, Perry says, has created great opportunities for us. Not the least of whic

is for Perry to make himself scarce. Clients are already looking to his successors, he notes. And they dont need me from a busi

ness management point of view. The proof is in the companys largest current project, a major remodel of a high-profile home o

Bostons Commonwealth Avenue. Bill, Brad, and Allison have really done a marvelous job, Perry says. I go in there as a tourist.

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By DesignTwo San Francisco architects find successin the design/build model.

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Zack / de Vito, San Francisco, www.zackdevito.com / Type of business: Design/build / Years in business: 19 / Employees: 11 / Annual revenue: $1.9 mil-lion / Average number of projects per year: 1015 / Project type breakdownremodeling vs. new construction: 60 percent to 70 percent vs. 30 percentto 40 percent / Project type breakdownresidential vs. commercial (mostly restaurants): 50 percent vs. 50 percent

Jim Zack has tried not to be a builder. As a teenager he worked on construction

sites, learning carpentry and eventually going to architecture school at the Uni-

versity of California, Berkeley. My interest in architecture evolved out of my

background in construction, he says. In school, I was kind of a shop rat. After

graduating he practiced as a designer/builder, but eventually felt he wanted to

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we found ourselves making things, he admits.

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netry or staircases but leaves the overall

construction to an outside contractor. Ofcourse, the flrm still designs projects en-

tirely built by others, such as a new house

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Building provides them with another rev-

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tential to save time and money.

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says. It was an amazingly

quick process. She and Zack

are planning to use a combina-

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ment project that should be starting con-

struction soon. Its a hybrid panelization

that uses partial wood-frame panels, and

also aluminum-skin foam panels, like the

walls of a walk-in freezer, Zack explains.

He and de Vito have enjoyed develop-

ing small residential projects, and theyd

like to do slightly larger onesas soon as

the market improves. I would love to take

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we started doing, de Vito says. Were

hoping that wont change. We enjoy the

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rituals of everyday life, says architect Paul Masi. And for thowners, a Manhattan couple who use the house on weekend

year-round, that includes a celebration of cooking and dining

Theyre into good food and wine, Masi says. He cooks, so the kitchen became a central hub. Masi and partner Harry Bates devote

a substantial amount of interior real estateand considerable ingenuityto a room that combines the arts of cooking and dinin

in a way that elevates both experiences.

More cook-in dining room than eat-in kitchen, this shared

space conceals equipment and food storage behind flush redcedar panels and in stacked cabinets that hide in plain sight.

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Project: Northwest Peach

Farm, East Hampton, N.Y.;

Builders: Padden Builders,

East Hampton; Brian MannixBuilder, East Hampton;

Architect: Bates Masi +

Architects, Sag Harbor, N.Y.;Photographer: Michael

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ator; Oven: Miele; Plumbingfixtures: Franke, Dornbracht;

Range: Wolf; Refrigerator:

Viking, Sub-Zero.

The preparation area revolves around the needs of the chef, Masi explains. He wants everyone to be

gathered around and having fun while hes cooking and being sort of serious about what hes doing. The

long island the chef shares with his audience serves as both an intimate stage set and a sophisticated work

environment. Its polished concrete counter was cast with integral tracks for a heavy mahogany cutting board,

Masi points out, so when he pulls something out of the oven he can put it down and slide it over to the sink.

Above the opposite counter is a stainless steel shelf that can be preloaded with ingredients for the task at

hand, then swept clear when the cooking is done.

But in this kitchen, the details that dont show are as important as those that do. Two large refrigeratorshide in a bank of red cedar cabinets. A backsplash of quartzite tiles lapped in a shingle pattern rises into a

skylight shaft, anked by vertical cabinets that read more like structure than storage. The reveal below the

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A dressing area (near left) buffersthe master bedroom from the maste

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room also occupies a generous volume

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lineate functional areas without dividin

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standing makeup counter helps den

the bathing area, its steel-framed mirro

echoing the windows used throughou

the house. A second counter, opposite th

rst, backs on a double shower framed i

a glass-and-steel assembly sourced from

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exterior windows and doors. Anothe

glazed steel door allows daylight into th

toilet compartment. Limestone counter

top the red cedar cabinets, while extra

small mosaic tiles lend a crisp rhythm t

oors warmed by hydronic radiant heat

ing. A ow-through dressing area sepa

rates the bath from the bedroom.

Each of the childrens bedrooms con

nects sleeping and bathing areas with

limestone surface that architect Paul Mas

conceived as a seamless element tha

sort of snakes through the room. Begin

ning as a counter at the head of the builtin bed, it jumps up to form a desktop tha

segues to a sink counter. In the sons suit

the counter ends at a walk-in shower; in

the daughters it turns a corner and drop

to form the tub deck. A sliding barn doo

provides privacy, with a horizontal slo

cut into the door neatly accommodatin

the counters prole.B.D.S.

Project: Northwest Peach Farm, East Hampton,

N.Y.; Builders: Padden Builders, East Hampton;

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A large skylight makes the living

area feel like a courtyard, andclerestories brighten the mastersuite behind it. A shade inside

the skylight protects the ownersartwork from direct sun.

Living in a former

storefront isnt for

everyone. But it

works out just fine for the owners of this building on a Seattle street cor-

ner. Thanks to some creative spatial boundaries, they live and work happily

from homewithout worrying about the neighbors staring in. The wife, apersonal assistant, and the husband, a real estate and software developer

whose clients often come to the office, had been living and working there

full time in awkwardly divided space. They asked Seattle architect Tyler

Engle for a gracious new design that also would showcase their art collec-

tion.At 1,543 square feet, this house is fairly small. Fitting multiple pro-

grams into the compact interior easily could have made it feel crowded,

but the floor plan flexes for both openness and privacy. Inside the plate

glass window on the left is a foyer/lobby with built-in seating; on the right

Living in a

storefront i

everyone.

works out just fine for the owners of this building on a Seattle str

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The Public/Private House Street Smart

is the wifes office. Directly behind that is what Engle calls the shipping containeran ipe-clad core housing a powder

room on the left and a kitchen in the center. Thin steel blinders bookend the kitchens parallel counters, partially hiding

it from pass-throughs on either side, and pocket doors close off the core from the street view. The wood rectangle could

have been moved forward or backward in the space, but we placed it in the sweet spot so it provides a buffer between the

courtyard and the street, Engle says.The courtyard Engle refers to is an airy living and dining room at the houses cen-

ter, where a 12-foot-9-inch-by-9-foot skylight, and the ipe wall, make it feel like its outside. Interior clerestories let light

through to the master suite, entered through a pivoting door behind the living room. Four steps up beyond the bedroom

is a second bath adjoining the husbands office, and an outside entrance.The husband, who uses a wheelchair, goes to

work by going outside, up the sidewalk, and into the rear door. He wanted to commute, and thats his commute, Engle

says. The concrete floors have a smooth terrazzo finish thats easy to maneuver on, and the hydronically heated surface

makes the wheels warm to the touch.

The gut-renovation of the 100-year-

old building, once a drug store and

soda fountain, immediately hit a snag.

Excavation of the flimsy, 2-inch-thick slab reveale

unstable soil, which meant digging down and refil

ing with gravel. But in a building this old, there

always a surprise lurking behind the walls. Whe

you have a crisp architectural design, you can

get away with crookednessthat was the bigges

challenge, says builder Stan Christensen. We re

framed the old side walls to get insulation in, an

did a lot of furring and straightening to get thing

level and plumb. Exterior improvements include

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replacing the Victorian paint job with a charcoal-gray color that

respects the buildings form. I love this space because, with

constraints, great things can happen, Engle says. It has as

many uses as some houses we do that are 8,000 square feet.

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Project Credits: Builder: Christensen Construction, Seattle; Architect andinterior designer: Tyler Engle Architects PS, Seattle; Structural engineer:Swenson Say Fagt, Seattle; Living space: 1,543 square feet; Site: 0.35acre; Construction cost: $229 per square foot; Photographer: BenjaminBenschneider. / Resources: Bath tile: Dal Tile; Bathroom light fixture:FontanaArte; Blackened Steel: Company K; Cabinets: Pacific Rim Cabinets,Boojum Woodworks; Countertops: Dogpaw Design; Floor: Durashine; InteriorPaneling: Christensen Construction; Kitchen backsplash tile: Pental; Plumb-ing fixtures: Kohler.

The husbands office has a rear entrance; the wifes office

occupies the storefront (opposite, top). An ipe core housesa powder room and kitchen, where blackened hot-rolledsteel blinders have a supple wax finish. Two pocket doorson the street side of the ipe container allow for two-zoneheating and divide the public and private realms.

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The Public/Private Ho

The hospitality suite at Paul Hobbs Winery is everything the surrounding production buildings are not: crisp, refined, and detaile

to a T. Owner and international winery consultant Paul Hobbs stays here comfortably when hes in town, but the long, linear build

ing also is a corporate meeting center and a stylish setting for wine-tasting events, often with food pairings by celebrity chefs

Dubbed Lindsay House, it was phase two of a master plan for the 19-acre property, whose working buildings have barnlike

shapes and pitched metal roofs. The form of the winery buildings is based on their function, says architect Howard J. Backen

of Backen, Gillam & Kroeger Architects, Sausalito, Calif. The Lindsay House became a foil, a very simple wall. The house

segmented walls express the floor plan. To the left of a formal foyer is the most public realma cozy, art-filled room for intimate

wine tastings. To the right, two vestibules lead into a larger living/dining area. This room, where Hobbs hangs out, also can b

arranged for corporate events. On opposite walls are a 750-bottle wine refrigerator for displaying sample releases, and a long

slotted fireplace. Full-height pivoting doors flanking the wine fridge lead to a professional-grade kitchen. An office and Hobbs

bedroom and bath are located behind the kitchen. The full-height doors continue when you enter the private area, Backe

explains. You dont end up coming to a different aesthetic. Builder Jim Murphy and Associates (JMA) rose to the challenge

The linear building houses the dedicated public realm

to the left, and the public/private spaces to the right.Custom ingredients were used to create a dark plasterexterior; the large quantity of traditional pigments

required kept the plaster from binding.

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The Public/Private House Wine, Dine, Live, Work

of Hobbs exacting expectations. While the wood-frame buildings construction wa

straightforward, its strong axial symmetry, where every line ties back to something

else, meant mapping out the smallest details before construction began. Cleanou

plugs in the honed-concrete kitchen floor, for example, had to be centered on th

control joints. We knew a control joint would come off the pocket door and cros

the kitchen, says project manager Michael Quesenbury. The cleanout was perfectly placed 10 months before we put the casin

on the door. Features and finishes were chosen to engage the senses. Floors are white cement mixed with bronze lapis sand

To bring out its color and texture, the concrete was lightly honed with a rotary machine, and, once cured, a handheld machin

fitted with finer and finer grinding pads. The dramatic gas fireplaces created another construction puzzle. Their openings are so

large that a concealed air curtain was necessary to prevent them from pulling conditioned air out of the room. A make-up sup

This page: Fire features are highlights

in the wine-tasting room and a largerroom used for private living and corpo-rate events. The kitchen cabinets con-

sist of red fabric placed between layersof resin. Opposite: A large wine fridge

separates the living room and kitchen.

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Project Credits: Builder: Jim Murphy and Associates, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Architect: Backen, Gillam & Kroeger Architects, Sausalito and St. Helena, Calif.; Engineer:

Summit Engineering, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Landscape architect: Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, Berkeley, Calif.; Fire features: Colombo Construction Corp.,

Brooklyn, N.Y.; Project size: 3,840 square feet; Site: 19.2 acres; Construction cost: Withheld; Photographer:Tim Maloney. / Resources: Countertops: ReddingMetal Crafters, Silestone; Dishwasher: Miele, Hobart; Entry and patio doors: Arcadia; Exterior siding: Fleetwood; Garbage disposer: Insinkerator; Hardware:

Hafele, Valli&Valli, FSB, d line; HVAC: Carrier; Insulation: Owens Corning; Interior doors: Healdsburg Door & Sash; Interior walls: TBC Artisanal Plasters; Kitchen

and bath fixtures/fittings: Dornbracht; Kitchen cabinets: Lasertron; Motorized shades: Lutron, Phifer; Oven: Wolf; Paints/stains: Benjamin Moore; Pizza ovenMugnani; Refrigerator and freezer: Sub-Zero; Windows: Fleetwood.

ply fan located on the roof distributes air through chases concealed in the walls and discharges the combustion air out of grilles

hidden in the fireplace surrounds. An exhaust fan in the fireplace flue draws the hot air and carbon dioxide out of the firebox.

Even flawlessly planned projects encounter conflicts, though. The day before the hot tar roof was to be installed, Hobbs decided

the acrid smell would spoil the scheduled grape crush, so JMA tarped the building until the crush was over. We respected his

wishes, Quesenbury says. When we understood the level of perfection he was requiring of us, he became easier to work for.

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To some, simplifying means downsizing. But for San Francisco designer/builder Loring Sagan, it means

combining his professional and personal lives into one cavernous building. He runs his varied business

venturesan architecture firm, a real estate redevelopment company, and a pottery studioout of a

6,000-square-foot former bakery. Its an industrial space lined with desks and lit by a large skylight,

but built into the soaring atrium is a pied--terre

whose kitchen/dining area doubles as an office

conference room. My wife and I dont live in the apartment full time, bu

I take a nap here almost every day, Sagan says. After 20 years of build

ing resort homes in Tahoe City, Calif., Sagan had begun searching for wor

space in San Franciscos Hayes Valley neighborhood, a once-seedy distric

on its way to becoming the cultural corridor it is today. The grungy building

120 feet long by 27 feet wide, started life as a bakery in the 1920s and late

served as a photography studio. But when Sagan purchased it eight year

ago, it was part of a funky alleyway with a porn club next door. It was

Alley Adaptation

The Public/Private House

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Project Credits: Builders: Loring Sagan, San Francisco; Paul Woo Construction, San Francisco; Designer: SaganPiechota Architecture, San Francisco; Landscape designer: Sagan Piechota Architecture; Living space: 6,000square feet (apartment: 600 square feet); Site: 0.07 acre; Cost: $250 per square foot; Photographer: SharonRisedorph. / Resources: Dishwasher: Fisher & Paykel; Entry door: Stuart Wright and Tom Allen; Garage doors:Schweiss; Kitchen and bath fixtures and fittings: Hansgrohe; Solar energy system: SunPower Corp.

The Public/Private House Alley Adaptation

an oversize walnut door open

to a bedroom/living room an

bath. Crossing the bridg

through the atrium is a meta

phorical departure from work,Sagan says. Sliding frosted

glass walls close off the livin

area from the atrium below

If were there alone at nigh

we open them up and borrow

space from the atrium, h

says. When theyre closed

everything is quiet. Th

once-derelict real estate nowattracts vibrant commercia

tenants, too. The ground-level i

leased to Blue Bottle Coffee,

nationally known coffee roast

er, and Fatted Calf, an artisana

charcuterie. And the wood an

metal workshop Sagan set u

to build out the finishes ha

since been turned into his pottery studio. Not only is th

building a model for combin

ing public and private space,

also demonstrates how public

private partnerships can trans

form the public realm. Saga

just finished landscaping a 200

foot section of the alleywa

with gardens and benches, using a $98,500 grant from the city. It builds on the neighborhoorenaissance begun 10 years ago, when an earthquake-damaged freeway was torn down. Th

end of my alley is a park, Sagan says. You wouldnt recognize the neighborhood now.

The kitchen/conference roomopens to an outdoor terrace,as does the studio across the

atrium. Ground-level garagedoors lift up, creating invit-ing sidewalk space for the

Blue Bottle Coffee kiosk.The new ipe and glass faadeupdates the streetscape.

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Some people specialize

in preserving the rare

and valuable, such as

endangered animals,

antique books, or important

paintings. Washington, D.C.,

custom builder Tom Glass

focuses on saving an equally

diminishing and beloved com-

modity: old houses. Growing

up in southeastern Ohio, he fell

in love with the areas declin-

ing 19th-century housing stock,

and that passion never left him.

Hes devoted his 30-year-old business, Glass Construction, to renovating and restoring Wash-

ingtons rich trove of historic residences.

Several years ago Glass purchased a property in Virginias pastoral Rappahannock County,

with the thought of one day nding an old house he could move there to use as his weekendresidence. The seed of the idea came from taking horseback rides in the mountains and high

meadows out there, he says. Youll see a lot of old barns and farmhouses that have been aban-

doned. There are getting to be fewer and fewer of them, because theyre falling down.

Finally, he came across a dilapidated, 1797 side-hall Federal in Appomattox County, Va., a

two-hour drive from his Flint Hill, Va., site. Moving it would prove a complicated process. The

home hadnt been lived in since the 1930s, and it was too large and too far away to be transported

whole. If we hadnt taken it then, in another year or two it would have collapsed, Glass says.

Living

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rescues a pieceof Virginiaspatinaed past.

By Meghan Drueding

Home Study

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Home Study Living History

The houses previous owner connected him

with Richard Williams, an Aldie, Va.based

restoration craftsman.

Despite the houses fragile state, an im-

pressive portion of its original structure re-

mained intact. Mortise-and-tenon construc-

tion, a typical 18th-century technique, held

together its hand-carved timber-frame, as

well as its doors, window frames, casings,

and stair railings. The wood, of course, all

came from old-growth forests. The resin

in the wood was a preservative, so termitesdidnt eat it, Glass says. This wood sat

out in the rain for 200 years and didnt rot.

He, Williams, and a couple of others dis-

mantled the house, using small sledgeham-

mers to drive out the wooden pegs keeping

it together. They numbered every item and

formulated detailed drawings for the build-

ings reassembly. The process took two

weeks, at the end of which all the pieces

were trucked to Williams workshop.

Williams and Glass went over each

item carefully, evaluating whether it

needed to be repaired or discarded. They

remilled replacements for pieces beyond

salvaging, leaving them out in the summer

sun to weather. In the meantime, Glass dug

a foundation on his land. When he was

ready, he and his three-man crew rebuilt

the frame, essentially reversing the routinetheyd used to disassemble it.

Rebuilding the roof and siding came

next. Glass guessed the original roof con-

sisted of cedar shingles, so he had new ones

made. Using reproduction nails from a fa-

vorite supplier, Tremont Nail Co., he and

his crew attached the shingles to poplar

skip sheathing. Glass also

had beaded cedar boards

milled to match the old,

unsalvageable siding. Just

as when the home was rst

built, theyre nailed right

onto the framethis time with house wra

in between for greater energy efciency.

Two of the original buildings mos

distinctive featuresits imposing chim

neysused such strong mortar that to tr

to take them apart would have broken thbricks. So Glass opted to let them stand i

Appomattox County and re-create them i

Flint Hill. Wood forms gave the new brick

the old-fashioned texture he wanted.

Glass started out wanting to do a com

prehensive restoration, but a visit to Dray

ton Hall, a historic house in Charleston

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S.C., changed his mind. At Drayton Hall,

you could see the beauty of 200 years of

weathering, he says. I realized it would

be such a shame to lose this patina. He

developed a hybrid approach inside the

house, reproducing missing or damagedwood pieces and choosing to simply paint

the new items, instead of faux-nishing

them to make them look old. In contrast,

he cleaned the remaining original wood-

work, stabilized it with a clear, waterborne

urethane, then applied a coat of clear poly-

urethane. All of its nicks and imperfections

are still visible, and it works with the fresh-

ly painted areas to form a visual record of

all the years the house has stood.

Architect Dwight Matthews did design

drawings and helped with the permitting

process while Glass ordered the materi-als and nishes, and designed the homes

cabinetry and other new detailing himself

A new house, he believes, would have cos

about the same amount of money. But i

wouldnt have had the same character

Theres something about it that feels or

ganic because of the slight imperfections,he says. They make it more human.

Project Credits: Builder: Glass Construction, Washington, D.C.; Restoration architect: Dwight MatthewsArchitect, Flint Hill, Va.; Restoration carpenter: Richard Williams, Aldie, Va.; Living space: 3,400 squarefeet; Site: 117 acres; Construction cost: $257 per square foot; Photography: Powers and Crewe Photog-raphy. / Resources: Bathroom fittings: Sigma; Bathroom fixtures: Toto USA; Brick: Cushwa; Cooktop:Viking; Dishwasher: Bosch; Hardware: Baldwin; Flooring (tile): Ann Sacks, Waterworks; Heat pumps:Trane; Lighting controls: Lightolier, Lutron; Nails: Tremont Nail Co.; Oven: Viking; Refrigerator: Sub-Zero;Washer/dryer: Maytag.

Glass (pictured opposite, left) added spray-foam insulation to keepthe interior temperatures constant. Track lighting brightens the spaces

while leaving the old ceiling beams intact. The restored rooms highceilings, gracious proportions, generous natural light, and solid recon-struction all contribute to a sense of well-being inside the house.

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Whether youre looking at the

pavilion, or out from it, you

should believe the structure has

grown out of the woods that

surround it.

To echo the look of the trees,

we cut standing dead timbers

from the site and used them

for our posts and beams. Then

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