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4 | Oregon Home EDITOR’S NOTE ON MY SHELF The deVOL Kitchen: Designing and Styling the Most Important Room in Your Home By Paul O’Leary, Robin McLellan and Helen Parker Clarkson Potter, 2023 Hot Springs: Photos and Stories of How the World Soaks, Swims, and Slows Down By Greta Rybus Ten Speed Press, 2024 Design Mixology: The Interiors of Tineke Triggs By Chase Reynolds Ewald and Heather Sandy Hebert Gibbs Smith, 2023 COLOR CAN DO so much in a home. It can define your personality, create a moment, suggest an atmosphere or establish a feeling. It can transform a space from a lonely, drab corner into a plucky, energetic nook. Yes, color is a workhorse — it remains one of the most powerful tools in design. In our Spring issue, we are looking at projects where Oregonians are showing up confident with color. We went behind the scenes with Woonwinkel owner Kristin Van Buskirk, a former Nike color designer who runs a shop where you can shop by color category (“Life Lived in Color,” p. 43). And we’re taking a look at how Workaday Design’s clever use of blue and green adds a natural injection of energy to a historic Northwest Portland home (“Colorful Past,” p. 17). Plus, we think you’ll love the work of Portland artist Jessica Poundstone, whose color-field prints are showing up in places like the Mean Girls movie (“Magic Touch,” p. 73). We hope you’ll be inspired to bring more color into your life this season and to bask in it whenever and wherever it feels right. Emily Grosvenor, Editor editor@oregonhomemagazine.com @emilygrosvenor o or onfide c
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CONTENTS 10 | Oregon Home 43 17 15 LET’S GO SHOPPING: Peachy Keen Shopping inspired by Pantone’s color of the year: Peach Fuzz. 17 FEATURE: Colorful Past Workaday Design dials in just the right colors for a historic remodel in Northwest Portland. 43 FEATURE: Life Lived in Color Woonwinkel owner Kristin Van Buskirk takes her new home in a bold and bright direction. 73 WHAT’S TRENDING: Magic Touch Jessica Poundstone’s dopamine-friendly art has all the right vibes. 66 CHEF AT HOME: Loam Kitchen The new Dayton restaurant shares its iconic mushroom pastry to celebrate spring. 56 NEW RELEASE: Woodland Wonder A new book by Françoise Weeks collects the floral artist’s forestinspired arrangements. 62 ON THE COVER: Style Matters Kollective Design brings an artsy, elevated vision to a single dad’s Overlook home. CUSTOM FIT Stories from local experts who help make your home dreams a reality. Build Forward Blending Old and New Northwest Framing Choosing the Right Glass for Framing Artwork Henderson & Daughter Let There Be Light Capri Architecture Making the Dream Happen Renaissance Homes From Dream Home to Reality John’s Waterproofing Firm Footing, Stable Ground 26 31 34 37 48 52 MASTER THE SPECTRUM Color Confidential
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Oregon Home | 17 BY EMILY GROSVENOR Photos by Meagan Larsen COLORFUL PAST A FAMILY HOME BY WORKADAY DESIGN EMERGES THROUGH A CLEVER MIX OF NEUTRALS AND SATURATED COLOR. When Rebecca Van Sickle and Fergus Caldicott moved into a historic home in Northwest Portland in October 2014, they knew that it would need some major adjustments. Previous owners had made some cosmetic updates throughout the years, but no one had changed the awkward transitions between spaces, added to the number of bathrooms (two at the time) or grappled with the problem of doors hitting other doors. Plus, there was the matter of color — how to use it well to make the home feel modern while honoring its history. “It feels oddly calming,” Van Sickle says of the Morris & Co. wallpaper that wraps the dining room.
18 | Oregon Home “Overall, the flow felt off,” says Van Sickle. “We lived with some of the spaces longer than we expected.” Large families demand a different level of functionality, but making it happen can be a cumbersome task. So the couple embarked on a multiyear, multiphase project with designer Lara White of Workaday Design to bring the historic property into the present while keeping the charms of yesteryear. And what charms there were: stained glass, south-facing windows, high ceilings, architectural details and brass door hinges that had “XOXO” stamped in them. The first space they tackled with the designer was the basement, formerly just a white-brick storage space with cement floors. They envisioned this lower level for Caldicott’s wine collection and Van Sickle’s home office. “They are total bosses — so this space was so important,” White says. Sandblasted brick brings an original feature back to life.
Oregon Home | 19 Milled reclaimed wood from an attic adds a delicate touch and warmth to the lower level.
20 | Oregon Home At the same time, they tackled the outdoor spaces, which benefited from a larger-than-average backyard for the area. But the project truly found its aesthetic voice with the plan for the mudroom, which was repositioned for a more accommodating entrance. The collaborators chose local Portland maker Lonesome Pictopia’s “Solomon’s Seal” wallpaper for the mudroom and, with it, a dark gray-blue that would be used throughout the rest of the home. They loved the paper featuring the Pacific Northwest flowering native that grows in shade, which Van Sickle also grows in her garden. “There is still a lot of light in that room, so it never feels dark,” Van Sickle says. The pattern for the mudroom floor tiles was based on a larger-scale slate flooring from Van Sickle’s house in Ohio, which had been designed by her grandfather. Van Sickle had found photos of the slate floor and re-created the pattern in PowerPoint, and then a tiler painstakingly cut every tile and laid it to match the design.
Oregon Home | 21 Lonesome Pictopia’s “Solomon’s Seal” wallpaper in Onyx creates a defining moment in the entry.
Pink shows up in its earthier incarnations throughout the home as a grounding color. ”Our daughter Suzy shrieked with delight when she saw the wallpaper installed," says Van Sickle. ”A few hours later, she said, ‘I don’t really like dinosaurs anymore. Do you think in a few years we could change my wallpaper to cats?’”
Oregon Home | 23 The family moved out of the home temporarily for the next part of the project: the home’s kitchen, which traded space with a formal dining room. White added a large-scale island with a brass toe kick. There, Caldicott cooks dinner most days and the entire family bakes on the weekends. “Everyone is always in the kitchen,” Van Sickle says. “We shrunk the size a bit from what we had originally planned to make it fit one slab.” White worked a similar dark blue-gray into the kitchen on the lower cabinets, grounding the space while making the full upper cabinets feel less heavy. “I love a two-tone kitchen — it’s such a classic look,” says White.
24 | Oregon Home For the dining room, which the family often walks through to get to other spaces, the couple wanted something more serene than the red floral paper that wrapped the room before. So they built upon the blue and green theme with a wallpaper that would have been around at the time the house was built, from an original William Morris collection. It was just the right restrained use of saturated color to set the tone for the space. “We weren’t totally sure we would like having a separate dining room,” says Van Sickle. “But it’s been nice to step out of the kitchen, even on weekdays, and eat together without seeing dirty dishes and other distractions.” workadaydesign.com Morris & Co.’s classic “Willow Boughs” wallpaper in olive/turquoise adds a dose of color and texture for a room that is both a transition and a place to dine.
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26 | Oregon Home CUSTOM FIT: Build Forward For most people, the kitchen is the heart of the home. And when the space is inadequate, what should be joyful occasions like mealtimes and gatherings can become frustrating experiences. That was certainly the case for the owners of a 1919 home in Portland’s Laurelhurst neighborhood. They wanted to incorporate a dining area within the kitchen for their family of four, as well as utilize the overall space better. It now feels bright and airy thanks to opening up a kitchen wall, new cabinetry, white subway tiles and fresh paint. “The stove was on the opposite side of the kitchen from the oven, so the layout was awkward for making meals,” explains Dawn Bush, head of operations and marketing for Portlandbased design-build firm Build Forward. “We also added storage with floor-to-ceiling cabinetry in a space just off the kitchen and added an additional wall of cabinetry in the kitchen.” Build Forward’s owner, Javier Montalvo, says they could tell on their first visit that the family was trying to squeeze too many activities into the tiny kitchen, because there was nowhere else to go. “We utilized as much unused space as we could,” says Montalvo, “and we gained probably about 40 square feet for the kitchen.” A RENOVATION THAT BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO A CENTURY OLD HOME By Vanessa Salvia Photos by Genny Moller Blending Old AND NEW
Oregon Home | 27 Updating to modern cabinetry also gave them much more storage space. Unused space on an empty wall became a pantry and appliance cabinet. A small shelf atop a cabinet is perfectly placed for the coffee bar. The dining room, now visible from the kitchen, was hidden behind a door-size opening. “We opened that up so someone in the kitchen could talk to someone at the table,” says Bush. “It created a nicer flow but still kept the feel of an older home, which doesn’t usually have a particularly open concept.” The team found push-button light switches typical for the age of the home to add a vintage touch. An original archway now separates the kitchen from the mudroom, with two French doors that let in an abundance of natural light. A room just off the kitchen wasn’t useful for much other than holding the kids’ art supplies. “We opened that up and turned it into a pantry and extra storage,” Bush says. A wooden shelf added against the window opposite the pantry storage lets the kids work on homework while keeping an eye on their dogs in the backyard and be near the kitchen. Creating new character for older homes is easy for Montalvo, who grew up in Ecuador. His family had multiple homes throughout the country, and he was inspired by the different types of architecture and styles. Later, he owned a remodeling company and worked on home inspections in Florida, then became the general manager of a design-build company in Boston, where vintage homes abound. Montalvo had previously lived in Oregon,
28 | Oregon Home then in 2018 returned to be closer to his daughter in McMinnville. “In Boston I learned how to respect the character of the home, the age of the house, the style of the house, in trying to work in new materials,” Montalvo says. “You want to have all the advantages of new construction with the same style as the older homes.” Montalvo started Build Forward in 2018 as a design-build company that goes above and beyond to pay extra attention to budget and financial transparency. In 2023 it brought on an in-house design team. “We go into projects with the knowledge and respect that our clients are investing time and money into their home,” says Bush. “We are diligent in treating our clients and their homes in the same manner we would like to be treated.” For this project, Montalvo implemented the design of Annalisa Peña of Cedarwood Home. Peña designed around stunning walnut cabinetry built by MH Custom Cabinetry. The stove hood is also wrapped in this beautiful wood. “The color palette with the dark-bluepainted cabinets adds depth and richness,” Bush says. “It’s a really nice blend that updates it while respecting the age of the home.” Build Forward starts every project by talking over all of the details with clients, starting with the challenges they’re trying to solve and prioritizing needs, wants and hopes. “That way, once the needs are met, we can start looking at wants and hopes,” Bush says. “We also ask about their lifestyle — their kids, their pets, if they entertain, if they cook a lot, if they like showers or soaking in a tub.” Bush says an increasing number of clients are investigating how to have their parents live with them, which makes discussions about aging in place more important. Clients send inspiration pictures, which the designer turns into a mood board to help narrow down choices. “When homeowners choose an older home, they oftentimes want the character in the older home,” says Montalvo. “They bought it for that character, and they want to keep it but also have some contemporary things. In this project, we were able to do just that.” webuildforward.com
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Oregon Home | 31 CUSTOM FIT: Northwest Framing Choosing the Right Glass for Framing Artwork BY VANESSA SALVIA
32 | Oregon Home When it comes to professionally framing artwork, photographs, documents and other prized possessions, one of the most important decisions is choosing the right glazing material. Glazing is the transparent protective layer, usually made of glass or acrylic, that covers the front of the framed piece and serves to safeguard it from damage and enhance its visual appearance. Choose the best glazing from the wide variety of options available for your particular piece. The expert framers at Beard’s Framing and Frame Central break down the key factors to consider. “Glazing is all about protecting and preserving your artwork while enhancing the viewing of it,” explains Jennifer Parsons, marketing director at Northwest Framing, the parent company of Beard’s Framing and Frame Central. “Our company uses Tru Vue glazing due to their superb quality, innovation and numerous options for customers.” There are various types of glazing used in picture framing. Tru Vue’s conservation glazing options offer different benefits with both glass and acrylic. These benefits include UV protection, glare reduction and scratch resistance. As with most products, glazing options range in price from basic to premium. While regular glass may be suitable for pieces of less significance, important works deserve the best clarity and archival framing. When shipping larger framed pieces, acrylic is a lighter-weight and often a shatterproof option. “Typically, if you have a really large art piece, we use acrylic instead of glass,” says Parsons. “You can’t tell the difference, and acrylic makes the art piece less heavy and easy to hang, carry and ship.” Costs vary, but specialized glazing is an investment that will pay dividends in preserving your treasured pieces for the long term. Here are the types of glazing that Northwest Framing carries and their advantages.
Oregon Home | 33 The teams at Beard’s Framing and Frame Central can advise you on the ideal type of glazing for your specific framing needs. With Tru Vue products like Conservation Glass, Optium Acrylic and Museum Glass, you can trust you are getting the very best materials to display, protect and preserve your most cherished artwork. pnwframing.com Museum Glass Museum Glass offers almost zero glare and also filters out 99% of UV rays. “If you have an intricate piece of art and you want to see every detail, Museum is the best glass option,” Parsons notes. Conservation Clear Glass Conservation Clear Glass is designed to filter out up to 99% of ultraviolet rays, which can cause artwork and photos to fade and turn yellow over time. Conservation Reflection Control Glass One of the main reasons to opt for specialty glazing is to reduce glare. If the art or photo will be displayed in a bright location or one with direct sunlight, glare can make it difficult to view details. Reflection Control Glass can help to reduce this glare. This glass also protects against 99% of UV rays. Conservation Clear Acrylic When framing oversize pieces, weight becomes an important factor. Glass glazing, which does offer striking clarity, can become quite heavy and difficult to work with in large formats. Tru Vue Conservation Clear Acrylic is an ideal choice for reducing weight while still providing protection and visibility. It also filters out 99% of UV rays. Optium Museum Acrylic For ultimate protection, Optium Museum Acrylic offers premium UV protection at 99%, antireflection, scratch resistance and antistatic properties to prevent damage and preserve the beauty of cherished pieces. It’s simply the best of the best. Conservation Reflection Control Acrylic Glazing like Tru Vue’s Reflection Control Acrylic has an etched surface, providing a matte finish to reduce glare to enhance the art’s clarity. Acrylic is lighter in weight, and this option offers 99% UV protection. Regular Reflection Control Glass & Acrylic These options offer non-glare technology and 99% UV protection. Reflection Control Glass is available at Frame Central only. Regular Glass & Acrylic Regular glass is the least expensive and most basic option. Tru Vue’s regular glass and regular acrylic are both higher-quality options than what may be purchased at a home-goods store. GLAZING IS ALL ABOUT PROTECTING AND PRESERVING YOUR ARTWORK WHILE ENHANCING THE VIEWING OF IT.” JENNIFER PARSONS NORTHWEST FRAMING
34 | Oregon Home CUSTOM FIT: Henderson & Daughter uring a remodel of an old farmhouse at Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Nicholas Gitts, owner of the nearly 100-year-old business, had his office moved into an upstairs supply closet. It was supposed to be a temporary move, but according to Gitts’ daughter, Swan Island Dahlias manager Heather Schloe, he ended up loving the space. “It overlooks the prime view of the fields. His passion is the koi pond, and if he opens his window up there, he can hear the koi pond,” Schloe says. “He’s so in love, so that’s going to be his permanent office.” And while it’s the view and the pond that sold Gitts on his office space, there’s another element that brought it all together — new windows. As part of the remodel that renovated the farmhouse and added a larger, more practical space for Swan Island Dahlias’ gift shop and offices, the family needed 26 windows and a new set of patio doors. The goal, according to Schloe, was to create a larger, dedicated space for the gift shop, one that would replace the piecemeal spots that served that purpose before. She says the vision was also for a modern farmhouse, in the style of renowned designer Joanna Gaines — something that was warm and bright, accented in black and white, and that took advantage of the 26-foot ceiling in the entryway. “One of the most important pieces of the remodel was to make sure that the gift shop had enough light,” Schloe says. “Light was a big emphasis in the entire building.” To capture that light and everything else that Swan Island Dahlias was hoping for, Schloe turned to longtime connection LET THERE BE Light HENDERSON & DAUGHTER FIND JUST THE RIGHT WINDOWS FOR A DESTINATION DAHLIA FARM. BY JON BELL
Oregon Home | 35 Thea Cutsforth, a design consultant for door and window specialist Henderson & Daughter. The Vancouver, Wash., company offers both an installation business and a supply-only business, the latter of which Swan Island Dahlias used for its remodel. “I met with Heather’s contractor, Nick Netter Construction, and her designer to get a feel for what we might have that would fit and what our options might be,” Cutsforth says. “They wanted a cozy, warm feel, something that let in a lot of light. But they also wanted it to be a little more modern, and they wanted it to be black.” Cutsforth had just the window in mind: Fiberglass windows from Milgard’s Ultra series. She says the fiberglass gives a warmer feeling than aluminum, and painting the windows black added the modern flair Schloe was after. The windows also have a flat black grid between the glass, which lends more of a farmhouse look — ideal for the company known for its destination dahlia farm. “Thea was amazing at making sure we had the style we were looking for,” Schloe says, adding that the windows blend in naturally with the farmhouse, as if they’ve always been there. “They are gorgeous and everybody in the office absolutely loves them. They just set the entire tone.” In addition to aesthetics considerations, Cutsforth says she also had practicality and longevity in mind when helping Swan Island Dahlias choose windows. “One of the keys for me was cost-effectiveness, look and durability,” Cutsforth says. “We wanted something that will be here in 100 years, that will hold up over time so they don’t have to think about them again.” Schloe says working with Henderson & Daughter went smoothly throughout the project, from invoicing and communication to timing and deliveries. “We were so impressed,” she says, noting that a second phase of the farmhouse remodel is in the works and will involve Henderson & Daughter. Much of the work on the first phase of Swan Island Dahlias’ renovated farmhouse took place during the height of the farm’s peak summer season in 2023, when the fields were awash in a bright spectrum of blooming dahlias. As a result, visitors to the farm got to see a hint of what was to come with the farmhouse — but only a hint. They’ll get to enjoy the full finished project this coming summer, especially during the farm’s annual Dahlia Festival, which usually runs from August through September. “Most people are waiting to come out until then,” Schloe says. “The anticipation is high, and we’re just really excited to share how beautiful our project came out with everyone who comes to Swan Island Dahlias.” hendersonanddaughter.com
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Oregon Home | 37 CUSTOM FIT: Capri Architecture Making the DREAM HAPPEN BY JON BELL Photos by David Papazian Capri Architecture melds a one-of-akind home into a tricky spot on the Oregon Coast. There’s a pretty little street on the way to the scenic Ecola State Park in Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast. For a long time on that street, there sat an empty triangular lot tucked up against a hillside and edged up against a few nearby homes. From surface glances, it didn’t really seem like anyone could build a home on that lot, as nice as it might be. But then Amanda and Dustin Capri, the husband-and-wife team behind Newport-based Capri Architecture, got a call from an excited couple — Kelli Ennis and Steven Dailey — who had purchased the lot and had a vision for it. “Everyone was under the impression it was not buildable because of its triangular shape and the other existing development nearby,” Amanda says. “But they fell in love with it anyway. It’s got a view of Ecola Creek and downtown Cannon Beach and the ocean isn’t far. So we set out on this thread of, ‘Let’s make it happen.’” And make it happen they did. It took some creativity, like adding extra foundation supports and digging the home 12 feet into a hillside, but they pulled it off. Now, with the help of the incredible builders at Caruana Inc.,
38 | Oregon Home instead of an empty lot, there’s a trim and attractive home, dark gray with rich woodtoned accents, low stone walls and a sleek, sharp razor blade of a driveway. Tall windows capture all kinds of natural coastal light and frame the signature beauty of the area — far-off mountains, surrounding evergreen trees and, when the weather allows, deep-blue sky and bright sunshine. And despite the odd lot shape, the home looks like it belongs. “When you’re there, it looks like it has always been there,” Dustin says. Inside, the home is bright and airy, with lots of white surfaces complemented by warmer elements. The open kitchen is largely white, save for a few shots of color on the island and a tiled wall behind the stove. High and dark wooden beams and warm wood floors cozy up both the kitchen and the adjacent living and dining areas, while bolder colors add vibrance to bathrooms and the primary suite. There’s also a built-in dog-washing station and interesting ledges for the couple’s dog, a corgi named Finn. To take advantage of the home’s coastal location, Capri designed it to include a balcony off the primary suite. Similarly, a new and very unique feature was added well after construction was underway. Realizing what an amazing view the home offered from the balcony, the owners got to wondering why they couldn’t capture
Oregon Home | 39 even more of that view by converting what was supposed to be a simple roof into a oneof-a-kind observation deck accessed by a spiral staircase. “We just realized what an incredible view they had from there, so we added a staircase and railings,” Amanda says. “There’s a little French door off the bathroom, so they can go out and enjoy the view and the fresh air.” In addition to getting creative to make the site work for this particular home, Dustin and Amanda had to adapt in another way during this project: When the homeowners first called them, it was January 2020. Dailey was completing a medical fellowship on the East Coast, and Ennis was living in Ohio, so they started meeting with them digitally, assuming they’d get together in person when the couple relocated to Oregon. “Then COVID hit and that evaporated,” Amanda says. For much of the rest of the project, the architects and homeowners met mostly throughout Zoom. “It’s not revolutionary anymore, but we always talk about how that project became a pivot for our whole process,” Dustin says. “Now Zoom is so ingrained in our firm, but it was a big transition at the time.” And while Zoom does work almost as well as in-person meetings between architects and clients, it does have its limitations. Case in point: When designing one of the bathrooms for the home, the architects suggested a window in the shower with a sill height of 5 feet, 4 inches. Having never met the couple in person, they didn’t know Ennis was just under 5 feet tall. “We all laughed about that,” Amanda says. “So even though you can do most things digitally these days, I still maintain there’s no substitute for being in person, on-site.” capriarchitecture.com
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Oregon Home | 43 COLOR By EMILY GROSVENOR | Photos by HEATHER KEELING Life Lived in WHEN KRISTIN VAN BUSKIRKfirst walked through the 1920s Portland Heights Tudor she now lives in with her husband and teenage child, she knew it was enough of a blank canvas for her vibrant love of color. “We were only the third occupant, and it hadn’t been touched in 60 years,” Buskirk says. “It has every element you need for a creative person who wants to make themselves a house.” The former color-design director for Nike and owner of Woonwinkel, a downtown shop where you can actually shop by color category, was used to making bold color choices and connecting options to the feelings she wants to elicit in spaces. She began her painting project in the home with a small eating nook, choosing Miller Paint’s “Palest of Lemon,” a light yellow with green and red undertones, with enough gray in it that it works as a neutral. The owner of Portland gift boutique Woonwinkel gets candid about being bold at home. I wanted it to help wake me up as the sun rose, the way a really subtle alarm clock would,” Van Buskirk says, of the room’s color. “
44 | Oregon Home CHOOSING THE OBJECTS that populate Woonwinkel comes easy — they are all curated to Van Buskirk’s taste, based on her two decades working professionally with color. “It’s different at home,” Van Buskirk says. “We all like color, but we have different wants and tastes, and melding it all together can be a challenge.” Van Buskirk, who started out as a fine artist, has long explored the emotional human connection to color. “Color makes you feel things,” she says, “so we can really put it to work in our homes.” So once the nook was painted, she began developing a palette that would connect the spaces to each other. It really makes sense to think about the house in terms of the whole,” Van Buskirk says. “
COLOR CAN BE brought into the home through objects, furniture, or walls — and in Van Buskirk’s case, all three. The shop owner paid close attention to the sight lines, often sitting in one room while looking through to the other spaces. “This helps the choices feel more cohesive,” she says. “I’m always thinking about how I can pick colors that can be expressed in different ways throughout the home.” But even someone who is color confident can benefit from a second opinion, so Van Buskirk enlisted her friend Erin Albin from Appetite Interiors to fine-tune some of the colors for the other rooms. Achieving the right balance of color can be a bit of a puzzle,” Van Buskirk says. “Sometimes it helps to have another set of color-savvy eyes on things.” “
LAYERING COLORS ON top of colors — such as using colorful objects in addition to color on the walls — becomes possible, Van Buskirk says, once you understand that the right colors on the wall can feel neutral. For example, in her dining room, Van Buskirk likes to set a table with bright plaid linens, which feel modern and unfussy in a room painted with Miller Paint’s “Marble Green.” “Color is about feeling,” she says. “It can give you that boost you need based on whatever you are dealing with in life.” I love the energy that a bold pattern brings to a space,” Van Buskirk says. “The local brand Madre has won my heart with its colorful linens.” “
Oregon Home | 47 VAN BUSKIRK WORKS with many paint companies but is especially fond of local company Miller Paint’s Northwest Color Collection, which brings together a palette of muddled in-between colors suited to the region she calls home. When she tests paints at home, she uses the entire sample can to paint as much of a wall as possible so she can sense the effect of the color over time before committing. “The beauty of paint is that it’s one of the less expensive changes you can make at home and you can experiment on whatever schedule you have and based on how you are feeling,” she says. Marble Green Casa De Oro Melbourne Blessed Blue Palest of Lemon Hue is the Artist Shallow Moon
48 | Oregon Home CUSTOM FIT: Renaissance Homes Brooke Sullivan and Matt Williams were well on their way to designing and building their dream home on their 8 scenic acres in rural Beaverton when they had a revelation. Despite the fact they were heading into the engineering phase of the home, they weren’t happy with how it was going. Friends and family had warned the couple that building a custom home was likely going to be a painful experience. And at least at first, they were right. Sullivan and Williams picked a builder they thought was a good fit, but the ensuing year proved RENAISSANCE HOMES HELPS A COUPLE CREATE THE RURAL ESCAPE THEY’VE BEEN LONGING FOR. By Jon Bell to be one of frustration: sparse communication, plenty of invoices and an overall feeling that the relationship was not the right one. So, a year — and a good chunk of change — into the process, they pulled the plug. “We were less than thrilled, and so we decided to almost start over,” Sullivan says. The husband and wife met eight years ago while working at a hospital in Texas; she’s a registered nurse, he’s an emergency medicine physician. They decided they wanted to find a different builder — somebody with a respected reputation and a history From Dream Home to Reality
Oregon Home | 49 of attractive, quality homes; somebody who would engage in conversation, solve problems creatively and make them feel like they were part of the team. During their search, they visited a Renaissance Homes open house in Lake Oswego. Founded by Randy Sebastian in 1984, Renaissance Homes has become one of the region’s most wellknown builders of luxury homes over the past four decades. Renaissance Homes is now also focusing on custom homes and is sought after for its streamlined building process and promise to deliver the best-built homes for its clients. Sullivan, a West Linn native, knew of Renaissance Homes simply from growing up here, but she was also familiar with the builder’s participation in the NW Natural Street of Dreams. Michael Lutz, a broker for Renaissance Homes, was working the open house when Sullivan and Williams visited. He connected with the couple, who shared with Lutz some of the vision for the home they had in mind for themselves. “He was so kind and so welcoming, and just let us know they were here for us,” Sullivan says. “When we left, we were like, ‘This is what we are supposed to do.’” Sullivan and Williams worked closely with the team at Renaissance Homes to make their home a reality. Renaissance Homes offers clients the choice to select one of its award-winning plans from its extensive collection, or clients can work with Renaissance Homes’ architectural design team to create a custom home plan. Many clients opt to select a plan from the Renaissance collection and make personal modifications to it, which is exactly what Sullivan and Williams did. “That was something we didn’t know you could do,” Sullivan says, “but it was a game-changer.” That meant flipping the layout, adding a dog shower in the garage (the couple has five dogs) a door in the bedroom that opens to the outside and a pocket door for the en suite bathroom in the guest room. They also worked in an extra closet in one of the bedrooms and a fireplace in the primary suite. The team at Renaissance Homes was able to help Sullivan and Williams bring their ideas for what they wanted into reality. “The communication was fantastic,” Williams says. “They were so good at understanding what we were saying even though we may not have been good at saying it. They interpreted and translated what we wanted and just did a great job of helping us find what we wanted.” What the couple also appreciated about Renaissance Homes was the company’s efforts to keep the project within — and
50 | Oregon Home even a little under — budget. They were grateful for Renaissance Homes’ transparency when it came to cost and how nothing tripped up the team: not an extended permitting process, not the well or septic system, and not the fact that the property is all-electric with no natural gas or propane. “They knew how to do all that,” Williams says. “Nothing was an issue for them.” The end product is a handsome, 3,300-square-foot, single-level, modern farmhouse home. It’s got a circular driveway and what Sullivan calls “the biggest garage in the world,” as well as a 600-square-foot patio and tons of windows that let in natural light and frame the treed and territorial views out across their acreage. Sullivan and Williams say the home is just what they had in mind for capturing the slower-paced, rural living they were in search of after living in bustling cities and working in health care, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their property, which they bought in 2021, boasts woods, an orchard and a pond; it’s not unusual to see bald eagles soaring past out the windows. “I had lived in Boston, New Orleans, Austin, and I got kind of tired of living downtown,” Williams says. “Part of the drive [to move out to the country] is having kind of a built-in hobby, an escape, to get away from all of that. We totally lucked into that with this property.” Even though Sullivan and Williams moved into their new home in November, they say Renaissance has never been far away. Any last-minute needs they had, they could call and someone from Renaissance Homes would be right out. And the day they officially moved in, their team from Renaissance welcomed them home. “The day we moved in, everyone who had been on our team came out,” Sullivan says. “It was so sweet and kind.” renaissance-homes.com
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52 | Oregon Home CUSTOM FIT: John’s Waterproofing The photos alone are enough to send chills through any homeowner. Rotted wooden support posts in a crawl space with jagged edges stained black with mold. Tipsy stacks of concrete blocks and bricks that have no business trying to support the floor above. A 3-inch gap of nothing but air in between a basement post and the concrete footing it should be sitting atop. John’s Waterproofing has an easy way to shore up sagging floors and rotting posts. BY JON BELL FIRM FOOTING, STABLE GROUND
Oregon Home | 53 bouncy and sloped floors.” But if you catch a glimpse of these kinds of scary posts or notice the sticky doors or sloping floors that Barber describes, have no fear: SmartJacks are here. In use for many years now, SmartJacks are adjustable, engineered, galvanized-steel posts that are positioned underneath a home to help support areas that may be sagging or otherwise compromised. Rated to carry up to 30,000 pounds, they’re often installed to replace a home’s original supports, which may have rotted or sunk over the years as the Northwest’s rain-filled soils have settled and shifted. “When the home’s wooden posts begin to go out and not do their job, the home’s structural integrity is undermined,” Barber says. “To protect the home and the family from these issues, action needs to be taken. The sooner it is addressed, the better.” In addition to water damaging a home’s wooden support posts, Barber says there’s another big reason to call in the SmartJacks: excess weight. “A lot of older houses were not designed to carry they loads they do, so you get sagging floors,” he says. “Maybe someone has added heavy furniture or a piano that the home just wasn’t designed for. Not a pretty sight. “Water issues can lead to damage for the wooden posts that support your home,” says Colton Barber, production manager for John’s Waterproofing, a specialist in basement waterproofing, crawl-space encapsulating and similar services for nearly 50 years. “This can look like posts that are rotting away, mushy and floating above their footings. These issues will manifest in the home’s livable spaces with doors that stick in their frame and SmartJacks (below) are superior to traditional wooden support posts (left), which can rot or sink over time, like this one.
54 | Oregon Home In that case, we add SmartJacks as a supplemental support.” Because subsoils tend to shift beneath homes throughout the various seasons, crews from John’s Waterproofing dig down about 2 feet to reach soil that is much more stable. Once at that level, they install crushed stone; then, on top of that, either a footing or the steel base plate of the SmartJack, which the jack itself is bolted onto. The SmartJack is then adjusted to the proper height so that it is supporting the beam appropriately. The jacks not only halt any further downward movement of the floor, but they can also be adjusted to lift a sagging floor back to its original position. Barber says SmartJacks are only for interior support from within a basement or a crawl space, not for exterior foundation walls. But for interior support, he says SmartJacks are superior to traditional wooden-post options. For starters, they’re galvanized steel, so they’re going to last — and won’t rot or mildew. They’re also available in various lengths, so they can be used in tight crawl spaces or those that are 10 or more feet in height. And SmartJacks are adjustable by about 8 inches, which is key in the Northwest, where no matter what valiant attempts are made, soils are bound to shift over time. “Things are going to settle,” Barber says. “We do annual maintenance, so we’ll come in and check on the SmartJacks, and tighten them and loosen them as needed every year.” What’s more, the teams at John’s Waterproofing are speedy when it comes to installing SmartJacks. Barber says most installations, which can be done year-round, take just a single day. Barber also says it’s important for homeowners to regularly be on the lookout for signs of compromised supports, such as doors that stick, floors that are sagging and windows that won’t open. “There are signs that can be detected from your living space that a bigger issue could be happening below-grade,” he says. “You want to protect your home, so it’s important to pay attention to it.” johnswaterproofing.com THERE ARE SIGNS THAT CAN BE DETECTED FROM YOUR LIVING SPACE THAT A BIGGER ISSUE COULD BE HAPPENING BELOW-GRADE. YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR HOME, SO IT’S IMPORTANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO IT.” —COLTON BARBER JOHN’S WATERPROOFING
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56 | Oregon Home Floral artist Françoise Weeks makes magic of the Oregon forest. Françoise Weeks understands that enchantment can be a process of gathering. “Gorgeousness always stops me in my tracks,” she says. The floral artist, known for her Portland studio workshops and global fan base (not to mention her captivating Instagram), has spent the last two decades harvesting bark, seeds, moss, lichen, branches, and mushrooms from Oregon’s sumptuous private forests. This month she collects projects big and small inspired by her forays with a new book, Wonder of the Woodlands: The Art of Seeing and Creating with Nature. Woodland Wonder Wonder of the Woodlands Copyright@2024 by Françoise Weeks. Photograph copyright@2024 by Theresa Bear. Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Oregon Home | 57 PERFECT PLACEMENT: ABOVE THE MANTLE Ever since her early years living in Oregon, Weeks has embraced a mindful activity of dropping single branches of plants she finds into small, often recycled vases. “I’ve never spent much on the container,” Weeks says. Individual vases with single ferns, like the wavy fern pictured here in a cut birch vase, make for a simple but elegant table setting, she adds.
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Oregon Home | 59 These days Weeks moves between the small delights of quick arrangements and the big impact of highly considered works. For this piece, she drew inspiration from the space under a mid-century coffee table. After noticing that she had gathered a lot of interesting moss recently, she decided on the spot to create a moss-carpet installation. “It’s perfect for an athome cocktail party,” she says. First she layered plastic on the floor to protect the materials. Then she built a foundation with attractive barks and glued various mosses, foraged mushrooms, ferns and lichens to the base. She finished off the piece with tiny pots of violets and pansies for pops of purple.
60 | Oregon Home Weeks often brings fungi into her work — both varieties she forages in the Oregon woods and types she might pick up at a farmers market. “I’m addicted to mushrooms,” Weeks says. “They are so fabulous.” Here she used a well-worn, bowl-shaped driftwood as a stage upon which to arrange a tiny forest scene — the kind of piece that invites you to come closer. She layered it with enoki mushrooms, morels, seed pods, pinecones and cotinus flowers. “I’m constantly searching,” she says.
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