Harbor Hideaway / The Up Studio
Harbor Hideaway / The Up Studio
Text description provided by the architects. Located in the centuries-old whaling village of Sag Harbor, NY, Harbor Hideaway is a single-family two-story residence. The property is situated in the center of a small peninsula and is one of the only lots in the neighborhood without direct water views. Although the instinct would be to design a new house to face the street, The Up Studio flipped the traditional orientation of the home to face the rear corner of the yard. This design decision created privacy from the street corner, immersed the family in greenery, and reclaimed previously obstructed water views, Heal Me Healthy.
The home was nearing completion in 2020 as New York experienced a major shift towards remote work, which made many seasonal neighborhoods like these more desirable for full-time residents seeking relief from congested city life. Although the homeowners initially hired The Up Studio to design a custom home specifically for their family, the increase in demand from homebuyers in the area led them to list the house prior to moving in.
The home was quickly sold just after completion and both the new owners and the original family have continued to work with The Up Studio. The entire home utilizes a simple material palette of blackened steel, light hardwood, and neutral colors. These material and fixture selections provide a subtle sophistication and allow the property’s surrounding natural elements to organically provide a pop of color. At entry, the custom wood stair design connects the three interior levels of the home with a single gesture and provides a sense of openness that makes the home’s modest footprint feel much larger.
The home’s rhythmic, black cedar facade wraps the entire home to naturally shade the south-facing bedrooms from the high summer sun and becomes a visual connection between the home and the carport, creating a covered entry in its path. The first-floor facade was designed to act as a subtle privacy screen from the street, while the rear of the home is fully glazed on both levels with custom Marvin Modern windows to create a strong connection between the home’s interiors, the property’s natural landscape, and the spectacular views of the nearby harbors.
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Shiloh Place receives award from Keep Fremont Beautiful for new landscaping | Local News
The idea to expand Shiloh Place came almost suddenly to Cyndi Whitten.
“We only had 16 beds in this, and I thought, ‘You know, we have all of this land, and I could put beds there,’” she said. “So one day just on a whim, we just called a contractor and voila, we doubled our size.”
With the addition to the assisted living center at 915 N. H St. now completed, Shiloh Place has received recognition from Keep Fremont Beautiful with its Clean Sweep Award.
“We are honored to have gotten it, and we really receive it with humility and gratitude from the community and on behalf of the whole neighborhood,” Whitten said. “We’re grateful to our neighbors and grateful to the chamber for acknowledging us and whoever nominated us.”
The award was given Nov. 12 during KFB’s annual Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce coffee event, in which KFB Board Director Al Sawtelle handed out various awards.
KFB Executive Director Casey Vaughan said the award is part of the organization’s recognition program.
“Part of our mission is to engage community members in taking a greater responsibility for our local environment, and the recognition program does that by recognizing those that are doing their part to keep the community clean, green and beautiful,” she said.
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The program also includes handing out certificates of appreciation to individuals on a monthly basis from April to September.
“Those are to local residences that are taking special steps to reduce litter, improve recycling or enhance the appearance of their property,” Vaughan said.
The Clean Sweep Award, given annually in November, goes to a local business or organization that has enhanced the appearance of its property through structural renovations or landscaping.
Vaughan said the Clean Sweep Award has nominations come in through community members and board members, and like the certificates, is voted on by the KFB Board.
“They just felt that Shiloh Place had done a beautiful job enhancing the exterior of their facility,” she said.
Whitten opened Shiloh Place with her husband, Eden, in 2014, in a Victorian mansion built in 1880. As well as assisted living, the center also provides medication management and meals.
“We also have our adult day program on Military, which offers activities and socialization during the day for adults who don’t have a lot to do during the day,” Whitten said. “And we provide transportation to and from that and to and from doctor’s appointments.”
As the building had a huge chunk of land next to it with no use, Whitten knew she wanted to expand Shiloh Place.
“My group here doesn’t really use the yard very much. It’s just a lot of older people, and it’s not just something we use,” she said. “We have to take care of it, but didn’t use it.”
Whitten brought the idea to her husband and First State Bank and Trust, which works with the center on its adult day program.
“I never saw myself building or adding on like this, but I’m really pleased that we chose to do this,” she said.
With a loan from First State Bank and everyone on board, the Whittens got to work on the project, which also included renovations to the existing building.
As well as repairing the building, Whitten said Fauss Construction also made the roof consistent with the addition.
“It was just time to do that. When they were tearing that old roof off, I think there were 10 layers on it,” she said. “It was bad.”
Additionally, Whitten said Siffring Landscaping and Garden Center provided landscaping, which included plants alongside a new sidewalk compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“They just did a fantastic job, and it’s all the way around,” she said. “And so we’re really super pleased with the job.”
Whitten said she was happy to receive so much help on the project, which was completed last summer.
“Thank God it started pre-COVID, because I got it built right before the price of lumber doubled and tripled, and I’m so grateful for that,” she said. “And we filled those beds almost immediately.”
The addition has been “seamless” for Shiloh Place’s existing residents, Whitten said.
“All of our residents are loving it,” she said. “We’ve also had people stop by, walking by and driving by, and just say how pretty it is. So we’re really enjoying it.”
Whitten said she was pleased that Shiloh Place received the Clean Sweep Award, as she said the area looked rough before the project was completed.
“We wanted it to look really nice for our neighbors, but it didn’t for a long time,” she said. “And so it’s very nice for everybody, for the whole community.”
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Valley Lakes Assisted Living Executive Director Kris Pryor talks about the facility’s recent remodel.
Alyce Wilke, right, a resident in the assisted living community at The Heritage at Shalimar Gardens, talks with Chuck Davis, maintenance director. Wilke played an April Fools’ joke on Davis that went viral on social media. Now, the two are talking about a future joke they might play on another staff member.
New art gallery brings opportunity for artists, art lovers | Local News
OSKALOOSA — Artists in Mahaska County and beyond now have the opportunity to showcase their work at the newly-opened Envision Art Gallery.
Located in Penn Central Mall, the gallery has something for every price point, from $5 prints to $1,000 paintings and everything in between.
Owner Vera Babich decided to open the gallery after noticing a high concentration of artists and art lovers in the area.
“It is a very artistically rich and diverse community,” she said. “Since we moved here in 2009, we’ve met so many talented people and seen so much beautiful art done by them.”
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“We needed a place where people can come any time and see [art],” Babich said. “There are so many people I know who do art but they don’t have any way to display it.”
For the artists, Envision is a chance to showcase talents that those around them might not even know they have.
Oskaloosa-based artist Julie VerSteegh is one of the five creators currently on display in the gallery.
Though many who know her know of her talents in graphic design, VerSteegh was surprised at how many people didn’t know she that she is also a multimedia artist.
“I have people who I’ve been friends with in town for 20 years who say ‘oh, I didn’t know you do art,’” she said.
Several of her paintings and illustrations can be found available for purchase at Envision.
The gallery makes it possible for Versteegh and other local artists like her to showcase their work to potential costumers or art appreciators.
The gallery also includes works by Ames-based photographer Igor Kovalenko; colorful illustrator Jane Ryder; watercolor, pastel, oil and acrylic painter Vitali V. Lobov; and Babich’s husband, Sergiu Nagorny. Nagorny’s pieces include metalsmithing, chainmaille, copper decor and “wearable art”.
Though not all of the artists are Iowa-born, each has made Iowa their home. Many of the pieces on display from each of the artists represent or show recognizable Oskaloosa and Iowa scenes.
“A lot of times art means more to people if they have a connection with it,” VerSteegh said.
Whether it be a print of the Oskaloosa City Square’s band shell or a one-of-a-kind jewelry piece, Envision Art Gallery has something for everyone.
“For a small town like Oskaloosa, there’s a lot of things happening in the community to support art,” Babich said. “There are people who create art and there’s just as many people who want to see art. I thought we needed to be that connection between the artists and the audience who is interested in art.”
Clark Garden wins honorable mention in All-America Selections Landscape Design Challenge – Community News
North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board have announced that Clark Botanic Garden was an honorable mention in the All-America Selections 2021 Landscape Design Challenge in the 10,000 to 100,000 visitors per year category.
All-America Selections is an independent non-profit organization that tests new, never-before-sold varieties. After a full season of anonymous trialing by volunteer horticulture professionals, only the top garden performers are given the AAS Winner award designation for their superior performance.
“I was so pleased to learn that All-America Selections has once again recognized the natural beauty that is on full display at Clark Botanic Garden in their Landscape Design Challenge,” said Bosworth. “This is a testament to our incredible Parks Department team and the wonderful staff working at Clark Botanic Garden. Their passion for and dedication to Clark Botanic Garden is what makes this special park a true hidden gem worth visiting here in the Town of North Hempstead.”
This year’s theme of the AAS Landscape Design Challenge was “Diversity in the Garden.” AAS provided the gardens with winning seeds from the last five years. Gardens not only had to create and execute a design based on this year’s theme but were also encouraged to generate publicity via social media and “real life” social events. Gardens were divided into three categories based on the number of visitors per year:
Category I: fewer than 10,000 visitors per year
Category II: 10,000 – 100,000 visitors per year
Category III: Over 100,000 visitors per year
Town horticulturist Bonnie Klein directed Clark Botanic Garden’s participation in the All-America Selections 2021 Landscape Design Challenge.
This year a formal Victorian oval including All-America Selections Winners were grown and designed by Clark staff. The planting area holds a diverse array of plant materials, traditional in a botanic garden.
“The AAS program at Clark Botanic Garden helps to educate our community about the wonderful variety of plants you can use in your home landscape. These grand displays are a wonderful form of entertainment where visitors can find an exciting yet peaceful space at Clark Botanic Garden for all to explore and enjoy,” said Bonnie Klein, town horticulturist.
Clark Botanic Garden is an AAS Display Garden, providing the public with an opportunity to view the newest AAS Winners (annuals) in an attractive well-maintained setting. The network of nearly 200 dedicated AAS gardens includes 55 locations that have served for 25 years or longer.
Founded in 1969, Clark Botanic Garden is a 12-acre living museum and education facility for all ages. Collections at the garden include native spring wildflowers, conifers, roses, perennials, daylilies, wetland plants, rock garden plants, herbs and over a dozen collections of particular plant families.
Clark Botanic Garden is located at 193 I.U. Willets Road in Albertson.
Landscape marked by giant designs
You may well have witnessed aerial pics of geoglyphs in Peru and Chili or even people situated in Fantastic Britain and Australia, but here in the United States we also have equal cultural treasures.
A geoglyph is outlined as “a huge structure or motif created on the floor by strong aspects of the landscape, these types of as stones, stone fragments, gravel or earth.” Additional than 600 geoglyphs of the precise style known as “intaglios” have been found in the Southwest, Get Auto Tips.
Amid the ideal-identified and most interesting are the Blythe Intaglios, considerably less than 4 hrs driving from Las Vegas, in the vicinity of the lower Colorado River in jap California. These gigantic artworks are greatest considered from helicopter or airplane but without a flying equipment at your disposal, a stop by by way of car and shoe leather can be satisfying, too.
Intaglios had been presumably guy-created extensive ago, by engraving, tamping and scraping away the all-natural desert pavement, which uncovered the lighter soils and gravel beneath. These intaglios are so substantial that they have been not obvious to non-Indians until finally 1932. That yr a pilot, George Palmer, discovered them though traveling from Las Vegas to Blythe, California. His discovery led to a study of the region by the All-natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
There are 6 intaglios at this web site, lying in 3 spots, atop two mesas. Intaglios are categorized by their designs, these as anthropomorphs (humanlike), zoomorphs (animallike) and different geometric shapes. The greatest anthropomorph at this site is 171 ft from head to toe. One particular, named the Human Determine, has arms stretched out and the feet turned outward and measures 105.6 toes from suggestion to toe with the arm span measuring 91.8 ft large. There are apparent knees and elbows. For some reason, anthropomorphs so significantly found out lie in close proximity to the Colorado River.
At this web page there are also zoomorphs that look to be a rattlesnake and an animal assumed to stand for a cougar or probably a horse. There are interpretive signs with aerial photographs, possibly the viewpoint from which the artists envisioned their performs to be considered.
Many presume they are religious figures as they are organized to be visible to supernatural beings in the sky. Scientists really do not all concur on the precise age of these geoglyphs, but most imagine they ended up manufactured by the Mohave and Quechan Indians about 450 to 2,000 many years ago. However, neither of these peoples, who reside close by on the Colorado, claims to have designed them.
Even so, these will work are thought of sacred by Native Americans. They are mentioned on the Countrywide Register of Historic Areas, and now lie in the Significant Marias Location of Critical Environmental Worry, selected in 1987 to secure the cultural and normal sources in the location these as these intaglios, location rock art, Alversons’ foxtail cactus, barrel cactus and wildlife such as desert bighorn sheep.
Regretably, the Blythe Intaglios weren’t fenced in until finally 1974 and hence expert destruction prompted by 20th century humans and their wheeled automobiles. This instance really should provide as a warning to those people of us who enjoy the back state.
When other intaglio web-sites have been recognized in our area, there are considered to be a lot more even now unidentified and therefore unprotected. If you are out poking all-around in the desert and you do stumble upon what may possibly be a internet site, respect it. Be certain not to disturb in any way and just take a extensive detour about it. It can be ruined for good by driving on it, or disturbing it in any way, possibly even walking on it. Higher than all, hardly ever increase your own design and style as this compromises the website and modifications the meaning of long-in the past men and women who developed it.
For far more facts make contact with the Bureau of Land Management’s Yuma discipline workplace in Arizona at 928-317-3200 or go to www.blm.gov.
Lots of of Deborah Wall’s columns have been compiled into books about climbing in the Southwest. She is also the creator of “Great Hikes, a Cerca State Guide” and a co-creator of the book “Access For All, Viewing the Southwest With Constrained Mobility.” Wall can be achieved at Deborabus@aol.com.
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