Dietz
Greg and Jane Dietz spent some time visiting Japan while their daughter lived there. That, coupled with their Wisconsin love for Prairie Style architecture and the nautical character of Door County, served as the foundation for their new home in Sturgeon Bay. Reminiscent of early 1900s Arts and Crafts harbormaster structures along the Lake Michigan coast, this home will house the activities of Greg and Jane, along with visiting adult children and friends. The home is constructed with super-insulated walls, energy-efficient windows and in-floor radiant heat which...
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If it’s true that ‘Architecture is the backdrop to life’, this house had no other fate than to be as unconventional and eclectic as the two wonderful women who call it home. Peg and Hadj have been friends and co-restaurateurs over a lifetime filled with world travels, art, study groups, and great homemade pie. Their home had to embrace all these activities, plus the constant flow of many friends who fill the roomswhile opening itself up to all the varied views of forest and meadows right outside the windows. The house is based on the concept of a 2-person...
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Every piece of farm work is also an attempt to solve a problem, and therefore it should have its intellectual interest. It needs but the informing of the mind and the quickening of the imagination to raise any constructive and creative work above the level of drudgery. — Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1905 There is a romance that surrounds the country life. Rob and Joanna Stephens dreamed of creating a small agrarian estate where they could raise Alpacas and relax amidst the long views of meadow and woodland. Theirs is a life of intense professional schedules, grounded by a core of...
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