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GOOD TIDINGS TO ALL… It seems there’s never quite enough time to do all that we want during the holidays. We

expend an exasperatingly large amount of energy baking cookies, attending holiday concerts, decorating and shopping, among the many other everyday tasks we put upon

ourselves – which sometimes leaves us feeling a bit out of sorts. However, we found some savvy central Ohio homeowners who have created a state of bliss

by transforming rooms and areas of their homes into something quite extraordinary. In this issue, homeowners share why these unique spots have special meaning and why they retreat to these areas of their homes when things get a bit hectic – during the holidays and year round.

When it comes to holiday decorating, I admit I am a bit challenged. The garland always seems to be a few inches shy of completely covering the mantel, and it’s been years since I updated the look of my tree. The purple and gold bulbs, bows and ting ting – those glittery, spiraled sticks that are supposed to add depth to a Christmas tree – somehow lack the same sparkle they once had two decades ago.

Fortunately for readers like myself, our By Design feature includes photos of some spectac-ularly decorated homes for the holidays that are chock full of inspiration. We also consulted some local decorating pros who gave us their reasons for the season and how they make merry during the holidays.

And for those who can’t get enough of football or tailgating in the fall, in Gourmet Style we have expert entertaining advice and simple tips for extending the season right through the college bowl games and Super Bowl by throwing a tasteful gathering at home.

Whatever the holidays and winter bring us this year, my hope is that our hearts are merry and light, and that family and friends draw near.

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ContentsHoliday 2010

ON THE COVER Bliss Space 12Homeowners give themselves a treasured gift

DEPARTMENTSBy Design 18Decorating pros deck the halls

Best of Home 22A 1940s Cape-Cod kitchen gets a makeover

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olidays can be hectic. Somewhere between the glad tidings and joy, busy hom-eowners often find them-selves looking for a “get-out-of-jolly-free” card.

So when it feels as if the holiday train is moving too fast, take a deep breath and step into bliss.

Savvy homeowners have discovered a gift that keeps on giving – no matter the time of year. With their pas-sions as a guide, they have crafted special rooms and spaces within their homes where they can rejuvenate, recharge and renegotiate the hustle and bustle – not just during the holidays but every day.

Bliss is different for every-one. From media rooms to meditation retreats to home gyms, a bliss room makes

time spent at home more en-joyable, which tops anyone’s wish list.

Eat, drink, be married

For Joe and Evelyn Cas-selli, Italy is right down the stairs.

“It’s about eating and drinking wine,” Joe Casselli says.

The couple’s lower-level tasting room and movie the-ater allow the two to explore those passions, along with football games and first-rate TV nights. But it’s the 1,500-bottle wine cellar that is the real star of the custom space.

“They wanted a space that celebrated wine,” says interior designer Sally Mc-Donald, who created the Cas-

sellis’ “vinocentric” haven. The cellar sits in the middle of a tasting space that fea-tures antique furniture and stone walls and floors. A wall of sepia-toned photos dis-plays the couple’s family his-tories near a custom mural of ancient oak barrels and dusty wine bottles. Next to it, a door leads to an adjoining movie theater where custom portraits of big-screen stars of the past and scenes of spy intrigue line the walls. Fur-ther in, comfy green movie chairs await.

Married for 50 years, the couple has been in love with wine and food for at least 35 of them.

“Having a glass of wine with a woman is a romantic situation,” Joe says. “That never changes.”

The Cassellis spend three

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weeks in Italy each year, usually in Tuscany. Large color photographs of Italian grape fields and street scenes are littered throughout the house. But when they can’t be in Tuscany, the two escape downstairs. “We’re enjoying life,” Joe says.

Piano fortéBrenda and Jim Castle

bought their Tartan Fields

home in Dublin for the pit. “It’s the focal point of com-ing into the house,” Brenda says of the recessed circular area in the foyer floor that is home to a baby grand player piano.

Brenda finds her tranquil-ity lounging on a chaise next to the piano, listening as it plays anything from Barry Manilow to rock and roll.

The piano “room” is one of the couple’s favorite areas

of the house. The instrument’s music

has a calming effect, trans-forming the home into a 6,000-plus-square-foot bliss space.

“It has a peaceful effect through(out) the house,” Brenda says. “Regardless of how stressed you may be or how hectic your day might have been, in a short period of time, you’re completely relaxed.”

The piano music has a peaceful effect throughout the house.

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Brenda’s open office area upstairs is another favored spot as it is located directly above the piano.

Jim prefers relaxing in the gym and sauna in the finished lower level or by smoking cigars in his TV room located off the kitchen.

The couple chose their interior decorator, Chris King of Manifesto, because he em-braced the pit and envisioned the beautiful music that par-

ticular space could make. “Chris just immediately

got it when he walked in,” Brenda says.

The couple put few boundaries on King’s decor-ating.

The only demand they made for the foyer was that King include a palm tree to pay tribute to their love of all things Florida.

“He saw the design and what would work, and it fit

in with the vision we had for the house,” Jim says.

Other than that, the couple visited local galleries and shops with King to pick out knickknacks he could use as a jumping off point for their design preferences. The finished home brought Brenda to tears. The couple hasn’t changed a thing.

“You come in and you feel comfortable,” Brenda says. “This is home.”

Mastering ZenLight barely seeps

through the wood shutters in Van Lemmon and Michael Keleher’s Asian-inspired Zen lounge on a recent fall afternoon.

The space sits between the Victorian Village home’s for-mal dining and living rooms. It features deep red walls, Asian antiques and a custom sofa that hugs the geometric-shaped wall.

An occupational thera-pist, Lemmon works with children who have learning and developmental disabili-ties. He uses the meditation-like space to brainstorm ways to help them learn and grow.

“This is the place where I try to figure out what may work for that child,” he says. Lemmon uses the quiet room to engage in two things about which he is passion-ate – inventing learning tools and writing rhyming children’s books. The décor is designed to cultivate creative thinking, and features subtle natural lines. A Persian rug grounds the space.

“When we picked out the artwork, I didn’t want any-thing busy,” Lemmon says. “I’m easily distracted, so I wanted to keep things very simple and understated.”

After the two put their 4-year-old son, Carter, to bed, Lemmon often spends downtime in the lounge.

“It’s a good place to brain-storm and prioritize what needs to be done,” he says.

“I’d rather do that here, in a calm, relaxing room, than do it in my bedroom before I go to bed.”

While serving as a motivating place of respite, the room also expresses the couple’s love of travel and sophisticated sense of style.

“I think it’s in good bal-ance,” Lemmon says. •

Photo by JAMES D. DECAMP

At left: Van Lemmon’s Zen room is both inspiring and

calming.

At right: For the past few years, the BIA Parade of

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By Design


Merry MAKINGLocal decorating pros get personal about their reasons for the season.STORY BY KATHERINE HARBEN PHOTOS BY JOHN KNOUFF

Everyone is a designer come the holidays. Draping their homes in color,

glamour and sparkle, even decorating-challenged home-owners love to spread their holiday cheer on walls, man-tels and much more. Their motivations and inspirations are as varied as the style of homes in which they live.

But what of those who make delightful décor their year-round vocation? How do professional decorators deck their own halls during the holidays?

As a special holiday treat, Central Ohio Home & Garden visited a few beauti-fully decked-out New Albany homes and asked local de-signers to weigh in on the holiday traditions that make their seasons merry – from table to tinsel to time spent together.

The holidays usu-ally have Rick Miller seeing red, and the

owner of Miller Van Order Interiors couldn’t be happier.

Already enamored with

the fiery color used through-out his own home’s everyday décor, Miller adds layers of sparkly scarlet, crimson and rose during the holidays.

“It just makes me feel good,” Miller says.

For this interior designer, the holidays are not a time for subtly.

“I like it to be over the top,” he says. “I like a lot of glitz at Christmas. If one ornament is good, 15 (are) better.”

Miller starts decorating early. A white tree whose ornaments pay homage to interior design always sits in his bedroom.

It features Lilliputian French chairs, chandeliers

and his grandmother’s crys-tal icicles.

Hundreds of ornaments fill cherub-topped trees throughout his home. Miller poses the cherubs to look as if they are placing finishing touches of garland. His aunt inspired the idea using elves she handcrafted.

“It was just a delight to see,” he remembers. “She was the Martha Stewart of Utica, Ohio.”

The designer no longer has family nearby, so he spends the holidays with a tight-knit group of friends. “It’s not Christmas without friends, I think,” he says.

Some friends recently hosted a holiday party dur-

The Kid at Heart Rick Miller

ing which everyone sang carols.

“It’s really endearing in a way because you see these people who have major businesses and hectic lives and lots of things going on, but for a fleeting moment, it’s just like it was when you were a little kid,” he remembers.

Miller says he also is try-ing to recapture, in part, that childlike sense of magic in his holiday décor.

“You know how you just look at that stuff as a kid, and it’s just beautiful,” he says.

“My theory is if you’re only going to do one thing, make it beautiful.”

The Christmas ElfDavid Andrews

If central Ohio had an official holiday decorator, it might be David

Andrews.The owner of Designs by

David dresses some of the area’s most beautiful homes for the holidays.

What’s more, after a day of stringing lights, hanging ornaments and coordinating holiday colors, the designer goes home to his own winter wonderland, filled with a half-dozen carefully decorated trees and scads of holiday collections.

“I’ve always been a Christmas fanatic,” Andrews says.

Usually held at his home, the Andrews family celebration is rooted in his mother’s English heritage and his father’s German and Scottish ancestry.

“I think it makes the traditions even more special now that they’re both gone,” Andrews says. “It meant something to them, and now I feel like I carry them on.”

As a child, Andrews embraced the holidays. He was known to rearrange decorations on a family

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As an adult, he ran the tree-trimming department at Lazarus and helped friends decorate their homes. Word got around, and soon Andrews was known as a professional holiday decorator.

Even though his busy holiday season means decorating homes from October to December, Andrews and his siblings take time to incorporate their quirky and grand family traditions.

From his German roots comes hide the pickle. “You take the pickle ornament and

hide it somewhere in the tree, and the first child to find it gets a prize,” Andrews says.

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When it comes to the holidays, Rose Mary and Doug

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people going the whole nine yards, you’re looking at them,” Rose Mary says. The couple owns Findley-Kohler Interiors in Gahanna.

Kohler holidays are focused on enjoying family and friends in abundance.

In total, the couple has six sons, one daughter and eight granddaughters, most of who live close enough to spend the holidays at “Papa Doug and Mimi Rose’s.”

Their decorating philoso-phy is the bigger, the better. The couple despises skinny, little decorations.

“Everything gets deco-rated, inside and out,” Rose Mary says. “You want to make an impact.”

And all of their holiday decorations are fresh. “We use a lot of natural things: fruits and nuts and flowers,” says Rose Mary, whose moth-er also used fresh greenery. “I like the look of real things.”

The Kohlers have kept some childhood traditions. However, they have created many more of their own, from hanging overstuffed stockings filled with surprises to trimming a tree with true meaning.

“All the ornaments have a history and a story behind them,” Rose Mary says. “So, the tree is indeed very special.”

The Kohlers give each of the children and grand-children a special ornament every Christmas.

The tree and ornaments are so important that, one year when the family rented a home in Key West, they shipped a tree from Vermont and brought boxes of family ornaments to decorate it.

At every holiday gather-ing there’s plenty of fam-ily activity — whether it’s all-ages family poker or a board-game marathon — and plenty of food.

“Dinner is a feast,” Doug says.

And then there’s Doug’s Christmas pants. Doug began wearing the patchwork plaid years ago and has since bought versions for his sons and father to don as well. •

guests beautifully wrapped paper containers. With help from the person seated to the right, each guest pulls an end to pop open the cracker and reveal a paper crown, prizes, jokes or a fortune. For the rest of the meal, guests proudly wear their crowns.

“My favorite picture that I have of my mother, she’s wearing this Christmas hat,” Andrews says.

“Now that my nieces and nephews are starting to have families, they’re doing the same thing,” Andrews says. “I think that’s the point of carrying on the traditions. You have to tell the kids about why you do it. By kids seeing and knowing about it at an early age, it becomes important to them, too.”

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table and alcoves where fam-ily could gather. They hired J.S. Brown to enlarge and modernize the space.

“We wanted to hold onto the charm of an old house and make it more comfort-able with modern ameni-ties,” Miller says. “We knew we needed a gathering place with good connection to the backyard.”

The original kitchen and dining room were long and narrow at 242 square feet. Now 440 square feet, the kitchen almost has doubled in size. The DeWitts also ex-tended their backyard patio. The whole family now has more room to work and play.

“We live in this room,” DeWitt says.

When they are not eating or cooking in the kitchen, they usually are watching a game on the flat screen in the kitchen’s seating area. The new gas fireplace below the TV is DeWitt’s favorite feature.

“We just wanted it to be cozy,” DeWitt says.

During the remodel, J.S. Brown updated the kitchen’s storage with maple and cream-colored cabinets. They replaced the flooring with rich-looking engineered maple hardwood planks and porcelain tile that imitates the look of slate. The entry tile cuts into the wood in a

striking, natural pattern. The DeWitts also added

a bar area near the side en-trance. It features glass-front cabinets and a wine refrig-erator. The kitchen’s side entry now accompanies two additional rear entries, which improved the traffic flow.

The “big, ugly” fluores-cents that once dominated the kitchen’s natural light are gone — replaced by recessed lighting. And the granite-topped island DeWitt desired now sits in the middle of the generously sized space.

A gas stovetop and a convection oven-microwave combo face the island. Un-like the bulk of her previous countertop space, which sat far from the sink and refrigerator, DeWitt’s new cooking and prep areas are right within reach.

“Now I have a great work-station,” she says.

The aesthetic of the kitchen is warm and fresh. Buttery beige and cream tones are welcoming and calming. All of the kitchen’s colors are repeated in the custom-colored backsplash tile from Pratt & Larson.

Almost unbelievably, after Miller and DeWitt picked out the backsplash tile, DeWitt discovered a set of family canisters she had put away and forgotten about that were a near-perfect match for the pattern.

A comfortable, Amish-made dining table, chairs and oversized barstools round out the new fam-ily hangout. Beneath them rest thick and wooly area rugs. Above hang Tiffany-style pendant lights with a relaxed-yet-polished crafts-man vibe.

Not surprisingly, DeWitt enlisted family for decorating help.

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Feel at home with NARIWelcome to NARI TODAY. Although winter is right

around the corner, your NARI remodeling professionals are busy starting new interior and exterior projects to keep busy through the season. Don’t let the cold weather delay your plans. We’re ready to start your projects.

Throughout 2010, we have been bringing you the latest news and hottest trends affecting the area’s home remod-eling market through NARI TODAY. A key objective of the National Association of the Re-modeling Industry (NARI) is to

connect central Ohio consum-ers with remodeling industry professionals. This publication is designed to introduce you to

many of our members who have earned a repu-tation for quality and integrity. It also serves as a guide to remodeling the right way.

For the past two years I have served as president of NARI and

will complete my term at the close of 2010. It has been an absolute honor and pleasure to be surrounded by the best and brightest contractors and ser-vice providers in the industry. NARI contractors undergo a

thorough background check and are screened using strin-gent criteria for experience and craftsmanship. They also must display a commitment to the NARI code of ethics. As presi-dent, these standards provide peace of mind by knowing that our members care about you and the experience you encoun-ter with each one of us.

Thank you to all the con-sumers who have helped NARI become the best resource for connecting homeowners with trusted professionals in remod-eling over the past 25 years. Although this may be my last letter in NARI TODAY, a new NARI president will be sworn

in to continue the tradition of excellence through NARI.

I hope you enjoy the content of NARI TODAY and can ex-perience the difference a NARI member can make. For ques-tions about NARI or how to lo-cate a NARI member who can help with remodeling needs, go to TrustNARI.org. We look forward to serving you.

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Many homeowners want to remodel their

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fear of “over improving” have many homeowners hesitant to invest a large amount of money into a kitchen remodel.

Many people mistakenly think they have to sacrifice style and sophistication to keep their kitchen project within budget. However, there are many ways to save money

on material costs and achieve the desired results.

Cabinets typically are the largest expense in any kitchen remodel and can make or break a budget. There are sev-eral different quality and price levels available, and companies now offer a wider selection of entry-level cabinet finishes,

styles and accessories.Most clients shy away from

dark cabinetry because they think their space will appear smaller. But by using proper lighting any homeowner can pull off dark stained cabinetry, which creates a more luxurious looking space.

Cherry is often utilized in higher-end remodels and is absolutely beautiful when stained dark. You can achieve this refined look by choosing maple cabinets, which are more economical, simply by using darker stains. Medal-lion Silverline Cabinetry, for example, offers a beautiful dark stain called Gingersnap as an option for its maple door styles.

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When selecting cabinets don’t forego the mouldings. Many custom kitchens feature stacked crown mouldings, decorative baseboards, and other detailed mouldings. Crown moulding alone can make the least expensive cabi-netry appear custom.

A basic crown moulding offered by most entry-level cabinet manufacturers would be sufficient. Another way to add pizzazz is to install a small moulding, called a lite rail, to line the bottom of the wall cabinets.

Creativity is definitely

necessary when designing a kitchen utilizing a stock cabi-netry company. Many times a homeowner wants some-thing very specific in their new kitchen, and the cabinet manufacturer doesn’t offer what they want. This is where an industry professional can

be very handy.An industry professional

can offer suggestions on how to best utilize cabinets, such as stacking cabinets or using a wall cabinet as a base cabinet, to create the space the client wants. These tricks, plus some variations in cabinet heights and depths, can turn a basic kitchen into an exceptional kitchen.

In addition, decorative hardware is a simple and inex-pensive way to make basic cab-inetry appear high end. There are thousands of knobs and handles available for cabinets. Most hardware collections offer an array of sizes and fin-ishes, so don’t be afraid to mix and match. You can empha-size certain cabinets by using larger sized decorative pulls in a complimentary finish or style. Not only does the ad-dition of decorative hardware look good, it also functions to keep your cabinets free of wear from opening and closing the cabinet doors.

Provide further relief to your budget by skipping the retail stores. A business that supplies materials to contrac-tors typically offers the best pricing as well as the best customer service.

Even though budget is sometimes perceived as syn-onymous with compromise, having an open mind about the design and being selective when choosing upgrades will result in a kitchen design that is stylish as well as budget friendly.

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Winter is the perfect season to tackle interior projects.

Spring and summer typically are the busy seasons when it comes to new con-struction and remodeling. But unlike new home building that slows during the winter, remodeling stays steady year round. In fact, for many home remodelers, January is the second busiest month of the year.

That’s because many interior remodeling projects, such as kitchens, bathrooms and basement remodels, aren’t subject to the harsh winter conditions.

Smaller additions and crawl spaces also can be done in winter with some patience and by weathering in, or en-closing, the area that is being remodeled. Sometimes it is necessary to “tent in” and heat these addition foundations. Having the existing home and utilities makes this task less complicated.

If the project involves installing new windows or a new door as part of the remodel, this, too, can be accomplished during winter. The open space is simply weathered in during the short period of time the window or door is out. Weathering in a home can be required when

it comes to siding, stucco and base coats, which are tempera-ture sensitive.

Snow is typically easier for remodelers to work with than rain and mud. Second-story additions, dormers and roof-ing can often be completed during winter months. It’s much easier to keep out the snow than the rain. Also, contractors typically keep the walks shoveled to keep the snow out of the home, not tracking in mud, which is much more difficult to control.

There are some remodel-

ing projects that should be left for warmer months. New basement foundations, for example, are difficult, if not impractical, to install during winter.

Exterior painting also should not be tackled during winter months. However, contractors typically pre-prime and first coat the wood siding and trim in a heated shop, or in the addition itself, so the wood is protected from environmental elements and can be installed.

Remodeling typically takes place in occupied homes. As

such, clients do not want to deal with remodeling during the holidays. This is a great time for planning, which allows remodeling to start in early January.

If you have put off your remodeling project and think it may be too late in the year, you may want to rethink your timing. It’s never too late to start planning.

Contact your local NARI office, which can recommend a remodeling professional to discuss your project with you.

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More than two centu-ries ago, Paul Revere rode from Boston

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with investors to construct thousands of buildings across the country anticipating the rush of baby boomers who would soon seek their services.

However, a significant seg-ment of this boomer popula-tion didn’t want to abandon their homes for these ame-nity-rich, retirement-home communities. As such, the re-modeling industry across the nation is seeing a tremendous increase in business to meet the needs of this generation.

The boomer population is well educated and resource-ful, and they wisely saved for retirement. They recognize family memories, personal possessions and relationships

with neighbors as important values that could remain intact, and even grow, if they remained at home.

The challenge then becomes finding and providing the right resources and tools to allow those boomers who want to stay at home to live comfort-ably and safely throughout the rest of their lives.

That’s where a trained re-modeling professional comes in. Remodeling professionals who understand the desires of this generation, as well as the natural progression of aging, are focusing on designing space that accommodates this clientele and satisfies their de-sire to remain in their homes.

A growing awareness of universal design also has helped homeowners under-stand the importance of designing space and purchas-ing products that allow their families to evolve comfortably within their home throughout their lifetime.

Universal design is about accessibility and everyday living and applies to people of all ages. As people grow older, their physical needs might change. For example, one person might need simple changes, such as switching out doorknobs, while another might need his or her bath-room remodeled to accommo-date a walk-in bathtub.

Your local NARI office can help point you in the right direction. It offers educational and certification programs to remodeling professionals who want to become experts in universal remodeling.

2010 represented the first year on record when home remodeling projects outnum-bered new home builds – a clear indication that boomers are staying in their homes.

This combination of in-creased awareness, availability of universally designed prod-ucts and demand for boomers to remain in their homes is a trend that is likely to continue for generations to come.

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Two central Ohio garden designers and writers took to glass houses years ago. These “hot-house” lovers flourish there as much, or even more so, than the flora they tend.

Tracy DiSabato-Aust’s “plant lust” resulted in her building a conservatory.

“I travel the world and see plants that I love. I always knew I wanted one,” says DiSabato-Aust, author of 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants, and The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, among others.

Her conservatory nurtures the gardener as much as the banana trees and other tropical residents wintering there.

“It’s more to enjoy the space than growing plants,” she says. “I didn’t want it to be a working greenhouse. I wanted to enjoy be-ing here rather than working it.”

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Conservatories make a “great gathering room,” says Robert Harmon, of Elite Home Remodeling that handles Four Seasons Sun Rooms, which built DiSaba-to-Aust’s conservatory.

Conservatories appeal to people who love the outside. “We see a lot of executive-type people who spend long days in the office. It’s kind of like being at home on vacation,” Harmon says.

Conversely, Debra Knapke dreamed of becoming a world-famous orchid breeder and built a working greenhouse 20 years ago in the back of her northwest Columbus home.

The author of several Ohio-specific gardening books, including Best Garden Plants for Ohio, and an instructor at Columbus State Community College, Knapke also finds respite in plants.

“In the winter, when I really need a shot in the arm, I go to the greenhouse to putter around,” says Knapke, who along with her husband, built their own greenhouse.

Knapke’s orchid dreams eventually gave way to bego-nias. In time, tender salvias and other flowers succeeded begonias. This fall, Knapke started peas and lettuce. The temperature in the green-house hovers around 55 degrees – ideal for springtime staples.

Greenhouses are best suited to serious garden-ers who start a lot of seeds, cuttings or have specialty plant passions, Knapke says. You have to know why you want it to determine size, temperature range and other parameters, she says.

DiSabato-Aust gath-ered ideas for a year before launching her project. The planning shows. The airy space beckons temptingly

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DiSabato-Aust says her conservatory affects visi-tors in a special way. “People respond to this,” she says. “Plants really have healing power.”

Once the exclusive prov-ince of merchant princes and oil barons, conserva-tories and greenhouses are becoming more widespread as sophisticated plastics and double-pane, tinted glass makes such spaces pleasant year round without spending bushels of money on utility bills.

Kits for small, simple greenhouses can cost a few hundred dollars up to thousands for top-of-the-line Hartley Glasshouses. Conser-vatories start in the $20,000 range.

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While conservatories are drawing interest around town, they aren’t yet quite as trendy as in cold, gray England, Best says. The con-cept of enclosing space with a conservatory, however, is adaptable.

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For fumble-free entertaining, plan a winter tailgate at homeSTORY BY KATHERINE HARBENPHOTOS BY JOHN KNOUFF

For many, tailgating is an art — a fall ritual held in park-ing lots across the nation. But football is something that also warms the home throughout winter as family and friends gather to watch their alma maters during a bowl game or

cheer on their favorite pro team.Bringing a tailgate party into forma-

tion at home requires no innate artistic ability. It just takes a few warming recipes and a great plan. And who better to de-vise a winning game-day play than a few local kitchen gurus?

Tami Cecil, of Ohio News Network’s Chef Tami cooking show, contributes some commonsense advice to throw a perfect tailgate party. David Tetzloff, ex-ecutive chef for G. Michael’s Bistro & Bar in German Village, shares his simple-yet-sophisticated version of a Beaufort Boil, a one-dish wonder that will leave guests cheering.

And finally, Stephanie Ferris Jones, winner of the BEST of Fall Home Show’s Buckeye-themed, amateur cake deco-rating contest, offers tips for creating a warm and welcoming dessert.

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tailgate party, the goal is to keep the host’s job simple without leaving guests in the cold. Smart planning is a must, whether guests will be tailgating in the backyard or from the comfort of the couch, Cecil says.

“You have to take into consideration the tem-perature and possible wind,” Cecil says. “Heartier fare is fun to do, such as soups and stews cooked outside in Dutch ovens or cast iron, which tend to hold their heat longer.”

One-dish meals easily can be made in advance and kept warm throughout the game. Hosts can make serving simple and fun by featuring a top-your-own chili bar with extras such as rice, cheeses, hot sauces, vegetables or sour cream. Time-pressed hosts could hold a chili pot-luck to allow guests to show off their own recipes.

Cecil also suggests serving

individual panini — wrapped in foil for easy noshing — or make-your-own wraps, along with warm dips and pita chips. Keep dips warm in a Crockpot or thermal cook-ware, so guests can snack throughout the game.

Additionally, Cecil sug-gests offering a variety of warm drinks. For adults, mix flavored liquors into hot chocolate, coffee, cider or tea. If guests will be spending time outside, Cecil recom-mends laying out throws and centering the action around a crackling fire.

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HALF TIME “This will keep you warm on a game-day afternoon. It’s comfort food with a restaurant-quality experience.”

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“There is no reason you can’t make a cake do or be anything,” she says.

Try these cake-decorating tips at home.

l Try the paper towel trick. Use a spatula to smooth crusting-style buttercream icing onto a cake. Allow icing to crust for 20 minutes, then place a plain, smooth paper towel over frosted cake and rub lightly with palm to create a flawless finish.l Buttercream icing can sit out for a few hours at most. Fondant has a longer life. l Put an extra-thick layer of buttercream underneath for flavor if covering a cake in fondant.l Use dabs of icing as glue when adding decorative ele-ments to fondant.l Use wooden dowels and cardboard to create stability in tiered cakes. Use at least one board for every four layers. •

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Home for the holidays: It is less a place reachable by a four-wheeled sleigh than it is a state of mind — and heart. Maybe that’s why we spend so much precious holiday energy decorating our homes to re-flect how we feel about the season: happy and bright, whimsical and welcoming.

Cloistered cozily inside, we might shy away from gray skies and days that bite, but winter still feels warm and alive. Gilded pine-cones, snowflakes adorned with salty crystals and tiny constella-tions twinkling around trees bring the wonderland to us.

Inside our life-sized snow globes, every ordinary thing has magical potential. Dinner becomes feast, friends become family and parents become wish granters.

So, as you wrap your banisters with evergreen and your family in winter warmth, take time out from whatever holiday you celebrate to let loved ones — and strangers — know that home for the holidays is always within reach.

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