AT HOME WITH TED AND LIZ HEEREN
(page 26) MAY 2015
“I didn’t want any hardware. I was looking for ways we could pull the cabinets open and Edward [Thompson of ETC Woodworks] had the idea for these copper handles. There are no bright flashes of metal. Instead, they’re patinated and add this element of color.”
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TED AND LIZ HEEREN Liz Heeren says she and her husband, Ted, began falling in love with their 99-year-old Sioux Falls home the moment they stepped inside. “We weren’t seriously looking for a house yet,” she exGables, then Ivyton. Now we’re encouraging everyone on the plained. “But we were walking by one day, it said ‘for sale,’ block to name their house.” and we started looking at it outside. The owner was sitting Upon entering the Heerens’ home, the first thing one up here and invited us in. That began a conversation of ‘are notices is architectural details, like the built-in bench below a we ready to buy a house?’ We hadn’t been pre-approved for stained glass bay window, and the curved staircase built from a loan or anything. But when I came in here, it was so much gleaming, dark wood. like the house I grew up in. It’s called Prairie Style, so it has Although it looks original, Liz says that the house is high ceilings, wide minimal trim work, tall, open, airy.” very different than when they found it. In addition to remov The home, which they share with their 3-year-old son ing layers of wallpaper from nearly every room to create a Sylvester, bears the name “Lyon View” and is set above Philbright, simple palette, certain areas got a complete overhaul. lips Avenue in a terraced lot, giving it an almost fortress-like “There used to be a doorway here that went straight appearance. If fortresses had tulips blooming and Norwegian down into the kitchen,” she said, motioning toward the stairflags everywhere, that is. case. “It was super awkward. But there’s a lot of houses like “At first we didn’t know if we should be embarrassed this that had these kind of circular floor plans.” by it,” said Ted, a co-owner of ad agency Fresh Produce Closing off the stairway allowed for more counter space and cohost of SDPB’s Rock Garden Tour. “We thought it in the kitchen, which was one of the home’s biggest renowas kind of cheesy when your house has a name, but then we vation projects. Updates included custom walnut cabinets thought it was really awesome that our house had a name. with copper pulls and a recycled speckled rubber floor that I think it’s the only neighborhood in Sioux Falls that has stays warm in the winter, unlike tile. In the center is an isnamed houses. We live right next to Pine Terrace, then Green land topped with slate from the old high school in Madison.