Luxury Living Back to the Future

Home tour and Foundation Home incorporate design elements from the 1950s

By Garth Bishop

The BIA parade of homes has 60 years of history behind it, and in 2012, it’s paying tribute to its origins.

In the middle of that tribute is Truberry Custom homes, which is designing the Foundation home for this year’s parade.

This is the fifth time Truberry has built the Foundation h ome for the Building Industry Association of Central o hio’s annual home showcase, which this year takes place at the Meadows at Lewis Center. The money from each year’s Foundation h ome –generated by the sale of the house, as well as by ticket sales to a preview party – goes principally to the n ationwide Children’s h ospital Foundation, though other children’s charities get some of the proceeds as well.

2012 BIA PARADE OF HOMES

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The theme of the 2012 parade is “midcentury design” – the design elements of the 1950s, the era in which the parade was founded. each of this year’s 12 builders has been asked to include a room in its house that incorporates mid-century design.

“We’re trying to create an atmosphere of looking back at the 50s and 60s, when life was much simpler, and creating a

Living Color

Original art will provide unique twist for Foundation Home decor

Of the many aspects of the Foundation Home sure to catch the visitor’s eye, the artwork throughout the home is expected to be especially striking.

Decorator Mary Shipley-Smith of Mary Shipley Designs is working with two local artists to fill the house with paintings, glasswork and other splashes of artistic color.

Glass artist John Sharvin will be providing pieces of his work throughout the house. Some of Sharvin’s work is traditional, Shipley-Smith says, but other pieces are unconventional, like a work that more resembles wood than glass – which will play well with the reclaimed wood floor and wooden kitchen table.

“He does beautiful colored glass, but he does other things that are very organic,” she says.

Painter Michael McEwan will have pieces set up all throughout the house. Though best known for his landscapes, McEwan has many artistic styles and will be putting up all sorts of works, from portraits to monoprints to more abstract studies of color and light. retro feel within some of the homes,” says Jim hilz, executive director of the BIA. “you’ll feel that theme throughout the entire event.” some of the design elements that were popular in the 1950s are popular today as well – for instance, pendant lighting, splitlevel homes or pink and other pastel colors. Use of geometric shapes in furniture design also calls back to that era, hilz says.

“He’s really going to try to show the extent of his capabilities,” says Shipley-Smith.

For instance, a two-story staircase going through the back of the house with huge floor-to-ceiling windows is a perfect spot for a large canvas painting or two, she says.

“There are a couple of walls that are just huge that we’re going to put some really big paintings on,” McEwan says.

Working with local artists to bring original art to the Foundation Home is a great opportunity, Shipley-Smith says. It will show that it takes more than just furniture to make a room look good, McEwan says, and help visitors realize how quality art looks in a home.

“It finishes the room, in a sense,” he says.

“It’s a very modern look but, at the same time, (it’s) something that isn’t completely unfamiliar to the 50s and 60s,” he says.

It is up to each individual builder to decide how to incorporate mid-century

In addition, the original art allows Capital University, for which McEwan serves as artist in residence, to show its support for Nationwide Children’s Hospital through the BIA’s charitable foundation, whose support goes primarily to the hospital.

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With all the taupes and grays and slate blues, that mandarin tangerine is … going to be thrown out as a twist.” design elements and keep them tasteful.

“I can tell you what you won’t see: three-inchthick shag carpeting,” h ilz says.

The Foundation h ome will incorporate the theme throughout every room of the home, says Mary s hipleysmith. shipleys mith, of Mary shipley Designs, is Truberry’s decorator for the house.

Bringing in a chair that fit with that age is part of the plans, as are era-appropriate bright colors, like blues and yellows. The home’s colors eschew earth tones for sophisticated grays and blues, but offsetting those colors will be mandarin tangerine, which is not identical to the popular orange colors of the 1950s but is very close, shipley-smith says.

“With all the taupes and grays and slate blues, that mandarin tangerine is … going to be thrown out as a twist,” she says.

Mid-century elements in the craft area will include mason jars and a wine rack filled with different materials for crafting, such as cutout paper dolls.

“Those used to keep the kids busy, instead of sitting in front of the computer,” shipley-smith says.

There’s much to appreciate in the Foundation home besides the thematic elements, though – such as the reclaimed wood floors and the water theme of the children’s rooms. The former contributes to the natural feel of the house, while the latter offers underwater photos and wide stripes of blue in the boy’s room and a sophisticated mermaid theme in the girl’s.

“(In) the girl’s bedroom, we’re doing a … wonderful chandelier in the center of the ceiling that has shells coming down from it,” says shipley-smith. v

Garth Bishop is editor of Cityscene Magazine . Feedback welcome at gbishop@pub groupltd.com.

Muirfield basement is all about golf and entertaining

Story by Mike Price

phoToGrAphy By Wes kronInGer

man cave he eyes the nearly 1,000-square-foot layout from each corner, pointing out how each view is as good as the other. his initial assessment is proven correct.

Like a golfer sizing up a putt, Tim Michaels scans his basement from different vantage points.

“I like how it all fits,” says the longtime Muirfield resident. “There isn’t a bad spot in the basement, and it’s comfortable.”

The cozy, fits-like-a-glove feel is Michaels’ favorite part of the golf-oriented basement, which was redesigned by custom cabinet maker richard Booth about a year ago. Tim’s wife, Leslie, was the creative mind behind it.

“she’s wonderful with ideas, and then I just try and create what she wants,” Booth says. “We went through three different designs before we came up with this.”

Tim’s sole desire was simple: he wanted a place to relax and hang his collection of golf photos.

About 20 framed portraits of past golf greats – including Arnold p almer, Lee Trevino and Greg norman – surround the pool table area. The vivid portraits with pine green borders, purchased in the early 1990s during the Memorial Tournament, take fans down memory lane.

A nostalgic golf historian, Tim cites as his most beloved portrait a shot of Jack nicklaus and his son chatting with palmer on the front porch at fabled Augusta national Golf Club in Georgia. It hangs to the right of a close-up of nicklaus teeing off. numerous portraits adorn the walls honoring “The Golden Bear.” o ne of Tim’s favorite golfers is Fred Couples, a steady veteran who most notably won the 1992 Masters Tournament.

“he’s just got the right temperament for Tim and Leslie Michaels