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724 W. SHAW AVE. | FRESNO, CA | (559) 225-5363
Charlene Petersen built this house with her husband and two children in mind. The house was named “Rustic Zen,� after the feeling evoked by the interior: warm and calming, yet organic and raw, inviting guests to come in and immediately be at ease and comfortable. The vision and challenge was to create a bright, white, Scandinavian-inspired design with lots of depth and texture using minimal color: whites, beiges, greys and blacks. Charlene constantly plays with patterns and scale, such as incorporating stripes with ethnic prints, or plaids with antique textiles, always choosing fabrics that are soft and inviting. The house was built to welcome extended family and lots of friends with six bedrooms, six full bathrooms and two powder rooms. It is ski in/ski out to the slopes of the exclusive Yellowstone Club in Montana with a breathtaking view of Loan Peak, the main mountain of Big Sky Resort.
WINTER WHITE CHARLENE PETERSON’S LUSHLY LAYERED RUSTIC ZEN PROJECT INSPIRES ONE TO GRAB A HOT COCOA AND CUDDLE UP!
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The custom Madeline Weinrib rug provides an inviting foundation for the Club Cu Dining Table and the Eames Chairs by Design Within Reach. Below right is a huge window seat in the Great Room, featuring Osborne and Little plaid fabric, perfect for naps, reading, games and conversation. An antique bookcase is cleverly perched above a unique storage space for firewood.
The dramatic Great Room features layers of texture from the sleek and ultra-comfy upholstery by Verellen, three statement chandeliers by Kelly Wearstler, to a Gregorius Pineo console table.
Back toBasics AN INTERVIEW WITH TORREY DEVITTO Features Editor Logan Guntzelman Photographer Jim Jordan Stylist Adena Rohatiner Stylist Assistants Jeremy Markus Hair Scott King Makeup Dillon Pena Manicurist Elisa Wishan Produced in conjunction with White Cross Productions and White Cross Studios
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THERE WE ALL WERE, EATING, DRINKING AND INDULGING OUR WAY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH TORREY DEVITTO, STAR OF NBC’S CHICAGO MED, RIGHT THERE WITH US. “Three days of Thanksgiving at my dad’s house,” she recounts to CVLUX. “I literally ate a pumpkin pie a day.” Then suddenly it’s the New Year and you’re supposed to do a total 180. First of all, it’s hard to do a maneuver like that when you’re sleepy from too much gravy and all of your pants are too tight. And second, it’s difficult to commit to hard work and sacrifice. Torrey DeVitto might not be so disciplined when it comes to eating (“I can kind of justify any indulgence when it comes to food and sweets,” she says, “and when you get me and my sister together … it’s over”). But when it comes to her career, Torrey is more than willing to give things up in order to get what she wants.
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Torrey had a good role model when it came to pursuing a life of performing; her father is Liberty DeVitto, a rock star drummer who worked with the likes of Elton John, the Beach Boys, and Billy Joel. “We spent every Thanksgiving at Billy Joel’s house…” Torrey remembers. “I grew up with his daughter, Alexa; it was a lot of warm, happy memories.” But her childhood was not without its lessons: “My dad knows what it’s like to be on tour and miss out on people’s birthdays and family events,” she recalls. “He wasn’t able to come to certain things for my sister and I, and he told me early on, that’s the sort of sacrifice you have to make if you want this career.” And at first a career in music is what Torrey wanted. “When I was about six years old Billy Joel...had a violinist on tour,” Torrey says, “and I was completely enamored with her and followed her around everywhere. At the end of the tour I asked my parents if I could play violin.” By fourth grade she was playing with the local high school orchestra, and at the age of twelve she performed a solo at Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook’s wedding. Torrey was on track to play violin professionally, until another childhood obsession began to compete with her musical ambitions. “When I was about seven, I saw Les Miserables on Broadway for the first time ... that sparked me loving to perform for people. I was always picking things up and I was good at things,” she remembers, “but I wasn’t trying to be great.” She began to act more and more, struggling to balance her two passions. Some sound advice from her father led to one of Torrey’s first real experiences with giving up something she loves. “The best advice my dad ever gave me was, ‘Find something and try to be great … Don’t try to be a jack of all trades.’” So Torrey took a good hard look at her passions: acting and the violin. “I knew I didn’t want to be in a professional orchestra forever,” she says, “so … I made the choice to move to LA and pursue acting as what I wanted to do for my lifetime.” Torrey DeVitto is the first to admit that making that decision wasn’t easy: “I knew I was putting something I had been doing for 20 years on the back burner,” she tells us. But it wasn’t like she was giving music up for no reason. “It wasn’t time that I’ve just thrown away,” she explains. In fact, Torrey was pretty much doing the opposite of wasting time. As she puts it, “I was working my ass off.”
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