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LIFESTYLE LETTER

MARCH 2019 PUBLISHER

Jeni Fleck | Jeni.Fleck@LifestylePubs.Com Joan Dameron | Joan.Dameron@LifestylePubs.Com EDITORIAL COORDINATOR

Jennifer Starbuck | Jennifer.Starbuck@LifestylePubs.Com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

“Home Is Where the Heart Is."

Serena Montoya, Jennifer Starbuck CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Elle Blom, Roger Ballard

IT’S A COMMON PHRASE MEANING THAT OUR HOMES ARE A CENTRAL PLACE IN OUR LIVES—WHERE WE REST OUR HEADS, NOURISH OUR BODIES AND MAKE FOND MEMORIES WITH LOVED ONES. It’s the epicenter of our worlds, where we start and end each day, and where we keep our most prized possessions.

This month, we bring you our Home issue, which is full of inspiration and heart-warming stories. Take a look inside one of Parker’s homes featuring unique architecture and mid-century mod-inspired decor. With springtime upon us, there’s no better time for a little DIY project! We bring you a fun basket that is great for house-warming gifts or just a personalized way to welcome visiting guests.

We explore a local restaurant that will make you feel right at home with its spin on classic comfort foods, and we meet the team at Reining Heroes who are changing lives daily. Last but not least, the Home issue would not be complete without a look

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We hope this issue inspires you to appreciate the place you call home—both your personal dwelling and our shared community—whether you’ve just moved or it’s a place your family has occupied for generations.

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INSIDE THE ISSUE MARCH 2019

FEATURES 14 Holding the Reins at Reining Heroes Therapeutic and Beginning Horsemanship Riding in Parker

18 For the Love of Mid-Mod Couple Settles into Retirement with Lifetime of Modern Collections

24 Sierra: An Oasis in the City Sierra Combines Beloved Tex-Mex Dishes with Wood-Fired American Classics for Comfort Food Dining Experience

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28 A Welcoming Treat With a Little Bit of Creativity and Planning, You Can Make Your Guests Feel Special

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DEPARTMENTS 4

Lifestyle Letter

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Giving Back

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Open House

24 Hot Spot 28 DIY 31

Realty Report

32 Lifestyle Calendar 34 Local’s Choice

GOOD TIMES

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AROUND TOWN

CAMP DCL: FULL-DAY SPRING BREAK CAMPS

PARKER RESIDENT LAUNCHES DIGITAL ACCOUNT MANAGER TOOL

Douglas County Libraries’ spring break camps

Aspen Digital Life, a provider of an automated

for kids, March 18–22, offer fun, hands-on expe-

technology platform to streamline digital life and

riences with cooking, global culture, art, mov-

digital legacy management, has announced the

ie-making, music-video creation and super-cre-

launch of Aspen Digital Life Manager. This is a tool

ative superhero LEGO ingenuity. Parents can

that will help users find, organize and manage their

choose from three full-day camps for kids ages

online accounts.

6–11: Around the World with Cooking & Art Camp

“We are delighted to launch Aspen Digital Life

(ages 6–10) at the library’s Lone Tree location;

Manager, a tool for anyone interested in finding,

Superhero Movie Making & LEGO Camp (ages

understanding and managing their digital life in

7–11) at the Castle Rock location; and Art & Music

minutes,” said Tim Colleran, Aspen Digital Life’s

Video Camp (ages 7–11) at the library’s Parker loca-

founder and CEO, and a Parker resident. “Many of

tion. For more information, visit DCL.org, email

us have nearly 100 accounts that are infrequently

kkallio@dclibraries.org or call 303.688.7627.

or never used. Each one represents a risk of data breach or identity theft.”

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HUMANEX ACADEMY RESOURCE FAIR On March 13, Humanex Academy is hosting a resource fair that will include various local providers who focus on providing services to a neurodiverse population, which includes attention deficit disorder and anxiety issues. This free event will be held at the private alternative middle and high school in Englewood. For more information, visit HumanexAcademy.com.

MEMORY CARE KITS Douglas County Libraries has added Memory Care Kits to its collection of nontraditional items that library cardholders can check out. The kits include an assortment of books, DVDs, books on CD and hands-on activities such as puzzles and games that can help spark conversations, despite any age or generational gaps.

“The Memory Care Kits are designed to trigger special memories of life experiences and encourage positive interactions between those

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GIVING BACK

HOLDING THE REINS AT REINING HEROES ARTICLE SERENA MONTOYA | PHOTOGRAPHY ROGER BALLARD PHOTOGRAPHY

THERAPEUTIC AND BEGINNING HORSEMANSHIP RIDING IN PARKER

WITH THE SMELL OF MANURE IN THE AIR AND BOOTPRINTS ON THE NEW BLANKET OF SNOW OUTSIDE A PARKER HORSE ARENA, ABOUT 10 CHILDREN LINE UP INSIDE WAITING FOR THEIR TURN TO RIDE ON A SATURDAY MORNING. Many of them wait all week long for the chance to saddle up on either Apollo, Whinna or Stella, the rescue horses at Reining Heroes, a nonprofit therapeutic and beginning horsemanship riding center in Parker.

“Riding gives me a sense of being free, and it’s very relaxing,” says Keaton Miller, 18, who has been riding with Reining Heroes’ owner, Paula Quillen, for about six years.

He’s visually impaired and according to his mother, says the weekly riding helps him strengthen his core—and his self-confidence.

Paula started Reining Heroes two years ago.

“I fell in love with the concept and thought I could actually do this. It was just a feeling. It was a calling,” Paula says.

“Riding gives me a sense of being f r e e , a n d i t ’ s v e ry r e l a x i n g ,” says K e ato n M i l l e r , 1 8 , w h o h as b e e n r i d i n g with Reining Heroes’ o w n e r , Pau l a Quillen, for about six years.

Having been working in horses for many years at various therapeutic centers, she began as a volunteer in a program called Pegasus at Laz E Acres Stables in 2000.

“I volunteered for about two hours and realized I needed to be the teacher.”

Paula doesn’t believe in putting a label on a person with a disability.

“So a little thing I do is I make them fill out all the paperwork, but I never read it because that’s not who they are.

Everyone has a special need, and I just try to teach them because the rewards are so much better all the way around.

They’re neat kids, and the parents are really cool.”

Paula becomes attached to not only the students but the parents. She says, “I love you” to the students and parents as if they are a family. Paula explains that she receives joy from working with her students.

“I get to see them grow.”

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Paula says she gets to see their true personality, and she doesn’t judge them for their disabilities.

Laura-Anne Cleveland is a mother of five, three of whom have special needs. She says finding Reining Heroes was priceless not just for her children, but for herself as well.

“I love to ride, so it also kind of gives me my solace,” Laura-Anne says. “Also, talking to Paula, she’ll say, ‘I hear it’s kind of rough right now,’ and so it kind of gives me my own counseling too.”

Laura-Anne says many therapeutic horse facilities focus on the lessons, but it’s different at Reining Heroes. Paula and everyone at Reining Heroes, she says, focus on building relationships with the riders and helping them emotionally just as much as physically. For her and her family, Laura-Anne says, Paula is as good as seeing a therapist because of her ability to get them to open up about their difficulties.

Laura-Anne says she notices a difference in the behavior of her sons who have been diagnosed with autism, ADHD and other disabilities within 24 hours of a riding session.

“I think it’s just important for people to know this exists, that it’s just as valuable as seeing a counselor, it’s just as valuable as sports or, you know, anything else,” she says. “And especially when you’re losing hope in other arenas, it can give you a lot of hope when you see them progress.”

For Ethan Flanagan, 15, and his family, finding Paula, according to his mother, Melissa Flanagan, was, “a really good match.” From the moment Paula met Ethan, she knew she would be able to connect him with a horse that would see him as a child and a rider, not a child on the autism spectrum.

“It was spot-on.”

Ethan is autistic. His mother says autism is an umbrella; there is a large spectrum of autistic characteristics.

“If you’ve met one kid with autism, you’ve met one kid with autism.”

And for Paula, she says everyone, no matter their ability, is welcome at Reining Heroes.

“You never know whose life you’re going to change.”

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THE BOLD STROKES AND VIBRANT GEOMETRIC SHAPES OF THE ALEXANDER CALDER PAINTING ABOVE THE FIREPLACE SUMS UP THIS PARKER HOME. The 20th-century abstract artist plays prominently here, as does op artist Victor Vasarely, whose works populate the walls throughout the 8,000-square-foot modern house.

“My dad had a couple of Calders, and he gave me one in my last year of college,” the homeowner says.

That gift many years ago inspired his love of all things modern.

The homeowners, who worked together as a sales team before retirement, spent more than 20 years dreaming up every detail of this unique home finished in 2013. They even served as their own general contractor during construction on the 5-acre lot with sweeping Front Range views.

But this is no stuffy modern art museum. These homeowners like to have fun.

The foyer features a round Plexiglas floor insert, where you can peer down into the basement bar and game room.

“It sometimes freaks people out to stand on,” the homeowner says.

Look up, and you’ll see a special light fixture hanging from the vaulted ceiling that the couple found at the Denver Art Museum gift shop.

ARTICLE JENNIFER STARBUCK

It’s not a real Chihuly, they say, but it fit their

PHOTOGRAPHY ROGER BALLARD PHOTOGRAPHY

pop art vibe. The couple loves to tell the story

For the Love of Mid-Mod

about buying it for a discounted price and

COUPLE SETTLES INTO RETIREMENT WITH LIFETIME OF MODERN COLLECTIONS

of wine, “most of which are $10 a bottle,” the

sweet-talking the store manager to come to their home to help them painstakingly put each glass bulb together like a puzzle before hanging it on an in-wall pulley system.

A wide metal staircase leads to a loft with a private living space and rooftop deck. From the staircase landing, you have a bird’s-eye view below of the great room and adjoining gourmet kitchen with butler pantry. The guest wing of the home is reserved for visiting friends and family. Here you’ll find artwork and notes from their granddaughter, who visits often with the couple's daughter and son-in-law.

They have a shared love of scotch, with a packed tasting room to show for it. And a wine tasting room boasts hundreds of bottles homeowner says, in a nod to his penchant for scoring deals.

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As a manufacturer’s representative in consumer electronics for 46 years, the homeowner says he spent decades traveling the West visiting customers’ luxury homes in places such as Aspen; Sun Valley, Idaho; Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Santa Fe, N.M. The couple’s dream home started to take shape in his head during those trips. He made note of what architecture and floor plans worked and what didn’t. He started to develop a sense of his own style.

“I’ve just always liked the contemporary style, with its clean lines,” he says.

He also got design inspiration early on from the electronics company, which he says was always on the leading edge of in-home audio and visual systems.

“The first line we repped was from a company from Denmark called Bang & Olufsen,” he says. “Their hi-fi equipment was always interesting and modern. It looked like art.”

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The homeowner got good at sniffing out closeout home decor fix-

because, “old people hate to back up,” the homeowner says. The

tures, tile and artwork, and he stored his deals in his company’s ware-

kitchen has bar-height appliances, such as the dishwasher, to elimi-

house to wait for the day construction on their dream home started.

nate the need to bend over while doing chores or cooking.

For this couple just starting their retirement, their forever home is

The homeowners laugh when they say their mid-mod passion, devo-

more than a backdrop for their mid-mod art and furnishings. They

tion to family and shared love of scotch has kept them together for more

created almost every aspect to be able to “age in place.” They love to

than 35 years. They met on a blind date, and when he arrived to pick

take guests for a ride in the elevator that operates from the basement

her up, he immediately noticed The Glenlivet 12 on her kitchen counter.

to the second-story loft. Their garage features pull-through doors,

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“When he saw my bottle of scotch, that was it,” she says.

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HOT SPOT

ARTICLE JENNIFER STARBUCK | PHOTOGRAPHY ELLE PHOTOGRAPHY

SIERRA: AN OASIS IN THE CITY YEAR-OLD SIERRA RESTAURANT COMBINES BELOVED TEX-MEX DISHES WITH WOOD-FIRED AMERICAN CLASSICS FOR COMFORT FOOD DINING EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH METRO

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COMFORT FOOD MAY MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, BUT I’M (ALMOST) WILLING TO BET MY MAMA’S RECIPE FOR TEXAS CHOCOLATE SHEET CAKE THAT IN COLORADO, A STEAMING BOWL OF GREEN CHILI AND HOMEMADE TORTILLAS WILL ALWAYS HIT THE SPOT. Add a classic margarita (no sweet-andsour mix here, thank you), and you’re golden.

You’ll find all of the above at Sierra in Lone Tree, a year-old restaurant from the Brinkerhoff family, famed for their beloved Tex-Mex Denver eatery La Loma. Sierra uses some of the same recipes, such as the green chili, rellenos and those margs.

Deanna Price, director of operations for the Brinkerhoff Hospitality Group, says many La Loma devotees have long traveled from Parker, Elizabeth and Castle Rock just for the green chili and now get their fix much closer to home.

But Sierra offers so much more to the South Metro area than the standard, albeit satisfying, Tex-Mex fare La Loma is known for. When you first enter, you’ll walk right past the roasting chickens on the rotisserie and see the cook staff busy tending the wood-fired grill with such hearty fare as the Cowboy Steak, King Salmon, Louisiana Killer Shrimp, Double Bone-In Pork Chop and the Sierra Burger.

Deanna says the concept behind Sierra was all about comfort food using long-cherished family recipes, which have roots in Colorado, Texas and Louisiana.

“The goal was to be able to present American classics every day, such as rotisserie chicken, seafood, spaghetti, and still have those Southwestern influences,” Deanna says.

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Sonny’s West Texas Spaghetti came from the owner’s grandpa. And some of the seafood items, such as the Kona Coast Ahi Tuna Sashimi on the appetizer menu, were inspired by family trips to Hawaii.

Deanna says the Brinkerhoffs’ La Loma roots and Southwestern travels show up not just in the food but also the entire look and feel of the restaurant.

The 8,400-square-foot restaurant sits high above Ridgegate Parkway and Interstate 25, just next to Cabela’s. With architecture reminiscent of a rustic A-frame lodge, there’s exposed red brick walls, hammered copper and wooden accents throughout.

Did we say hammered copper? Sierra features two 35-seat horseshoe-shaped bars— one on the patio and one inside—that feature hammered copper tops handmade in Mexico. Inside, it’s easy to get carried away on a weekend afternoon with the expansive picture-window views of the Denver Tech Center and downtown beyond. And better to be stuck here on a Friday evening watching all the I-25 traffic lights than to be stuck in it.

If it oddly feels like home, Deanna says, that’s the intent.

“You could stay there for a long time and not even feel you’ve been there that long,” she says.

Deanna says her go-to comfort-food meal is always the same.

“The Petite Filet is incredible. I get the lunch version with house salad and coconut rice for an everyday meal.”

For this girl who grew up in West Texas and always looks at the dessert menu first, my choice is the Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake.

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A W E L C O M I N G T R E AT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF CREATIVITY AND PLANNING, YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OUT-OF-TOWN HOUSE GUESTS FEEL SPECIAL AND PAMPERED ARTICLE TANJA DERRY AND SHAUNA SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY ELLE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Longtime friends Tanja Derry and Shauna

estate agents. These busy moms love hosting

Scott share many commonalities. Both entre-

a party or house guests and being of service

preneurs, Tanja and her husband run a chiro-

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the list HOSTING GUESTS IN YOUR HOME CAN BE A PRIVILEGE. Consider leaving a welcome basket in their room to greet them. It’s

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the perfect way to let them know you’re pleased they’ve chosen to stay with you.

When pulling a gift basket together, the first thing to consider is the recipient. Our basket was designed for a house guest from out of state. Making them feel welcome is the intent, giving them a few items that will not only make their stay more enjoyable but also help acclimate them to the extremely dry weather and high altitude of Colorado.

Consider contents such as lotion, creams and lip balm to help

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keep their skin and lips moisturized during their stay. Adding water or other refreshing beverages will help keep them hydrated. Hydration is a key component in avoiding altitude sickness.

Add other thoughtful touches such as something for the sweet tooth, essential oils, a scented eye pillow or room spray, a candle or hand scrub and a vase of fresh flowers to adorn their powder room countertop. Items like these will add personality and charm to the

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basket as well as a level of consideration to your gift.

directions

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1. Find a pretty basket, crate or patterned box to hold the contents of your gift.

2. If necessary, for presentation, add stuffing material such as tissue paper, a towel, fabric or other crate packing material.

3. Pick a theme when purchasing items.

Every good basket should center around a theme. Our theme is “hydration and relaxation for a house guest.”

4. Put the taller items like flowers and water bottles near the back and the smaller items in the front, so they are

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REALTY REPORT NEIGHBORHOOD

PARKER

REALTY REPORT

ORIGINAL PRICE

SOLD PRICE

DOM

BDRMS

BATHS

Cherokee Ridge Estates

$1,200,000

$1,050,000

61

4

4

Castle Pines North / Forest Park / The Pinnacle

$1,140,000

$1,100,000

55

5

6

The Pearson Ranch

$1,050,000

$1,140,000

2

4

5

Castle Pines Village

$1,157,721

$1,157,721

0

4

4

STONERIDGE

$1,450,000

$1,165,000

294

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Tallman Gulch

$1,275,000

$1,185,000

238

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5

Castle Pines Village

$1,186,336

$1,186,336

0

4

4

Castle Pines Village

$1,218,190

$1,218,190

0

4

4

Castle Pines North

$1,223,868

$1,223,868

0

5

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Timbers at the Pinery

$1,150,000

$1,225,000

162

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5

Pradera

$1,400,000

$1,240,000

229

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7

Diamond Ridge Estates

$1,349,000

$1,250,000

63

6

6

Escavera

$1,300,000

$1,275,000

12

6

7

Castle Pines Village

$1,299,900

$1,299,900

0

6

5

Colorado Golf Club

$1,463,700

$1,300,000

313

4

4

Castle Pines Village

$1,318,881

$1,318,881

0

4

4

unknown

$1,299,000

$1,325,000

25

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5

Two Bridges

$1,327,758

$1,327,758

20

6

6

Castle Pines Village

$1,377,993

$1,377,993

0

4

4

none

$1,575,000

$1,438,700

44

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5

Castle Pines Village

$1,509,064

$1,509,064

0

4

4

Bell Mountain Ranch

$1,750,000

$1,640,000

168

4

4

Bears Den

$2,300,000

$2,210,000

74

5

7

Meadows at Castlewood

$2,650,000

$2,525,000

58

4

6

This information was compiled from REColorado database based on luxury sales ($1M+) closed from January 15, 2019 - February 14, 2019 in Parker, Franktown, Elizabeth and Castle Rock. All information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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