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Table of Contents

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H18 FEATURES H18

MID-CENTURN MODERN MAKEOVER

H36 DEPARTMENTS H9

FROM THE EDITORS

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SPACES

Fall...in Love

Funky-Fresh Airbnb in Lincoln

At Home With the Dickhuts

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MANTERIOR Rustic Barn Becomes Man Cave

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STATEMENTS

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NEIGHBORHOODS

Todd McCollister

Blackstone

Long Grain Furniture

Old is New Again

ARCHITECTURAL STYLES

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SANDY’S MAKEOVER

Jacobean Revival

Going Nuts With Autumnal Orbs

The Storz Mansion

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DIY Wood & Pipe Table

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TRANSFORMATIONS From Traditional to Contemporary

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Nuts! I’m sure this was what my son in college was thinking as he was simply walking to class at UNO, having remembered the conversation we just had about acorns. Acorns you ask? Yes, I needed them to make my project for this fall issue.

Now I’m going to take you back about 15 years, when we lived in another place, and at that time in my life I had a little side business called Twigs & Berries— mostly dried arrangements made out of natural flowers, twigs, etc.

My son, only being about 9 at the time, walked in the house with a handful of acorns, to which I promptly asked him to go back and round up as many as he could, (OK, maybe I bribed him) and with this came a unique inspiration.

Fast forward to today, the same little boy, all grown up, just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Yes, you got it, he walked right under huge oak trees through the park on the UNO campus, so he sends me pictures and asked “looking for these?” I honestly thought I won a small lottery. Well, what can you say? When your college-age son spends an hour picking up acorns for his mother’s craft project, I must have done something right!

Speaking of projects, with a little ingenuity and the help of YouTube, you can turn trash to treasure for your home. Take a peek inside at what my neighbors Jeff and Dagmar did. Finding a rustic/weathered piece of wood laying outside and buying some industrial hardware, they came up with pretty darn unique tables for their basement.

And not to leave out all the creative men out there, we found one of the most earthy man caves we have seen, boasting an homage to outdoor sports in a converted barn that provides ample room for the guys to crash in front of a big screen and drink a few cold beverages.

Fall is indeed my favorite season—breaking out the cozy sweaters and boots, seeing all the leaves change colors and, of course, here in Nebraska, football, football, football! Not to mention the cool, crisp fall days and nights spent sitting by the fire pit.

Whatever your traditions are, fall is here! Enjoy!

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LONG GRAIN FURNITURE SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ART AND ARTISAN

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table Todd McCollister is showing me; actually, a couple of thin, ragged splits show through, exposing tiny strips of light.

Laid into each is a cross—a kind of smooth wood stitch that echoes a sequence of crosses along the table's center seam.

"They were inspired by a series of handmade, sculpted stuffed animals an artist I knew was making," McCollister says. "They were mended together, and that idea of mending was kind of what I felt like I was doing, that allusion to handwork."

McCollister is no stranger to handwork—or, on a broader scale, to stitching things together.

The Omaha native returned home last year. >

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Here, the boundary between functional things and artworks is much more nebulous.

Beauty is discovered in the colors and grains of the woods.

< He attended art school in Texas and then a earned a graduate degree in sculpture on Long Island in New York, where he stayed for six more years, making and exhibiting sculptures. He gradually turned from sculptures to tables for trade shows and cabinetry for galleries. These days, about half of McCollister's work is commissioned, the other half he builds on spec.

Really, the transition to making furniture was artful.

"I believe that I use my sculpture training for a lot of the formal decisions I makeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;figuring out proportions, knowing how big something should be, what colors should go together," McCollister says. "I also try, when I can, to >

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< bring some conceptual content into furniture pieces. I'm not afraid to tweak things in a direction that seems wrong."

He shows me his 5-Degree Coffee Table, all the angles of which are five degrees off from perfect perpendicularity.

We are at Long Grain Furniture, a workshop McCollister set up himself in an emptiedout building in Omaha's Quartermaster Depot Historic District. The army-spaceturned-auto-shop-turned-workshop-space has been open about three months; McCollister spent six months before its opening building storage, buying machines, installing compression air lines, and otherwise readying the shop for business based on the last one where he worked in New York.

He hopes more woodworkers will join him.

He wants to rent space in Long Grain for six months or longer to as many as six woodworkers who can use the space and the machines in it.

The kinds of woodwork created in the community McCollister wants to build need not be identical to his. Creativity is less segregated in Omaha than in a larger city like New York, McCollister says.

"In New York, an art gallery doesn't need to show furniture or functional ceramics or glass," he says. "One has to define oneself pretty narrowly. Here…it's much more accessible—the art world and a community of architects and designers."

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"Here, the boundary between functional things and artworks is much more nebulous,” McCollister says. “I always thought of them as different before I came back to Omaha."

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OmahaHome â&#x20AC;˘ September/October 2015

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home at 3708 Farnam Street needs little introduction. It’s “that” house, the grand stone home easily visible while driving down Dodge Street to the east towards Midtown Crossing, or to the west towards Corkscrew Wine & Cheese or The Pella at Blackstone.

The 1907 home, designed by architects George Fisher and Harry Lawrie, is Jacobethan Revival—a style of architecture that combines the horizontal lines of Elizabethan architecture with vertical columns and pilasters as in the Jacobean era.

The style includes flattened arches, featured in the porch overhead and the carriage dropoff point on the west side of the house. The outside is constructed of light-grey stone with trim work around windows and doors, steep gables on the terra-cotta roof, and a tall chimney stack. Decorations around the exterior include relief panels that feature barley, hops, and grain—a nod to original owner Gottlieb Storz, founder of Storz Brewery.

The grand entrance includes a seven-feet-tall doorway created of dark wood and featuring a magnificent stained glass top tucked under a nine-feet-tall archway over the porch.

Crossing, used the ballroom for the second Food Rave in April 2015.

“I said, ‘Oh, Nick, you don’t want to use that space, it isn’t finished!’” says Rhonda, whose son, Nick Stuberg, is friends with Huff. “But he insisted. I said ‘OK, at least let me take care of a couple of things.’ ” “The house is gorgeous from top to bottom,” Huff said. “But I was just captivated by this room. It’s amazing, wooden floors with huge vaulted ceilings. The walls are this emerald green color. You walk up to this nondescript third floor. You walk through this small hallway, and then there’s this huge ballroom.”

The work that has gone into this home to bring it back has cost well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of labor, but Rhonda wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I’ve always lived in older homes,” she says.

“We thought about a condo, but I love to garden.”

She also loves living in the Blackstone neighborhood (see related story on H30), and has become the president of the neighborhood association. She believes that future development of the area needs to take into consideration the historic value of its buildings. “The architectural features of historical buildings are works of art,” she maintains, “and should be treasured and restored like any other works of art.” OmahaHome

“The architectural features of historical buildings are works of art, and should be treasured and restored like any other works of art.”

-Rhonda Stuberg

The mishmash of two old-English styles perfectly describes the inside of the house, which features everything from a light and airy solarium featuring a stained-glass skylight modeled after the one in the main dining room of ocean liner “The Bremen,” to a heavier-looking Victorian living area.

The “formal” dining room is a more casual Mission style.

It’s a place where a family can live in comfort, and a bride can float down a staircase and stop at a landing to have her portrait captured—standing next to original art nouveau lamp balustrades.

Then there’s the top-floor ballroom, known as the “Fred Astaire” ballroom as it is one of the few places in Omaha of which the actor, singer, and of course, dancer, retained memories. Nick Huff, owner of Hutch in Midtown September/October 2015 • omahamagazine.com

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At Home words by David Williams / photography by Colin Conces

The George Nelson clock that inspired the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s color scheme is accompanied by abstract works from Helen Gloeb (sofa) and Karen Schneph (fireplace) adjacent to pair of original Bertoia diamond chairs (right).

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NINE AND TWO MID-CENTURY MODERN MAKEOVER

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SOME OF OUR friends called it a fortress,” says Kim

Dickhut of the early ‘50s home she and husband Randy bought in 2007 as empty nesters. “Others,” Randy adds, “said it looked like a prison…cold…intimidating.”

Messing with a classic is fraught with danger, but the cement panels that now clad various surfaces of the Dickhut’s home not only counterbalance the sterility of the once severe structure, but also serve to amp up the home’s Mid-Century Modern credentials.

Most work today on Mid-Century structures involves the process of subtraction, that of removing layers of once-trendy “improvements” done over time in ill-advised tinkering. The Dickhuts took the opposite approach—one of addition.

“The concept was that of a virus,” explains Brian Kelly, a professor of architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

He and his architect wife, Andrea (formerly of Randy Brown Architects and now a stay-at-home mom), collaborated with the Dickhuts on the project. “The panels become like a virus.

They wrap around the house and intermittently reappear” to sprout again on a chimney stack before being repeated at the rear of the home in punctuating a master bedroom expansion accompanied by a balcony. The street-side panels are, of course, the most noticeable, Andrea says, “But the bedroom and balcony in the back are really the epicenter of the theme.”

Just like the aggressively spreading species of vining plant that threatened to consume the planet in the 1951 British sci-fi flick, The Day of the Triffids, the panels evoke an organic—if decidedly minimal—vibe. Further softening the facade included a focus on the formerly stark entryway (a door…just a plain, unadorned door). The approach was made more inviting with the erection of a latticed trellis, a motif that is duplicated out back in a patio pergola. >

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At Home

Kim and Randy Dickhut on the sofa that’s been in Kim’s family since 1968.

< And just exactly what hue is that signature orange that echoes throughout the home?

“We just call that ‘Kim’s favorite color,’” Randy says with a chuckle. “It’s our rebellion against beige,” Kim adds.

If the exterior and bedroom were exercises in addition, the mathematics of the interior were lessons in subtraction.

Rustic barn wood was lopped from the now crisp, cozy space the couple call the Map Room. Moldings were eradicated like invasive weeds. Visual clutter was pruned at every turn in setting the stage for the couple’s collection of MidCentury furnishings.

“The whole idea was that we wanted the look of simple loft living…but with a yard,” Kim says. She points to her mother, who studied both architecture and interior design, as having inspired in her a Bauhaus-influenced aesthetic where form follows function.

“I knew who Frank Lloyd Wright was before I knew who Dr. Seuss was,” she says. “And I grew up assuming that everybody lived in a home with original art.”

The living room is decorated in abstract works by local artists Helen Gloeb and Karen Schneph. Gloeb’s piece hangs above a sofa that has been in Kim’s family since 1968. Nearby sits a pair of original Bertoia diamond chairs (first introduced in 1952) that the Dickhuts outfitted in new leather seat pads.

The kitchen features an original Paul McCobb dinette set.

Another favorite is a George Nelson starburst clock introduced in 1949 that Kim says they’ve had “forever.” The radial spikes of the clock are rendered in a rainbow of colors, but the arms indicating the nine and two positions tell a story of their own. >

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At Home

The crisp Map Room once featured dark barnwood walls.

< “If we had to point to the one thing that drove the color scheme,” Randy says as Kim nods in agreement, “it’s the orange arms of that clock.”

“If we had to point to the one thing that drove the color scheme, it’s the orange arms of that clock.”

-Randy Dickhut

The Dickhut home is carefully curated, but there is nothing finicky, inaccessible, or museum-like in the finished result. Comfort, they say, was the main objective.

And the scale, line, and form that are the hallmarks of Mid-Century Modern are a perfect fit for this couple.

“We are not big people,” Kim says, “so the scale of these pieces suit us well. There is nothing big or clunky about Mid-Century Modern.”

“And it’s very livable,” adds Randy of the 1,900 squarefoot space where clean, straightforward lines and right angles are king. “It’s a great place for quite time. It’s a great place for where we are at this stage of our lives.”

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WOOD & PIPE TABLE

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tion to a problem just by taking a long walk. Dagmar and Jeff Benson, who live in a lakeside property at scenic Hawaiian Village, needed more table space for entertaining in their basement. Dagmar searched the usual places, but never found anything large enough for their needs.

Jeff spied a pile of long-abandoned boards near the dock while taking a stroll through his neighborhood. He suspected the boards would be the perfect material to construct the tables that Dagmar saw on Pinterest.

“I think we can power wash this and clean it up and see how it looks,” he says.

of four pieces. Two for each table,” she says.

Dagmar didn’t sand them much because she liked their natural color. She finished them with a coat of polyurethane.

The feet are covered with a ¾-inch cap that screws onto the piping. Dagmar estimates it took them 10 hours and $100 in materials for each table.

Next, Jeff attached metal straps to the underside of the table to secure the wood pieces together. Their son, Chris, painted the ¾-inch, galvanized piping legs with two coats of flat black Rust-Oleum.

The tables are a perfect addition to an inviting basement that has been a work-in-progress for the couple since they moved in more than 10 years ago. “We did a stained concrete floor.

We put in a spiral staircase. We had French doors put in,” Dagmar says. And so it continues. Next DIY project on the agenda for the Bensons? They plan to use some of the leftover wood to build shelves for a hip, new bar area. Cheers to that! OmahaHome

“We just bought sections of those that fit together for the length we wanted,” Jeff says.

The legs are made of an 18-inch section joined with a T-connector, and then a 10-inch section topped off with a ¾-inch floor flange that connects to the underneath of the table.

The couple have four grown children and anticipate that their family will grow in size. “Living on a lake, we entertain a lot, so we wanted something that we could use for a buffet table for when we have parties,” Dagmar says.

They love hosting Huskers parties. “Jeff wanted to put a big red N right in the middle, but I nixed that idea right away,” she says.

The couple’s love of creating comes from spending a lot of time on computers for their professions. “I work mostly with a computer and spreadsheets and numbers,” says Dagmar, a program control analyst. “What I like to do in my spare time is anything that has to do with design, art, and decorating.”

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Spaces words by Daisy Hutzell-Rodman / photography by bill sitzmann

The wall of toilet paper along with pop-art inspired cutouts in the living area (opposite page) are some of the spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many art installations.

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ONE PIECE AT A TIME

CLINT! RUNGE’S FUNKY-FRESH AIR BNB SPACE

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HE ADDRESS IS 201 F St.; but, like the hidden gem it is,

one accesses it by driving down D (as in diamond) street.

F St. itself is a dead end, a quiet, leafy spot full of little bungalows.

The diamond is owned by Clint! (yes, legally, Clint!) Runge, founder of youth marketing agency Archrival. This square brick building, which Runge refers to as “The Loft,” started as a grocery store run by German-Russian immigrant H.J. Amen in a neighborhood once populated by a group of ethnic Germans who once lived in Russia.

Runge, who studied architecture at the University of NebraskaLincoln, bought the building from former professor Carl Matthews.

Runge has since used it as his ever-evolving playground.

“This place was raw,” Runge says of viewing the building for the first time. “A doorway was a hole. The basement was full of chains and hooks from its days as a butcher shop. For the last 10 years, I have been making it a place to live, one piece at a time.” >

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< This included, as Runge says, “getting the creep out.” He cemented the basement and made it more desirable, even as a storage space.

Runge kept true, however, to the building’s origin. A large bone saw sits in the basement, partially due to its heft. In the kitchen is a large cast-iron basin once used for boiling freshly killed chickens alongside the butcher block, now repurposed as a prep island. A smoking room off the kitchen retains its charred walls, and the smell of smoked meat permeates the room.

The space includes many nods to the graphic side of his business. A walled off area is implanted with Warhol-esque stacks of soap boxes and other consumer products. The double doors leading to the main living space display vintage cigarette advertising.

Another pop art feature is the wall of toilet paper behind the commode. The blue-tile bathroom also features a two-feet-deep tub and a nearly 24-inch-wide industrialthemed showerhead.

It is a funky, fresh space, one to try out for a weekend. Runge himself has not lived there since 2013. He rents it to the curious via Airbnb.

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“When I first walked in, my name was on a wall,” says Conjo Studios president Conrad Weaver of the vintage felt signboard Runge uses. “Having that welcome was really cool.”

It is particularly busy during football season.

“The first to rent it gets it,” Runge says. “Right after the Fourth of July people tend to start thinking about football, and I start getting calls. It is rented out every football game.

This makes someone’s weekend. You can get to downtown without hitting a stoplight, or you can walk it in about 15 minutes.”

The space is so unique it was featured on the HGTV show You Live in What?

“One time I was on a plane, and the person next to me was watching the episode,” Runge says. “She turned to me and says ‘Is that you?’ " One thing that won’t happen when staying there—a boisterous, frat-style, all-night kegger. “I do not rent it for parties,” Runge says. “It is limited to four people.”

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Each time someone stays there, however, it will look different.

“The beauty of this space is I get to try things.

Someone who was here a year and a half ago would see new tin ceilings and other things,” Runge says of the space that he is forever changing…one piece at a time. OmahaHome

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BLACKSTONE OLD IS NEW AGAIN

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to the Blackstone neighborhood more than 25 years ago, drawn to its “old houses and quiet streets.” Recent growth dotting the area’s periphery—and now in its very heart—has made the Blackstone neighborhood a destination hot spot and a hip new (in the “old is new again” way) place to live and work.

“Nationally, there is a movement towards moving back to the urban areas of cities,” says Rhonda Stuberg, Blackstone Neighborhood Association president and member of the Blackstone District board. “A new generation has arrived who seems to think that old buildings are pretty cool and likes living where a lot is going on in a smaller area.”

Indeed. Blackstone, which encompasses Leavenworth to Dodge streets and > Mula’s tacos are a hit on the corner of 40th and Farnam.

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Neighborhoods < 36th Street to Saddle Creek Road, may be small in terms of square miles, but it teems with activity and attractions. Consider these highlights: a former historic hotel credited with creating the rueben, the headquarters to one of Omaha’s Fortune 500 companies, a craft beer lover’s dream strip, several stately mansions renovated for both private use and public events, a nationally-ranked hospital, and an old-time business strip newly resuscitated by a handful of young entrepreneurs.

This is a mere surface scratch.

The Pella at Blackstone, one of Omaha’s coolest new event venues, is helping lead the resurgence in this midtown district.

Stuberg and her husband moved to the neighborhood in 2007 when they discovered Creighton University put an historic home in its possession up for sale. Fans of old neighborhoods (“neither of us has ever lived west of 72nd Street”), the Stubergs decided to buy and restore the home.

“When we moved in, we had no idea that Midtown Crossing was being built or that the Blackstone District would resurge like it has,” Stuberg confesses.

Resurged it has.

Maser attributes the new growth, in part, to the Nebraska Medical Center’s investment in the area and the Midtown Crossing development, both of which created an exciting ripple effect of restoration. GreenSlate Development is at the forefront. Partners Jay Lund and Matt Dwyer steered the reinvention of the west Farnam corridor at the corner of 40th and Farnam streets. A mix of retail, service, and dining businesses, not one chain store lies in the mix. “It is all about locally owned and operated businesses, most of which are completely original concepts,” states Lund. “These business owners decided to take a chance on our [GreenSlate’s] vision, and the result has been an organic resurgence of this neighborhood that has exceeded all my expectations.”

Grab a New York-style slice at Noli Pizza for lunch, then pop next door for a quick trim at The Surly Chap Barbers. Or try a tequila and taco at Mula. Settle into one of the seats at Archetype Coffee with your laptop and a cup of joe. Want to relax with a pint of beer or glass of wine post-work? Consider Scriptown Brewing or the Corkscrew’s newest location along Farnam. >

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-Mark Maser

< The corner of 40th and Farnam has historically been a hub of commerce. Lund feels its latest reinvention is just another life cycle in a strip that once housed such long-time notable businesses as the Admiral Theater and Kaufmann’s Pastry Shoppe.

Kleveland Clothing shop owner Katie McLeay Cleveland says her mom remembers popping into Kaufmann’s when she was a child. Now the daughter is the next generation of shop owners along Farnam. Kleveland Clothing carries a mix of eclectic, affordable, new and vintage clothing and accessories. Local artists create much of the jewelry available.

The boutique’s unique merchandise fits the non-homogenized Blackstone vibe. “My store needed a specialty location,” says Cleveland.

“It’s not a strip mall business. And the developers are invested in the neighborhood to make it work.”

“Development that is in context with the overall neighborhood” is what Lund, also president of the Blackstone Business Improvement District, feels the area needs. That means converting old row houses into updated townhomes or incorporating new construction seamlessly into its environs. It also means attracting young, forward-thinking business owners who have the energy and vision to make something old new again.

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Thus far the Blackstone neighborhood has balanced revitalization with regard for the past. As Maser puts it, “The houses are still old and the streets quiet, but now, with more retail shops and restaurants flourishing, we have all the excitement of a modern city within walking distance. It’s the best of both worlds.” OmahaHome

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MANTERIOR TODD MIDDLETON’S MAN CAVE IN A BARN

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hills outside Springfield, Nebraska, Todd Middleton set the gold standard for the man cave. This husband and father of two built a manly oasis in his barn—decorated with old duck decoys, John Deere curios, barbed wire, a rusty raccoon trap, and cow-skull art made of washers—reflecting the family’s passions for antiques and the outdoor life. The taxidermied duck, forever flying off the wall, looks perfect.

Middleton, owner of Double T Lawn and Landscape, first conceived the idea for the project when he built an office in a different barn on his property. “I said if I ever build another barn, I’m gonna build me something that I can actually sit down in and kinda get away from the wifey.”

“It’s okay, the feeling’s mutual,” says Todd’s wife, Aimee, who directs the marketing and clerical side of the family business.

“It gives me time in my kingdom. By myself!”

(“She sheds” are fast becoming the counterbalance to the man cave. If men have their private dens, it’s only logical that women should have a space of their own as well.)

Plenty of beer, wine, and Hawaiian Punch await Todd and his buddies; a Yoder barbecue smoker just outside the entrance gives off a faint whiff of pulled pork. Inside is a masterpiece of craft and masculine attention, including a bar, two Frigidaires, a Shaquille-O’Neal-sized-couch, a 60-inch flat-screen, a bathroom with repurposed galvanized tubs for sink basins—even an old watering can for a showerhead. Cedar and knotty pine panel the walls, giving a fresh-from-the-forest look. Whereas most builders worry out every little knot and kink in the wood, Todd purposely let imperfections remain in order to give the place an outdoorsy feel. >

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“I said if I ever build another barn, I’m gonna build me something that I can actually sit down in and kinda get away from the wifey.”

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< “You don’t want anything perfect,” he explains. “You don’t want anything straight, clean. When you do stuff like this, you want it a little rough.”

In keeping with the theme of roughness and wilderness, the bar, made of fieldstones, supports a syrup-colored, knotty pine countertop that is lacquered on the sides and topped with a self-leveling epoxy mix to give it a glassy, uncanny sheen. He wanted to go his own way on its design. “Everybody’s got granite, onyx, whatever. This is something different.”

Working alone, Todd built his cave a little bit at a time. Aimee says the antique collecting actually took the longest. The family enjoys hunting for rare finds at flea markets and auctions like Rural Route Rust in western Nebraska and Junkstock, and on websites like eBay. It’s an impressive collection, a minimuseum devoted to the rustic life.

In fact, their one-of-a-kind endeavor could serve as a valuable homegrown marketing

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“We’re putting this on our website,” Aimee admits. Todd has already been offered a few renovation jobs because of influence from social media sites like Pintrest.

“She put it on Facebook, a lot of people were kinda going nuts,” Todd adds. “There’s just so many cool things out there that people think of and that you can do.” OmahaHome

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Transformations

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Beautiful Fabrica carpet in the main area and stunning contemporary window treatments added the finishing touch and transformed this home to a spacious, modern one that feels newly-constructed. OmahaHome

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It begins with an idea. Please contact Curt Hofer & Associates at 402.758.0440. For an appointment, visit curthofer.com or see our Ideabook at houzz.com/curthofer.

2332 Bob Boozer Drive | Omaha, NE 68130 | Phone: 402.758.0440 | www.curthofer.com

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As Expansive As All Outdoors As intimate as a private retreat. As close to ideal as your imagination can take you. As close to civilization as you want to be yet as far away from ordinary as you can get. Welcome to Jasper Stone Development Premier Acreage Lots!

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Just off Blair High Road (Hwy 133) on County Rd 37

220th & Schram Road Gretna

For additional information: 402.255.5750

4 Miles North of I-680 on US 75

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180th & Military Road Bennington

www.jasperstonedevelopment.com

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