405 Home Spring 2019

Inspired Design for Central Oklahoma

Spring 2019

OF CABBAGES & KINGS Floral Creations You’ll Love

About Those Edibles Flowers fit for a feast

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CATCHING UP WITH THE JONESES

When Kyle Jones first laid eyes on his family’s Nichols Hills home, he was not convinced. Fast forward to a home design so impeccable, they’d rather be there than anywhere else.

Clean lines and well-placed pops of color make the home sing.

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SHOP YOUR BACK YARD

DON RISI

Fresh flowers can seem like a splurge, but when you grow your own, they move into the daily-necessity category. Creating a cutting garden is as simple or as elaborate a process as you’d like it to be, and reaping its rewards is soul-satisfying.

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departments gallery 14 MOOD BOARD: INSPIRED TO ENLIVEN Spring and summer are ideal for brightening and adding whimsy to our homes.

16 PLUM CRAZY Purple is everything this season from regal plum to ethereal lilac, and it’s very of-the-moment!

makers 20 BLOOMING WHERE THEY’RE PLANTED Meet the freshest floral designers in the 405. Their design styles are elegant, cheeky and delightful, and their stories are just as unique.

24 CHEF’S CHOICE: SHELBY SIEG’S GOTO KITCHEN TOOLS This Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef knows how to work smart in the kitchen. Her top-secret tools? She’s sharing them with 405 HOME.

living 40 405 HOME AWAY FROM HOME The legendary Dallas Adolphus Hotel has been thoroughly reimagined and is now the stuff of our editors’ obsessions. Beauty, panache, history, gracious service … and it’s just a hop and a skip away.

42 A BLOSSOMING FEAST: EDIBLE FLOWERS Urban farmer Megan Sisco and Patrono’s Chef Jonathan Krell are leading a blooming delicious food revolution.

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53 BUZZ OFF: THE SCIENCE OF MOSQUITO MANAGEMENT Warm weather in Oklahoma doesn’t have to mean swarms of mosquitoes. In fact, if properly prepared, your home can be darn near bug-free.

in every issue 10 FROM THE EDITORS What we love about spring, summer and this issue of 405 HOME 56 LOOKING AHEAD When the weather cools, it’s time for some wabi-sabi

on the cover The Flower Shop in Norman specializes in creating pretty, whimsical arrangements.

Here, winter and spring come together in this sweet, slightly surprising arrangement featuring roses and a surprise guest: ornamental cabbage.

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SURROUNDED BY SPRING BEAUTY

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issue. Given that emphasis on blooming beauty and the increased time we’re likely to spend outdoors, you’ll also want to get the buzz on mosquitoes and how to banish them from your home and yard.

As you flip through these pages, we hope they bring you joy, inspiration and even a little aspiration.

Our best to you,

SARA GAE WATERS Editor-at-Large

CHRISTINE EDDINGTON Editor-in-Chief

PHOTOS: EDITORS BY DON RISI; FLOWERS BY CARLI ECONOMY

WE LOVE THE PHRASE “bloom where you’re planted.” To us, it means that to find beauty, all you need to do is stand still and look around. It is bountiful, as is inspiration, and rather than looking for greener grass over the fence, if we take a moment’s pause, beauty and inspiration are everywhere, patiently waiting to be noticed.

It also means doing the best you can with the hand fate has dealt you. In this issue, you will meet tenacious owners of small businesses, a globe-trotting chef or two and homeowners who celebrate the art of living well each and every day.

Admittedly, it’s easy to see beauty and find inspiration in the spring. Buds on trees, daffodils and forsythia, tulips and sweet almonds all make their annual appearances during this season — and it is from them that we’ve taken our unofficial editorial direction.

We think celebrating flowers is a blooming excellent idea, and you’ll find them in almost every story. We’re planting, arranging, decorating with and even eating flowers in this

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THE SEASONS definitely influence our state of mind and motivation. We’re leaving winter, when we’ve been tucked in and curled up in comfort.

Heading into spring, you can feel that stir of planning — the desire to clear out, start fresh, take on the world. Home projects are waiting to be tackled like a blank canvas waiting for paint, and we are ready to create. Assembled here are elements that exude spring and are rich in style: grasscloth wallpaper, gold and acrylic hardware, brushed tile and marble … all beautiful, ready to make a bright, brilliant appearance.

Looking at them conjures one beautiful thought: “Ah, Spring.”

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From ME Home: Glazed porcelain lilac “Thalia” lamp, $515; Lavender and gold geometric vase, $60; Original mixed media on canvas by Ginger Walker, $420; Elizabeth side table in lavender finish, $850

PLUM CRAZY Purple is our jam

BY SARA GAE WATERS | PHOTOS BY SCOTTY O’DANIEL

OF ALL THE COLORS, purple seems to burst forth with the most mouthwatering names: lavender, sangria, plum, magenta, lilac, violet, wine, amethyst, wisteria, eggplant, iris, grape, periwinkle … I suppose you can name any color after something delicious, but purple really seems to have the corner on this market.

While it’s rare to choose to cover your walls in full-throttle purple — you aren’t Prince, after all — the shade seems to be making a breakthrough in decor.

Woven into rugs, painted on pottery, high-glossed on accent furniture or plumped up in throw pillows, purple pulls no punches. It’s just yummy.

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hen Allan and Jeanne McMurrin decided that they were ready to downsize by moving into Allan’s childhood home in northwest OKC, they wanted a cleaner, fresher, more colorful look … and they didn’t want to risk making expensive mistakes by attempting the remodel on their own.

Fortunately, Rose Clark has the expertise, eye for unique pieces and high standards for quality that help make a remodel successful, and she offers a full design service through her Casady Square boutique Chateau Design & Interiors.

Rose gets to know her clients in order to customize projects to their specific needs and budget; Jeanne calls her “a couples mediator” on home remodels.

“She is an artist at what she does for her clients,” says Jeanne. “Shopping in Red Chateau, now Chateau Design & Interiors, gave me inspiration. She made our home fresh and light, and it just flows – I now feel like it’s our family’s home!”

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BLOOMING GENIUSES

Floral design, at its zenith, is elegant with a dash of off-handedness.

Composition is so skilled that it looks wild. There are three designers we’d like you to meet, each of whom shares brilliance uniquely and beautifully.

We’ll introduce you on page 20.

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The Wild Mother’s Leah Palmer with a client

BLOOMING WHERE THEY’RE PLANTED A trio of exceptional floral designers in the 405

BY KRYSTAL YOSEPH | PHOTOS PROVIDED AND BY RACHEL MAUCIERI

THE MAKERS FEATURED HERE are hard-working optimists who are the hands behind some of the 405’s most beautiful nosegays, bouquets, centerpieces and arrangements, and the petal pushers who craft blooms into spectacular visions every day.

NATURE MOTHERS Time spent with The Wild Mother feels like tradition in the making. It’s a family affair: sisters Lauren, Leah and Callie Palmer are the founders and faces of the operation. Their aesthetic was solidified by shared experiences in the arts, gardening and finding beauty in every day, practically in every moment, spent with each other.

The Palmer sisters credit their parents, siblings (including their two brothers) and grandparents with providing them the lifestyle that blossomed into The Wild Mother. They grew up roaming their grandparents’ land, selecting rose rocks and picking wildflowers, styling designs on their kitchen table — and in hindsight, it’s clear that those moments foreshadowed what was to come.

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“What grew into a passion for me was just having flowers around my apartment in college,” Lauren says. “I always had grocery store flowers around. I moved into a house with some friends, and kept that same rhythm with having flowers in my spaces. A lot of our friends knew that about me, and started to ask if we would do flowers for their weddings.”

Requests for her newly budding talents grew from a trickle to a stream, which turned, eventually, into a fulltime business. They knew they’d done something right when calls started coming in from people they didn’t know. After logging many miles with the proverbial training wheels on, Leah and Lauren, who had daydreamed about one day opening a hybrid listening room/bookstore together, shifted creative gears and entered the floral-design business.

“Ordering from farms on your own, making relationships with farmers and learning from them and their craft is helpful for knowing how they can be used in our studio,” Lauren says.

“We like to honor materials as they are, (we) don’t manipulate, we work with them the way they are grown.”

In 2015, The Wild Mother took off, and through 2018, the business was operated strictly from their event space, Holloway House, a second-story outpost in Film Row. Earlier this year, the team added walk-up retail in the form of a studio-store at 629 W Sheridan, Suite 102. The new storefront will make it that much easier for fans of The Wild Mother to indulge in gorgeous flowers whenever the mood strikes.

PUTTING THEIR BEST FÊTE FORWARD Haleigh Kenney and Tara Towns have a unique understanding of the client-creator relationship, because that’s how they met. Kenney started her wedding-planning business, XO by Haleigh Kenney, in 2014, based from her home in downtown OKC. She’d left a corporate job and tapped into her creative alter ego, falling in love with floral design and event planning along the way. Enter Towns, an interior designer by trade and bride-to-be who hired XO to design and plan her wedding.

“She was in tune with what she wanted. I would say picky, but she just had really good taste,” Kenney says. “And we really hit it off. We had a fun time planning and working together.”

Towns purchased many of the decorative and other items used for her wedding, quickly building an impressive inventory of wares and furniture. In the meantime, Kenney’s she-shed was overrun by her own stock. The pair reunited, and started the hunt for a shared space that they could make into their own.

With the creation of their company, Fête, in 2017, the pair began offering workshops, pop-ups and specialty rentals, complementing the planning executed by Kenney and XO. Both women find inspiration in their surroundings, from the venues they transform to the space that they call their workhome. They now cater to specialty rentals and also offer their studio as an event space for birthday dinners, baby and bridal showers and other gatherings.

“Originally, we intended to be a retail location, but it really just grew faster on the wedding side than we could have hoped for,” Kenney says. “And we just decided to focus on brides, and holidays, and workshops for the community.”

Haleigh Kenney and Tara Towns of Fête

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The Flower Shop staff, including Lori Wright (second from right)

Helping brides edit their visions is something the pair does well. Serving as sounding boards and editors, the professionals gently help clients pare down their ideas until their dreams come to life.

“I say to them ‘Show me your one favorite photo of this particular item, show me one floral inspiration photo that you love,’” Kenney says. “Pinterest is great, but it can also be very confusing. And that has worked very well, and I think clients are very surprised with what we’re able to pull out in their wedding and how much it feels like them.”

THE WRIGHT STUFF What began in the late 1970s as her husband’s grocery business now thrives as Lori Wright’s beautiful business The Flower Shop, a freestanding onestop outpost filled with beautiful arrangements or bouquets for home, office or just for the heck of it.

Wright was born in Oklahoma City and was a stay-at-home mom until the early 2000s, when she first began working with flowers, joining the family business alongside her late husband Larry. When Wright’s Family Market closed in 2014, it became a stand-alone business operating under the name Wright’s Floral Market. In 2017, the couple expanded the business — rebranded as The Flower Shop — but kept its personalized, excellent customer service in a town known for its love of local business.

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girls,” Wright says. “We really try to take care of the everyday customer and their everyday needs. We say, ‘You tell us your budget, and we will make it beautiful for you.’ To get to experience that every day, to get to bless someone with flowers, makes me feel like I’m being purposeful with my life.”

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CHEF’S CHOICE Shelby Sieg’s go-to kitchen tools

BY GREG HORTON | PHOTOS BY CHARLIE NEUENSCHWANDER

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WHEN CHEF SHELBY SIEG agreed to be a part of this story, she was lying on a beach in Tulum, Mexico. Sieg, executive chef at The Pritchard Wine Bar, is a traveler at heart, and while the day-to-day grind of being a chef isn’t exactly glamorous, she uses her vacation time in exotic locales to find inspiration.

“After I finished Le Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale, Arizona, I worked in kitchens all over the U.S. and internationally,” Sieg says. “I travel, not just for inspiration, but to sample what amazing chefs all over the world are doing.”

For those of us who labor in more pedestrian kitchens, Sieg offered advice to make our culinary lives easier to manage.

We asked what tools make her job easier, and with Tulum’s beautiful vistas as backdrop, she responded quickly: “A bench knife and a set of tongs.” She could not have found two less glamorous tools, but she is adamant that they are her go-to utensils in her own kitchens, both home and The Pritchard.

What’s a bench knife, and why is it something home cooks should use?

“A bench knife, also called a bench scraper, or a dough scraper, is so versatile,” she says. “It is simply a rectangular piece of metal with a handle attached. The handle can be wood or plastic. On the pastry side of things, you can use it to cut butter into flour, portion dough, smooth icing on the sides of a cake, or even to cut things like brownies while still in the pan so you don’t dull a knife.”

While Sieg’s background is strongly in pastry, she has converted to a more all-around focus in her professional life.

She brought the bench knife with her.

“On the prep side, it can be used to scoop up prepped items on a cutting board, or smash things like garlic or potatoes,” she says. “It’s the definition of a multi-purpose tool, so the list of uses is endless, including cleaning a counter top or flat-top griddle, in the case of a restaurant.”

A bench knife is designed to take a beating, so care is easy. Just a good scrub with soap and water to sanitize it, and it’s good to go. It’s not really a knife, so there’s no need to ever sharpen it either.

Sieg said common, 12-inch, spring-loaded tongs are capable of reducing your tool inventory like almost no other utensil. She keeps a couple of sets around the kitchen to avoid cross-contamination, and so she isn’t washing a pair every couple minutes.

“They become an extension of your hand in a kitchen,” she says. “The 12-inch tongs put your hand just far enough from a hot sauté pan, but they aren’t so long that they feel awkward.

I shy away from fancy silicone versions, since silicone mostly just messes with the way they grip food.”

Look for tongs sturdy enough to pick up a whole roasted chicken, and if space is an issue in your kitchen, get the set with the locking handle.

“If you have a good set of metal tongs, you can all but do away with a spatula in the kitchen,” Sieg says. “They give you so much more control when flipping food because you never lose contact with the item, and no splashing hot oil, either. I also use them in place of those weirdly-shaped pasta spoons to test for doneness and for plating.”

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Town founder Grant Humphreys says, “Our family has been going to Lake Eufaula since the early ’70s. As a kid I learned how to ski on this cove where Carlton Landing is located and taught my kids to ski in that same cove. My grandad had a place there, and we would spend our summers at the lake.”

When they acquired a sizable tract of prime lakefront land just over a decade ago, Grant and his wife Jen were inspired by vacations to Florida resort communities Seaside and Rosemary Beach – thoughtful enclaves with a high level of design that are built to be walkGRANT HUMPHREYS able. Inspired by sustainability and stewardship, they decided to build a town from scratch.

“We wanted to do something that would be more of a legacy, something we’d be proud of, and something that could impact peoples’ lives for the better,” Grant says.

The Humphreys family became the first residents of Carlton Landing in the spring of 2012. With careful planning and expert work, it’s grown into a beautiful, bustling community. More than 200 homes for both permanent residents and visitors, a public charter school and church, restaurants and retail, are carefully embedded into the natural lakefront beauty.

With summer on the way and vacations to plan, one of the community’s strengths is its flexibility: long-term residents can buy an existing home or a lot and build a custom home. There are also rental properties for weekend visits, and now, a new option that provides something in between.

“The Residence Club at Carlton Landing is a fantastic option for vacation home ownership; it’s unlike anything in the state, and it really opens some doors to enjoy vacation opportunities in other parts of the world. You really just don’t find anything like it in Oklahoma,” says Grant. The program offers fractional interest in a furnished luxury condominium, where owners on average will have the option to stay about 7 weeks a year. Instead of a timeshare with an assigned date and a use-it-or-lose-it mentality, it’s more of an equity country club membership – one with an amenities package that includes access to a luxury boat fleet and the resort pool. Also, membership in the Elite Alliance luxury travel network allows users to exchange their time at Carlton Landing for visits to five-star resorts from Telluride to Napa Valley to Florence, Italy. It’s an immense value in vacation travel.

With projects in the works including a 300-slip marina, a fully equipped conference and corporate retreat facility convenient to both OKC and Tulsa companies and a luxurious destination wedding chapel, the future looks as bright as the sun glinting off the lake for Carlton Landing.

Grant says, “It’s a great time to experience Carlton Landing. But words or pictures don’t do it justice – you have to come out and experience a couple of days here. When people see the lifestyle and meet the great folks in our town, we don’t have to sell it. It just sells itself.”

Carlton Landing is a community – and an experience – all its own.

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The Jones home is a series of clean, sweeping lines and elegant spaces, designed for aesthetics but also for daily life. Architect Jeremy Gardner and builder Brent Swift worked in tandem to achieve a truly unique home filled with quiet luxury.

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JONESES A REIMAGINED MASTERPIECE IN NICHOLS HILLS

BY MARK BEUTLER | PHOTOS BY MATT PAYNE

Kyle Jones and his wife Kate took a trip to the Cayman Islands last winter. But after just a few days in paradise, they were ready to head back home to Oklahoma. The sun on their backs and sand between their toes could not compare to their dream home waiting for them on a quiet tree-lined street in Nichols Hills.

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he couple purchased the vintage 1947 home about five years ago, and knew immediately that it was just what they had been dreaming about for themselves and their 7-year-old daughter Ramsey.

“We were living in Deep Deuce, but I really wanted a larger home where we could entertain,” Kyle says. “We knew we wanted a modern-style house, but we didn’t quite know where our journey would take us. My dad is the first one who showed us this house online.”

After viewing the property on Zillow, Kyle and Kate said they were not impressed.

“I thought ‘there’s no way I’m buying that house,’” Kyle says. “But one Sunday, I told Kate we should drive by the house in Nichols Hills. We got to the corner and I looked at the house and saw all the pine trees, and we were both thinking, ‘Okay, get rid of the trees and that could be cool!’

Clean shapes and bold design are seen throughout the Jones home. Here, a massive fireplace balances a lipstick red sofa, while neutrals underfoot provide a visual anchor.

Natural light floods the kitchen, and the palette of beautiful natural materials is carried into this space, as well. The Jones family often takes meals here at the counter, adding convenience to their daily routine.

“We knew it would need a lot of love and attention,” he adds, “but we thought it could be something that’s totally unlike anything else in Oklahoma City. From that point, we called the realtor and started negotiations. It took seeing it just one time from the street to know it was going to be our house.”

The house had been remodeled once around 2008, Kyle said.

Parts of the original 1947 structure had already been updated, but it still wasn’t exactly what they thought it could be.

“After living here a couple of years, it gave us an idea of what we wanted and how we thought the house should function,” he says. “It was a great house, but was just missing the icing on the cake, so to speak. Our architect, Jeremy Gardner, said if we really wanted to do something special, we could start knocking out some walls. He said that would change the whole house, so we decided that’s what we would do.”

The design process took two years; working with Gardner Architects, to create the new space – and then with contractor Brent Swift, who put the plans in motion.

“The renovations took a full year,” Kyle says. “So we moved out and back into our old house in Deep Deuce, 30 405 HOME SPRING 2019

which we had turned into a rental property. During that time, Brent and his crew ripped out walls, added windows where there were none and totally gave the house a whole new feel.”

For guests, walking into the house is like stepping into 1960s-era chic. The furniture fits with the Jetson-esque style of the home. A fireplace to the right encompasses one full wall, while the fire-engine red sofa is the focal point, grabbing the visitor’s eye from the moment they step inside.

“In our living room, we didn’t do much here,” Kyle says.

“We just added new lighting and new paint. Before, the fireplace had been painted black, so we lightened that up and gave it a new look. We decorated in a Mid-century modern style, because it not only fits the house, but that is what we like. For us, it is about clean lines; keeping it simple with no clutter, no excess. Mid-century modern was a classic staple of furniture that should have never gone away. It fits our personality.”

The house was originally four bedrooms in a Jack-and-Jill style. Kyle said that for the master, they took part of a second bedroom and created a large en suite. The bedroom is decorated in shades of ivory, teal and emerald, complementing the dark walnut furniture.

The en suite itself is classic, with just a touch of whimsy.

The large free-standing tub has no plumbing, except for the drain. A copper fitting directly above the tub allows water to spill in a single stream from the ceiling into the bath.

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Natural elements are in charge in the master bath.

Marble walls, minimally treated wood floors and beautifully grained cabinetry pair well with brass fittings. The soaking tub is filled by activating a spigot on the ceiling, which adds a little wit and drama to an ordinarily mundane task.

“We wanted to do something fun in here,” Kyle says, “So we ran the plumbing overhead. Plus, we didn’t really like any of the tub fillers we saw, and because the house is all concrete, it was going to be difficult to get the plumbing in here.

We thought that would just be something cool to add.”

The floors throughout the house are blonde maple from Wisconsin, kept as light and natural as possible. In the kitchen, a continuous wall of black walnut covers the pantry, a large freezer and refrigerator.

“You can see the grain actually matches,” he says. “The countertops are white polished quartz. The snack bar we use for casual meals, because it’s just the three of us and it makes cleanup easier.

“The kitchen used to be very closed off. We removed a wall and used that extra space for an added living area. Now the kitchen flows better, it’s more open and light. We added a wall of doors opening out into the backyard, which gives us a nice view of the pool area. For us, having a visual from front to back is a nice part of modern-day houses.”

The area off the kitchen was once part of a bedroom, and now functions as a second living area. A hidden panel hides a wet bar, a nice feature when the Joneses entertain.

“We love having people over,” he says. “Maybe doing ‘family and friends’ things in the pool and having a good time together. That’s what we enjoy. This area overlooking the pool was a concrete block wall with a single window. We opened that up and installed a wall of glass doors leading outside. It also adds more light, and a much more open and spacious feeling.”

The Jones family had a special guest recently: The daughter of the original owner came by to see the renovations to her childhood home.

“The lady’s father had built the house in 1947, and used concrete throughout — because back then, he wanted it to be fire-resistant,” Jones says. “She is 87 now and really liked what we had done. I told her our goal was to maintain the integrity of the house. But we wanted to bring it up to date — take whatever that person who built it in 1947 may have 32 405 HOME SPRING 2019

The master bedroom, with its custom furnishings, could easily be mistaken for a sumptuous suite at a four-star resort. In fact, given the choice, Kyle and Kate would rather be home than almost anywhere else.

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“We would look at each other and kind of think, ‘We have our own little private resort here.’”

K YLE JONES

Minimal pops of contrasting colors in the form of purple lounges, emerald green grass, cool blue water and bright skies add a dash of cool to the home’s white façade.

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The splendid Jones home in Nichols Hills.

wanted if they were to build the house today. What would they have done now? What design elements would they have incorporated? That was kind of our motto throughout the whole process. She said she thought her dad would approve.”

A long corridor off the kitchen leads to the garage, and is flanked by another wall of glass.

“This was a Florida room at one time – open space that had cinder blocks and was all open-air,” he says. “We added windows to enclose it and added heat and air to give us added square footage, as well as a powder bath. This gives us a place for guests to use, and we also added another bedroom, which we currently have set up to function as an office.”

Out in the garage, the contractors extended the space and added a much-needed storage area. Since the home has no attic, storage space was scarce. A separate mother-in-law apartment off the garage offers yet another living area, complete with its own full bath and kitchen.

The large, heated pool is the focal point of the back yard, and an amenity the couple decided to add during the renovations.

“Last summer was our first year to have the pool,” he says.

“We went really hard in May and June, and by July we were already exhausted. Lots of friends came over to grill burgers and play in the pool. Our daughter loves it, and in Oklahoma, you don’t usually go outside in June or July unless you have some sort of body of water to get in. It’s just too hot here.

After a long day of work, it gives us a place to go as a family and turn on some music and have dinner. We are pretty simple, easy-going people.”

Landscaping the property was the job of Laud Studio.

They removed more than 30 overgrown trees and brought in several trucks of new soil. New elm trees now shade the front lawn, which is covered in a lush fescue.

“We have some annuals and hydrangeas that add color in the spring and summer,” Kyle says. “But this is not really the kind of house where you plant 500 begonias. The house is the focal point, so the landscaping just enhances the clean lines of the structure.”

The first six months living in the renovated space was like being on vacation every day, the couple said.

“We would look at each other and kind of think, ‘We have our own little private resort here,’” Kyle says. “There are times we want to pinch ourselves to see if it’s really real. We went on vacation in February and had a great time, but my home has all the same amenities we had in the Caymans.

And it’s my own home and my own bed at night, so we both couldn’t wait to get home. We get up in the morning, head for our espresso machine and it just feels like we are on one long vacation. We are very blessed.”

The Jones family: Kyle, Ramsey and Kate in their oasis of a back yard.

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405HOME AWAY FROM HOME A stay at the Adolphus Hotel

BY CHRISTINE EDDINGTON | PHOTOS PROVIDED

THERE ARE DAYS when we are compelled to make our homes in places that are not our houses. It is not our preference — the familiar is comfortable, and as editors, beautiful homes are where our hearts are — but we were recently summoned by forces beyond our control (including an emergency dash to the passport office) to make the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas our home away from home. We knew the moment we strolled into the grand lobby that we would be okay.

A massive redesign project was launched after its newish owners, Rockbridge Capital Group, bought the hotel in 40 405 HOME SPRING 2019

2012. Dallas-based boutique design firm Swoon was chosen to undertake the project, and they reimagined the interior design of all the hotel’s public spaces. That means the three lobbies, ballroom, bistro, bars, a retail shop, a coffee and pastry shop, barbershop, the renowned bastion of Dallas fine dining that is the French Room … all were rejuvenated.

The hotel, with its ornate Beaux Arts façade, was built by beer baron Adolphus Busch in 1912, and its renovation was completed in 2018. Its lush-yet-welcoming interior design struck us like a bolt of elegant lightning. We wandered, agog

Guggenheim Steinway, and more beautifully curated art, create a modern-historic juxtaposition that delights.

How did this design magic occur? We asked Joslyn Taylor, partner at Swoon, whose firm undertook the project of renovating and reimagining the historic hotel’s public spaces. We also asked Sam Tucker, Adolphus director of sales and marketing, how his team makes the place feel like a home.

405HOME: What is the design philosophy in the common spaces, such as the lobby and the salon? It feels like an extremely cool and beautifully gracious English country house, like if Downton Abbey were modern-day. Was that the idea?

Taylor: “Our goal was to create a cozy, layered, residential feel while honoring the history and architecture of the space. We wanted the design to feel memorable and cool but still storied, so we were mindful of mixing elements like steel-frame factory windows, antique stone fireplaces imported from France and vintage furnishings with modern art and a curated collection of books to create a push-pull.

The overall vibe is that of a modern-day young couple living in a grand European home that they’ve made their own, by adding their possessions to things they’ve inherited.”

405HOME: What are the more unique amenities the Adolphus offers its guests? Our in-room welcome cocktail was so clever and fun; what are some other little, meaningful touches?

Tucker: “We offer a very thoughtful array of customized welcome amenities, but our favorite is The 1912 cocktail, which highlights our rich history with a delicious offering of sweet and savory from our culinary team, and a hand-crafted cocktail from our City Hall mixologists. It is the perfect way to warmly welcome travelers into our beautifully restored space.”

at every beautiful detail, soaking in the thoughtful layers of art and beauty, while hatching absurd plans to become “stranded” in Dallas so we could extend our stay.

For several moments, we just sat in the lobby and soaked in the everything. Antique rugs anchor tufted sofas in rich velvet and leather. Iconic John Dickinson “African Table” side tables dot the landscape, along with contemporary classics such as The 1912 Cocktail Kelly Wearstler’s “Linden” lamps.

2oz Whistle Pig rye whiskey Rattan chairs reminiscent of 2 dashes of Angostura bitters leaf-cutter ants await in the salon.

1/4 oz simple syrup Lemon peel expression A pair of limestone fireplaces shipped in from France anchor Combine whiskey, bitters and simple syrup. Serve on the the vast lobby space, topped by rocks, with a twist of lemon or some of the most significant art orange. For a true Adolphus exin the hotel: two very spare black perience, serve with Texas Hill Country pecan shortbread, Oak prints by artist Richard Serra. A Cliff coffee truffles and Texas centuries-old portrait of Napograpefruit pate de fruit. leon Bonaparte, which was part For more about the Adolphus, of the Busch family collection, including an excellent weekend itinerary, visit 405HOME online. hangs in the hotel bar. A carved

405HOME: When is the pool open?

Tucker: “The pool season officially kicks off around Easter each year, and concludes with a bash on Labor Day. This is Texas, after all, and the weather is finicky. When the weather permits, we always open the pool deck. In Texas, you never really know if the sun will shine or the sleet will fall in the winter months. Our Director of Security, Glenn Boykin, moonlights as our un-official Adolphus meteorologist. When Glenn sees sun, the pool is open! Everyone loves the fresh air and the rooftop views of the skyscrapers.”

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A BLOSSOMING FEAST Adding flavor with edible flowers

BY GREG HORTON | PHOTOS BY RACHEL MAUCIERI AND DON RISI

hibiscus tea. The flowers are readily available in season, and many retail locations sell dried flowers. The ratio changes depending on fresh or dried, but for fresh petals, mix two cups of flowers with eight cups of boiling water and steep for about 20 minutes.

The color and flavor are intense, and while the tea is very fruity, floral and pleasant without sweetening, many recipes call for sweetening according to taste, with honey being a popular choice. Both iced and hot are common. Fresh citrus juice can lift the aromatics and cut through some of the floral components, or baking spices like cinnamon sticks can deepen the floral notes and add richness.

Editor’s note: Read an expanded version of this story online at 405magazine.com.

BEFORE VENTURING into the world of edible flowers, one thing is really important: “There are tons that are poisonous,” Megan Sisco, co-owner of Circleculture Farm, says. Sisco’s farm, located in the Paseo Arts District, produces a wide range of produce for the Paseo Farmers Market and local restaurants, including edible flowers. Buying from a trusted producer like Circleculture is a good idea, unless you just happened to grow up in a family of foragers.

“We plant edible flowers for a dual purpose,” Sisco explains. “We use a synergistic planting method because we don’t use chemicals on our farm.

Some plants repel pests, so we plant the repellants next to the plants that are targeted by specific pests. Secondarily, those flowers are beautiful and edible.”

Circleculture plants edible flowers together — almost like a field blend concept in grape growing—because the plants work together. Locally, common edible flowers are marigold, nasturtium, viola, shungiku (chrysanthemum), 42 405 HOME SPRING 2019

rose, herb and squash blossoms and borage, the latter of which has a distinct cucumber flavor.

Chef Jonathan Krell of Patrono has been using edible flowers almost as long as he’s been cooking. While it should be obvious that flowers taste … floral … it’s also true that they have very distinct flavor profiles, and like better-known ingredients — saffron, paprika, sage, etc. — they can have a dramatic effect on the aesthetics of a dish, as well.

“I love working with butterfly pea flowers,” Krell says. “They’re a common ingredient in Thai cooking, and they turn liquid a beautiful indigo hue.

I typically poach escolar, which is bright white, and then create a dashi broth, adding the pea flowers. You end up with a white fish on top of a blue broth, so the dish looks and tastes like the sea.”

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SHOP YOUR BACK YARD FOR FLOWERS Making the most of nature’s beauty

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FEW DECORATIVE ELEMENTS have the effect of fresh flowers.

Silk arrangements can provide color and interest with minimal effort, but nothing bestows a touch of effervescence like a bouquet of blooms with the kiss of sunshine still on them.

Whether you’ve never gardened in your life, or have a healthy bloom bounty already going in your outdoor landscaping, an enjoyment of fresh flowers and desire to have them at hand is reason enough to consider starting a cutting garden.

Casey Hentges, former director of horticulture at the Myriad Botanical Gardens and current host of OETA’s “Oklahoma Gardening,” gives us insight about starting a cutting garden in the 405.

“In Oklahoma, we can grow flowers all year round that would provide excellent materials for floral arrangements,” Hentges says. “You can use a combination of perennials, annuals and even shrubs for some nice foliage, or evergreen to add to your arrangements.”

She pointed out that a cutting garden isn’t relegated to a single season. “In the spring, a low-maintenance and easy flower to grow is iris. They come in every color under the sun and have nice stems for arranging. You can also cut some of the strappy foliage to include in the display. Daffodils are also a nice cut flower, but should not be placed in the same vase as other cut flowers, as they secrete a sap that can prevent other flowers from being able to take up water. Often, these two plants are blooming when winter is still looming, and if there is threat of a severe storm or freeze, gardeners shouldn’t feel guilty about bringing these flowers indoors to enjoy. Also, early in the season, you can cut some branches from forsythia and quince — which are early flowering shrubs — and when you bring them indoors to warmer temperatures, this will force those flower buds to open sooner.”

As days lengthen, more plants begin to bloom and your cutting garden becomes even more bountiful. “In the sumSPRING 2019 405 HOME 49

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mertime, there is a plethora of plants to choose from: Echinacea, daisy, yarrow and black-eyed Susan are just a few of the easy-to-grow perennials that will continue to provide flowers throughout the summer months,” Hentges says.

“As fall approaches, we often start to think more about the autumn foliage. However, there are still plants blooming, including goldenrod and salvia. Autumn is also a good time to take advantage of ornamental grasses you might have in your garden that have by this point produced beautiful seed heads or plumes. And don’t just assume ornamental grasses are green, as they come in a range of colors from blueish gray to pinks and purples,” she says.

“As winter sets in and people are beginning to think about the holidays, this is a great time turn toward the hollies and junipers. Ilex decidua is a native holly that will drop its leaves in the winter to reveal branches covered in red berries.

Also, you can add interest into your arrangements by just adding branches from a curly willow.”

If you’re thinking that it would take extensive planning to plot out a cutting garden that spans the seasons, Hentges’ response is that it does require some forethought, but it doesn’t need to be complicated.

“In order to continue cutting from your garden throughout the seasons, you want to make sure to stagger the types of plants that you have regarding their bloom time.

Of course, the bigger your garden, the more you can cut.

Also, you might want to mix your garden with annuals and perennials; annuals tend to bloom more steadily while perennials may only have a certain window of bloom time during their season. The benefit to planting perennials is that you won’t have to replant them each year, like annuals, and perennials will continue to get larger, providing more flowers each year they return.”

Once you have your homegrown blooms in hand, what do you do with them? Oklahoma City-based floral artist Jodi Ferrell of Grave Robber Floral Co. gives some direction for amateur arrangers and thoughts about composition.

“Less can be more,” Ferrell says. “You don’t have to have a flower in every space — negative space is your aesthetic friend.”

If this sounds a little like a cousin of Marie Kondo’s famous decluttering process, you may be picking up on the Japanese influence on Ferrell’s design mindset.

“The art of ikebana, Japanese flower arranging, has been a favorite of mine to study,” Ferrell says. “It teaches you how to draw lines with flowers that respect nature. It’s a way of viewing plants and appreciating flowers in the four seasons.”

Developing a garden for the purpose of filling your home with fresh blooms can be a rewarding way to integrate a lively decor practice with a relaxing, joy-inducing hobby. It can also offer a way to generate a synthesis between indoor and outdoor design, which makes for a beautiful environment both indoors and out.

Editor’s note: For Casey Hentges’ guide to go-to flowering plants, visit 405 Home online. Photos taken in Norman’s historic Southridge Neighborhood.

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Chatting with two experts, Cynthia Bates from the OKC-County Health Department and Reed Savage of SWAT Mosquito Mist Systems, sheds some light on the issue; here’s a quick guide about mosquito safety once the temperatures pick up.

AT HOME Your options for mosquito protection can be as simple as “look for standing water and get rid of it,” while wearing a DEET-containing repellent, or as in-depth as installing a system designed to periodically spray your property.

Bates says, “In the spring, at home, we recommend that people walk around their property and look for stagnant ponds or clogged gutters. If you have older neighbors who aren’t able to remove stagnant water bodies on their property, consider offering to help. Not only to reduce the mosquito potential for the neighborhood, but also because the elderly are at a greater risk of developing the more severe symptoms of mosquito-borne illnesses. The recommendation for personal protection is to wear long sleeves and long pants as much as possible, and use a mosquito repellent that contains DEET.” Savage’s business is predicated on mosquito protection, and while he offers the standard service of yard sprays done by an individual, he believes that the best solution is one that offers more comprehensive coverage.

“Yard sprays that involve a mobile unit kill everything they hit, and also act as a repellent,” he says. As long as it lasts, it will repel mosquitoes. The negative of that is that the typical length of effect is just 21 days, (and) if it rains the next day, your effectiveness is taken down.”

But he has options that will mitigate heat and water. “We offer a system we install to spray the yard at daily intervals. It comes on two to three times, usually scheduled at night, and sprays for about 30 to 90 seconds. Same thing; it kills what it hits when it sprays, and has a residual effect also, but you’re getting a daily dose, not one every 21 days.”

Cynthia Bates from the OKC-County Health Department

UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE As Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” It’s helpful to know a little about the breeding cycle of mosquitoes when you want to fight them, and it’s also beneficial to understand that you will indeed have (at least) 100 battles, no matter what your precautions are.

Bates says, “We don’t want people to decrease precautions in terms of clothing or repellent, so we don’t predict mosquito counts. But sometimes we see when there are high temperatures, and then a high rainfall with a dry period afterward, resulting in higher possibility of more stagnant water in ponds … mosquitoes have more time to lay eggs that develop into adults.”

Savage also offers a reminder that total obliteration of your winged opponents isn’t really possible. “If you have the elements to AT THE LAKE, ON THE TRAIL, IN THE WILD Since provide a breeding ground, installing a sysSUN TZU, ART OF WAR there isn’t as much maintenance in less-poptem or having your property sprayed is only ulated outdoor areas, your risk of a mosquito bite may go up. addressing part of the problem. I tell people, ‘It should never Even if you seem to do okay without repellent in your backbe bad enough that you can’t go outside, but you have to yard, consider that a hike or weekend float trip will probably realize that this is all mosquito management.’” necessitate protective measures. “If you’re in a wooded area, The long and the short of it is that you should enjoy sumwe usually recommend a stronger repellent,” Bates says. “Esmer, enjoy life and take the amount of precaution that your pecially if you’re going to be out for quite a while.” situation and comfort level warrant.

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