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Filly of the Month: Lynn Pedigo design and interior deSsigntructural aren’t usually a pair of talents for one person to have, but Lynn Pedigo has both. She can plan houses from the outside in, with an eye for the details of space planning as they relate to the structural aspect. Horse barns are houses, too. Pedigo has served on the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation’s board of directors since 2008 and was involved in the barn-building process at the Horse Park for the 2010 World Equestrian Games. She made sure the cupolas were in scale with the barns, for example, and that other exterior and interior details were correct. Three of the four barns have been built. “Eventually they’ll be connected with an overhead roofed walkway to get the horses from the barns to Alltech Arena,” she said. The barns are 128 feet by 185 feet. Each can hold 112 stalls. “We designed the barn so the stalls are not permanent,” she said. The stalls can be assembled in any configuration– or no stalls at all so a barn can be used as a riding ring or as an event venue.”
By Kathie Stamps
Pedigo has worked on projects with quite a few horse farms in the Bluegrass, including Bluewater Farm, Idle Hour Farm, Mt. Brilliant Farm, Patchen Wilkes Farm, Pine Knoll Farm and Summer Place Farm. She won a silver award in 2013 from Qualified Remodeler magazine’s national competition for a wholehouse remodel she did for Patchen Wilkes Farm. She has also designed for clients in Chicago and California, aw well as in Fort Lauderdale and Bal Harbor, Florida. She also designed the house that Coach Calipari bought. When Garry Milton purchased the double lot on Richmond Road, he and his wife called Pedigo. “I sketched something out, an Italianate style,” she said. “They fell in love with it.” She drew the design for the house plans and helped the couple get the finishes done. They sold the house a year or two later, and that’s when the Caliparis moved to town and bought it. Pedigo was having lunch at Dudley’s one day, and John and Ellen Calipari were sitting nearby. At her friend’s urging, she stopped by their table to say she had drawn the plans
From Bluewater Farm to Coach Cal’s House... Lynn’s career has spawned some impressive designs. 118 FEBRUARY 2015 | TOPSINLEX.COM