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Donna and Riley Shirey built green for themselves and to teach others
By Rebecca Teagarden

The Seattle Times/MCT

SEATTLE _ Before she got into the construction business 41 years ago, Donna Shirey was a teacher. Turns out, she still is. Our first project with SIPs was in 1987, says Shirey, cofounder of Shirey Handyman & Remodeling, discussing the benefits of building with structural insulated panels. The first show we ever did was the Tacoma Home Show in 1987. People said to us, Youre gonna put foam in houses? I read about that in Popular Science. The Shireys, Donna and her husband, Riley, have long believed that sustainable building is smart building. And in 2005 they decided to go for it: build the greenest, most affordable, healthy, comfortable and quiet home possible on the shore of Lake Sammamish in Bellevue, Wash. The Shireys would be their own client, and they would open the house to anybody who wanted to come have a look, from construction to completion. Its sustainable credentials are many: photovoltaic panels, solar hot water, tankless water heater, hydronic radiant heating, heat-recovery ventilator, living roof, recycled-content tile, salvaged-wood flooring, metal roof, local materials, rainwater collection using a 3,000-gallon cistern, small footprint, wind turbine, 5-star Built Green rating. More. We had 3,500 people come through, and thats not including groups, Shirey says brightly, sitting in the golden kitchen of their 1,630-squarefoot home, a little bit country, a little bit contemporary and designed by architect David Clinkston. Riley thinks the lookie-loos added three months to the process. The more the merrier, is how they look at it. Why, Shirey (whos fond of such construcCYAN-AOOO

tion bon mots as build tight; ventilate right, and use builtins, not furniture) has lived all of her years in a sustainable frame of mind. My parents went through the Depression; my dad was a butcher in Cleveland. We saved and recycled everything, she says. You never knew what you were going to need. The Shireys completed the place they call the Zero Energy Idea House in 2009. Most recently it and the couples Florida home were featured in the book Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid by Sheri Koones. (Fun fact: Robert Redford, who wrote the preface, worked as a roustabout in the oil fields south of Los Angeles as a teenager.) Koones tells us that houses use about one-third of all the energy in America. But for 80 percent of the year, the Shirey home requires no energy to operate. And each year Puget Sound Energy has sent the Shireys a check for about $650 for power returned to the grid. The home is contemporary but made comfortable with fat alder trim and bright, cheerful (no VOC) paint. Rooms (two bedrooms, 2 { baths) are no larger than needed. The living room is a conversationinducing 11 feet by 12 feet. The home steps down the lakes-edge hillside, from TV loft upstairs to the bedrooms below the main living space. Interior designer Autumn Donovan helped inside, working with the Shireys recycled furniture _ pieces they already owned. Those chairs over there? Shirey says, pointing to the living room. Ive had those since 1982. We just got them recovered. That kind of ethic is evident all around. Theres always something people can do, Shirey says, whether theyre building a new house or have an existing one.

Cabinets are oak, from Pacific Crest Custom Cabinetry in the Bellevue, Washington home of the Shireys. Appliances are Miele. Counters are cast concrete and include a built-in trivet. (Benjamin Benschneider/Seattle Times/MCT)

The Shireys call their Bellevue, Washington home, designed by architect David Clinkston, and the Zero Energy Idea House. The exterior is metal and HardiePanel. The home has a 5-star Built Green rating. (Benjamin Benschneider/Seattle Times/ MCT)

The small living room, 11 feet by 12 feet, sits tucked just off the kitchen in the Bellevue, Washington home of the Shireys. Overhead is the TV loft. The bedrooms are one floor down. (Benjamin Benschneider/Seattle Times/MCT)

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By Lisa Boone

Home of The Times: The past becomes eclectic

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Los Angeles TimesMCT LOS ANGELES _ When Mark Fay heard that the F.P. Fay Building was about to be demolished, the True Blood sound engineer drove to downtown Los Angeles to see the building named for his great-grandfather. That day, Easter Sunday, he discovered the building had already been knocked down, with little left but some ironwork and Fay Building signage he found on a piece of marble. Twenty-three years and one trip to the welder later, the silver F-A-Y lettering now stands out against a living room wall with matte black chalkboard paint, hung above a treasured turntable. In the Eagle Rock home where Mark and Melinda live with their two boys, Boon and Haskell, the rescued sign represents not only a piece of salvaged family history but also the decorating mix of the moment: a playful blend of vintage and contemporary. I have great nostalgia for things and an appreciation for vintage, said Melinda, a psychotherapist who specializes in art therapy. I love midcentury, but I believe in comfort. I like to mix it up. The heirlooms go beyond inherited pieces (those Emmy Awards on the shelf belonged to Marks father, Sheldon, a cameraman). For regulars at the Rose Bowl and Pasadena City College flea markets and aficionados of Etsy and EBay, the couple has amassed their possessions through a combination of kismet and determination. Case in point: After his grandparents house in the Hollywood Hills was demolished, Mark jumped the fence and found The Archer, a large tile originally mounted outside the pool house. He snagged it from the junk pile and hung it on the exterior of the brick fireplace at their Eagle Rock, Calif., house. The Archer now oversees his children at

In the entry way the family shoes are in bins underneath a collection of artworks in the Eagle Rock/Highland Park home of Mark and Melinda Fay, in Los Angeles, March 10, 2013. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
play, just as it did when he was a child. The Fays surplus of artworks, including outsider art and thrift store finds, chronicles the couples life together. In the master bedroom hangs a painting by street artist Becca that Mark bought to woo Melinda. Over the couch in the family room, a snake is rendered on a vintage map by Lynn Hanson. Our house is right on the bottom above the artists signature, Melinda said. The artwork is as diverse as the homes decor. Melinda, who is launching a gallery show May 11 at Curve Line Space in Eagle Rock, called it such an emotional and personal thing. But the couple also has had to be pragmatic, adapting the rooms of the 1948 home to accommodate their growing family. During the last two years, the couple worked with South Pasadena, Calif., interior decorator Tamara KayeHoney to add layers of texture and color and to create separate gathering places inside and out. What used to be a large, difficult-to-arrange living room has been divided into a central area with leather couch, a more intimate nook by the fireplace and a

Interior designer Tamara Kaye-Honey, left, from House of Honey, enjoys the outdoor dining area with owner Melinda Fay at her Eagle Rock/Highland Park home in Los Angeles, March 10, 2013. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Boon, right, and brother Haskell swing in hammock chair as parents relax on deck below at their Eagle Rock/Highland Park home in Los Angeles, March 10, 2013. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
station for spinning LPs. The family room for kids inside is balanced with a chill space for grown-ups outside. Im into creating a space for my kids where they can be free and have memories, Melinda said. As a therapist, I think I wanted to create intimacy by establishing both grown-up spaces and kid spaces. High-end furnishings are paired with budget finds. In that fireside nook, an antique settee covered in floral Schumacher fabric sits alongside chartreuse chairs from a thrift store. A dining table _ bought from Goodwill and refinished _ is surrounded by classic chairs from Midcentury L.A. And in a surprising move, decorator Honey chose a patterned black Christian Lacroix wallpaper as a backdrop for a Salvation Army dresser, refinished using a bleached pickling process. Adding to the sentimentality that permeates the home is a ceramic whippet statue, once belonging to Melindas aunt. Placed next to the fireplace, it is one of the first things you see as you enter the house. It always greeted me when I went to her house, Melinda said. Nostalgia plays a big role in both of our lives and our memories growing up with the things that surrounded us. We have tried to infuse those elements into our home and imprint those memories onto the next generation.

A reading nook with vintage chairs and reupholstered settee with Schumacher high-end fabric is featured in the Eagle Rock/ Highland Park home of Mark and Melinda Fay, in Los Angeles, March 10, 2013. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Repurposed lockers are used as a dresser are reflected in the mirrors on the door in the Eagle Rock/Highland Park home of Mark and Melinda Fay, in Los Angeles, March 10, 2013. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

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City chicks: Backyard poultry making a comeback

By Karishma Mehrotra

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The Atlanta JournalConstitution/MCT

ATLANTA _ A sign on the fence in Anne-Marie Andersons Decatur, Ga., home reads: Beware of Chickens. Walk in and Andersons 18 birds roam freely, digging among the fallen leaves. They squawk and flap their wings to cross a stream. Glenda, one of the bigger chickens, waddles straight through the water. Here, here chick-chicks, Anderson clucks in a British accent, doling out food. Its very nice to hang out with a cup of coffee and watch the chickens running around clucking. They exude general contentment. Anderson and her family are among the growing number of city dwellers nationwide who keep chickens in their backyards. In Atlanta, more than 2,000 backyard poultry buffs have joined the citys Backyard Poultry Meetup, a group that plans monthly meetings for conversations with eggsperts. Whether it is for their childrens enjoyment or for a healthier food source, more and more urbanites have decided to color their backyards with the wild feathers of their winged pets, causing many cities to rework their ordinances. (EDITORS: BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM) Cobb County, Ga., boasts its own Backyard Chicken Alliance. Decatur and Alpharetta, Ga., have adjusted laws to allow for backyard chickens. Cobb loosened its restrictions in February, allowing the fowl

A hen checks out a nest box, where someone else has already laid an egg at the home of Anne-Marie Anderson in Decatur, Georgia, April 21, 2013. Georgia. Anderson is one of a number of chicken raisers that are gaining acceptance in some areas while being turned away in others. (Kent D. Johnson/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT)

Anne-Marie Anderson with her chickens in the backyard of her Decatur, Georgia home, April 21, 2013. Georgia. Shes one of a number of chicken raisers that are gaining acceptance in some areas while being turned away in others. (Kent D. Johnson/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT) on lots less than two acres, the former minimum needed, if owners apply for variances. Its coming up at pretty much every town and city across America, says Patricia Foreman, author of the book City Chicks. What is becoming evident ... is that they do add a lot to the urban landscape. People have discovered the chickens role as a backyard employee, Foreman says. A lot of people are turning to their backyards and saying, You know, we arent lacking land to grow food in, Foreman says. We are lacking a different paradigm. We need a new vision of how to produce our food. Chickens are bio-mass recyclers, insect controllers, food suppliers, fertilizer producers and, Foreman adds, blood pressure reducers. First you get chickens. Then, you fall in love. And then, you learn how to employ them, Foreman says. They truly are pets with benefits. Joey Zeigler, founder of Zeiglar Homestead Services, a company that helps transforms backyards into productive and sustainable homesteads, calls home-grown chicken eggs real food. Its just more vibrant and I would say dense with flavor and very genuine, he says. You can taste that immediacy in it, the intimacy. You can taste your own blood and sweat in there a little bit. And it tastes better. Walter Reeves, the Georgia Gardener and one of the most respected regional garden gurus, believes that rural living remains in Atlantas blood. Chickens are related to that psychological phenomenon. In the South, we are not that far removed from a rural agrarian side, Reeves says. A lot of people in Atlanta remember the comfort of being on the farm. Not all agree. Ordinances across metro Atlanta limit the number of chickens one can own. Some counties, such as Gwinnett, Ga., require a minimum of three acres for chicken owners. People realize ... two or three chickens are good to have. I cant have 40, says Bradford Townsend, planning and zoning director for the city of Roswell, Ga. I think there has been a realization (that) you have got to maintain the proper numbers. The problem sits with those few owners who start out with two chickens and end up with a big flock, Townsend says. People who are getting little chicks for their kids to raise really have no clue what

Anne-Marie Anderson with her chickens in the backyard of her Decatur, Georgia home, April 21, 2013. Georgia. Shes one of a number of chicken raisers that are gaining acceptance in some areas while being turned away in others. (Kent D. Johnson/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution/MCT) they are getting into, he says. Back in Decatur, Anderson thinks it is outrageous that the city would try to prevent people from living more sustainably. To better glorify the backyard chicken movement, she backs events like the Urban Coop Tour and Chicks in the City. Though she tries not to be the mad chicken lady, it is quite obvious: She loves her chickens and she is in good company. Chickens are simple, very straightforward, Anderson says. Why wouldnt someone own them? Check with your city or county planning and zoning office for restrictions on keeping backyard chickens.

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Home style: Furniture Makeovers; cabinet art; removing Krazy Glue

By Mary Beth Breckenridge

Akron Beacon JournalMCT ON THE SHELF: BOOK PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON FURNITURE MAKEOVERS Repainted and repurposed furniture is all the rage, but just slapping on a coat of paint doesnt always yield high-quality results. Furniture redesigner Barb Blair shares her methods for doing the job right in Furniture Makeovers: Simple Techniques for Transforming Furniture. Blair, owner of Knack Studios (http://knackstudios.com), gives readers all the basics they need to take on their own projects, right down to suggesting her favorite brands of paintFurniture redesigner Barb Blair shares her methods for doing brushes and furniture wax. the job right in Furniture Makeovers: Simple Techniques for Unlike many do-it-yourself books, this one is dedicated Transforming Furniture. (MCT)

mostly to teaching techniques rather than providing projects to copy, although she does share 30 of her favorite makeovers. Readers will learn what to look for when theyre buying used furniture, what tools and materials yield the best results, how to prepare and make small repairs to furniture and how to achieve various finishes and decorative effects. Furniture Makeovers is published by Chronicle Books and sells for $24.95 in hardcover. WHATS NEW: NEW PROCESS PRINTS ARTWORK ONTO CABINETS Picture your pets photo on a kitchen cabinet door or your childs artwork on your bathroom vanity. Its possible with a new line of cupboards called

Facets from Custom Cupboards Inc. The company can digitally print cabinet doors and drawer fronts with graphic patterns, artwork, photography or text. The designs can also be printed onto paneling or pieces of solid wood. The Facets line is available in maple, cherry and alder. The cabinets are custom products, and prices depend on a number of variables. But in an average 10-by10-foot, L-shaped kitchen with Facets designs on three of 13 cabinets, the designs would add about 10 to 15 percent to the total price of the cabinets, or about $1,500 to $2,200, the companys president, Mael Hernandez, said.

Q&A: REMOVING KRAZY GLUE Q: My husband accidentally laid his tuxedo on a table that had an open glue container. He thinks it was Krazy Glue. He took the tux to the cleaners, but they could not get it out. I am hoping you can help. A: A consumer specialist with Elmers Products Inc., which makes Krazy Glue, said you can try removing the glue with acetone. Its an ingredient in some nail polish removers, but I would buy pure acetone to avoid staining the garment with other ingredients in the remover. You should be able to buy acetone in paint and hardware stores. Acetone will damage some fabrics, so try it first in an inconspicuous place, such as a seam allowance.

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