OPPOSITE PAGE: When Steve and Traci Burges built their “forever” home, a modern farmhouse, they blended early 1900s Craftsman-style details with custom amenities. Steve built everything by hand, while Traci chose creative design elements, like canning jars, to bring real charm throughout the home.
distressed the wood to give it a reclaimed look. At first, Steve swung chains at the floor, but the hardwood did not dent, so he used an ax, drawknife and hammer to gouge and dent the wood. The result is a beautiful expanse of flooring that looks as if it had been there for years. “I wanted it to look like a reclaimed floor,
to re-create that look,” Traci says. The home’s crown jewel is the kitchen, with its gleaming butcher-block topped is- land, hammered copper farmhouse sink and oversize pendants. Once again, Steve aged the island’s cus-
tom maple top, which is more than 2 inches thick, distressed the corners, routed the edges and gave it a dark walnut stain. “I wanted it to be torn up so you don’t
have to worry about it again,” he says. The kitchen also features granite countertops and custom ivory cabinets
with an antique glaze, both done by Rick Simpkins. The kitchen, as through the rest of the house, has oil-rubbed bronze fix- tures. Behind the gas range is tumbled marble,
and above it is a hefty vented range hood and mantel, which Steve created with left- over pieces of wood. On the mantel sits a pastoral framed picture and a collection of ironstone, which Traci displays throughout the home. Traci has no qualms about painting fur-
niture, as she did with the dining table. “If it’s not working, and it’s going to stay
here, it’s going to get painted,” Traci says. “If I sit still long enough, she’d paint me
white,” Steve jokes. Above the dining table is a French-coun-
try style chandelier from the Lighting Em- porium in Springdale, which provided the home’s vintage-inspired light fixtures.
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