House & Home

From the outside, the lovely turn-of-the-century Craftsman house set back from the street and up to a set of curved concrete steps that winds through rich garden beds, is the epitome of Prescott’s Park Avenue. Features like cedar shingles and a generous deck make it charming and quaint, while the setting provides treehouse-worthy views of downtown rooftops and P Mountain.

Kat Richards and Trevor Jurgens have poured as much creativity into making their house a home as they do into their other endeavors. As a result, their ranch-style property in Prescott Valley showcases an eclectic blend of old and new, color and texture, while also reflecting their values, interests, and personalities.

Tomie Sue Goulet became hooked on gardening when she was nine. Her father gave her an eight-foot-by-eight-foot plot in which to grow her own plants, and her mother was a self-taught horticulturist.

Creativity runs in her veins, too: her father was a stone mason and builder (and his father was one of the stone masons on the famous Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina), and her mother was a seamstress.

“I look at the yard as my canvas, a palette of colors,” she said. And, thanks to her upbringing, “I can look at something and figure out what to do with it.”

In addition to great weather, this community is home to beautiful forest and mountains.  That being said, many residents enjoy a deck (or even two or three) as part of their outdoor living space. So if your home is built on anything other than a flat lot (likely), you probably have a deck. That means you have one of the most labor-intensive aspects of your home’s exterior maintenance: a deck top. Why? Because the finishes simply do not last a long time.  If you’re lucky enough to have composite decking, this article may bore you.

Pre-planning Tips to Design a Renovation or New Space to Meet the Whole Family’s Needs By Tom Reilly If you’re among the growing number of people taking part in the multi-generational living style—with several generations of the same family living under one roof—you...

Since Prestige Security Doors owners Rob and Shaw Hudson both grew up watching their dads run their own businesses, it might have been inevitable for these Prescott High School sweethearts to do the same. “For me, that was always a goal,” Rob recalled. “I didn’t know...

Guidelines to Get Started: When to Paint, How to Prep, and the Supplies You Need By Jimmy Cordier, Owner, Pinon Painting Most people wait too long to paint their home because it’s an expensive endeavor, and even more, a pain in the butt if you’re doing it yourself....

Ed and Rochelle Reifman have shared many life adventures together. They’ve been married for 42 years—after meeting on a blind date. There’s one thing they hadn’t done, though, until two years ago: build a house from the ground up.

Ron Harvey has completed myriad home renovation projects in his lifetime, but never one quite like this. What makes this project unique isn’t the material he used or the ideas he developed; it’s the fact that the clients were his parents, Alissa and Ron, Sr.

Building peace of mind and better health, through nature By Hilary Dartt • Photos by Larry Kantor When Pamela and Tony Brown selected the piece of property where they’d build their Prescott home, they chose it because, Pamela said, “the 360-degree view was quite...

From grand features like twenty-foot vaulted ceilings and spacious rooms to carefully-planned details like square glass doorknobs and vintage look light fixtures, every element inside the newest Board by Board Builders home seems like it belongs.

Two and-a-half decades ago when Dede and John Erceg bought five acres on a hilltop in Chino Valley, they didn’t buy it for the 70s-era farmhouse-style home or the abundance of wildlife nearby.

They bought it for the views.

“My husband is a pilot,” Dede said, “and he wanted a house with a view.”