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FeedA Labor of Love
A 6,000-square-foot work of art started life as a circa 1959 ranch house.
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Murdock’s solution was an ambitious blueprint calling for an almost dizzying array of planes, angles, and curves, and expansive glass walls, as well as a multitude of intersecting materials, none of which was allowed to touch. The Deavers say they fully understood what they had signed up for when it was explained that at each meeting of copper and granite, or wood and steel, the design called for a slender groove—a “reveal” to use the architectural term. “We had to draw the line at putting reveals on every wood beam,” says Cynthia, who shared the architect’s perfectionism but concedes the quest sometimes bordered on the obsessive.
A project of such scope inevitably threw up its share of snags. The original builders were replaced after several months of work, for instance, and the budget was exceeded fivefold. At one point, Dan remarked that it felt as though they had “set out on a ship and ended up on a rowboat with no paddles.”
