The house may be big, said 30 Stonehaven homeowner Patty Stevenson, but if somebody breaks or spills something, it's no big deal.
The nearly 5,000-square-foot home, which is featured in this year's Highlands Homes Tour, was designed "how we like to live and how we like to entertain," she said.
Go & Do
Highlands Home Tour
When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 16
Where: The Highlands area and around Bella Vista
Cost: Tickets to the event are $10 in advance and are available at the Highlands Church — 371 Glasgow Road — and at Bella Vista banks. Tickets are $12 the day of the tour and can be purchased at each home or at the Highlands gate.
Information: 855-2277
Fast Facts
Home Tour
add-ons
Participants in this year’s Highlands Home Tour can purchase raffle tickets at each stop for a chance to win one of five gift cards to Lowe’s, Allen’s Foods, Pinnacle Promenade including Best Buy and Target, Walmart and a Visa gift card. Tickets will be available for $1 each or six for $5.
A separate raffle will be held at the church this year for the chance to win a handmade quilt, crafted by a Eureka Springs quilter. Raffle tickets for the quilt will also be $1 or six for $5.
Accompanying the tour as usual, the Highlands Cafe at the church will be open for lunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. serving hot dogs, chips, dessert and a cold drink for $4 or $1 per item.
An antique fair featuring an appraiser will be held starting at 9 a.m. at the church. Certified appraiser David Fuller will be available to assess items at a cost of $5 each with a three-item limit. An antique sale featuring items donated by members of the church will accompany the antique fair.
Also, classic cars, hot rods, special interest and collectible vehicles and motorcycles will be on display until 3 p.m. in the church parking lot.
Information: 855-2277
At A Glance
Highlands Tour Homes
1. Mel and Barb Beeman —
6 Country Club Circle
Before you enter, you see beautiful landscaping on the outside, knowing something special awaits you inside.
The 12-foot ceilings, curved archways and spacious living area with a bank of windows and lovely bamboo floors welcome you.
The color scheme in the living, dining and kitchen areas is a soft gray and silver.
In the dining room is a perfect table built by the homeowner and sitting beside the table is a large wooden St. Christopher statue dating from the 1800s from the Philippines, as well as a family Bible box from the 1800s.
The top level also has an office, guest bedroom and master suite.
As you enter the lower level in the family room, your eyes go immediately to the 300-foot train track above you. Notice the Southwest theme created and built by Beeman.
2.Ben and Gay Kiker —
3 Largs Lane
As you enter this 5,000-square-foot, five-bedroom home, your eyes immediately go to the 20-foot high vaulted pine ceiling in the living room and to a floor-to-ceiling stacked stone fireplace.
As you enter the lower level, your eyes go to the lake view, a large, comfortable family room with a 1940s jukebox and a Mexican bar with memorabilia from Texas and the Dallas Cowboys.
3.Bill and Sharon Gross —
29 Stonehaven Drive
As you enter the home, the leaded glass doors and window make a bright entrance. A large quilted wall hanging from yokes of saris from Pakistan livens the area with color. The formal dining room is off the entryway.
On the first level is the spacious master suite that has a special bedroom unit ordered just for them. In the hallway is another quilted hanging from Pakistan made of jeweled black mourning dresses.
The lower level has two guest bedrooms with one of the bedrooms having carpeted walls, a quilting room, a family room and bar and several large collection cabinets as well as a great storage area.
4.Bob and Suzanne Webb — 1 Clubhouse Place
This townhouse, which is located in central Bella Vista, is 2,600 square feet on one level. The glass 8-foot-tall double doors in the front welcome the sunlight into this home.
The living room is ready for conversation from many areas, plus a game table. The bay windows show a fiber and redwood deck with a view of Lake Windsor. The kitchen is sparkling white with colorful touches, cabinets galore and a cozy eating area.
The large master suite of sea foam green and white features watercolors by L.S. Eldridge.
Source: Staff Report
When Stevenson and husband Bill moved to Bella Vista, they lived across the street on Stonehaven Drive in a house on Loch Lomond. When Bill was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the couple realized they needed a home that had everything accessible on one level through broad doorways. They bought the three lots across the street and built their dream home in 2006.
"We love Stonehaven; we didn't want to leave the neighborhood," she said.
Upon entering the home, visitors get a glimpse of the entertaining space from the spacious living room and attached dining room, which features a long dinner table and buffet counter meant for many.
The sizable indoor pool can also be seen, and sliding glass doors open up to the swimming area with tables and chairs and a bar perfect for parties.
The pool itself was created with a purpose, Stevenson said.
"It was designed for exercise; the deepest part hits me at about the neck so that I can do water exercise in the entire pool," she said.
The pool is surrounded outside by forest, which comes up to the back of the house.
Despite the two master suites with large bathrooms and even larger and more enviable closets, the wall paint with a touch of gold in one of the five bathrooms, a pantry large enough to stock a restaurant, a relaxed breakfast nook and a large gaming room, the home is nothing fancy and completely usable, Stevenson said.
"There's not an inch we don't use, from the game room to the exercise room," she said.
When company comes to visit or to stay, no one is in one another's way, she added.
What really sets the house apart from others in the neighborhood, or others anywhere in the area actually, is the expansive tree sculpture along the wall of the dining room, which carries over into the kitchen.
The Stevensons saw some work by artist Tom Moberg of Des Moines and snagged a flier back in the early 1990s.
"When we moved here, we had that big wall," Stevenson said.
They commissioned the artist to work his magic in their home, and in two and a half days, the couple had a drywall mud sculpture reflecting the nature and trees all around the Bella Vista home and neighborhood they love.
An administrator of the then new Mercy Hospital in Rogers caught word of the art and contacted the Stevensons to check it out. The hospital followed suit and commissioned Moberg to do a piece there. It's the only other piece like it in the area, Stevenson said.
The art can be found upstairs where patients register for tests, she said.
The Stevensons' home is one of five on this year's Homes Tour, which is one year shy of a quarter century old.
The event is set for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 16.
Like last year, when the tour branched out for the first time to include homes outside of the Highlands area, two stops are located near the Country Club in central Bella Vista. Three homes are inside the Highlands gate.
The annual event is sponsored by Highlands Church, a United Methodist congregation, and funds raised have benefited various area charities to the tune of more than $300,000 in the last 24 years, event coordinator Shirley Olson said.
Supported charities have included the Wounded Warrior Project, Meals on Wheels, the Village House Adult Day Program, the Alzheimer's Association and Havenwood transitional housing.
NAN Life on 07/30/2014