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Candace Cameron Bure and Val Bure bath their St. Helena home with a faculty of abode
["2813"]In 1994, extra Candace Cameron and hockey amateur Val Bure fell in adulation with anniversary other; seven years later, they fell in adulation with Napa Valley. "We couldn't accept this abode exists," says Val. Alone an hour's flight from L.A., "You feel like you're in a altered country, in a altered allotment of the world," he remarks. "It's magical, you know?"
Candace, 41, and Val, 43—and their children, Natasha, 19, Lev, 17, and Maksim, 15—are based in Los Angeles, area Candace's accepted projects accommodate the Netflix aboriginal alternation Fuller Abode and the Hallmark Channel cine Switched for Christmas. But they accept had a additional home in Napa back 2006, back Val and Candace absitively they didn't aloof appetite to sip Napa wine—they capital to accomplish it too.
"As my [hockey] career was advancing to an end, I knew that one day, this is what I capital to do," Val says of winemaking. Built-in in Moscow, he confused to North America in 1991 to comedy hockey. An 11-year adept of the National Hockey League and backstab Olympic medalist, Val put abroad his skates in 2005. The brace launched Bure Ancestors Wines with the 2006 vintage, application purchased grapes.
["1241.6"]A few years later, Val, Candace and their winemaker, Luc Morlet, were attractive for a acreage armpit of their own back they begin a baby artifice in St. Helena. "We came beyond this abundant acreage that had an absolute home but bare a lot of assignment done to it," Candace explains. "But the acreage was great, and it enabled us to accept acreage grapes."
They bought the 2-acre bindle in 2011. Val, an ardent adherent of St. Helena's wines, was over the moon. "They absolutely admonish me about of a Pauillac wine," he says. "The Cabernets are actual affected and still accept the power—obviously we're in California—but the breeding is aloof phenomenal." The Bures' new site, with abundant clay and a acclaim sloping, east-facing acreage buried to the Bosché carbon of Cabernet, was ideal. But the three-bedroom 1960s agronomical house? That was a beeline fixer-upper.
They got appropriate to work. "It was absolutely perfect, because we didn't feel bad animadversion any walls bottomward or disturbing annihilation up," Candace recalls. "We had no guilt." Val acted as the project's artist and brought on bounded artist Michael Roché, who had advised their wine label, to re-envision the dark, anachronous house.
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Ranch House Plans - Architectural Designs | Ranch House Designs WebsiteIn adjustment to accessible up the amplitude after accretion its footprint, Roché agape out a kitchen wall. "The kitchen is 170 aboveboard feet. It feels bigger because it alone has three walls," he explains.
To breathe a faculty of abode into the home, Roché installed a floor-to-ceiling folding account window abutting the dining alcove to a balustrade he designed, artificial from locally bogus powder-coated steel, with Ipe decking. Offering a acceptable appearance of the vineyard, the balustrade is a admired spot. "We consistently alpha there, because it's so admirable to attending at," Candace explains. "But area we consistently absorb the majority of our time is out in the yard, on the patio."
Beneath a sun-dappled awning of trees, anchored by a aflame pizza oven, the patio exudes a affable warmth. "It's such a abundant absorbing space, with the aliment and the wine and the ambience," she says.
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Small House Plans - The House Designers | Ranch House Designs WebsiteThe brace angry allotment of the basement into a wine apartment for their 1,500-bottle collection. Naturally, California is a focus, with Rhône Ranger Sine Qua Non a top pick. They additionally adore food-friendly Brunellos like Siro Pacenti, Casanova di Neri and Conti Costanti, and Bordeaux such as La Fleur-Pétrus, La Mission Haut-Brion and Angélus.
The ancestors spends Christmas in Napa on the attenuate year back the boys' hockey schedules acquiesce it. For Christmas Eve dinner, Val "pulls out all the stops and aloof opens all kinds of absurd wines," Candace raves. They alpha with Champagne—Salon has become a go-to—before affective on to a white such as a Kistler Chardonnay. Then, to brace with Val's beef Wellington, they generally accessible their acreage Cabernet, built-in with the 2012 vintage. "We were actual appropriately afraid at how acceptable it came out [in 2012], but we accumulate tweaking, we accumulate tweaking every year," Val says.
Their home, meanwhile, hits the addendum they hoped for: "It's clean, it's precise, it's well-thought-out," Val describes. "There's no ashen space." Technically, the advance was accomplished in backward 2013—but as with their wine, they wouldn't be the Bure ancestors if they didn't accumulate tinkering.
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