HOMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS; TOUR TO SHOW OFF HOMES DECKED OUT FOR SEASON.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer There's no place like home for the holidays, the adage goes, and on Saturday visitors can see some of the valley's grandest houses during a fund-raiser that has become a December tradition. The 17th annual Holiday Home Tour, which benefits childbirth programs and services at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For a $12.50 admission ($15 the day of the tour), visitors can stroll through four Sand Canyon homes decked out in lavish holiday themes by local interior designers. A separate black-tie event will be at 6 p.m. Friday. The $100-a-person preview gala features visits to each Home Tour house, along with a ``progressive dinner'' that begins at one house with champagne and hors d'oeuvres, continues with entertainment by violinists and Argentine tango
That Friday night event is sold out, with 180 people expected to attend and foundation organizers forced to turn away many others who wanted to buy tickets to the charity gala. ``That's the first time we've ever been faced with that situation,'' said Diana Vose, executive director of the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Health Foundation, a fund-raising entity for the hospital. ``I guess that's a good problem to have.'' Holiday Home Tour organizers gave the interior designers $1,000 to decorate each of the homes. Anything spent above that was covered by donations. Tom and Patti Schrey moved into their 6,000-square-foot Tudor-style home two years ago. ``This house was so big that it was overwhelming at first,'' Patti Schrey said as members of the hospital foundation took a recent tour of the house that will be decorated in a ``celestial'' theme. The family room sports 20-foot-high cathedral ceilings cathedral ceiling n. A high, open, usually slanting or pointed ceiling. and a hand-painted mural of the couple's Great Danes Great Dane, breed of very large, powerful working dog developed in Europe more than 400 years ago. It may stand as high as 36 in. (91.4 cm) at the shoulder and weigh up to 150 lb (68.1 kg). , Thor and Lady. The same artist also painted a fruit-and-vine motif above the doorways, windows and cabinets of the Schreys' kitchen. Designers had just begun their holiday decorating at the time of the reporter's walk-through. Gold cherubs were suspended from the dining room ceiling, and plum-colored beads and strands of faux pearls were draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. over the chandelier and china closet. In the foyer, the decorator had fashioned a doorway arch of pine tree boughs, poinsettia poinsettia: see spurge. poinsettia Popular flowering plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima), best-known member of the diverse spurge family. Native to Mexico and Central America, it grows in moist, wet, wooded ravines and on rocky hillsides. blooms and pine cones. Several blocks down the road, Darryl and Trudi Weaver will welcome guests to their home in the gated MacMillan Ranch community. The 8,000-square-foot Weaver home, also a Tudor, features a rustic family room with walls of rough-hewn wood and an antler-themed chandelier. The master bedroom looks out onto a back yard with storybook sto·ry·book n. A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children. adj. Occurring in or resembling the style or content of a storybook: storybook characters; a storybook romance. features: topiary topiary Art of training living trees and shrubs into artificial, decorative shapes. Topiary is known to have been practiced in the 1st century AD. The earliest topiary was probably the simple development of edgings, cones, columns, and spires to accent a garden scene. animals, a white picket fence, a vintage cast-iron street lamp, garden figurines, a pond and a variety of leaf-shedding trees turning seasonal colors. Trudi Weaver said she and her husband had 250 trees planted on their two-acre property. Darryl, a finishing contractor, did much of the woodwork in the home, which the interior designers will decorate in the theme of ``A Renaissance Christmas.'' A double-arched stone footbridge leads visitors to the home of Kent and Patty Padovich, another stop on the Holiday Home Tour. The couple raised seven children in their five-bedroom, seven-bathroom Cape Cod-style house, to be decorated in a ``Heavenly Holidays'' theme. Visitors will see a large Nativity scene A nativity scene, also called a crib or crèche (meaning "crib" or "manger" in French) generally refers to any depiction of the birth or birthplace of Jesus. In Italy it is known as presepe at the top of the sweeping staircase in the home of Tom and Sheila Veloz. Designers chose to decorate the 4,900-square-foot Mediterranean-style home in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of theme. Susan Beesley, a member of the Holiday Home Tour committee, said visitors come back every year to get decorating ideas and for the vicarious vicarious /vi·car·i·ous/ (vi-kar´e-us) 1. acting in the place of another or of something else. 2. occurring at an abnormal site. vi·car·i·ous adj. 1. pleasure of seeing lovely homes. ``It's a real curiosity to see how `the other half' lives,'' she said. A local hotel will put up the four families on Friday and Saturday so the hospital foundation's army of volunteers won't disturb them as they make the final preparations for the gala and home tour, Vose said. The fund-raiser is expected to take in $25,000 to $30,000. Organizers are prepared for the storms forecast for Friday and Saturday, Vose added. ``We've got plastic bags ready to hold the wet umbrellas, and we have hospital bootees for people to put over their shoes as they walk through the houses,'' she said. ``We're doing this rain or shine.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--Color) (Color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC only) Susan Mandy, left, and Sue Sink admire the tree at Darryl and Trudi Weaver's home in Sand Canyon. (2--Color) (Ran in SAC only) A cherubic cher·ub n. 1. pl. cher·u·bim a. A winged celestial being. b. cherubim Christianity The second of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology. 2. pl. Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. Santa Claus jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937] See : Christmas Santa Claus adorns the fireplace at the home of Tom and Patti Schrey, a stop on the tour. (3) (Ran in AV only) An archway of pine boughs frames visitors to the Schrey home. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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