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Where I live John and Rue Ziegler
Hi, I'm Rue Ziegler
and I'm John Ziegler
and this is our home in Bunny Run Vineyard in the Napa Valley.
we bought our
property in nineteen ninety
and lived abroad
for seven years and came back in nineteen ninety seven
which is when we started to
renovate
the existing cottage that was here
and we added a guest house
and all the gardens
By the time we got ready to renovate the property
we were trying to decide whether we were going to live here permanently or not and that was an easy decision
this was our center of gravity and this is where we ended up.
the property really organically, that is we put
one thing in place and something else in place
and the garden
the grounds
began to take shape
now we have pretty much everything
we were hoping to get
a nice mature garden
and very livable accommodations thanks to Rue.
we have five acres in total here
we have two acres of grapes and the rest of the acreage we've set aside for the three
buildings we have a garage with an attached office
we have the main house and we have the guest house
and the link
between those buildings is the garden it's a garden that invites you to walk through
the paths
and to
connect between
the two buildings. the whole ambience of the house took
shape in a way that was
beyond my wildest dreams
the house, the space, the atmosphere,
the high ceilings
all give it
a sense of openness and airiness
and openness to the outdoors which
is really the prima donna here in the napa valley, the vineyards the hills, and the views.
the place where we live all the time is actually the kitchen, the kitchen's quite large
the kitchen is very open
to the rest of the house it opens up to the entry and it opens out to
the family room
which opens out to the
uh living room so it's very very informal and
I wanted it to be a space that we didn't have to fuss over
too much to
keep clean or perfect
The guest house is my favorite part of
the property we actually lived there for a year while the rest of the property
was under renovation.
we miss it so much every once in a while we'll just go over to stay there as a kind
of our own
bed and breakfast
on the property.
We've had a number of pottery barn sheets here and we
are sort of fascinated by the process
the style of our house is really a very simple and straightforward American
farm house
and pottery barn has clean
lines
that are very well suited to the architecture we have here
I think it's a very nice marriage with the setting and the environment with the furniture
and the products.
i've been very happy
with the pottery barn experience here
they're like family
they come and put out the
furniture and the
various ornaments they have in their catalog
and it fits in beautifully with our property and our lifestyle.
Pottery barn