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Slide Show: Urban Escape

July 22, 2011

What was before a dark, dreary home is now a light, bright, streamlined space, with slate floors underfoot throughout, walls of windows, and sleek wood cabinetry disappearing into vertical planes. "We wanted it clean and super simple," Chris

Photography by Leela Cyd Ross

"Having a bunch of friends that are artists and loving to paint myself, we wanted a house that gave us the opportunity to showcase art," says Chris, whose house now provides a clean, neutral palette on which vibrant canvases and collections

Photography by Leela Cyd Ross

"Chris was building a tree house out there before we had even started unpacking boxes," Gretchen says of the outdoor play areas that Chris shares with son Eero.

Photography by Leela Cyd Ross

A SHORT STROLL FROM ONE OF Southwest Portland’s particularly chaotic collisions of chain stores, a quaint road winds into a quiet forest of green. Ash, fir, pine, and maple trees weave together into a dense canopy with fern fronds below. “It’s amazing,” says Chris Hotz...

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