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COver<br />
A lifetime of treasures makes a<br />
space personal and <strong>comfort</strong>able<br />
PHoTos By eLLie VAn HouTTe/<strong>Town</strong> CRieR<br />
<strong>Los</strong> <strong>Altos</strong> residents Brent and Kris Beagle, below, have spent many years transforming their Orange<br />
Avenue cottage, which features spiral boxwood hedges, to evolve with their changing lives.<br />
By Carolyn Snyder<br />
Kris and Brent Beagle took their orange Avenue<br />
home to the max.<br />
it’s a stellar example of maximizing minimum<br />
space – and it’s a knockout.<br />
“The project was a perfect recipe: a much-loved site,<br />
Brent’s incredible aesthetic and limitless creativity within<br />
the constraints of budget, lot size, setbacks and height,”<br />
said Abigail Ahrens of Abigail Residences Romantiques<br />
in <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Altos</strong>, the heart of the design team for the impressive<br />
remodel.<br />
But there is more than one story here. First, there was<br />
a young dental school graduate who, in 1982, drove crosscountry<br />
in his Mazda with his clothes and books. He<br />
worked for a year at the VA Hospital in san Francisco to<br />
become California board-certified and eventually landed<br />
in <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Altos</strong>, where he had aunts and uncles – and where<br />
he now has a dental practice.<br />
He met his future wife while both were working at<br />
Macy’s.<br />
“Brent bought our house before we were even dating,”<br />
Continued on Page 6<br />
Home & Garden | Agust 29, 2012 | Page 5
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