Inside a modern refuge in small-town Indiana
A couple opts for simplicity, leaving Chicago to return to family land Every week, our House Calls feature takes you into homes with great style, big personality, and ineffable soul. Today, we visit the Valparaiso, Indiana, home of Guy and Kate Gangi.
After purchasing a piece of Kate?s family homestead, the couple hired her cousin, architect Fred Bamesberger (Bamesberger Architecture), to design a home that was the antithesis of how they?d lived before.
The day Kate left her hometown of Valparaiso, Indiana, for college, she never dreamed she would return. But after the interior designer, founder of Gangi Design, spent years working in and around Chicago working and raising a family, she and her husband were ready for a big change. They left what they describe as a ?high-powered, high-stress? design world (Guy is a retired brand strategist and designer) for the serenity of the property where Kate spent much of her childhood, a tree- and wetland-filled piece of land surrounded by the hills and farmlands of northwest Indiana.
The 10-acre parcel they purchased has been in the family for many years. Right after World War II, Kate?s grandfather Charles McGill?an industrialist who designed and manufactured electrical components, fixtures, and bearings?purchased land in Porter County and started to develop and shape it. Eventually, he?d own 250 acres.
?We grew up calling it ?the diggins,? because Grandpa was always digging there,? Kate says. ?There are a lot of natural spr...
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