Home tour to benfit Wellness Community

Acorn Staff Writer


LISA ADAMS/The Acorn   WELCOME-Wellness Community volunteer Trisha Burr is opening her lovely North Ranch home to be a featured stop on the Wellness Community's Holiday Home Tour. Below left, a peek inside at Burr's decorated living room. Please call (805) 379-0030 for details.

LISA ADAMS/The Acorn WELCOME-Wellness Community volunteer Trisha Burr is opening her lovely North Ranch home to be a featured stop on the Wellness Community’s Holiday Home Tour. Below left, a peek inside at Burr’s decorated living room. Please call (805) 379-0030 for details.

Entering the North Ranch home of Trisha and Ron Burr, you pass through a large glass and wooden portal trimmed with colorful holiday wreathes to enter a winter wonderland of decorated delights. Your eyes jump to the large living room filled where a giant Christmas tree and an extraordinarily detailed Santa, sled and reindeer are on display.


The home is bedecked in holiday reds and greens to enhance the holiday feeling.


Burr spent days getting her six-bedroom, eight-bath Cape Cod-style home ready to serve as a featured stop on the Wellness Community’s 10th annual Holiday Home Tour. It’s scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Sat., Dec. 1 and continue at the same time on Sun., Dec. 2.


From the Burr’s living room, the tour will guide visitors through settings filled with candy canes and mischievous appearing elves to the formal dining room featuring mid-19th Century French majolica with the table set with elegant Spode holiday china. The kitchen, where Burr says she "spends most of her time cooking for my two boys," (Greg, 6, and Garrett, 2), is festooned with Christmas cookie cutters, more candy canes and a general all-around feeling of family.



The angel cookie cutter highlights the theme Burr has chosen.


"I’m ‘Angels We Have Heard On High,’" Burr said. The theme is evident in every room of the almost 8,000-sq. ft home, as collections of beautiful angels gaze lovingly down from every angle.


The cookie cutter has additional meaning for Burr.


"I helped put together a cook book we called ‘Nana’s Cookies’ that’s filled with recipes donated by Wellness Community volunteers," Burr said. "The proceeds of the book will also go to help the wonderful programs the Wellness Community offers. I’m hoping that everyone will stop and buy one of the books."


Burr said that the book may be purchased at a boutique that will be set up in "Chateau Plaisance," the 17,500-sq. ft. French estate—one of the biggest homes in Ventura County—of Lynn and Ed Hogan. The Hogans, through their Hogan Family Foundation will soon open "Gardens of the World Park" in Thousand Oaks.


The chateau features an immense ballroom with giant Christmas tree, an art studio, a full home theater and a library. The gardens include a koi pond, an infinity lake and a garden retreat. The lot offers one of the most stunning views of Sherwood Lake estates. The Hogan’s theme is "A French Chateau Christmas."


The other two homes feature "The Night Before Christmas" and "A Sugar Plum Fantasy."


Tours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sat., Dec., 1 and Sun., Dec. 2 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boutiques offering holiday gifts and decorative items will be featured at two of the homes. Entertainment is also planned for both days.


Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. They can be purchased at the Wellness Community, 530 Hampshire Road in Westlake or by calling the Holiday Homes Tour hotline at (805) 379-0030.




 

 

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