Six houses will be on the tour, located in Pinehurst and Southern Pines. Although it is a kitchen tour and kitchens will be featured, the entire house will be shown. Good cooks will be in each kitchen sharing recipes and serving samples.
Some of the homes on the tour are brand new; the moving boxes have just been unpacked. One has been completely renovated and others were built less than ten years ago and have been refurbished.
Bill and Cheryl Clark, owners, of the Chevrolet, Cadillac and Oldsmobile dealership in Pinehurst, who have lived in this area 31 years, will open their home for the tour. They are parents of three grown sons and grandparents of six, three boys and three girls.
They built the two-story home at Pinewild on the challenge course eight years ago and have recently refurnished part of the house and made changes in kitchen design for more convenience.
Cheryl says, “The two things I like best about the kitchen are the view and the color.” The view of the Challenge course and back yard garden can be seen from every room in the house. The bright green color on the kitchen walls contrasted with the white kitchen cabinets and appliances, with touches of red accessories, have made this an unusually pretty kitchen. The colors are coordinated throughout the house.
Interior designer, Johnsye White, with Village Design Group, has helped with the furnishings. The kitchen designers were Sandy and Bill Wall, Pinehurst Kitchen and Bath. A friend of Bill’s, Fred Shaw, was the builder.
The good cook at the Clark’s home will be Vickie Ribelin who owns “Cookies-N-Stuff.” When Vickie moved to West End from Charleston, S.C. in November 1999, for her husband to work at First Health, she couldn’t find a job. She started making sugar cookies by her aunt’s recipe. Everyone liked her cookies. She started making many kinds for sale. When she was asked to be one of the cooks for Kitchens…and Moore, she said, “I will do it for 4-H, especially because I was a 4-H Club member in Rowan County in elementary school and I know how much they need funds right now.”
The other five houses on the tour are owned by Randall and Gretchen Nelms, Pinewild, Brian and Jean Deaton, Village of Pinehurst, Walter and Pat Homicz, Lake Pinehurst, Jessie Mackay, CCNC and Arthur and Carole Aslanian, Southern Pines.
Tickets may be purchased for $15 the day of the tour at either house or at the Village Chapel Hall. Advance tickets for $12 will be available at the Grounds and Pounds, Market Square, Pinehurst, The Cook’s Choice, Beverly Lane, Southern Pines, or the Cooperative Extension office, 707 Pinehurst, Ave. Box 1149, Carthage, N.C. 28327. Call (910) 947-3188 for more information.
