Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 21, 1991                   TAG: 9104180305
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TOUR INCLUDES WIDE VARIETY OF HOUSES

Four of the homes on the tour are nestled close to each other on Wilton and Cardinal roads in South Roanoke.

A special treat will be a look at the house that resulted when William B. Bagbey and Connie Smith Bagbey merged their mature households a couple of years ago and remodeled his Cardinal Road residence.

The Bagbey house, Cockspur, has two dining rooms because neither party could bear to part with heirloom furnishings. The addition, added in 1988, also allowed for a California room that has been furnished with wicker, including a wicker swing.

Of special interest, too, is the Bagbey kitchen where Connie Bagbey used blue and white decorative tiles to offset the cooking area and where cabinets over a center island have been placed so as not to interfere with a view to the outdoors.

The kitchen is also eye-catching at the Julien and Lynn Meyer house on Peakwood Drive. Faux marble cabinets have been painted by a Fincastle artist.

Jane Coulter, incoming president of The Junior League of Roanoke Valley, has done her own faux wallpaper painting in a bedroom of her home. She also will display an international doll collection that belonged to her husband's grandmother, Elva Coulter.

Jane and Murray Coulter have doubled the space in their 1950s ranch-style house with an addition that included a bedroom and den.

Clinton and Marianne Morse remodeled their Georgian style home when they moved to Roanoke from Texas, but just as important as the indoor changes was the outdoor renovation.

Mary Ann Morse, who owns Valley Garden Designs, supervised a clean-out of undergrowth that came to 15 Dumpster loads of debris. The grounds now have open space as well as secluded garden paths.

Of interest inside will be some of Clinton Morse's antiques, including an 1800s bowfront chest with bird's-eye maple inlay. He also owns, but may not display, a piece that is considered a "perfect fake," said Mary Ann Morse. Slides of the chest are used by lecturers from a Texas museum to illustrate how furniture can be faked.

One of the more relaxing parts of the tour is likely to be at the home of\ Richard and Glovie Lynn,\ where visitors have been invited to picnic in the gardens while listening to the Roanoke Symphony String Quartet.

Glovie Lynn, a native Californian, is an avid gardener who has an array of trees, flowers and vegetables at her Cardinal Road home to prove it.

The property includes azaleas planted in 1928, an asparagus bed, raspberry and blueberry bushes, a cherry tree and a snug pool house apartment.