>> The home’s great room is spacious enough to gather in a goodly gang of family and friends, but warm and welcoming enough for a cozy confab. As designer Cheryl Gallinger remarked, “The table in the center was probably 7 feet long—and huge and heavy. It made it like two different rooms. The rugs were designed by Davies Reed, a business in Jackson, and they were made in Pakistan, by Afghani refugees.”

"My Favorite Things is the view of the mountains,” said Jinda Schatz, who with her husband, Dr. Richard A. Schatz, maintains a Jackson Hole abode where the living is easy—and as Western as those rugged surroundings. “It’s beautiful.

You come in and come to the window in the great room and that’s the first thing you see.” The style is largely Thomas Molesworth-inspired, with its 1930s-era mountain lodge feeling of rusticity and solidity. “The wood is that gnarly style, the rooms and furnishings are big and oversized,” said designer Cheryl Gallinger, who partners in Gallinger-Trauner Design in Jackson.

Jinda said that she and Richard appreciated the designer’s vision for the place, which dovetailed with their own to make it a very authentic Western style home. “Cheryl’s colors make it very warm and inviting,” Jinda said. “It’s cozy in the winter but still a great summer house and great to fill up with family and friends. The thing that Richard and I love about Jackson Hole is that it is a place where you can just relax and take it easy.

His job is stressful. But we are hoping to spend more and more time here as the boys grow older and hopefully will eventually be here half the time.” (Currently the Schatzes maintain a home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., as well, where Dr. Schatz has his practice.) Richard Schatz, M.D., is a renowned cardiologist and the inventor of the coronary stent.

>> In the game room, the saddles were inspired by the Jackson’s Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, with its line of saddles that serve as barstools. “Jinda just had to have those saddles,” Gallinger said, “so we just incorporated them as little barstools around that poker table.”

He likes the place inside and out. “Cheryl [Gallinger] does a lot of great colors—reds, greens, yellows, some walls a nice soft mustard color. She is famous for doing that kind of stuff,” he said. Richard and Jinda were married in 2002.

Sons Brian and Danny are equally taken with the high country. Brian, 19, is a college freshman in Boston, and Danny, 15, is a high school sophomore. Dr. Richard said that home site was great, being between Jackson and Wilson, and “about 10 minutes from everything.”

For more information on Gallinger/Trauner Designs, visit www.gallingertrauner.com. Photographer W. Garth Dowling is based in Jackson, Wyo.