Rugged Elegance
The Schatz home in Wyoming is designed for living life in a breezy, bold, Western way.

By Jesse Mullins, Jr.
Photographs by W. Garth Dowling

“My favorite thing 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... Richard Schatz, M.D., is a renowned cardiologist and the inventor of the coronary stent.

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...

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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. ”

The entire basement area has been transformed into a recreational retreat of sorts, being given over to a game room, gym, and this in-home theater.

ON THE INDEX PAGE: This powder room stands just off the great room. Jinda: “She [Cheryl] just took a tree stump and had it converted into that vanity. And the mirrors are antiques.” Cheryl: “The sink is from France, made of copper with copper fittings. The mirror came from Fighting Bear Antiques, in Jackson. The two little Arts & Crafts sconces are from Mica Lamp.”” "My favorite thing is the view of the mountains"

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