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"Dennis Quaid\nA Serene Life for the Actor Amid the Rolling Hills of Montana\nDennis Quaid's ranch.\n\nAspen and fir trees surround the wood-and-stone residence of actor Dennis Quaid, on 500 acres once partly owned by actor Warren Oates in Montana's Paradise Valley. At right is the observatory. \"I was into astronomy as a kid,\" says Quaid. \"Now I sit and watch the stars.\"\nThe great room in Quaid's house.\n\nQuaid found the great room's black leather sofa and chairs in Austin, Texas, where he shopped for many of the house's furnishings. \"I just grabbed the pottery from different places,\" he explains. The fireplace is made from Montana stone. The doors lead to a sleeping porch.\nQuaid's dining room.\n\n\"I wanted muted colors,\" says Quaid. \"And I wanted the house to look as if it had been here, in the wild, for 100 years.\" The oak table and benches in the dining room came from director and screenwriter Sam Peckinpah, who lived in a cabin on nearby land purchased by Quaid.\nQuaid's kitchen.\n\nCentering the kitchen, which is accessible from the dining room through a stone walkway, is a two-sided fireplace that adjoins the great room. Throughout the house, distressed and stained planks salvaged from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 are used as flooring.\nQuaid's master suite.\n\nThe master suite overlooks a stand of trees behind the house. Above the bed, which Quaid purchased from actress Sandra Bullock, is a photograph of the cast of Buffalo\nQuaid with his horse and dogs.\n\nQuaid with dogs June, Slim, Henry and Clyde, who catches a ride on Jupiter Ray, one of five horses roaming the camp. \"I keep them well away from the house\u2014so we can't smell them,\" he quips. \"My next project is to build them a big barn of their own.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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