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"Take a Peek Into Dennis Quaid&amp;#39;s Wood-and-Stone Residence in Montana\nAspen and fir trees surround the actor&amp;#39;s home, which sits on 500 acres, in Montana&amp;#39;s Paradise Valley\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\u2019s Paradise Valley. At right is the observatory. \u201CI was into astronomy as a kid,\u201D says Quaid. \u201CNow I sit and watch the stars.\u201D\n\u201CI wanted muted colors,\u201D says Quaid. \u201CAnd I wanted the house to look as if it had been here, in the wild, for 100 years.\u201D 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.\nCentering the kitchen, which is accessible from the din\\u00ading 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.\nThe master suite overlooks a stand of trees behind the house. Above the bed, which Quaid pur\\u00adchased from actress Sandra Bullock, is a photograph of the cast of Buffalo Bill\u2019s Wild West show. A 19th-cen\\u00adtury Ersari rug is on the floor.\nQuaid with Henry and Clyde, who catches a ride on Jupiter Ray, one of five horses roaming the camp. \u201CI keep them well away from the house\u2014so we can\u2019t smell them,\u201D he quips. \u201CMy next project is to build them a big bam of their own.\u201D\nQuaid and his chocolate Lab\\u00adrador retriever Henry beside a turn-of-the-last-century cabin along a pond he put in near the main house. The cabin has an adjacent dock from which the actor fly-fishes. The property, which he named Camp Warren Oates, is used year-round.\nThe great room holds Quaid\u2019s guitars and piano. An avid musi\\u00adcian, the actor has written songs for several of his films and serves as the front man for his band, Dennis Quaid and the Sharks. Austin-based design\\u00ader Donna Stockton-Hicks helped him select and place the furniture.\nThe wraparound porch. The architect, Montanan Frank Cikan, says the 7,800-square-foot structure \u201Cbegan as a cabin that just kept growing and growing.\u201D\nA guest room\u2019s bed was craft\\u00aded by the architect and bears the Camp Warren Oates logo\u2014a cres\\u00adcent moon, a mountain and a rising sun. Quaid asked for the red leather to be added to the headboard. The bedside table is Arts and Crafts style; the rug is an antique Sarkoy kilim.\nQuaid chose a trough sink for his bath.\nOne of two ponds on the property reflects Quaid\u2019s annual Fourth of\\nJuly fireworks and the surrounding mountainscape. \u201CI\u2019m so pleased with the way the house is settling in here, even though the deer keep eating my aspens,\u201D says Quaid. \u201CIt gets more beautiful to me all the time.\u201D\nHenry, June and Slim rest on the steps of the bluestone-paved porch. At right is the sleeping porch, re\\u00adquested specially by Quaid for the house. The actor, whose handicap is two, drives golf balls from the lawn fronting the residence. The Gallatin Range is in the distance."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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