What to do with that old couch or chair that you think you can't live without? Designer Sue Schwarz of Gallery315Home in Great Barrington gives good advice.
This project’s biggest challenge was preserving the charm and character of a two-hundred-year-old building while delivering 21st century performance and comfort.
We dreamt of a cottage in the woods. We dreamt of that cottage tucked into nature while still respectful of it, using as little energy and leaving as small a footprint as we could. And finally, we dreamt we would build it all ourselves.
Architect Pamela Sandler redesigns a home on Onota Lake. Her goal was to preserve the legacy of summers at the lake, while opening up the home to light, movement, and, most importantly, to the lake itself.
Architectural design firm Clark Green + Bek worked with the new owners to transform the Doctor Sax House in Lenox from a stuck-in-time private home to an elegant boutique hotel with a flair of international style.
The owners decided on a renovation with nultiple new additions that followed the original elegant lines. This was a huge undertaking—it would take three years from beginning to end.
Bobby Houston, with his partner in Scout House Jennifer Bianco, remodeled the grand former home of opera diva Phyllis Curtin and turned a barn into a ballroom.
We knew it would make sense to buy the now empty house next door because our properties were so intimately touching, but it took 13 months of pondering, strategizing, walking away and letting go, until we saw a way to make it happen.
