Publications

Homing Instincts
(Oprah Magazine, June 2008, pg.210-215)

When Oprah Magazine features an article about a woman's nine year love affair, we generally don't expect to be part of that story, but the June 2008 issue proved us wrong.

Everyday Getaway
(Beautiful Homes, Late Summer 2007, pg.88-93)

Blending a pool house into an established property often involves design challenges, but a for Connecticut architectural team, the prospect brought particularly high expectations. The earliest part of the main house on the Litchfield County property dates from 1750. But adjacent to it was a sizable meadow, which the homeowner felt was the perfect spot for a pool.

Living for the Weekend
(Better Homes and Gardens, July 2007, pg.Z1-Z8)

Eileen Naughton longed for an old farmhouse that her family could claim as a weekend escape from city living. After a fruitless round of house-hunting, the Manhattan media executive and her investment banker husband, Craig Chesley, discovered a sylvan acreage (and no house) overlooking the Hudson River Valley. “I had goose bumps,” Eileen remembers. “We said ‘We’ve got to do this!’”

Kicking Back
(Hudson Valley Connoisseur, June-July 2007, pg.44-49)

There’s a 150-year-old farmhouse on Hynes Road in Poughquag that’s seen a lot of history. The home’s simple, sturdy construction has housed its residents through rough winters and steamy summers. Families were raised here, vaudeville actors once boarded here and through it all, the front porch was always the center of family activities, current owner Karen Schwark recalls.

Simply Perfect
(Hudson Home & Garden, August/September 2006, pg.28-31)

When friends asked us to redesign their home, we were excited about working with them. It would be an interesting, challenging project with people we liked, on a truly beautiful pastoral setting. Having designed a number of projects on their road, we felt comfortable returning to the neighborhood.

It's Better Than New
(New York Home, July-August 2006, pg.92-97)

“This is a new ‘old’ house,” says the owner of the four-bedroom Greek Revival home she and her husband built — or rather re-created — when their original 1860s Greek Revival farmhouse in Rhinebeck was destroyed by fire six years ago.

Porch Appeal
(Inspired House, June 2005, pg.50-55)

If there's one icon of American architecture, and one that calls to mind a more leisurely time, it's the porch. I grew up in the South, where porch sitting is a part of the culture. Even now, some of my most peaceful, introspective times are spent sipping coffee and looking out over the river on the porch of a guest house I stay at when visiting family back in rural Louisiana.

Poolside Getaways
(Hudson Home & Garden, April/May 2005, pg.28-31)

During the third quarter of the 18th century, a few “enlightened” landowners adopted what became known as the English-style of building delightful little pavilions on their property. The English utilized the small structures as visual surprises for the pleasures of their guests as they strolled the grounds. Americans who picked up on the practice tended to be more practical and called them summerhouses or teahouses.

Updating Tradition
(Passport, Winter 2004, pg.52-57)

Foam mock-ups of houses, large printed plans and sections of floorboards and moldings inhabit architect Jimmy Crisp's headquarters in Millbrook, N.Y. Some of the house models congregated on a central table, and about 10 computers lined the walls, a few of them manned by architects who work with Mr. Crisp.

Heart of Gold
(Country Living Gardener, Summer 2004, pg.64-69)

Not only did our Gardening Shed make the cover of Country Living Gardener, but it was also a gigantic billboard in the heart of New York City.

Putting the Sofa
Where the Toyota Used to Be
(New York Times, June 18, 2004, Escapes section)

When Vivienne Stewart and her husband, Paul, bought their vacation home in Pawling, N.Y., in 1994, they planned to tear it down. Though it had more than 4,500 square feet of living space and four bedrooms, there was no place for the family to gather and the kitchen was so small that there wasn't even room for a table. For the Stewarts, who had five children, the floor plan just didn't make sense.

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The Country is Calling
(Renovation Style, May 2004, pg.56-69)

Far removed in time and spirit from Sabina and Kevin Kelley's busy Manhattan life, an early-1800s farm­house in the Hudson Valley matched their wish list for a weekend retreat. It was old enough to have a wealth of character and was hidden away on 30 rolling acres. A poor-man's farmhouse with several additions, it had been lightly renovated by previous owners and was updated just enough for the Kelleys and their young son, Hudson, to settle in.

Transforming Plain into Perfection
(@home, 1/03, pg.10-12)

Every fortnight or so, my travels would take me up North Mabbettsville Road, past what tragically seemed to be the ugliest house in this town if not the entire Tri-State region.

It was a square cinder block ranch with no architectural distinction; the block facade hadn't even been softened with a patina of paint, the blocks having cured to the color of mouse fur.

A Charming Garden Shed
(Country Gardens, Winter 1994, pg.20-22)

Ordinarily if you want something as utilitarian as a garden storage shed, you don't go to an architect. But Bindy and Stephen Kaye didn't want anything ordinary.

Though its intended use is strictly workaday, there is nothing routine about the Carpenter Gothic-style shed they erected on their rural Millbrook , New York, farm. It has been designed for his-and-her practicality with a gardening center on one side for Bindy and storage for Stephen's firewood cache on the other.

Guesthouse and Spa
(Hudson Valley, October 1992, pg.46-48)

These two new buildings are in a vernacular style. The separation of the various functional elements into two structures grouped around the pool proved to be a successful strategy for maintaining a small-scale village atmosphere. The size of the guesthouse is skillfully concealed by pulling the gables down around the second floor.

Guest Houses: A Host's Best Friend
(House Beautiful, August 1992, pg.98-101)

It was not so much grown-up guests as her own two sons and their pals that made the owner of our second summer house, this one in Dutchess County, New York, build two outbuildings at the same time that she put in the swimming pool.

Rustic Moves Upscale
(House Beautiful, November 1988, pg.88-91)

You can trace initials in the wainscoting of this 1865 schoolhouse in Millbrook , N.Y. And you can ring the bell the way a teacher once called students to class. Current occupants have preserved the spirit of the one-room school while making it their weekend home.