22 Feb Where Good Things Grow
On a morning when Truckee is blanketed in snow, the inside of Good Anya Plant Shop is lush and inviting, a multitude of well-loved plants radiating their positive energy onto anyone who walks through the door....
22 Feb Rooted in Site and Kin
For a Bay Area couple with children and a close extended family, their vision for a new home in Martis Camp was deeply felt, well-researched and founded on their own experience. “It was a very rooted project,” says architect Clare Walton. “It was rooted not...
22 Feb Life on the Edge
When someone says they have a home on the water, just how “on the water” are they talking? According to Isaiah Shaw, site manager with NSM Construction, this Incline Village home is about as close to Lake Tahoe’s famously clear water as you can get. ...
22 Feb The (Artificial) Grass Isn’t Always Greener
As the Tahoe Basin and much of the American West have weathered protracted periods of drought in recent decades, artificial lawns have been touted as a potential means of reducing water consumption. Water officials and conservationists have an increasingly dim view of the immaculately green lawn,...
22 Feb All in the Family
When a North Lake Tahoe couple retired and started thinking about the next chapter in their lives, they knew they did not want to move far from the longtime home where they raised their children. “We love our life and want to grow old here, but...
22 Feb Storming the Castle
“This home will never be sold. Not in my lifetime.” That was the message a Truckee homeowner relayed to his project team of Mark Tanner Construction, interior designer Colette Fonseca of Altitude Design Co. and architect Ben DeBoe of DCB+....
22 Feb A Bridge to Modernity
Before principal architect Jason Wooley of Truckee’s Lot C Architecture begins designing a home, he invests significant time into getting to know the owner’s vision....
22 Feb Where the Past is Present
In the 1880s, the town of Truckee was a boisterous, rough-and-tumble Western community. Travelers arrived via stagecoach, wagon or the Transcontinental Railroad, completed just over a decade earlier in 1869. The town’s two dozen or so saloons stayed busy, as did Jibboom Street’s red-light district...
22 Feb Mountain Majestic
When people build new homes at Tahoe, they often opt for the traditional rustic look that characterizes many of the existing houses around the lake. But one couple decided to go in a decidedly different direction when drafting plans for their dream home at Martis...
22 Feb The Home of ‘Casual Elegance’
The mythical Shangri-La is a paradise set apart from the mundane world, a place where residents enjoy a youthful exuberance and find refuge from the rigors and demands of life outside its borders. When Clear Creek Tahoe’s Director of Sales, Georgia Chase, compares the upscale...