In the summer of 2018, architect Keith Kelly hiked through a heavily forested 20-acre lot on the far backside of Tahoe Donner. The trees—mostly firs and pine, some cedar—were dense, tall. It was quiet, save for the wind blowing across the mountain landscape. After a...
Martis Camp is mostly second (or third or fourth) homes, but as one family bought into the development, they quickly decided they wanted to make the mountain community their primary residence....
Jordan Knighton wants you to think about that incomparable view when you first drive into Olympic Valley: the meadow, the creek, the peaks beckoning in every season....
For a dynamic family with five children ranging in age from 3 to 17, a new home in Martis Camp would have to meet a number of criteria....
Kristy Paratte and her husband Robert had owned their vacation home at Northstar for a little more than 20 years—and it showed. She explains that the couple’s love of cooking and entertaining, along with having four kids and multiple dogs, had taken a toll on...
In 2016, Sandbox Studio Principal Scott Gillespie and his team designed a rustic mountain home in Northstar for clients Todd and Jill Kaufman. A few years later, when the couple decided to build a new mountain residence to live in full-time, they once again tapped...
It’s almost unassuming on approach, which leads down a slightly inclined driveway to the front of the house—an elegant mountain home that splits the gap between traditional and contemporary....
The nickname for the house is spelled out on the entryway rug: “The Shed.”...
In 2015, Truckee’s Mark Tanner Construction and SANDBOX Studio teamed up to build a unique mountain home they nicknamed “Curvatures,” featuring an attractive turret that set the structure apart from its Martis Camp neighbors. Six years later, the home’s new owner tapped the same team—plus...
Since its founding in 2002, Sierra Sustainable Builders has earned a reputation for building highly efficient, durable homes throughout the South Lake Tahoe area and beyond. Now, after putting the finishing touches on an attractive new full-time residence in the Al Tahoe neighborhood, the experienced...