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...
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. ...
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,...
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...
“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+....
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....
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...
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...
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...
Avid campers and explorers of the Sierra Nevada for some four and a half decades, Bay Area residents Patrick and Lori Dempsey were recently retired and ready to make Tahoe their full-time home. They started by purchasing an upslope lot on a quiet cul-de-sac in...