For those who make a living designing and building custom homes, client satisfaction is the most crucial measure of success on any given project. So when Scott Gillespie, principal at SANDBOX Studio, and Mark Tanner of the eponymous construction company received a rave response from...
Leave it to a lifelong local to encapsulate the essence of Lake Tahoe in a home design....
The owners of a lakefront property on Tahoe’s West Shore were clear with their wishes when they approached Kurt Reinkens, principal architect at MWA, Inc. They wanted their new home to feel warm, earthy, casual, inviting and playful— a no-fuss sort of getaway where they could...
Striving for a transitional design that was contemporary in expression and traditional in form and mass, a project team created a timeless family home that blends seamlessly into Lake Tahoe’s historic Glenbrook community....
The Tahoe ski retreat has a new look—clean, simple, contemporary—and it is embodied by The Palisades at Squaw Valley....
When two sisters and their families outgrew their childhood home on Tahoe’s East Shore, they enlisted the talents of architect Phil GilanFarr and Sierra Sustainable Builders to create an elegant new residence to be enjoyed for generations to come....
A homeowner’s “to-buy” list is never complete. Aside from the essential purchases, there’s always an additional item (or three) on the wish list—be it a luxury spa, an outdoor TV or a select piece of furniture to adorn a space. Fortunately for the Tahoe homeowner,...
If you wanted to see what awaits more than 4 million acres of land incinerated by wildfire across California in 2020, you might come to Angora Ridge Road, an undulating ribbon of one-lane asphalt that follows the skyline above Fallen Leaf Lake. You might look...
Turquoise blue, soft gray, iridescent silver, pearl white… There’s something sublimely magical about the rich hues found in the ice layers of a glacier. It’s as if glaciers glow with the light of all the centuries they have seen, like time capsules of alpine sunshine and...
There is a scene in The Misfits, a 1961 film written by the great American playwright Arthur Miller, that encapsulates the complex and emotionally fraught issue surrounding wild horses in the American West....