At first glance, the photo is unsettling: A child inside a newly constructed home, not just playing near insulation, but sticking her arms inside of it. For Andrew Legge, founder of Sparks, Nevada–based Havelock Wool, the image encapsulates what sets his product apart from the...
It’s easy to get lost in aisles of pine log furniture and bear paraphernalia here in Tahoe. But when it comes to your home, an eclectic and personal mix of décor can speak volumes. We’ve collected a mix of modern, trendy and classic items from...
If houses could talk, the stories they would tell. The legends that have grown up around Summertide, a five-and-a-half-acre property that abuts the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, are profuse. And like many of the tales of tycoons from this nation’s gilded yesteryear, many of...
What’s an architect to do given a two-story-tall mound of boulders in the middle of a homesite? For Dennis Zirbel, the answer was obvious: Take full advantage of it. “Not many homesites have that kind of a natural feature to work with,” the Truckee-based architect...
American realism artist Charles Muench is a man of the West. A resident of Gardnerville, Nevada, he hunts, fishes and has backpacked the Sierra Nevada since childhood. Like his life, Muench’s work captures the essence of the rugged West—Nevada cowboys riding in from the...
John Huster and Aiwah Chang wanted a home that felt like part of a community in Tahoe. They found what they were looking for in a 2,277-square-foot property in Dollar Point, but the house itself was small, outdated and lacked a garage. Behind the expertise...
When their son wanted join the Northstar California ski team, a Carson City–based couple decided to move to Incline Village, living in a rental while they looked at real estate. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, wanted something private but nice, a fulltime house...
This was no run-of-the-mill remodel, despite the original intent. In 2014, Truckee’s SANDBOX Studio and Mark Tanner Construction were hired to open and brighten the interior space of a home along the Truckee River near Squaw Valley. From that initial concept, however, the project...
Woodward Tahoe is a valuable training resource for up-and-coming talent and seasoned pros alike Rain falling in diagonal sheets is peppering the metal exterior of Woodward Tahoe on a dark October afternoon. It’s napping weather, if anything, too wet and nasty for outdoor recreation. In the...
The Flood of 1997 is remembered as one of the Reno–Tahoe area’s worst natural disasters in modern history The first drops fell on the northern Sierra on a Monday. It was December 30 and the forecasters had warned for several days that an enormous storm system...