24 Feb Inside the Jewelry Box
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....
24 Feb Legends of Olympic Valley
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....
24 Feb Building Memory-Making Spaces
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....
24 Feb When a Cabin Becomes a Home
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...
24 Feb A Modern Take on Mountain Charm
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...
24 Feb Cozy Living on Hole 12
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....
24 Feb Palace in the Pines
The nickname for the house is spelled out on the entryway rug: “The Shed.”...
24 Feb A Guest Residence Fit for Royalty
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...
24 Feb A Builder’s Touch
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...
24 Feb Lakeside Latitude
It wasn’t easy. But for the team behind a new lakefront home on Tahoe’s North Shore, their efforts paid off handsomely....