Roughly once a decade, Reno couple Tamra and Darin Murphy build a new house. “The first was for our babies. The second was for our teenagers. This is our empty nest home,” Tamra says. With each home, she adds, they just get better. Tamra does much of...
It’s a Tuesday morning and Truckee resident Steve Morris is sitting inside his woodshop, softly nodding his head. Two Against Nature, Steely Dan’s Grammy Award-winning album, is pumping through nearby stereo speakers, reverberating the small room with snappy drumbeats and funky guitar licks....
Shawback Design, Griggs Custom Homes, Inc., and architect James Crippen first came together about 20 years ago to build a rustic lodge on Lake Tahoe for a family with young girls. After two decades of enjoyment, the family assembled the same team to modernize their lakefront...
In an era of building ever bigger, a Southern California couple had an unusual request for their 2-acre Martis Camp lot: Design something small and simple with a cool and fresh Western style where their family of four could comfortably vacation year-round....
On a morning when Truckee is blanketed in snow, the inside of Good Anya Plant Shop is lush and inviting, a multitude of well-loved plants radiating their positive energy onto anyone who walks through the door....
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+....