22 Feb Capturing Views to Big Blue
When Ross McMahan finds himself in the neighborhood of a particularly stunning Incline Village home he built, he makes a point to drop by and marvel at its Lake Tahoe view....
22 Feb Magnificent Mountain Retreat
As far as vacation homes go, this sleek new residence tucked off of Lake Tahoe Boulevard is about as accommodating as they come....
22 Feb Comfortable Collaboration
When hiring a project team, it’s never a bad idea to seek out an architect and builder with a good rapport. An Incline Village family hit a home run in that department when they brought on Elise Fett and Jason Hummel to design and build the...
22 Feb The Friendly Nature of a Family Home
Given the Tahoe area’s mountain landscape, a flat homesite can be hard to come by. It’s why Craig Fugina, senior designer with Donald Joseph Inc., was excited to design a custom home on a “fantastically flat” lot in Truckee’s Schaffer’s Mill community....
22 Feb Inspired by Challenge
Phil GilanFarr has a knack for seeing potential in challenging homesites. This was the case with an Incline Village project he spearheaded and completed in 2023 with help from McMahan Homes, LLC, with whom he often collaborates....
27 Nov Gathering Space
Amanda Reinken fell in love with the Lake Tahoe region about a decade ago, when she and her husband Brian began visiting from their Dallas-area home. “We’d spend a couple weeks in the summer,” Reinken says. “The last couple years, we’ve done winter and fall...
27 Jun Fresh Start in a Familiar Neighborhood
In the late 1970s, Karen Torres’ parents built a home in Truckee’s Tahoe Donner subdivision, where she and her brother Steve made countless special memories during their childhood. So when Karen and her husband Joe Naylor decided to buy a vacation home in the Sierra...
26 Apr Creating a Lake-Inspired Legacy
For a family who had vacationed in an unspoiled Lake Tahoe community for years, the driving forces behind creating their own Tahoe home were threefold: location, legacy and character....
24 Feb Home is a Journey
Buildings don’t just appear. We know this, of course, but the owners of one of the newest additions to the ski-in, ski-out Martis 25 community—John and Maggie—are especially aware of the fact that bringing a home from concept to design to construction takes considerable energy...
24 Feb A Feat of Fine Craftsmanship
Behind each awe-inspiring home project is an accomplished team—professionals at the top of their game whose talents coalesce in a collective effort to achieve greatness. As former competitive athletes, Robert and Becca Gallery are no strangers to this team dynamic, nor do they take for...