In winter, Sugar Bowl Village becomes snowbound, its homes accessible only by snowcat or snowmobile. Deep snowdrifts often cover a home’s first floor, leaving nothing but white visible through the lower windows. Access is limited, so once at the house, residents should be prepared not...
When a couple from Southern California were looking to build a new home at Lake Tahoe, they found a lot with a teardown house at the end of a cul-de-sac on a southwest-facing slope above Incline Village, where views of the lake fall out below...
As Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “Change is the only constant in life,” and that certainly holds true for a transitional-style Martis Camp masterpiece that experienced a few twists and turns on its way to fruition. ...
For folks fortunate enough to purchase a house with a plan to fully gut and remodel, the challenge is often not “what,” but “how” to get the look and feel they seek. Fortuitously, Scott Shipman and Rhea Hernandez found the right team to help them...
For years, the Town of Truckee debated what to do with an empty parcel on Donner Pass Road. The hope was to revitalize this area in its own unique style rather than borrowing the historic look of downtown. At the time, the property was owned...
In the summer of 2018, architect Keith Kelly hiked through a heavily forested 20-acre lot on the far backside of Tahoe Donner. The trees—mostly firs and pine, some cedar—were dense, tall. It was quiet, save for the wind blowing across the mountain landscape. After a...
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....
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....
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....
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...