When a Bay Area family decided to move full-time to Tahoe, they wanted a home that reflected their mountain modern lifestyle. They purchased a half-acre lot in Truckee’s Schaffer’s Mill development and enlisted the help of Truckee’s In House Builders and residential design firm Mountain...
Certain slivers of geography attract residents who transform that land into lore. Ranking among those larger-than-life landscapes like Big Sur and Laurel Canyon is a boulder-studded section of Crystal Bay shoreline that for years served as the Rat Pack’s playground and a retreat for luminaries...
Sitting on a blue sofa beneath an Andrew Bolam painting of a wolverine, Joann Ellero, a self-described “scrappy kid of immigrant parents from Detroit,” announced that she never, ever envisioned the dream house she was sitting in before the design process started....
The temptation to add flair to a given space is ever-present as a homeowner. With such a broad range of home-improvement items available in the marketplace, however, it can be difficult to even know where to start. While it is a small start, we assembled...
Modeling a home after the Martis Camp Lodge—winner of Tahoe Quarterly’s 2012 Commercial Construction Award—is setting the bar high. That was precisely the goal behind the Little Bear Lodge, which was designed to mirror the standout components of the swanky 50,000-square-foot lodge located just down...
The late Don Carano of Reno’s Eldorado and Silver Legacy had high-end taste, which is displayed in the lavish custom home he had built in the 1980s on Tahoe’s rocky East Shore....
Warm and welcoming vibes rule in this Incline Village home, with an eclectic array of personal decor from the owners adding character to a handsome design....
This one-of-a-kind home in the Sugar Bowl Village was designed for a third-generation member of a skiing family with a long history at one of the oldest ski resorts in the country....
Designed and built in the pre-Olympic solitude of 1950s Squaw Valley, the Klaussen Cabin was a simple affair that sat quietly on the south-facing hillside overlooking the valley. The 24-foot square box topped with folded roof planes and finished with walls of glass and redwood...
An old logging road cuts deep into the Sierra, past towering conifers and prickly Christmas trees, their needles softened by a layer of fresh snow. The wooded passage leads past a “Bigfoot Crossing” sign—fittingly placed in this rugged, high-elevation landscape—and ends at a frozen lake...