We Check in With Dwell’s First Editor-in-Chief About a House 20 Years in the Making

Inspired by Prospect New Town, an unusual housing development in Colorado that she once dubbed "America’s Coolest Neighborhood," editor and author Karrie Jacobs and her husband, attorney Ed Kratt, built a brightly colored country home on rolling farmland in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The couple tapped Prospect’s lead architect, Mark Sofield, who had since moved east and cofounded the firm PSF Projects, to design the 1,900-square-foot home, which sits near the top of a hill. "Our contractor advised against the location because of the cost of bringing in utilities and creating a quarter-mile-long driveway," says Karrie. "But the site is so lovely that we have no regrets."