Eight Years and Four Plots Later, a Crumbling Ruin in the Italian Alps Becomes a Hillside Haven
An outdoors-loving couple rehabbed a tumbledown stable into side-by-side homes perfect for hosting friends and family.
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It was the late 1990s, and after years of cool and rainy summers in their native Germany—and a health scare—Barbara and Andreas Reuss decided they needed more sun. "I didn’t know how long I would live, so I wanted to fulfill my dream to have a house in the south," says Barbara.
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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