Country House

Carving away the home's volume at the corner helps soften it towards the sloping site and the open meadow.

This is the first time the home has been listed for sale.

In addition to extending the deck, Berg’s team redesigned the pergola to have a slender steel frame to improve views of the harbor.

Architect James Oliver’s quirky ’70s home has spiral staircases, suspended fireplaces, a catwalk, and an office perched in the forest canopy.

After: The soaring new living and dining space benefits from an abundance of natural light from every side, and they spent a lot of time trying to find the best lighting for the kitchen. The final choice: long, narrow copper pendants from Denmark suspended by ultra thin wires to not disrupt the visual flow of the room.

“We wanted to keep the whole house as a kind of perfect cubic volume, and so the porch was a carve-out of that volume, as opposed to a kind of additive element,” says Markiewicz.

The living room has views of the veranda and kitchen through sliding glass doors.

SHED rebuilt the deck to have only two support posts, and an integrated planter faced with COR-TEN steel to tie into the front facade.

The wings of this cruciform residence jut out over the landscape on stilts to capture panoramic views.

Kevin and Katie enjoy happy hour on their new covered patio. The plantings were inspired by the garden in Mexico where they got married. During the pandemic, "We were like, I want to go on vacation, but we can't, so let's just make our backyard a vacation,

165 Hill Road in Accord, New York, is currently listed for $4,250,000 by the Upstate Curious Team at Compass, including Bree Chambers, Megan Brenn-White and Diana Polack.

The slats on the window offer solar protection and privacy. “Before the slats were installed, it really felt like you were just living on the street,” says Vanbesien.