Journal
Projects
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Inside the Hudson Valley House
How an 1890s farmhouse became a year-round home — and the three decisions that shaped everything else.
How an 1890s farmhouse became a year-round home — and the three decisions that shaped everything else.
Where it starts
Most rooms go wrong long before the furniture arrives. They go wrong when decisions are made in isolation — a sofa chosen from a screen, a paint colour picked under shop lights. We try to make every decision in the room itself, at different times of day, with the real materials in hand.
What we have learned
Fewer materials, used generously, almost always beat many materials used carefully. A room with three honest finishes feels calmer than one with ten clever ones. Texture does the work that colour often tries to do.
A few rules we keep
Buy the best chair you can afford. Light every room from at least three points. Leave one wall empty for a year before deciding what goes on it.
None of this is complicated. It just asks for patience — which, in the end, is the most useful material we have.
Keep reading
Materials
6 min read
On limewash, and why walls should look lived-in
Paint covers a wall. Limewash gives it weather. A short case for finishes that change with the light and age well.
Process
5 min read
The first three weeks of every project
Before a single sample is ordered, we spend three weeks listening. Here is exactly what happens in that time.
Projects
8 min read
Inside the Hudson Valley House
How an 1890s farmhouse became a year-round home — and the three decisions that shaped everything else.