Transformations

Architect Kerry Bartini walks us through the steps toward making a decision.

We dreamt of a cottage in the woods. We dreamt of that cottage tucked into nature while still respectful of it, using as little energy and leaving as small a footprint as we could. And finally, we dreamt we would build it all ourselves.

Architect Pamela Sandler redesigns a home on Onota Lake. Her goal was to preserve the legacy of summers at the lake, while opening up the home to light, movement, and, most importantly, to the lake itself.

Architectural design firm Clark Green + Bek worked with the new owners to transform the Doctor Sax House in Lenox from a stuck-in-time private home to an elegant boutique hotel with a flair of international style.

If history has taught us anything, it’s that people don’t like boring furniture.

Bobby Houston from Scout House has built co-housing down by the river.

We often referred to this project as the “house of glass” because there is glass everywhere.

The owners decided on a renovation with nultiple new additions that followed the original elegant lines. This was a huge undertaking—it would take three years from beginning to end.

Bobby Houston, with his partner in Scout House Jennifer Bianco, remodeled the grand former home of opera diva Phyllis Curtin and turned a barn into a ballroom.

The goal for the house was that it should look and feel organic inside and out, like a part of nature that has always been there.

A designer’s “home-as-laboratory” distills five lessons to live by…beautifully.

Designer/developer Bobby Houston give "that big yellow thing" a new and better life.

Designer Jess Cooney explores the central problem of designing kids' spaces: how to design both for now and for when they grow older.

We knew it would make sense to buy the now empty house next door because our properties were so intimately touching, but it took 13 months of pondering, strategizing, walking away and letting go, until we saw a way to make it happen.

Christopher Riggleman and Jonathon Loy, of Studio Riggleman, complete the process of transforming an old schoolhouse into a primary residence.

There are still some people living among us today who attended this school in East Otis and may recall going out to the freezing privies in the winters when a wood stove heated the single classroom. Clark + Green Architects of Great Barrington are overseeing Phase One of the restoration, underway now, to save the building. Phase Two will restore the interior.