Hudson Valley Farmhouse.

A house that already knew how to hold a family.

The clients had been driving past the farmhouse for years before they bought it. The brief on the first call was to keep what the house already did well and to be careful with everything else.

The original frame was sound but the interior had been thinned out by decades of small renovations. We took the rooms back to where the architecture wanted them, opened a single new door between the kitchen and the back garden, and let the house settle.

Furniture is mostly antique, sourced over eight months from upstate dealers and one estate sale in Sharon. The kitchen is hand-painted limewash. The garden room is unfurnished by design, kept for the boots and the dogs.