BEAUTY AND BRAWN—ADIRONDACK STYLE MEETS MODERN ELEGANCE IN A CONNECTICUT GETAWAY
Karen Davis of Davis Raines Design, also in Washington Depot, was enlisted to help create the inner life of the new home. Her space plan and her decisions about palette, textiles, and other decorative elements would introduce a lighter, brighter tone—a contemporary note, but one that would harmonize with and buttress the classic Adirondack style.
Outdoorsy Adirondack style meets the modern preference for a light, airy feel in a northern Connecticut getaway.
The land fit the profile nearly perfectly: a rocky perch overlooking a pristine lake surrounded by a woodland of oak, laurel, and hemlock, with long western views to distant mountains and sunsets that would be spectacular across all four seasons. Here, in northwest Connecticut, was an ideal site on which to build a dream house from an earlier day—an Adirondack lodge inspired by the rustic retreats of the nineteenth century in nearby upstate New York.
