The location of the fifth annual Kingston Design Showhouse has been announced. The 2,800-square-foot, c.1920s Victorian in Uptown Kingston is replete with historic details from original woodworking and tiles to pocket doors and stained glass. It's recent history as a commercial property provides a creative design challenge, including the installation of a brand new kitchen and a second bathroom.
In 2014, New York City-based artists Mina Teslaru and Rich Tazzara began their search for a bucolic spot in the Catskills on a bit of a lark. When they found the secluded 10-acre property near sparsely populated Roxbury in Delaware County, they dove head-first into an almost-decade-long journey to transform their little corner of the Catskills into an artists’ retreat and off-grid glamping getaway for recharging and reconnecting with the natural world.
This month we visit the Cantine's Island, a flourishing intentional community in Saugerties that is one part lifestyle, one part old-fashioned neighborhood, as a departure point for exploring the broader Hudson Valley cohousing movement.
For interior designer Hadas Dembo, guiding new homeowners through their upstate design adventures has become something of a specialty. The principal of the Manhattan-based interior design firm Mise en Scène Design, Dembo has actually been a resident of Columbia County since the early 1990s. With equal fluency designing apartments in Manhattan and rambling upstate properties, Dembo has developed a flair for combining old world details with contemporary objects, creating spaces that feel both enduring and spontaneous.