The Fantasy of a Cotswolds Country Home Meets Reality in Westchester
The plan was to do a quick cosmetic update. Then a couple found out the plumbing, electrical and septic systems were shot. And the house was sinking.
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Like so many renovation projects, the transformation of Keren and Thomas Richter’s 1850s farmhouse in Pound Ridge, N.Y., involved no shortage of surprises.
When the couple, partners in an interior design firm called White Arrow, found a rundown house in late 2017, they assumed they could refresh it with a cosmetic renovation, and that it would serve as a bucolic weekend escape from their primary home in Brooklyn. Both of those assumptions turned out to be wrong.