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A Die-Hard New Yorker Leaves Manhattan and Embraces The Country Life
A Die-Hard New Yorker Leaves Manhattan and Embraces The Country Life
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lonely and bored one day after a relentless 48hour August rain, when I walked the trail back
to the waterfalls and sat on a big rock and stared
into the churn, that I stopped to think about it: I
was re-creatingreclaimingmy most
fundamental, and in some ways most
complicated, boyhood memories, those middle
years between seven and ten when I spent a lot
of time by myself in the woods, building a fort,
catching frogs and turtleslonely and yet
somehow exhilarated by a newfound sense of
freedom. As I sat there, I realized I had finally
found what I had hoped to find on the farm in
Woodbine: a place to be.
One day the Woodstock building inspector said
to us, Mrs. Vos was very frugal. Is that why the
house wasnt insulated? Was warmth seen as too
indulgent? She lived in a cold house for more
than 40 years! How could we have known that a
year-round home within 30 miles of three ski
resorts would have no insulation? For the next
five years, we meticulously renovated every
square inch: replaced every window (but in the
exact six-over-six, mullioned style of the
originals), took down and put back up every
single wall (replastered just as they were before).
For some reason, we felt it was important to
hew as closely as possible to her visionbut
warmer.
We quickly discovered that renovating to create
the illusion that everything has always been there
requires a thesis-like amount of research. One
day, while interviewing someone at the Rose Bar
at the Gramercy Park Hotel in the city, I
inquired about the beautiful wood covering the
walls and discovered that it came from the
Hudson Company, a reclaimed-lumber mill not
far from our house upstate. If its good enough
for Ian Schrager . . . , I thought. A small fortune
later, we have new-old floors and new-old beams
in the ceiling that look like theyve been in place
for 100 years. When we finally found a source
for handmade encaustic cement tile for the
kitchen and dining room and then fell in love
with a pattern that was already in stock
(cheaper), we hesitated a moment too long and
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