It is April and it is still snowing in Tahoe. In other parts of the country, the early spring crocus made the daffodil, but in this part of California, with snow piling up with high feet, it is clearly winter. And that is actually the calling. People come to Tahoe to enjoy the abundance of weather and snow sports that makes it possible.
Hidden in the Palisades is one of the first houses that have ever been built near the famous Alpine Meadows ski areain 1964. While many of the selection made by its original architects Landed interior & houses Crew, when their customers brought them with them, made at least one sense: the high, high windows. “The house is on a steep slope,” says Heather Menegat, studies director of the Berkeley office of Landed, who supervised the project with Tiffany Kim. “And when they plow, the entire snow only falls down and reaches close to the tips of the window. It can be seen wild.”
But beyond the shop window placement and the blow of the house In the middle of the century modern Profile, the rest needed a hard reset to become the weather and family space it is now. As a holiday home that was bought at the beginning of the pandemic, the customers knew that they wanted to spend a good part of the year in it, says Menegat, “to take advantage of the seasons.” They had the vision of signing their two daughters for skiing lessons and regularly organizing friends and family in the house. The aesthetics to which they were attracted was Alpine après, and in Taoe this style can make sense, “but we are not in Switzerland either,” says Menegat. The challenge was to meet the outer with the interior. “Not every house has a strong presence,” says Menegat, but it did it. “We wanted to make the inside feel more like talking to the outside.”
The hall in front of the main bedroom became an office with a built -in desk. The wallpaper is carried out by Casamance.
In recent years, Landed Interiors & Homes has been an increasing star in the design world to do exactly that: to align the customer's needs and wishes according to the structure with which they feel tonally coherent. It is important that the crew has a knack for details that are able to feel able to feel their way while they also lived in. The Brooklyn Heights, New York Showhouse in 2024in the plaster of wildflowers and wheat grass motifs along the walls.
The changes in the Tahoe house were also radical. The redesign was about reinterpreting the flow of the existing space and redirecting the light, at the same time lending ski chalet and paying homage to the existing architecture. In order to manage what you saw when you were divided into the house for the first time, the tips of the kitchen cabinets-landed added, forged wooden partitions with a sectional motif, similar to Palm Beach, says Menegat. “Atomic, mid -century stars”, which were simplified and extended to suppress the panels with this “ski language” of the chalet.
In the living room there was a huge fireplace in a stone wall intact. “We won't touch that,” says Menegat about her thinking. “It is so difficult to restore stone in a way that already likes.” But new soils were added to the rest of the house. So there was radiant heating and new windows. A graded, Swiss -inspired form went on the walls.
The room carved out of the garage became a mudroom with long cupboards for ski equipment and coats.
The high, high windows in the primary bedroom were a challenge. So was the washroom, which made both the bedroom and a bathroom accessible in the original floor plan. “A holiday home feels in this way,” says Menegat. As a solution, you have cut a small place out of the garage for a mudroom, in which the cupboards are now lockers for equipment and have reconsidered access to the washroom. The bathroom was a bathroom.
For wall and tile color in the bathing rooms they went raspberry in one, ginger in another and blue-green in the head. Deep Blue Grascloth runs through Casamance in the Hall office against burned orange dahlia pattern wallpaper. “We really tried to compensate for some of the less saturated, more muddy colors with colors that felt lively and funny,” says Menegat.
Another big shift was the kitchen, in which cupboards were replaced by lower cupboards, “which really changed how this room is activated and the ceilings feels larger,” says Menegat. In the middle of the room there is a free-standing butcher-block-parsal table from Union Studio for March SF in Weißer oak, which is tight enough so as not to be impressive, but sufficient enough to be usable for the pile of food.
Throughout the house, there are pieces whose details should highlight the hands behind the craftsmanship. For example, exposed swallowtail connections on cupboards, which are inspired by the kitchen of René Redzepi, the chef behind Noma, who actually work triple to give the room with an “eclecticism” beyond the middle of the century. “We have thought a lot about the Japanese design and tried to bring in something of this language. There is something about this detail,” says Menegat and refers to the Schwalenschwanzgelen, “that immediately feels a little Scandinavian and a little Japanese and simply works to shake things a little.” The art of artists of the Bay Area how how Serena Mitnik MillerPresent Drew Bennett And Lena Wolff Also helps to open things.
At the center of Landed's work is a redon, in which the holiday home has not occupied all year round, it could take a long time for devices and furniture to settle and release the warmth of a popular room. “We wanted it to feel a little aged,” says Menegat. “We often like to give the feeling that they were not all in order at the same time,” adds Kloythanomsup. A typical example: the brass hood above the stove that is gently patinated.
According to Menegat, the real triumph is the corner in the living room, in which new windows were added and brought down to meet the floor. It has changed completely as the room in the small corner, “says Menegat. It was” a game changer for us “. With a view to the side of the house, where the hill falls under an increased foundation and deck, it is as if the windows over the white snow float below and are comfortably lifted between the pines of the pines.