Architecture Wednesday: Lake Tahoe Masterpiece

I think I’ve mentioned before that my family used to rent a cabin on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe every Summer while I was growing up. It was the best place to spend a Summer, high in the mountains with hiking and biking and swimming in the frigid lake; and it was a nice cabin, two bedrooms down and a loft upstairs with a large wrap-around deck.

Nowadays, though, my tastes have changed and this cabin, nestled on Crystal Bay, on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, just west of Incline Village, Nevada, might just fit the bill, even if it is a bit large and ostentatious.

This 7,850 square foot home sits on 1.2 private acres with 110 feet of lake frontage. The Great Room, with attached sunroom and lounge sits high above the water, with a beautiful terrace for those sunsets. The primary suite is set apart from the home, accessed via an enclosed bridge, with views and privacy in mind; outside and down some steps is an in-ground pool with an infinity edge overlooking one of the most beautiful spots on the planet. Downstairs are five more lake view en suite bedroom suites, including a bunk room, office, home gym, and family room and bar with a terrace view. In addition, there is a separate in-law wing over a three-car garage.

I love the windows and the views, and the soaring wooden ceilings; there are open spaces and private spaces so it fits about every family or group. Best of all is that lake frontage. Oh, it’s so far down the hill you say? Who wants to walk all that walk down the hill to the water and then walk back up?

The home comes equipped with a funicular tram brings you down to the crystal cove and deep-water shared pier with a boat lift and a buoy beyond. 

They’ve thought of everything …

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Architecture Wednesday: Phoenix Rising

When I was a kid my parents used to rent a cabin at Lake Tahoe is the Summers and we’d spend weeks up there, in the frigid waters of the lake; hiking through the woods, just enjoying it all; I remember even in August the air was cool and smelled of pine trees and to this day, when we have a day like that in Smallville, I call it a Lake Tahoe Day.

And one of my favorite places they ever rented was an A-frame cabin because of the soaring ceilings and the walls of windows.

Now, that cabin looked nothing like this one, dubbed Phoenix Rising because it was built on the ash of the homeowner’s original Lake Tahoe cottage. It has the glass, the vaulted ceilings, the loft space, two comfy bedrooms, the porch, the trees, the snow.

Takes me back.

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Architecture Wednesday: Martis Camp

I remember when I was a kid, my parents renting a cabin at Lake Tahoe where we would spend part of each summer. Such great times, with the clear sky, the cold, very cold, even in August, lake, and the smell of pine trees in the air.

Hikes and tennis and swimming and biking and just being at Lake Tahoe, one of the most beautiful spots on the planet.

Of course, our cabin was a two bedroom cabin, so my parents got a room, my sister got a room, and my brother and I got the pull-out couches.

Nothing like this house at all .... while i might have loved the cabin of my youth, I'm thinking that this is more my style now.

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