06 — Architecture + Interior Design

Hudson House

Location: Hudson Valley, New York
Scope: Architecture + Interior Design
Year: 2023
Area: 5,900 sq ft

A timber farmhouse in Columbia County, extended with a new wing that looks into the pines and anchored by a stone hearth built from the site's own fieldstone.

Timber-clad house set among tall pines with low morning sun

Note

A new wing

The original farmhouse is small-windowed and inward-looking. The new wing does the opposite: a single long room on a fieldstone plinth, glazed on three sides and roofed with deep eaves that keep the summer sun off the glass.

Deep window reveal in a dark timber room looking onto a garden at dusk

Note

Deep reveals

Window reveals are lined in charred larch and made deep enough to sit in. From inside, the forest arrives framed and dimmed, like a painting hung in a dark room.

Lit candle, dark stone dish and linen-bound books on a textured sand-coloured surface — Fieldstone, linen and wax: the material palette.

Pale mottled plaster wall with a chalky, matte finish — Limewash over the original plaster in the farmhouse.

Built from the site

Stone for the hearth and plinth was cleared from the property's old field walls. The house now sits on the same material that once divided its land.

Credits

Architecture: Marlow & Finch
Interiors: Marlow & Finch
Builder: Taconic Timber Frame
Photography: Placeholder imagery via Unsplash