A Chic Nest on a Rugged Ridge
Roughly once a decade, Reno couple Tamra and Darin Murphy build a new house. “The first was for our babies. The second was for our teenagers. Thi...
Building Heirlooms for Audiophiles
It’s a Tuesday morning and Truckee resident Steve Morris is sitting inside his woodshop, softly nodding his head. Two Against Nature, Steely Dan...
A Luxury Lodge Fit for Lake Tahoe
Shawback Design, Griggs Custom Homes, Inc., and architect James Crippen first came together about 20 years ago to build a rustic lodge on Lake Tahoe f...
A Home to Hang Your Hat and Park Your Boots
In an era of building ever bigger, a Southern California couple had an unusual request for their 2-acre Martis Camp lot: Design something small and si...
Where Good Things Grow
On a morning when Truckee is blanketed in snow, the inside of Good Anya Plant Shop is lush and inviting, a multitude of well-loved plants radiating th...
Rooted in Site and Kin
For a Bay Area couple with children and a close extended family, their vision for a new home in Martis Camp was deeply felt, well-researched and found...
Life on the Edge
When someone says they have a home on the water, just how “on the water” are they talking? According to Isaiah Shaw, site manager with NS...
The (Artificial) Grass Isn’t Always Greener
As the Tahoe Basin and much of the American West have weathered protracted periods of drought in recent decades, artificial lawns have been touted as ...
All in the Family
When a North Lake Tahoe couple retired and started thinking about the next chapter in their lives, they knew they did not want to move far from the lo...
Storming the Castle
“This home will never be sold. Not in my lifetime.” That was the message a Truckee homeowner relayed to his project team of Mark Tanner Constru...
A Bridge to Modernity
Before principal architect Jason Wooley of Truckee’s Lot C Architecture begins designing a home, he invests significant time into getting to know th...
Where the Past is Present
In the 1880s, the town of Truckee was a boisterous, rough-and-tumble Western community. Travelers arrived via stagecoach, wagon or the Transcontinenta...
Mountain Majestic
When people build new homes at Tahoe, they often opt for the traditional rustic look that characterizes many of the existing houses around the lake. B...
The Home of ‘Casual Elegance’
The mythical Shangri-La is a paradise set apart from the mundane world, a place where residents enjoy a youthful exuberance and find refuge from the r...
Home Made
Avid campers and explorers of the Sierra Nevada for some four and a half decades, Bay Area residents Patrick and Lori Dempsey were recently retired an...
Urban Appeal
When David Walker became CEO of the Nevada Museum of Art in 2007, he and his wife Darby set out to find their new permanent residence. They soon fell ...
Sustainably Handsome
It’s called a “truth window,” and it’s practically obligatory for this type of construction. Appearing as a framed photo at first glance, a...
The Bold and the Beautiful
Located on the Nevada side of Tahoe’s South Shore, Tahoe Beach Club is composed of a series of full-ownership condominiums as well as a clubhouse, b...
Bigger is Better
Scott Gillespie, principal and founder of Truckee’s SANDBOX Studio, has designed homes larger than this 6,870-square-foot Clear Creek Tahoe retreat....
The Essence of Elegance
Architect Donald Fugina uses a rhetorical question to best describe the home he designed at 269 Redding Way in Clear Creek Tahoe: “What is more eleg...
Bringing their A-game to an A-frame
In the world of architecture and design, there are homes where a bold element or stunning interior feature takes center stage. Then there are homes wh...
Capturing Views to Big Blue
When Ross McMahan finds himself in the neighborhood of a particularly stunning Incline Village home he built, he makes a point to drop by and marvel a...
Magnificent Mountain Retreat
As far as vacation homes go, this sleek new residence tucked off of Lake Tahoe Boulevard is about as accommodating as they come....
Comfortable Collaboration
When hiring a project team, it’s never a bad idea to seek out an architect and builder with a good rapport. An Incline Village family hit a home ...
The Friendly Nature of a Family Home
Given the Tahoe area’s mountain landscape, a flat homesite can be hard to come by. It’s why Craig Fugina, senior designer with Donald Joseph Inc.,...
Inspired by Challenge
Phil GilanFarr has a knack for seeing potential in challenging homesites. This was the case with an Incline Village project he spearheaded and comp...
ENTER TO WIN TQ’S BEST OF TAHOE PHOTO CONTEST
Welcome to Tahoe Quarterly’s 2024 Best of Tahoe Photo Contest. This year’s contest runs from February 19 through March 8. The same rules as last...
Legends of the Lens
When Hank deVre tucks a camera inside his ski jacket this winter and hits the slopes, it will mark his 50th season of shooting Tahoe ski photos. It’...
Tim Humphreys: Forever Young
Even the burliest, most steadfast powder aficionado can be forgiven for seeking respite from snow come late spring and early summer, especially after ...
Weather Whiplash in Death Valley
Backcountry snowboarding in Death Valley National Park was not on our bingo card at the start of winter. Yet here we are the first week of April 2023,...