Waiting List of 5 Homes Announced
Catskill Farms would like to announce we now have a 5 home waiting list going into the winter - which means, more or less, 'suck it competitors' (not to steal a kathy griffith line). Sure Richard is building a great big barn studio for him and his pals and their music. And Daniel is designing and building a micro-cottage for some quiet contemplation. And Susan is living large in the small home high up outside Narrowsburg. And now Tony and Laurie have settled on our new mid-century cottage design, after circling us for years. And John and Wendy (and 3yr old and twins on the way) seem to have selected us as well to provide them with an upstate getaway. A description of the Shaker design premise -“The Shakers were seldom victims of fashion. Their buildings bespeak forthright, contemplative lives, freed from the influences of the outside world. Stylistic considerations were not high on the list of Shaker priorities; to the contrary buildings were designed to outlast the vagaries of changing tastes. They had to be efficient, easy to maintain, and give their builders a sense of serenity and grace from knowing that what they created was as close to perfection as humanly possible.
Nineteenth-century visitors wrote of the unity of design in Shaker villages. Developed according to the community’s standards and requirements, the buildings in a Shaker village are more consistent in appearance than those of the neighboring farms. Their clustering on the land, the way they relate to one another in function and scale, the consistency of aesthetic choices employed by Shaker craftsmen, all attest to that communal society of spiritual brethren and sisters devoted to creating an ideal life on earth.”
Just another day.
Every where we go up here, every corner we turn, there's fabulous scenes like rivers, rushing water, mountains and what have you. Here's Cottage 23 coming to a conclusion, with a closing date set for late November.
Cottage 20 is a smaller version of Cottage 23, and as all our readers know, it will only be a few short months before this house welcomes a new owner - in this case, Susan.
Here's the foundation of a 980 sq ft mid century ranch house, currently unspoken for.
And Cottage 24 is moving right along, just waiting for some siding to finish up the exterior.
And the interior just passed the last inspection prior to the installation of the insulation.
We are hoping to get planning board approval on a new piece of land November 10th, and if that happens, we hope to get another 3 foundations 'in the ground' before winter's chill hardens the ground.
Our Press
I know you aren't supposed to believe or even read your own press, but we have garnered a bit of attention over the years as we have rolled out this new old small house concept. To peruse our Press, click here.
My Son Likes Me.
Sure, the continuous posts by bitter Anonymous may be true and my customers may not all be friends (I think that's the way its supposed to be - probably for the better - it's probably the biggest miscalculation I've made in thinking it could be otherwise) but one thing for sure is this little boy sure gets a kick out of me.
I should just stop posting them, but with all the fan mail I get a every week, I suppose they keep me humble. Plus, it's nice someone cares enough to write.
