Category: Home & Garden
Mountain Home Awards: Enter by July 15
Are you interested in having your home or project included in Tahoe Quarterly’s 2015 Mountain Home Award issue? For more than a dozen years, TQ has been recognizing some of the finest architecture in the region with outstanding photography and writing. If you’d like to have a home considered for inclusion in the issue, please […]
Tahoe Real Estate Earns National Recognition
Written by Michael Kilburg Say what you will about Michael Corleone’s faults, at least The Godfather gangster had good taste. Corleone chose Lake Tahoe’s iconic Fleur du Lac as one of the fictional crime family’s homes. Turns out, plenty of others would do the same. In January, the approximately 4,100 square foot second unit […]
South Lake’s Chateau: Filling the Hole
Written by Dylan Silver The t-shirt shops seemed to stretch for a mile. Every color, design, size, shape and cut was available. They said things like “I (heart) Lake Tahoe,” “Lake Tahoe Lifeguard” and “Lake Tahoe USA Elev. 6229.” This was T-shirt Row—a reasonably priced retail strip along U.S. Highway 50 on the California side […]
The Buzz About Fermentation
DIY fermentation creates helpful, nourishing foods Written by Julia Mueller There is a buzz around fermentation in every sense of the word, and it goes beyond bread, beer and cheese. Have you noticed an upsurge in people hovering around the kombucha display at the grocery store? Perhaps you have even pickled your own […]
Constellation joins RockResorts family, announces new development phase
TQ Staff Report Constellation Residences at Northstar, a high-end, full-service, ski-in, ski-out residence resort will be expanding and joining RockResorts, a subsidiary of Vail Resorts, which owns Northstar California. JMA Ventures, the San Francisco-based company that owns Constellation as well as Homewood Mountain Resort, intends to build 50 new 2-3- and 4-bedroom units at the […]
Sierra in the Raw
Making a personal lifestyle out of raw food Written by Julia Mueller When hearing the phrase ‘raw food,’ one may visualize iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes and baby carrots—in other words, rabbit food. But going raw means much more than simple salads. The rapidly growing whole food movement is creating strong nutritional awareness and the raw […]
Born to be Wild: Tahoe’s wildflowers
A primer to some of Tahoe’s wildflower wonders Written by Allison Bender Summer in Tahoe means a spectacular display of colorful blooms: fields of yellow mule ears gazing at the sun, seas of blue lupine and orange poppies nodding in the wind. More than 700 kinds of wildflowers grow in the region, according to Zephyr […]
Remaking Reno
Redevelopment trend takes neighborhoods from gritty to great Written by Matthew Renda Urban infill is an emergent trend in planning and development circles describing the reuse or repositioning of obsolete or underutilized buildings and sites. While this dry definition applies to development activity in cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon, for Reno—where the discipline […]
Solutions in Solid Timber
Written by Kyle Magin Solid timber construction—an ancient technology recently rediscovered—is making its debut in Placer County’s Martis Camp development this summer. Truckee’s RDA Architecture and its father-son team of architects Gordon and Andre Pierce are bringing the technique to town with a home for Gordon on one of Martis Camp’s cabin lots. The technology […]
Trending: Barn Doors
Barn doors slide into favor in new home construction Written by Kyle Magin TQ’s Home Awards panel noticed a trend that caught their eye when touring homes this year—sliding barn doors. From sleek, modern homes to those actually replete with reclaimed barnwood, the doors popped up again and again as we made our rounds. “New […]
