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Storied Spaces S04E10
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00:01houses are more than shelter the second we walked through the threshold of the
00:09door we both looked up looked at each other this is it yeah this is the space
00:15we wanted to live in the light and we wanted to live in the landscape for us
00:23it was a way to sort of connect my roots and expose our children and continue
00:28that legacy he sort of fell in love with the place and each other at the same
00:36time this building it's a real landmark around here it's an unconventional house
00:44but it's pretty fun the fact is that houses are dreams they're an expression of
00:52who we are and what we believe in
01:07every morning you look out our bedroom windows and you can see the lake and it
01:13just tells you that you're in a very special place in the world
01:20we're on one of the cleanest bodies of water in the state lake west of run set in central maine
01:29it can be so restful so peaceful it's just beautiful
01:39this lake house is a three-bedroom three-bath cottage
01:46its proximity to the water is special because it's only about 25 26 feet back
01:55everybody that knows us wants to come visit us and the destination is well worth it
02:06i'm john i'm jamie and this is our house on lake west of run set in central maine
02:14so since i was born in the small town of scowhegan i have known this lake my grandparents owned a
02:19cottage on the lake my aunt betsy and uncle owned a cottage as well i've spent summer after summer here
02:26and the water the setting the friends the community have just always been a big part of me
02:32should we go down to the dock now i've been coming to the lake with john for about 22 years
02:38and as of 10 years ago we were able to buy this house do a huge renovation to it and
02:44uh sort of make
02:45it our own i'm really grateful that it's a place he's taken to it's pretty easy to love
02:51oh there's a snapping turtle peeking his head out hey little turtle
02:59in this region they call cottages camps so this is our little camp it is an expectation within the
03:05state to refer to all seasonal inland properties as camps and so since i was a child it was always
03:11referred to as going up to camp and when you tell people on the west coast that you're going to
03:15camp
03:16they think you're going to day camp or summer camp or kids camp it's not that sort of thing it's
03:20just private homes but called camp we were very happy to get a lake house on what's called the
03:28gold coast of our lake because it's sunset it's central um the water is beautifully clear and it's
03:35a great location so when we bought the house uh we immediately knew that it was going to be renovated
03:43we chose to go in the direction of make it feel like it's been here for many decades and we
03:49had to
03:50make sure that everything kind of filtered through this camp definition there's so many decisions you
03:56have to make to connotate camp so this is the entry room or the mud room and it is the
04:09first room you come
04:10into when you enter the house it was important that when you walk into the house it's immediately the lake
04:17even though it's the mud room we still want you to be able to see the lake immediately so the
04:21interior
04:21window it then leads to a summer guest bedroom
04:29on this wall there are some window shutters that are from my grandparents camps from back in the 40s and
04:35the 50s there are windows that take you right out to the lake and immediately you get the whole lake
04:41experience because there's the water it's really created in a way to draw the lake into the house
04:50and so we leave the mud room and we go right into the kitchen come on easel
05:01this is all very derivative of the the family camps on the lake
05:06when it came time to try to find a sink that would feel appropriate our contractor said i think i've
05:11got something hiding under my mother's barn and we went down in the middle of winter while he was
05:16renovating and looked under her barn under some snow was this beautiful 1950s cast iron sink and we said
05:24that'll work we had to wait for the thaw before we could get it though because it was literally frozen
05:29to the ground when we bought the house the ceilings were actually drywalled and coated and uh we opened
05:37it all up so that you could have this open framed feeling to give us a more real authentic camp
05:41feel
05:44so when we bought this house there was a wood stove right in the center blocking the lake view there
05:52were bay windows instead of doors so you couldn't access the terrace so it was important for us to
05:58reconfigure the windows and make it all about the lake and created what would look like a enclosed porch
06:07area collecting furniture from different eras was important here so it looked as though we inherited
06:16this camp from grandparents nods to the 40s the 50s the 60s the 70s 40s light fixtures antique turn of
06:25the century dishes to a mid-century modern dining table and chairs we always place our guests on that
06:34side of the table so that they've got the best view of the lake absolutely locals sit with their back
06:39to
06:39the lake guests sit facing the lake so the living room ends up leading to the staircase to take us
06:53upstairs
06:54and the interior window is a nice little peek into the kitchen and vice versa the kitchen can look in
07:01here
07:01to the living space but it kind of lets this small space feel very open at the same time
07:08the second floor is a primary bedroom a tv area and a full bathroom
07:15so we kind of call this the cruise ship bedroom because the expansive windows and the close close
07:22proximity to the lake just makes you feel like you're standing on the you know deck of a ship when
07:27we did
07:27the renovation we took out some bay windows which sort of cut off the view and replaced them with
07:34you know this entire set of seven or eight double hung windows to give us great views of
07:39the water and the forest in the distance
07:44back through the house and through the dining room is the deck
07:48of gorgeous breeze you know i love that pretty beautiful
08:00so even though we did a lot of renovation to the house on the interior we were very fortunate in
08:05inheriting this beautiful deck out here the whole goal of it was just to preserve it but turn it into
08:12an excellent dining spot and lounging area for people
08:19it's just amazing so we're very lucky
08:34it's very gratifying to feel this connection and sort of continue
08:38the legacy if you will of our family having a presence on this lake
08:45and it is a beautiful special place in the world
09:25it's a beautiful beautiful beautiful nature and culture Oaxaca is a place where it's inspired me a lot
09:37for me it was very specific and very important having a high-end house into a wild beach because it's
09:46a contrast
09:48i decide to make absolutely everything in the house i mean from the furniture to the cup where you drink
09:57your coffee
09:57so everything is possible because the clay here is important for this kind of rustic and very beautiful original pottery
10:11it's a beautiful dialogue in between the wild nature and the sophistication of of design
10:28this is palapa concreta on the oaxacan coast of mexico
10:35we have two bedrooms one bathroom is an open concept
10:42i live in between oaxaca and mexico city
10:48i come from originally venezuela but i left my country because the dictatorship 20 years ago and one of the
10:56first
10:57places was new york a political exile looking for a new place but you know missing my country always
11:05and looking you know for a right place for a venezuelan artist when i first saw the land here was
11:12nothing i was the first one to make a house in this area i came here to this land you
11:18know in the middle
11:19of nowhere and say i want to make very high-end design house with my friend anna lazala that she's
11:25the
11:25architect and is we start making this um this adventure about form love art and architecture
11:42this is the first step to get into the house
11:48the palapa is the roof and the walls in general here we have three different materials concrete
11:57wood and palm gray beige brown
12:06we choose these materials because we're the local ones
12:10i came from new york to here to see the process because i know it's an unique experience watching
12:18people knitting a roof knitting a roof this way as they did it 800 years ago
12:27the kitchen for me should be the center of any house for me this is like the soul of the
12:34house
12:34because you got everything that you need you can sit here during a conversation on a party or a dinner
12:41and you can have here with friends and going up and going down going back it's like
12:46a huge monument for for art and creativity
12:52most of my time i have my workshop and my studio in mexico city but sometimes i come here to
12:59the house
12:59and i normally when i'm in the house i'm working in some projects or a specific project with the clay
13:08from this area and the structure of the of the clay that is very raw and natural that are very
13:15good for
13:24modeling
13:25this is a very wild weather area so it's a seasonal house when here winds the winds come everywhere
13:33because the house is open if the rains comes there the rain goes everywhere
13:39in a part of the year it's impossible to stay here because the hurricanes and the rain
13:46one of the most beautiful things about the house is all the nature is inside and i can allow and
13:55embrace
13:56the nature coming into the house i'm not deciding that maybe this is coming down there is naturally
14:04there i'm not you know pushing nature to be in the place where i want
14:11here this is the second floor and we have here two rooms
14:30this is the main room
14:38human is my dog he's an italian greyhound that comes from new york
14:43and he's the owner of my bed
14:47the way it was built the architect anna she decided to locate the house with this front
14:54of the sea because the air could flow freely around the second floor
15:02you can have here the ocean view and the house garden view
15:13my friend angie and louis they always come when i'm here at the house and we love cooking together
15:28she's one of my best friends
15:30louis louis is angie's husband and he's one of the most important people for building this house
15:38he made all the wood on the concrete of the dining room all the furniture and we build the house
15:47together
15:54here here is it's quiet and i can be in silence with nature
16:08and that's the most important thing for me as an artist and as a foreigner having a place where i
16:15can
16:15be free creating and living
16:33we walked up the stairs to the top of the lamia and we looked out and with just the tops
16:38of the olive trees blowing in the breeze it's like the most quintessential beautiful view of pulia
16:45and for us that was the moment that we knew we really wanted to buy this property
16:50it's just seeing that incredible landscape
16:56i'm rebecca young riboldi i am carmen riboldi and i am from pulia
17:03i'm married to ricardo riboldi and we have two beautiful children we have eleonora and teodoro
17:12they are beautiful little balls of sunshine and this is villacardo our home in pulia
17:22villacardo is made up of two buildings the main house we built from scratch six years ago it has a
17:28living room a kitchen and a dining room three bedrooms and bathrooms there's also an outdoor kitchen and
17:35living area the second building at the entrance is alamia a 200 year old ruin which we restored at the
17:43same time to create a one bedroom one bathroom guest house the two buildings sit on an acre of land
17:51and facing each other across this beautiful pool i know dear carmen because she is my mother-in-law i
18:01don't
18:02feel like being a mother-in-law she's a friend of mine she's a very close friend yeah yeah being
18:10the project
18:10manager of a project like this in pulia where my italian was still in its early days i definitely needed
18:18some help and so i had to call my mother-in-law which i was very happy to do it
18:23was fun and i i was
18:25really so happy up the pathway through the garden and you just come out of these trees this is the
18:40lamia the old ruin that we found when we first came to see the land now it's all restored this
18:46would
18:47have been sort of an old shepherd's hut or farmer's hut everything that you see is structurally pretty
18:56much how it existed when we found it this building is what influenced everything else and it influenced
19:03the way that we designed villa cardo and how much we really wanted to preserve the original
19:08architecture and feel of this old pugliese ruin
19:19so as you exit out of the lamia you look directly on our pool which connects us to the modern
19:26villa
19:29which leads us over to this sort of outdoor living room and we have this nice built-in couch here
19:35with
19:36tons of cushions where you know we can come to relax the kitchen is really nice beautiful nice and big
19:43and i can also see the beautiful landscape with the olive trees while i'm cooking
19:51yeah the raw tomato we must put on top of the pasta and then also there is a garden gives
19:59me the idea of
20:00what i have to cook when we are together with my family wow and i see my granddaughter i'm so
20:13happy
20:13because i know she enjoys cooking with the nonna with the grandmother
20:19and so for me is the best moment that i have
20:25i am a bit emotional
20:35i am a bit emotional
20:43here we are at the main villa this is the very front of the house of the new home the
20:50modern build and we
20:52enter the home right underneath this archway right here we enter immediately into the dining room which
20:57is a very important part of any italian house there's the big arch in this room and that's
21:02really my favorite part of the house not only is it beautiful but it also is a reminder of the
21:10ancient sort of building practices of the region
21:16andrew trotter was the architect that we worked with we were drawn to him because you could tell
21:20immediately that he had you know a very beautiful vision for the property
21:26that's when we had to get serious and figure out how to coordinate building
21:30you listen to carmen carmen's a powerhouse here she's like the best project manager we've ever had
21:37this house it's not perfect you know each cube is slightly different these thick walls
21:43help it to be cool in the summer help it to be warm in the winter the stone is local
21:50making the vaults is a traditional way of building here and they work it's minimalism from 400 years ago
22:04and then we enter into the living room we added a few different elements that were already built
22:10in so this couch is made of tufo as well not only is it a traditional way of building the
22:16furniture
22:16and pulia but it's also very cost effective instead of having to buy this ginormous sofa all we had to
22:21do
22:21is provide the cushions
22:24we sit here and we just enjoy each other's company
22:29here we have the primary bedroom we have
22:33our large bed in the middle it's actually built in so when you sleep here you really feel quite
22:38grounded like here one with the land
22:49up on the roof terrace we've got this huge panoramic view uh 360 degrees you can see you
22:56the tops of all the olive trees i love to see the sunset sunset for me gives me something emotional
23:12i love coming up here with you know friends family the best time for me is at sunset having a
23:19glass of wine
23:25this every day i usually come up and have this view that makes me really feel my heart of joy
23:37i just feel really at peace and connected to the land around me there's nothing more beautiful than a sunset
23:45in
23:56poolia
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