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A Horse Trailer Named Beauty Gets a Makeover

Great Rooms A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. Beauty by night. Photo: Chad Wagner and Steven Trumon Gray/ Some of the most beautiful things on this planet are found in the most unusual places, in discarded objects that once served a purpose,” says graphic designer Laura Valenzuela of the decades-old double horse trailer, which, mostly during the pandemic, she converted into an events space with a little help from her many friends upstate. Valenzuela, who was born in Costa Rica, had been living in New York City. She moved to Beacon in 2018, feeling burnt...

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When the Office Is a Fly-Fishing Motel

Michael Ray (left) and Rachael Yaeger (right) moved their creative agency to a Catskills motel. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland Summer days start early at the Roscoe Motel. Anglers suited in chest waders emerge from their rooms while the morning air is still cool and the sun is starting to inch over the surrounding hills. After a quick stop at the reception office for a hot cup of coffee, it’s off to their favorite fly-fishing spots on the Beaverkill River, which runs right behind the red-and-white building, or to Junction Pool, just south of the mid-century roadside motel, where,...

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Inside the Freak-out Housing Market of Upstate New York

Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: dbimages/Alamy Stock Photo In the past year, the real-estate market has — well, gone berserk. Houses are going for millions over asking in Boise and Albuquerque. Buyers are offering to name their firstborn baby after sellers. In this new series, Realtor Diaries, we talk to the people at the center of it all — about the 2 a.m. emails from clients, the 16-hour, six-day-a-week workdays, and the all-cash offers coming in from people who’ve never once seen the property they’re buying. This past year, in upstate New York, city dwellers swarmed...

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