The arrival of the pandemic gave Mr. Adgnot an opening. When living and working at home with their child, Esme, now 16, began to feel cramped, Ms. Adgnot agreed to try renting a house in Livingston Manor, N.Y., for a month in the summer of 2020. And once she got there, she fell in love. I dragged all my art supplies up there and had this revelation: I can actually do my work outside of New York City, she said.
By the time that month was up, the couple had decided to find a house they could buy and discovered that there were countless other New Yorkers doing the same thing. With few properties available, they took a closer look at a disheveled log house in New Paltz, built from a kit in the 1980s, that they had previously ruled out after looking at the listing photos.
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