"Before blueprints, there were writing exercises that helped articulate their ideal day. There were lengthy playlists for inspiration. There were even a few poems. "It was very 'art school energy,'" laughs Barutha of their creative rapport with Holesum Studio architect Dimitri Brand. Barutha became friends with Brand as an undergrad at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where they both studied sculpture. When Brand heard"
"It was the couple's first home, but their instincts were already well honed after spending the pandemic tucked away in a family cabin outside Chicago. Their search led them to a five-acre parcel ringed by evergreens and birch trees, its gentle slope tapering toward a creek. From the outset, they envisioned a home that blurred the boundaries between indoors and outdoors-one designed with both daily life and a future family in mind."
Kate Barutha and Kyle Vegter built a hemlock-clad home on a five-acre wooded parcel in Callicoon, upstate New York. The design process prioritized close collaboration with Holesum Studio architect Dimitri Brand and builder Ethan Sale, using creative tools instead of imagery: writing prompts, playlists, and poems framed spatial and sensory goals. The team avoided Pinterest to keep imagination open and developed a shared language for decision-making. The resulting house blurs indoors and outdoors, responds to weather and music, and is composed to support daily life and a future family while respecting the site’s trees, slope, and creek.
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