Budget Breakdown: Their $1.2M Berkshires Cabin Is Tiny—But It Has a Massive Wall of Glass
"By placing the living room down on ground level, it’s almost like you’re on a picnic blanket, sitting in the meadow," says architect Dan Hisel.
"By placing the living room down on ground level, it’s almost like you’re on a picnic blanket, sitting in the meadow," says architect Dan Hisel.
The crisp air in Western Massachusetts has a way of waking the senses. On a fall morning, the hills surrounding the Berkshires glow red, orange, and yellow, and the sound of howling wind moves through the woods. "There’s absolute magic in the colors of the changing trees," says Emily Fritz-Endres. "It gets that reputation of having fall fireworks for a reason." Down a quiet stretch near Bittersweet Way, named after the beautiful yet invasive yellow vines that grow along the road, that seasonal drama frames the home she built with her partner, Sarah Abraham: a small, angular, black cabin tucked into eight wild acres.
Emily, the executive director of the Albany Symphony, and Sarah, an antitrust economist, first met in the Berkshires as teenagers at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, a summer music program held near the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s campus in Lenox. Since then, Sarah and Emily, who play bassoon and clarinet, respectively, and see nearly a hundred concerts a year, have dreamed of building a refuge close to their favorite music festivals.
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