If you happen to be shopping for a home based only on places with prime leaf peeping, this dwelling should be top of your list. Western Mass is a region that, any time I visit, makes me feel like I’m stepping into “Bridge to Terabithia” or some other story about a small town with a magical forest. As for Lenox specifically, catch it on Travel and Leisure’s list of the 21 best places to see fall foliage across the U.S.
If only this home had big windows to appreciate the changing leaves from inside. Oh wait! It very much does. Its mid-century modern design prioritizes bringing the outdoors in, and keeps the interior beautifully simple. Pale wooden floors, an elegant mantle-free fireplace, and warm paneled walls give the living room an elevated cabin feel. Wide windows look directly into the surrounding trees, making it look like you’re living in a treehouse. From the bottom of the sloping hill it sits on, the low-profile home is a wooden rectangle with a red front door all but ensconced by the surrounding nature which is mere weeks from bursting into a kaleidoscope of autumn colors.
At 880-square-foot and on an acre of land, this house is the ideal size for hunkering down during cold nights and venturing out to enjoy all that the Berkshires have to offer.
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In my head, the platonic ideal of a cozy cabin is an A-frame. Something about the sloping walls feels like a giant hug, and the tall ceilings make sure they feel uncramped. And this one, sequestered in the woods of Lake Arrowhead just a couple hours outside Los Angeles, has all that charm and more. Plenty of beautiful, mature trees surround the home and a small stream even winds through part of the property depending on the season.
The interior, thankfully, is designed to cherish the idyllic outdoors. Walk into the living room and a massive bank of windows that stretches up to the vaulted ceiling will greet you, including a sliding glass door that leads out onto a deck. A fireplace and antler-esque chandelier create a lodge-like atmosphere, and if you’re in love with the eclectic mix of plaid and velvet furnishings, you’re in luck — most of the furnishings are included in the sale.
Olive green kitchen cabinets echo the green accent wall in the primary bedroom, which has its own ensuite featuring heated floors and a heated towel rack to ensure you stay toasty even when temperatures start to fall.
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If you hate walls of exposed brick, soaring ceilings, and tons of glorious square footage, there’s no chance you’ll like this lofty home for sale in North Philadelphia. Originally constructed as a warehouse, the 10,000-square-foot building has been divided up into three separate units, all for sale together. Whether you’re looking for a live-work space to accommodate your growing business and your own living quarters or are looking to invest in some real estate, this townhouse could be the answer.
The warehouse vibes are definitively intact, thanks to the beamed and vaulted ceilings, ample red brick, and repurposed laboratory cabinets in the kitchen. Reclaimed antique oak floors run throughout the home, warming it up and leaning into its recycled, beautifully worn feel.
For more reasons to picture yourself in this warehouse conversion, just look around. There’s lofted office space, skylit nooks, and rows upon rows of shoe storage to round out this spacious pad.
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In case you’ve been blissfully unaware, renting in New York is a frenzied nightmare at the moment. People are seeing their rents raised by hundreds of dollars per month and facing down the unappealing prospect of moving in this market — which these days can mean standing in long lines for open houses and competing in a bidding war (!) to pay rent. Bloomberg reports that roughly one in five leases signed in Manhattan this year have been involved in bidding wars. It’s enough to make a renter want to… dream of buying.
Enter this sunshiney one-bedroom for sale in the East Village. The natural light is what first caught my eye — it streams into the bedroom (through what the listing describes as soundproof windows), which is the only thing that effectively gets me out of bed in the morning. When you sit up in bed, the first thing you’ll see is a beautiful wall of exposed brick complete with a fireplace. Let it stand as its own statement wall or deck it out with an eclectic assortment of art.
Though many New York apartments are described as closet-sized, this one feels quite spacious. Through a pair of double doors from the bedroom, you enter a long living room, which features whitewashed brick walls and built-shelves that wrap around the upper perimeter of the 10-foot ceilings. The living area flows into a dining room next, and finally into a kitchen adorned with globe-style pendant lights. Antique hardwood floors, more exposed brick, and stainless appliances top off the cookery. And for those moments you want to step outside without embracing the crowds, you can take to the building’s own garden, or the community botanical garden just across the street.
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There’s no need to book a flight to northern Spain to revel in glorious mosaic architecture — one week in this Denver loft and you’ll be saying Barthelona like a regular Catalonian (or at least a zealous study abroad student). The Colorado home was inspired by Antoni Gaudí, the architect whose Catalan Modernism is on stunning display in buildings like La Sagrada Familia and Park Güell.
You can see the influence in the carved wooden benches and shelves that line the entryway of this luxury condo, accented by swooping orange, red, and gray collages of tile. The mosaic touches carry throughout the open loft, splashing along the kitchen and across the living room walls.
It’s not too flashy for daily life, though — hardwood floors (with radiant heating), exposed brick walls, and beamed ceilings that stretch 12 feet high all work together to create a natural palette. As a sustainable bonus, the vast majority of the home’s materials are reclaimed: The oak floors once belonged to a basketball court, for example, and the massive cottonwood kitchen countertop is 100 years old.
The rest of the features you really just have to see to believe, like the tobacco pipe-like fixture hanging in the kitchen, the miniature statues that hold up some shelves, and the cavernesque bathroom covered in mosaics. If you’d like to move in exactly as the staging photos show the home, you can opt to purchase the intricate, custom made furniture that populates the place.
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