Fabulosity

Lawyerly Lairs: Hipsters in the Catskills
(Hey New Yorkers, Looking for a Country House?)

We're trying to diversify the coverage here at Lawyerly Lairs. After all, the world does not consist entirely of Park Avenue apartments owned by mega-rich law firm partners. Toward that end, we recently wrote about the housing search of some NYU Law students. Let's leave Manhattan behind and head to upstate New York, where we'll visit the beautiful Catskills house of a law professor and his filmmaker wife....

By David Lat on February 15, 2012 2:46 pm

You’ve just seen the lovely front door. But, according to the write-up, “the door on the covered side porch, near the gravel parking area, is the favored entrance.” (Speaking for myself, I don’t like the concept of a “favored entrance”; it sounds discriminatory. Not everyone likes to go through the same entrance.)

Anyway… from the listing:

[The side door] takes you into the dining area, which is part of an “L” shaped open plan space, that flows into the kitchen and to the “parlor”/lounge around the corner. The wide plank floors (probably original or reclaimed pine and hemlock) have been refinished, and reflect all the glorious light that flows in from the plentiful tall original windows (wavy glass still intact in most). Sun streams through the kitchen in the morning, and the front of the house at the end of the day.

Here is a look at the dining room:

And a view of the dining room and the kitchen:

Speaking of the country kitchen, let’s take a closer look….

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