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Tahoe Quarterly Mountain Home Awards – Merit Award Site Response
This home project was all about embracing and overcoming challenges, and the results speak for themselves. Every square inch of the house was carefully planned, thought out and enhanced to meet the owners’ needs. As Mark Tanner, the home’s builder, says: “It’s simply a higher quality home that you haven’t seen in Tahoe Donner, so it sets a new standard for the entire Tahoe region.”
Tahoe Quarterly Mountain Home Awards – Merit Award Mountain Comfort
The home was designed inside and out to accommodate a young, active family without compromising style. The end result is a beautiful and comfortable home with plenty of entertaining space for family and friends.
Tahoe Quarterly Mountain Home Awards – Home on the Ranch
Set on a downsloping lot on Clear Creek Tahoe’s third green, this family home proves that putting trust in the right team can lead to exceptional results. Ryan Marsden sums up his main directive for the design after earning his clients’ faith: “Make it awesome.”
Mountain Living – Top Builder
Often working in near-impossible conditions including raging winds, white-out blizzards, subzero temperatures and wildlife on jobs sites, mountain homebuilders are intrepid professionals. They deserve a standing ovation for making the dreams of homeowners, designers and architects come true. In our 2024 Top Mountain Builders list we recognize their accomplishments by including firms at the… Read more »
Tahoe Quarterly Mountain Home Awards 2024 — BIGGER IS BETTER
Scott Gillespie, principal and founder of Truckee’s SANDBOX Studio, has designed homes larger than this 6,870-square-foot Clear Creek Tahoe retreat. He has not, however, designed a great room bigger than the social hub of what the owners affectionately refer to as the “Grizzly on the Green.” The name references something the owner’s father told him,… Read more »
Tahoe Quarterly Mountain Home Awards 2024 — STORMING THE CASTLE
“This home will never be sold. Not in my lifetime.” That was the message a Truckee homeowner relayed to his project team of Mark Tanner Construction, interior designer Colette Fonseca of Altitude Design Co. and architect Ben DeBoe of DCB+. The statement was especially powerful for Tanner, who lives in the same neighborhood and was… Read more »
A GUEST RESIDENCE FIT FOR ROYALTY
UNLIKE A TYPICAL GUESTHOUSE, WHICH IS LOCATED OFF THE DRIVEWAY OR TO THE SIDE OF THE MAIN HOME, THIS ONE WAS BUILT RIGHT IN THE BACKYARD, PHOTO BY RYAN SALM Written by TQ Staff in Mountain Home Awards 2023, Mountain Homes In 2015, Truckee’s Mark Tanner Construction and SANDBOX Studio teamed up to build a… Read more »
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
A HEATED LAP POOL WAS EQUIPPED WITH TWO BOILERS TO MAINTAIN A YEAR-ROUND TEMPERATURE OF 84 DEGREES Written by Ann Johnson and Photographed by Paul Hamill, courtesy Martis Camp in Mountain Home Awards 2023, Mountain Homes AN OWNERSHIP CHANGE SHORTLY BEFORE A HOME’S COMPLETION REQUIRES A PROJECT TEAM TO ADJUST ON THE FLY As Greek… Read more »
A MODERN DESIGN FIT FOR A FAMILY
SHED ROOFS COMBINE WITH STAINED WOODS, STEEL, GLASS AND GRANITE IN THIS MOUNTAIN-MODERN MARTIS CAMP HOME A MODERN DESIGN FIT FOR A FAMILY Written by Tahoe Quarterly in Mountain Home Awards 2021, Mountain Homes | Photography by Vance Fox For those who make a living designing and building custom homes, client satisfaction is the most crucial measure of success on any… Read more »