About
Why We Exist
We believe in the dream of a better life by living in an environment that enriches you and your loved ones actual well being by making you feel happier, healthier, feel more joy, and allows you to be a part of the greater good.
We develop a branded home experience that give our customer a deep connection with their natural surroundings and interiors by experiences them in a more personal way, understanding that all living and non-living things are connected. We provide our customers that beauty of this harmony by giving them a larger and more inclusive way to experience life.
We take all the challenges and mystery away so that our customers can realize their dream, maximizing the positive and excitement of the development experience versus trying to understand all the complexity involved, we shield our customers from these interactions by managing it for them, with a team of the best and brightest.
We enrich our customers life through rich storytelling about where and how they experience thier home by picking home sites with robust history and deep connections to community and interiors that reflect those values through unique and carefully sourced building and salvaged materials including furnishing that only have a sustainable impact on our planet. We employ local craftsman with a heritage, a folklore of their own that naturally cascades their stories to future generations.
We enrich our customers life by giving them a strong tie to the environment. We do this by giving back to local and community causes while building homes that embrace it, we are it. We are committed to building purpose for our costumers by developing only environmentally friendly homes and home furnishings.
Each of our business models begins with direct to customers storytelling that is believable and authentic, we are committed to products and materials that reflect our brand ethos, custom content for each home is created individually personal helping maximizing that unique and premium position of our brand in the market regardless the conditions.
How it Works
While we have multiple business models,one is preferable
Knowing that the physical site is such a crucial part of the process, the exposure of light, surroundings, environment , history. What might fly above , wonder by or sing to you, the miracles of nature play such a vital role in enriching your personal sanctuarie, your wellbeing.
With this in mind, with few exceptions we own the land or perhaps a house that may have lost its way and needs to rediscover its soul.
Knowing that typically the best lots may typically have a home on them already doesn’t mean they don’t need to be rescued. Just understand our ethos is not about price it’s about a way of living, so securing a property might be a premium. We are assuming price is not the first factor for our clients either, important yes just not more important than living your best life with joy and happiness.
A construction loan is secured by the builder,investor or future owner to build the home , typically we give ourselves 2 years.
Our team takes all of the mystery and mistakes out of what can be a daunting and almost always a disjointed process by aligning ourselves from day one.
The result is a home, a sanctuarie that is focused on our 6 core beliefs.
A sense of place
Respect for the environment- rewild
Sustainably
Handcrafted interiors
Spiritually
Meadows
Where We Are Located
We are mainly located in Northern Westchester, NY.
North Salem: North Salem has done well to preserve the rural atmosphere that make it a beautiful, peaceful place to call home. Residents are content to leave its borders for their commercial needs, preferring to maintain the precious open space.
North Salem has an abundance of rolling hills, open fields and farmland. Many large estates provide tremendous horseback terrain. Old Salem Farm is one of the most celebrated horse farms in the country, hosting many national competitions. It's also home to some of the top trainers and riders in the world
Bedford: Antique stone walls weave through this spirited, old-fashioned town, which boasts over 130 miles of equestrian trails. Bedford's Village Green, which dates to 1680, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
It takes about an hour to get from Bedford to Grand Central via Metro-North
Pound Ridge: With a proud architectural history and a commitment to preserving open spaces, Pound Ridge is an ideal destination for those seeking a serene retreat by the countryside.
From stone walls alongside winding country roads to beautiful roaming hills, nature lovers need not ask for more.
The Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, which spans 4700 acres, is the largest park in Westchester county. It includes nearly 42 miles of hiking trails.
About Me
How I got here…
I think for me it may have began with my youth, I spent my younger years in Northern California, meandering the beaches of Half Moon Bay and Pescadero, exploring the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains and spent summers at Lake Tahoe’s lesser-known friend, Fallen Leaf Lake. This exploration fueled a miraculous discovery that my young mind absorbed seeing the miracles around me was, for me, something to behold.
School was never my first source of inspiration. My education seemed best understood with all the beauty and magic that a young mind could soak up when I was with nature and outdoors.
That experience, my appreciation of the outdoors, continued during college at the University of Utah. Not exactly an Ivy school school that was a family legacy but it suited me well and I settled in comfortably. When I wasn’t curiously mischievous and found myself away from the classroom, I flourished in the awe of nature’s classroom, surrounded by Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons and marvels of Southern Utah.
After college, I worked for Ralph Lauren. That job turned out to be my one and only job. That 38-year journey took me from California to the intensity, unfamiliarity, and excitement of New York City in the 90’s, to Europe and Asia.
I was intoxicated by Ralph and the brand and it drew me in like a magnet. I climbed the ranks from stock boy to President and Chief Merchandising Officer. Ralph was a serious source of creative inspiration, I was captivated by his vision and taste but mostly by his audacity and sense that if you believed in something and never gave up, well you could do anything. I loved my job and for someone who never really cared about the money and had wrestled with a learning disability in my youth, I found myself surprisingly successful, I mean really successful. I had the ability to sit on a tightrope at the confluence of creativity and commerce. I was able to exploit that energy, navigating the complexity of one of the world’s most successful and admired lifestyle brands. Helping develop the stable of brands with an unbelievable team of like-minded cohorts was a dream job.
So when my health began to come into question from the stress of it all I bailed and left the only jobs I had ever known. It was devastating, having to leave. I had everything I was taught that counts in life. An amazing career, lots of money, the beach club with an 8,000 square foot house on Long Island Sound to match. I was blessed with two twin daughters, my wife and friends all seemed to fit what we used as a mantra at Ralph Lauren “the dream of a better life”. I had made the dream come true, I think by willing it. Believing all of it would of course be the source of happiness. I was sure I had ticked every box or more importantly I was sure everyone else knew I had.
So is there a point to the story, what did I learn?
I learned that Joy, more than even happiness can’t be bought or sold only revealed. No amount of success or so-called visible achievement can be realized by others externally it can only shine from within, not judged or measured from outside oneself.
For me, the revelation was that being within nature, as I relearned that path was a way through for me. I was lucky as I had help in healing. I had built a house in Northern Westchester that celebrated and was part of nature. The house supported me, a vessel it wrapped itself around me like a warm blanket, and I could feel its breath with my own. Living in the present moment versus anticipation of what might happen and regret and longing for what had happened contributed to finding that breath.
It’s fair to be skeptical until it actually happens to you personally.
The horse farms of Bedford, rambling through Pound Ridge Reservation, the change of seasons it all felt right, this little corner of New York. Northern Westchester or the Lower Hudson Valley, as I think it was referred to, the charming hamlets and towns, it reminded me who I was.
I had come all the way back, full circle to what I had always known. Natures tonic with a home and surrounding meadow that is part of our environment not merely a view of it, well for me there just isn’t any other way than to blend in and heal than to create a sanctuarie where one lives in total Joy. I say this with the desire to create this kind of experience for others, a true gift realized.
Join us, genuinely David.