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"Dean Marchetto\nPushing the Eco-Friendly Envelope in the Design of his Family's Catskills Farmhouse\nOn his 128-acre property in upstate New York, architect Dean Marchetto rehabilitated an existing barn and added a separate, 10-room, 4,000-square-foot residence as a weekend house for himself and his family. The land had previously been a working dairy farm.\nOak is the predominant material in the living room, used on the floor and on the walls. The rough-cut stone fireplace is situated in a window wall, the grids of which echo a design feature of the barn. The Arts and Crafts\u00E2&#128;&#147;style furnishings are also oak. An oil landscape by local painter Christie Scheele hangs by the sofa. Marvin windows and doors.\nIn the high-ceilinged dining area, which adjoins the kitchen, a row of large casement windows opens the space to views of the landscape and to cooling breezes coming off the man-made lake beside the house. Marchetto continues the theme of Arts and Crafts juxtaposed with Modern. Suspended from above the dining table are a pair of Danish Modern-style pendant lamps.\nArchitect Dean Marchetto.\nThe master bedroom has unobstructed vistas of the Catskill Mountains. Marchetto's wife, Irene, also an architect, collaborated on the design, in the bedroom and throughout the home. Arts and Crafts-style furniture, Stickley.\nThe plan shows the footprint of the main residence in relation to the lake.\nInside the barn, Marchetto's newly added hemlock gridded window wall contrasts with the building's old timbers. Marvin windows.\nAdjoining the main house's kitchen is an expansive stone-paved outdoor room\u2014\"where we spend most of our time,\" says the architect.\n\"A new garden structure is located on the foundations of one of the old barns and provides a link, on axis, between the preserved barn and the house,\" says Marchetto. The L-shape plan of the new house establishes a courtyard, where the Marchettos planted nine trees in a grid as a wind barrier."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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