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With the Country Living magazine coming out and the increased web traffic that is sure to follow, I thought I'd give a shout out to a furniture maker whose creations decorate many a Catskill Farms home - you might live too far away for us to build you a home, but you can always furnish yours with something a little easier to ship than one of our homes.

He's got a good story of dropping out of the corporate law partner track, selling his Tribeca loft, convincing his wife he should buy an old church and become an inn keeper (positioning that agreeably attests to the his lawyer talents he left behind).  We built their house back a few years ago and then helped out with the lovingly restored Schoolhouse project.

Their home.

Bronson Bigelow's furniture: http://hillsideschoolhouse.com/shop/

Handsome guy, though I think he needs some tattoo ink on his forearms or something.

His furniture centers around creative reuses and repurposing of familiar pieces.

Factory cart coffee table above -

Repurposed metal ice box below -

Display case.

Red Stripe Side table.

Schoolhouse Beam Coffee Table.

So while the Portugal banks were collapsing (so 2011) we had a fine time in Lisbon, Porto, and then the hot dry wine country of the Douro Valley.

Wisdom duly imparted to young Lucas.

Part of our "Homeless Child" series we started in DC.

Pano of the Casa de Levada area, which entailed a 25 km james bond like hair pin mountain side road route.

Part of our "Shadow Series".

Part of the reason of my visit was to take some drawing classes being offered by Dale Emmert of NYC/Honesdale/DVAA.  She did a little 2 week long artist colony type of thing on top of hill in a very ancient town of subsistence one cow farmers.

Like I tell Lucas, "mess with the bull…"

The Aquapura Doura Valley hotel estate.

The Last Dinner.

Lucas says his quiet adieu on the elevator ride down up to check out.

And nothing smoothes the reentry back to the crazed world of self-employment like a good first class British Airways cabin,

and a post sea bass meal of white chocolate croissant pudding, fresh fruit, a 2004 Chateau Haut-Bergey, and of course some Mozart and some neglected email catchup.

The Country Living House of the Year issue is out.  Heard it's good looking.  More on that next.

Move in 30 days or less (but first a photo from the Douro Valley, Portugal - ancient wine and port country).

Porto.

Train ride.

7:30am Saturday.

Interesting door knokkers.