Carriage House
In 2023, the innkeepers finally launched their last major capital improvement: a new carriage house behind the inn. In the late winter of 2022, demolition began on the long failing, flat-roofed garage dating from 1946. In 2023, tradesmen toiled for months on its replacement, erecting a new, two-story carriage house on the same footprint that would befit the 19th century architectural style and ornamentation of the 1870 house. The new loft would repurpose old functionalities, once devoted to horses and carriages, and realign interior spaces for contemporary hospitality services. The ground floor of the new structure now replicates the storage space of the old garage, housing vehicles, tools, gardening equipment, and a new half-bath.
On the second floor, a new loft or commons offers one big, light-filled open space. Its soaring ceilings and expansive windows open to the natural world of our beautiful Hudson Valley, affording scenic perspectives over our Asian stroll garden below, as well as the Hudson River and Taconic Mountains in the distance. B&B guests are now served an afternoon refreshment around the big natural-edge wooden table, and the spacious environment can also accommodate small meetings or groups of friends traveling together. Furnished simply, the room invites contemplation with its pure white walls, the natural-edge maple table, blond wood and reed seating, simple paper folding screens, and Japanese-style lanterns. An unrolled scroll, specially designed in traditional Japanese calligraphy for this space, invokes the haiku tradition of highlighting the four seasons, as various motifs of winter, spring, summer and fall, invoking inside just what is happening in the Asian stroll garden beyond. In the far corners behind the screens, the common space carves out a special niche for gym exercises and yoga.
