This final week of August, we’re revisiting summery tales from the archives, like this one:
Ray Pirkle is a full-time host in upstate New York: he co-owns Hudson’s Rivertown Lodge and the cabin colony Camptown in Leeds, each of which have made a number of Remodelista appearances. Along with his enterprise companion, Kim Bucci, Ray runs the boutique lodge group Ramshackle Properties and Ramshackle Studio, their artistic agency. The 2 will not be solely designers however exhaustive testers of every part that goes into their rooms.
As hoteliers, Ray and Kim suppose consistently about methods to consolation and delight their company. As enterprise folks, they think about the look and performance of each element, and likewise the wearability and worth. Some time again I talked to Ray at Rivertown about 9 Favourite Pure Supplies Designed to Take a Beating. At present, we’re resuming the dialogue at Camptown with a concentrate on summer time visitor quarters and the substances—from in-your-face to invisible—that make them great.
Images by Lawrence Braun (@lwrncbrn), except famous, courtesy of Camptown.
1. Standing-Seam Steel Roofs
The uniformity of the roofs enabled Ray and Kim to color their 26 cabins in a variety of coloration mixtures, no two precisely alike (they used Benjamin Moore exterior paints matched to Farrow & Ball-inspired shades). “We seemed on the grounds and flowers and put collectively coloration boards. We wished our selections to intensify the panorama.”
