Gimme Shelter, Real Estate, Rhinebeck + Red Hook NY

The Spruce: Quintessential Country meets Upstate Modern

December 31, 2021

Ready to be built, the SPRUCE is a quintessential country property ideal for full-time luxury living or as an exquisite weekend getaway. Ready to make a move to a larger property? Love the idea of living minutes from Rhinebeck and Red Hook villages? Or maybe you just haven’t found your dream home and want input on the final build? Take a look at Inside+Out’s featured property – The SPRUCE.

The Land

The Spruce is sited on six private, primarily wooded acres accessible from a quiet country road and surrounding rural farm landscapes. The property inspires interiors with luxurious modern simplicity. You also have the option to acquire the adjacent 6-acre parcel to double your land and extend your privacy.

The Home: Invite the Outdoors In

Feast your eyes on Spruce, a luxury home designed by Upstate Modernist, with soaring ceilings and tall windows throughout. The architecture comprises a singular, distinctive exterior form with a dramatic shed roof. Entering the residence, the central courtyard clad in glazing offers a unique and immediate reconnection with nature. You can’t help but fall in love with the distinctive mature growth Spruce trees, which tower up from the earth, punching through the landscape.

The interior design features luxury materials including oak hardwood floors, limewash wall accents, designer finishes, Danish cabinetry, Bosch appliances and high-efficiency HVAC. Living spaces on the lower level are open plan and share views into the courtyard.

The dramatically glazed great room, with landscape views, exits onto the covered outdoor porch. The porch can be optionally enclosed with automated screens – the perfect spot for lazy afternoon lounging. A spacious mudroom and office/den round out the lower level.

Continuing onto the upper level are two guest bedrooms with a shared bath. The spacious primary bedroom suite boasts a freestanding bathtub, shower, two private vanities and WC, all on radiant heated flooring.

The Grounds

Exterior living spaces offer options for upgrade, including an outdoor kitchen, pool, patio, greenhouse and gardens to customize to your specific interests. Private water well, septic, underground utilities and driveway are all included.

About Upstate Modernist

Blending a distinctly modernist aesthetic with natural materials, warm textures and traditional forms, the Upstate Modernist collection of homes by S3 Architecture offers a re-imagined modern lifestyle. Each property starts with a preservation-focused plan to maintain natural spaces and sightlines. Every home is unique and site-specific, designed to respond to the natural characteristics of the land on which it sits and built with sustainable and efficient building techniques. The company is based out of Rhinebeck New York. View more homes HERE.