Inspire Notes:
This is Shokan House. It is one of those homes that you Instagram the sh*t out of it…right in front of the owner too! You just don’t care. It’s that good.
Shokan House spacious private residence is situated at the edge of the Ashokan reservoir, in New York.
The house stands at the edge of the Ashokan reservoir, just below the summit of a Catskill mountain, with views extending south across and beyond the reservoir
to the horizon. Oak, fir, spruce, and an occasional birch surround the house. Here you can expect hawks, turkey, fox, deer and bear to appear regularly.
A ½-mile gravel road curves around a grass-banked pond, leading to the long western elevation of the house and then extends, in an arc, around the southern elevation.
The 6000 square foot house enjoys amazing views across treetops to the reservoir, the distant mountains and the surrounding forest.
Steel, glass, concrete, ceramic and wood are left exposed and unadorned, raw relentless and handsome.
Designed by Jay Bargmann.
