In the mid 1970s, my wife and I had friends and family in Bedford, New York, and wanted to buy property and build a house. The house was designed for the wooded site with tall trees and existing stone walls which helped determine the building location.
The two-and-a-half story modified saltbox offered a variety of spaces, designed for specific purposes and special for each child’s room. It is an eclectic house in many ways, but as a family, and it responds to our needs.
It was fun to plan and build, and we named it after J. R. R. Tolkien’s “elfin refuge of Middle Earth”
Some ten years later, we added a long envisioned addition that expanded the footprint, adding a master suite and office and guest room at the ground level, blended a new wing into the existing structure
