A neglected house becomes a home in the Hudson Valley
Every week, our House Calls feature takes you into homes with great style, big personality, and ineffable soul. Today we visit the Clinton, New York, home of Nepal Asatthawasi and Chris Mottalini. Frustrated by the lack of homes in their price range in Brooklyn, they started looking farther afield. The house they found in the Hudson Valley wasn?t perfect, so they had to work to make it a fit for them. The learning curve was steep, but the potential rewards were great. Asatthawasi and Mottalini have long rented in Brooklyn, and they love it, but they also wanted a place of their own. Sky-high housing prices caused them to look beyond their back door. "I grew up in Buffalo and Hyde Park, and my dad lives in Hudson Valley, so Upstate New York wasn?t unfamiliar to me," says Mottalini.
Clockwise from top: Chris Mottalini removed an acoustic tile ceiling and painted the exposed joists white. The Spanish-style chairs and blue bench are from Scott Tumblety, who has a workshop nearby; Nepal Asatthawasi sits with Mottlalini and Burger, their dog, in front of the house; the exterior door retains the buttery color it's had since the 1970s.
But it was Asatthawasi, a native of Bangkok, who discovered the old house that would become their new home. She became a passionate seeker of properties online, and one day she found something she thought might work: A stone house tucked into a wooded lot about an hour and a half fro...
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