In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a couple trades in city life for an 1800s farmhouse Print designer Renee Shortell and mixed media artist EJ Herczyk had lived in Philadelphia for 18 years, but by 2015 were itching to move to the country. In addition to their hope for privacy, quiet, and a freestanding house, both Shortell?s and Herczyk?s work requires large-format printers that need lots of breathing room.
?We wanted that live-work space, but out in the middle of nowhere, in between [New York and Philadelphia],? says Herczyk.
The couple had been casually looking for nearly two years when inspiration struck. After they installed a show of Herczyk?s work in New York?s Hudson Valley in January 2017, a snap snowstorm forced them off their regular route back to Philadelphia. The exit they chose took them across the Delaware River into Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the rural area?s natural beauty struck them so much that when they got home, they immediately started looking for something in that area, even though it was farther north than they had initially been considering.
The exterior of Renee Shortell and EJ Herczyk?s home in Buck?s County, Pennsylvania. A former owner?John Graham, design director at NBC in the ?60s?moved the front door to the side of the home in his renovation. The addition is painted in Benjamin Moore Black Beauty and the windows and doors in Benjamin Moore Onyx.

All of the interior surfaces, including the ceilin...