The Trasattis – On Repeat
The Trasatti family grew up with Brooks Post & Beam. Literally. Back in the early 1980s, one of Phil and Kathy’s friends had a Brooks home built in Temple, N.H., and the Trasattis loved it. In 1984, the couple decided to commission Phil Brooks to build their own home in Brookline, N.H. “We wanted an
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The Robins Harrisville
When David and Jean Robins first met, one thing they found they had in common was that they each hoped to build their own home one day. “We both had this dream of building a little house in the woods,” Jean recalled. That was about 45 years and more than 1,000 miles ago – they
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Ruth’s Temple
Nothing about Ruth’s new home in Greenfield, NH, is accidental. Not the deeply green, pastoral landscape, which she created over 6 years of tractor time from acres of brambles and saplings. Nor the New England stone walls, built not two centuries ago but added incrementally, as the budget allows, by a local hardscaper. And definitely
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The Kokal Family
God and family. That’s what the Kokals are really about. Well, and horses. They are seriously into horses. Education’s huge, too. And then there’s their home. And though the Kokals were still able to feed all their passions when they lived in a camper tent on a chaotic building site, it is in that Greenfield,
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