My favorite issue of Tahoe Quarterly is now on shelves! I love the architecture issue. In late 2024, I toured some of the homes with the TQ judging panel. We started at Clear Creek Tahoe, took a hiatus for lunch at the Tunnel Creek Café, then visited a gorgeous lakeshore remodel.
I wrote about all three houses I toured—plus an ultramodern home on Donner Summit—for this issue. All four were incredible houses: I loved the minimalistic, Scandinavian style of the Donner Summit home and the pops of color and homage to the founder of supergraphics, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, in the West Shore remodel (and the stunning views of Lake Tahoe weren’t bad either!).
The Clear Creek homes were both designed by Ryan Marsden. Both gorgeous, yet very different. The first we toured was this timeless, classic home… with an unbelievable game room attached. SO fun and elevated it from just another beautiful home to something really fun and unique that worked for the entire family.
The second home we toured was unbelievable—I’ve never seen such extensive panes of glass. Like, it was totally see-through. While it did not win the Outstanding award, it was the magazine cover photo. The owners are fascinating also, I had such a nice time chatting with them! I’ll try to upload stories to my website at some point, but in the meantime, if you’d like to read the stories, links to the Tahoe Quarterly website below:
Alison O. Bender 