To call Keren and Pierre Craig’s upstate home a labor of love would be an understatement. The two spent roughly 10 years renovating, designing, and decorating the barn-turned-family-home, and it still isn’t finished. “I’m never like, ‘Oh, that room is done,'” muses Keren. “I’m always tweaking and moving things around, but I think that’s the fun of it.”
While the Marchesa co-founder lent her celebrated eye for design to the project (not to mention her impressive textile collection), Pierre served as lead architect. He opened up the barn and refurbished the bedrooms and bathrooms himself. “I’m lucky that my husband is handy,” she laughs. “He would come up here by himself and do a bathroom in a week.”
The two wanted an airy, open space with plenty of natural light, which required rearranging walls, painting the interior, and installing brand-new windows. “It’s been a slow process,” she admits. “But it’s such an awesome space. We just knew that once the windows and everything were installed, it was going to be an amazing home.”
Ten short years later, the transformation from rustic barn to cozy family home is complete. “When I look at old pictures, I’m like, ‘Wow, it’s really changed!'” she laughs. “But when do you do it gradually, you don’t really feel it. It’s not like builders came in and it was done three months later. It’s been years in the making.”
Below, step inside Keren and Pierre Craig’s eclectic upstate oasis, and learn how to re-create the look in your space.
