The end result is a unique blend of castle and cottage that changes with the perspective. Facing the cold northeast is a solid stolid structure with gabled dormers, featuring the flawless dry stonework of a mason who has mastered his craft. Towards the sunny southwest, faces a two-story sunroom sided with cedar shakes, flanked with flagstone patios. The quarry from where the house was born sits to the north, soon to be filled with water and transformed into a mountaintop pond. Entering from the northeast the huge bluestone fireplace immediately commands attention as the centerpiece of the house.
Light shines in brightly, for the southwestern wall is mostly glass.
Walking around the hearth, one enters into the sunroom that frames an eye-popping vista extending from Skytop and the Shawangunk ridge to the surrounding peaks of the Catskills. A true sunroom, the two stories of glass allow for an unobstructed view of the sun's entire path across the sky. The fireplace, which represents over one year's effort, reasserts itself as the dominant feature of the house as the massive chimney soars up past open beams to meet the cathedral ceiling, seemingly supporting the entire structure around it. Halfway up the chimney are two inlaid slabs in the form of a giant mushroom. An open staircase climbs to an airy bedroom loft continuing the theme of spaciousness.