Peter Aaron's Hudson Valley House The New York Times

Peter Aaron's Hudson Valley House
The New York Times

The New York Times shows us the Hudson Valley weekend home of architectural photographer Peter Aaron and his wife, Brooke Allen. The family recently completed a kitchen renovation in their 1858 Italianate house...

Peter Aaron is used to photographing over-the-top high end buildings and homes of the world's starchitects and clients, but he had to approach his own home design with a much more reasonable budget (though he admits it was difficult and he still spent too much!)

Check out the story and many more pictures from The New York Times: A Portraitist of Homes Remakes His Own and the audio slideshow.

(Images: Phil Mansfield for The New York Times)

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LOVE all the light coming in in the first picture. I want that in my kitchen.

posted by oceansaway on May 14th 2009 at 3:20pm
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Why do those people look so terribly unhappy?

posted by forked on May 14th 2009 at 3:31pm
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"Why do those people look so terribly unhappy?"

Perhaps their comments were deleted...

Toodles all.

posted by Anet500 on May 14th 2009 at 3:41pm
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The family pose was incredibly weird. Why is the daughter passed out?

I did love the door that the husband scraped off though.

posted by AliciaBDesigns on May 14th 2009 at 3:56pm
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Love the house, but is the "mother figure" in the fourth photo a mannequin?

posted by bether on May 14th 2009 at 6:28pm
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This family doesn't look near as excited about living in this great house as I would be. Life is unfair.

posted by baileyb on May 14th 2009 at 6:51pm
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its beautiful but its a good question why they look so angry/blase. i'd be excited to be featured in nytimes. add in that house lol.

posted by niche on May 14th 2009 at 8:33pm
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The kitchen rocks.

posted by beddybee on May 14th 2009 at 10:15pm
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i think the family picture was 'posed', you know, staged to create a an artistic look - look the old family portrait oil paintings by the masters. but yeah, unfortunate

posted by formosagirl on May 15th 2009 at 2:00pm
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