The Story
The house sits in 2.22 acres of woods on Ohayo Mountain Road in Glenford, six minutes from Woodstock village, and its plan wraps three sides of a courtyard so that the main room, the primary suite and the two guest rooms each look onto it. Amin Tadj Studio designed it, on a lot that changed hands in August 2024, and the house was finished in 2026: thermally modified Finnish Lunawood outside, European triple-pane windows, and a standing-seam roof that folds up and down along the length of the house. Inside, polished concrete runs the length of the main room under exposed Glulam beams, with a Stûv wood-burning stove at the center of the living end.
It was built to approach Passive House standards, with a two-zone energy recovery ventilator and all-electric systems with the infrastructure in place for solar. In May 2026 the finished house opened for Sense of Place, an exhibition of work by more than twenty Hudson Valley artists and studios hung through the rooms and across the grounds, and Dwell, Interior Design and Architect each published it. Amin Tadj came to his own studio from SO-IL, where he was a senior associate, and before that from NADAAA in Boston. Ohayo Mountain Road climbs out of Woodstock village toward the Ashokan Reservoir; higher up it, Walter Weyl, a founding editor of The New Republic, kept an Arts and Crafts house in the 1910s, and Bob Dylan moved into that house in 1969.
The house
The main room runs from the kitchen to the stove under the beams, with sliding doors onto the courtyard deck, Reform cabinetry along the kitchen wall with the ovens set in, and a wall of vertical white fins screening the hall to the bedrooms. The primary suite has its own wing: a bedroom of about 27 by 16 feet floored in Belgian white oak, a dressing area, and a bath in Japanese tile with a freestanding tub under a square window into the trees, a solid oak vanity and heated floors. The two guest bedrooms share the far wing and a bath of their own, and the media room downstairs, about 26 by 15 feet, opens onto the lawn and can serve as a screening room, studio or office.
Outside, the land slopes through the woods to a small creek on the rear line. The pool is lined in stone inside a black fence, a fire pit sits in a gravel clearing beyond it, and stone paths run between the house, the courtyard, the pool and the trees. The Ashokan Reservoir and the rail trail are nearby, and New York City is under two hours by car.
