We are in the Hudson Valley, upstate New York. Between tall trees and rolling hills sits a converted barn, the home of Rachel and Nick Cope, founders of Calico Wallpaper. With a worn, wooden facade, large windows, and an extension with a grass-covered roof, the house is surrounded by a landscape that blurs the boundaries between forest and garden, interior and landscape. This is also what made the couple fall for the modern home in the first place.
"We were drawn to the quiet immediacy of the landscape, the way the house sits within it rather than apart from it," the Copes say, who lived in New York for many years but were seeking more space, physically as well as creatively. "It felt like a place where we could slow down and really pay attention to light, to weather, and to each other," they add.
