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TREE FAMILY by ALEXANDRA SOBCZAK photos by TIM WILKES and LAUREN WOODS An 1895 New York barn is transformed into a modern Hudson home.

I t took Jen and Phil Lopez missing out on the house they wanted to conceptualize their dream house.

Restorations, which restores timber frame build ings from the 18th and 19th centuries, and eventually decided to incorporate a barn frame into a new build. The 1895 barn, originally from Schenectady, New York, was brought, disas sembled, on a flatbed truck from Texas to the approxi mately 3.5-acre lot Jen and Phil had bought in Hudson. It was a long time com ing. Both Jen and Phil had grown up in historic homes from 1910 and 1820, respectively. “I missed the character of an older

home,” Jen says. “But [Phil] was not excited about buying something historic, because he knew how much work they are and the upkeep.” The barn frame in a freshly constructed house was a perfect fit, a way to blend old and new. The home’s exterior has a brand-new look with white James Hardie concrete siding, a metal roof and a sleek white paver patio, but inside, the olden beams that frame the four-bed room, 4 1/2-bath house stand out in every room.

“We found a home … that was an old barn conversion that we fell in love with,” Phil says. “It was already sold. And that kind of got Jen’s ideas going.” Jen, the owner of Jen Lopez Design, teamed up with Phil’s brother, Chris, who is an architect, and they began searching for other options. They looked into Texas-based Heritage

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