Status: Completed Fall 2000.

This house is featured in "The House Transformed" (pp 64-75) a new book by Matthew Schoenherr (Taunton Press, 2005) House Transformed

The house was also featured as the cover story for the October '05 Inspired House Magazine "7 essentials to transform your home" Inspired House

This simple, classic 1840's farmhouse, which overlooks the Connecticut River Valley and the mountains of New Hampshire, was bought as a summer home by Principal Pi Smith's grandfather in the 1940's.

The house was extensively renovated in 2000. The design retained the forms and materials of the original vernacular while integrating themes and ideas from Pi's modernist upbringing and training as an architect. The exterior of the house remained as close as possible to the farmhouse of Pi's childhood, albeit with many more windows. The focus for the interior was to create a wam, colorful, and playful environment to enrich family life during the long Vermont winters. Downstairs the palette is earthy - ochre, terracotta, and pale green tinted plaster with cherry floors and original rough-hewn beams. Upstairs the ceilings were lifted to the peaks and the colors, inspired by a Charles Rennie Mackintosh design, are the airy blues, greens, and whites of the sky and summer trees.

General Contractor: Chip Odell Thetford, Vermont. Interiors: DPF Design, White River Junction, Vermont.