59 Greencrest Road, Goshen, NY 10924

Two acres of tall trees, and you will walk every bit of it before you ever go inside. The house sits well back from the road with grass spreading out on all sides, mown clean right up to where the woods begin. Wind moves through the treetops, leaves drift down around you, and the air smells like a fresh cut lawn. By the time you reach the front step you have picked your spot under the big tree out back. Step inside and it is ready for you, bright and freshly finished from the front door to the last bedroom. The living room is where the evenings end up. A wide brick fireplace, painted charcoal, fills one wall, and once the fire is crackling nobody is in a hurry to get up. Another log goes on, somebody pulls a blanket over, and the talk runs later than anyone planned. Mornings move to the kitchen, where the table sits by a window full of leaves. The surprise starts at the staircase off the living room, which climbs to an unfinished second floor, one open stretch of 20 by 29 feet and a...