Upstate House

Hudson Valley luxury has always been defined by more than a particular architectural style. It is found in the relationship between a home and its landscape, in the region’s creative spirit, and in the freedom to live differently. At Stonecreek, those qualities take contemporary form in a residence that feels deeply connected to its wooded setting while reflecting how people want to live today.

Set on 8.3 wooded acres five minutes from the center of Woodstock, the newly completed residence presents a warm, highly considered vision of modern country living. The architecture settles quietly into the forest, opening through broad expanses of glass to a pool, terraces, specimen trees, and the protected woodland beyond. Inside, lime-plaster walls, white oak millwork, sculptural lighting, contemporary art, and richly tactile materials create rooms that feel layered and collected rather than newly installed, though no one has yet lived there.

This property is the first completed home in an enclave of nine bespoke residences planned across 146 acres. Stonecreek began with a simple belief: that what we leave untouched matters as much as what we build. Homesites range from approximately six to 22 acres, with 101 acres—nearly 70 percent of the original parcel—protected in perpetuity from development. The balance of privacy, conservation, and proximity to Woodstock is central to the project’s appeal.

So is the team behind it. Conservation-focused developer Melissa Meyer collaborated with Megan Oldenburger, principal of Dichotomy Interiors. Together, they paid as much attention to the things homebuyers don’t notice until they are missing as they did to the exceptional finishes. Compass agents Genevieve Geaney, of the Unlock Upstate Team, and Sheena Lepez, brought the house to market. From the masterplan to the final objects placed on the shelves, women led every stage of the project’s development, design, marketing, and sale.

“The luxury market is shifting toward homes that offer not only exceptional design, but also true ease of arrival,” says Sheena Lepez. “At Stonecreek, every piece of furniture, lighting, art, and every object has been custom curated for the space. The result is a home that feels highly considered and completely natural in its setting.”

 

A Complete Composition

At approximately 2,800 square feet, Stonecreek’s impact comes through proportion, material, and completeness. The four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house is offered turnkey, furnished down to its lighting, rugs, cookware, bedding, towels, window treatments, and outdoor furniture. A collection of work by New York and Hudson Valley artists, selected for the residence, is available separately.

That degree of completion reflects Oldenburger’s curatorial approach. Trained in painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute, she has long treated interiors as compositions in which architecture, furniture, art, and objects work together. At Stonecreek, the rooms contain the contrasts that have become hallmarks of her work: polished surfaces beside visibly grained wood, monumental forms softened by textiles, and contemporary lines grounded in earthy materials.

The great room provides the clearest expression of that sensibility. A 16-foot oak ceiling rises above French white oak floors and hand-troweled lime-plaster walls, with a suspended wood-burning fireplace serving as the room’s sculptural anchor. Expansive Weather Shield windows and oversized sliders admit southern light and pull the woods into the composition.

The kitchen occupies the social center of the open plan. A 12-foot island topped with Taj Mahal quartzite provides abundant gathering space, while the same stone continues across the backsplash and sculptural range hood. White oak cabinetry fabricated by Beacon-based Rexhill Studio adds warmth around a six-burner Wolf range and integrated wine refrigeration. A secondary butler’s kitchen, equipped with another refrigerator, sink, dishwasher, and speed oven, allows the main room to remain composed while the messier work of entertaining proceeds nearby.

The private spaces offer the same level of detail. The primary bathroom pairs a terrazzo soaking tub with bush-hammered limestone flooring and a view into the landscape. A nine-foot vanity, radiant stone floors, and an expansive fitted closet create a suite that feels generous. Elsewhere, Noisette Fleury marble, artisan wall coverings from Élitis France, bespoke vanities, custom drapery, and natural woodwork recur in different combinations, giving each room an identity while preserving continuity throughout the house.

The Luxury of Arrival

For Geaney, the finished quality of Stonecreek syncs with a change in what Hudson Valley buyers value. Many have already endured renovations and understand the work concealed behind a seamless room: finding the right tradespeople, negotiating lead times, resolving hundreds of decisions, and correcting the inevitable mistakes. They can distinguish a costly final project tally from a successful outcome and a well-designed space.

At this end of the market, convenience means more than smart-home technology or a short drive to town. It means arriving with a suitcase and finding that the house already knows how it wants to be lived in.

Stonecreek extends that readiness outdoors. More than 2,000 square feet of Italian porcelain-paved terraces surround an 18-by-35-foot heated gunite pool. Steel planters, architectural lighting, integrated irrigation, deer fencing, native landscaping, and restored stone walls organize the grounds without domesticating the forest. A wood-burning fire pit creates a second gathering place across the seasons.

The practical infrastructure has received equal attention. Recycled-material NewTechWood siding, seamless metal roofing and gutters, triple-pane windows, ducted heating and cooling, tankless water heaters with recirculated hot water, a whole-house generator, EV charging, and Wi-Fi-enabled Lutron lighting help make the property manageable as either a primary residence or a weekend retreat.

These features are substantial, though the house never reads as a catalog of upgrades. Its most persuasive luxury is the relationship among its parts: the way the oak ceiling echoes the surrounding trees, the way plaster takes on different character as daylight moves across it, and the way rooms open easily to the terrace and pool. Landscape, architecture, interiors, and art were conceived together, giving the property an identity that a new owner does not have to invent.

 

A New Regional Vernacular

Stonecreek’s contemporary form draws from a deeper regional inheritance: the generations of artists, makers, builders, and independent thinkers who came here to experiment. Its local character comes from the land and the work of area craftspeople.

That distinction matters as buyers develop a broader idea of what country life can look like. They still seek acreage and connection to nature, alongside good restaurants, galleries, music, and community. They want seclusion without surrendering access to the life that attracted them to Woodstock. Stonecreek delivers both: more than eight private acres within a vast, conserved landscape, with Tinker Street only minutes away.

The female-led collaboration gives the project another layer of significance. Women have always played major roles in real estate, interiors, and residential construction, although they have not consistently held authority across every stage of a luxury development. Here, their influence encompasses the land, the architecture, the lived experience of the rooms, and the way the property is presented to its eventual owner.

The result feels assured, personal, and distinctly of its moment. Stonecreek offers no reenactment of a pastoral past. It proposes a Hudson Valley home for the way people want to live now: connected to the landscape, surrounded by objects with character, close to culture, and designed to feel like home from the very first day.

 

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2 Stonecreek Road, Woodstock is listed at $3,650,000 by Unlockupstate.com.

Contact:

Sheena Lepez: (845) 616-2509; sheena.lepez@compass.com

Genevieve Geaney: (203) 247-3481; genevieve.geaney@compass.com

Architect: Brad B. Will, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Ashokan Architecture & Planning, PLLC