Family Ties

Covid was a factor, Paul Bertelli, principal designer at JLF Architects tells Homestead magazine’s Summer 2024 issue, in people “thinking in more depth about changing their lifestyle and raising and gathering their families in places that are less encumbered with all the world’s noise. They come to us looking to build homes where multiple generations can converge.” Jackson Hole makes sense for such a gathering place because it has so many amenities and experiences that there will be something everyone will love, the magazine writes in “Family Ties” about the trend toward families building legacy homes that will evolve as the family grows and changes. To right-size a house to accommodate family visits and entertaining, JLF often shrinks the bedroom sizes and increases the size and function of public areas, Bertelli says, as they did with the True North home featured in the article: “We do game rooms, libraries, movie rooms, exercise rooms, wine cellars, and the occasional billiard room,” he tells the magazine.