The Scenic Route

Trading Brooklyn for the Hudson Valley, Calico Wallpaper's Rachel and Nick Cope let creativity take root

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When visiting homes for sale in New York’s Hudson Valley, Rachel and Nick Cope, the married founders of the hit brand Calico Wallpaper, developed a code word to indicate, discreetly, that a house was the one—blueberry. It was the pandemic era and the then Brooklyn-based couple had set out to find their own slice of paradise, heeding the siren call of country living.

An off-market listing in the town of Ghent promised to be just the refuge they were seeking for their young family. “It checked every box,” recalls Rachel, citing the property’s generous acreage, environmentally conscious construction, pond, and proximity to a like-minded school for their son and daughter. Blueberry.