Casa Trigono, a black-shingled A-frame house in the woods of Highland Lakes, New Jersey
Highland Lakes · New Jersey

A 1970s A-frame,
reborn.

Casa Trigono is a black triangle in the trees — raised by hand half a century ago, rebuilt top to bottom in 2025, and now extremely good at weekends.

41.18° N · 74.45° W
  • 3 Bedrooms
  • 2 Baths
  • Sleeps 8
  • 1,850 sq ft
  • Built 1970s
  • Reborn 2025
01The House

One big triangle.
Zero boring rooms.

Cathedral cedar ceilings, a wall of glass looking into the trees, a mezzanine bedroom floating under the peak, and a yellow front door you can spot from the driveway. The whole house is the architecture.

Living · the great room
Outside · the yellow door
02Then & Now

Somebody raised
this frame by hand.

We have the photographs to prove it. Sometime in the 1970s a crew walked into these woods, stood a set of beams against the sky, and left behind a house shaped like a mountain. Fifty years later, we gave it a second life.

The first frame goes up · c. 1970s
The skeleton · c. 1970s
Glass in · c. 1970s
Winter, on film
The same house · 2025
03Staying Here
Kitchen · morning light
Main bath · the fancy one

Made for slow
mornings.

A full kitchen with an island worth lingering at, a marble bath with a soaking tub and a heated hammam, decks on two levels, and a firepit for the after-hours shift. Everything has instructions — and the instructions have jokes.

04The Area

A lake town
hiding in plain sight.

Highland Lakes is a private lake community in the highlands of northern New Jersey — beaches, clubhouse, tennis, and water quiet enough to hear a paddle. About an hour from the George Washington Bridge, and a different century once you arrive.

Highland Lakes from above
Nightly · Monthly · Say hi

Come stay
in the triangle.