In 2006, Matt Bua was visiting Upstate New York when he decided to put down roots and buy property in the area.
Bua, owner and creator of b-Home Studio, found 13.4 acres in Catskill, New York and thought it would be perfect. “I’ve had a vision of a place where I can build small dwellings and sculptures that I could experiment with and not have to take apart,” Bua tells CNBC Make It.
As an artist living in New York City, Bua often worked on installations and collaborative building projects. When he bought that first parcel of land, he decided he would use salvaged materials, which were plentiful upstate, to construct buildings on this property.
“All this material has a past and has stories and history,” he says. “The psychic energy that’s imbued with things that people have used before that still have so much use was exciting for me.”…