DOVECOTE'S STORY

Welcome to Dovecote Home, a highly curated home décor and furnishings line, styled for your inspired home. I’m Karen, the owner, and I’m so glad you’re here. 

Catering to home enthusiasts, designers and tastemakers or anyone who values artistry at home, Dovecote’s products are carefully chosen and innovatively styled against the backdrop of an ongoing 12 year long renovation, restoration and reimagination of my historic estate home in Saratoga Springs, NY. Dovecote Home also provides renovation consulting, design and styling services both online and in person, with a focus on reimagining your spaces, whether it be for your own enjoyment, to prepare your home for resale or to guide you through a new build or renovation from a design perspective.

On this site you will find beautiful tabletops, statement decor, sumptuous textiles and signature furnishings. Our offerings are carefully chosen to be uniquely fresh, beautiful, layered and interesting, but they must also be instantly satisfying. We focus on pieces that are impactful and “so worth it” emphasizing easy care, easy to live with options that elevate our spaces quickly and effortlessly. Then we mix in artisan and vintage finds to create visual storytelling. It is that mix that imparts a timeless, classic design that is fresh yet uniquely yours…artistry at home. 

A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME …

I am Karen Lazar Travis, owner of Dovecote Home. I hope to inspire you to create artistry in your own spaces that make you feel welcomed, peaceful and joyful as you relish the “views” within your own home. 

With a love of artful design, exquisite compositions and reimagined classic style, it is my passion to create stunning views within the home that resonate with my affinity for fresh classic style. 

I graduated from Cornell University with a BS and MBA and began my career as a business strategist in the retail industry but my love of design, styling and interiors never faded and my interests migrated toward entrepreneurship, where I built a following as an interior design consultant. Taking on local commercial and residential renovation projects, armed with an intense passion and unyielding intellectual curiosity for interiors, colors and trends, I continued to build my expertise in styling and renovation. I crave the design, the knowledge, product research, “the whys” and the “how tos” behind renovation and styling. I am so grateful to now bring that expertise and vision to Dovecote Home.

Artistry at Home

I hope that Dovecote’s signature styling presented against the backdrop of our historic home, energizes you to create spaces you can’t wait to come home to. Like birds anxious to return to their dovecotes!