Bridge House: Home Across A Stream
Cashiers, North Carolina – Platt Architecture You can’t cross that because that is not a bridge, but a cabin. A vacation house for the lovers of nature, this one is where you must stay if you want to sleep in the middle of the woods only with so much comfort. You can make yourself […]
Redmond House – Nils Finne
Redmond WA Â USA Â – Â Nils Finne Photography:Â Benjamin Benschneider Credit must always go to the tradesmen when you see quality work. But often that end result is the vision of the owners and the architects and/or designers on the project. Our experience is that architects usually have an ‘A’ list of trades that they like to […]
Shevlin Commons Meadow Modern
Portland, Oregon – Scott Gilbride/Architect Inc. Built area: 2,800 sf Completion Year: 2005 Photography: Simone Paddock Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-) If you liked this project, you will also like […]
Fishing Ranch
Crested Butte, Colorado – Coburn Development Built area:  2,100 square feet Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-) If you liked this project, you will also like viewing …
Bay Lake Cabin
Bay Lake, Minnesota – Albertsson Hansen Architecture, Ltd Year built:  1930’s Year renovated:   2013 Photography:  Scott Amundson It’s always a tough decision – demolish or rebuild. The plain truth is that it costs around twice the cost per square foot to renovate than it does to do a new build. But there […]
Life on a Grand Scale
Colorado USA Â – Â Pioneer Log Homes Area:Â 925 m2 Â (10,000 sq. ft.) You don’t have to be a fan of log homes to appreciate the amazing workmanship incorporated in this home. The home is massive at 10,000 sq ft but it has to be, given the scale of timbers used! Â Apparently, the owners’ prior home was […]
The Three Bears Guest Cabin
Idaho  USA  –  Daryl Sieker Architecture Built area:  998 sq. ft.  (92.4 m2) Building system:   Post and beam This petite guest cabin sits 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) above the snow line and overlooks nearby Cougar Gulch and snow-capped Mount Spokane. It’s name derives from the three bears foraging on the site the day the […]
Headwaters Camp
Big Sky South Central Montana  –  Dan Joseph Architect Site area:   22 acres  (8.9 hectares) Built Area:   1,800 sq. ft.  (167 m2) Year built:   2012 Builder:   Highline Partners Photography:   Audrey Hall Set on the edge in a series of man-made ponds, streams and falls designed by the lead […]
Suncadia – Custom built without the one-off price tag…
Washington State  USA  –  MTN Architects and PrecisionCraft Log and Timber Homes Built area:   2,675 sq. ft  (248 m2) Neither log cabin nor post and beam, this home is something of a hybrid construction. But it is definitely deserving of being here in this section of our site. Looking at this home it […]
A House Among and Within the Loblolly Pines
 Loblolly House – Kieran Timberlake Location: Taylors Island, Maryland, USA Built area:  2,200 sq ft  (204 m2) Named after the tall pines that characterize its site on the Chesapeake Bay, this home “seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form.” Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines […]