Project Credits

Project Owner: 

Steve Jensen

Design Team credits: 

Roy McMakin, Lead Designer Ian Butcher, Project Architect Design Team: Steve Brown, Tracy Langford, Melanie Heston, Matt Hornland

Consultant credits: 

Structural Engineer: Harriott Smith Valentine

Contractor credits: 

McIntyre Construction Services

Photographer credits: 

Mark Woods: Photographs 3,6,11,14 Jason Schmidt: Photographs 1,4-5,7-10,12-13

The challenge for this project was to create a setting and new home that respects a non-specific memory of visiting your grandmother’s farm, yet integrates the pragmatic needs of a contemporary house. Loosely based on a farm vernacular, the home is sited to take full advantage of the views of Puget Sound with a layout oriented towards the winter and summer solstices. The house has a rigorous layout of iconic double hung windows which are deliberately interrupted by the necessity of the planning, and the most modest programmatic elements are celebrated in immodest materials.

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