Steep, dramatic, and beautiful.

You might think that a new house on a ‘green field’ site would offer a lot of freedom but this is far from the truth! Before you have imagined a single window or can start to discuss the brief, the design has already been rough-hewn by fire hose lengths, swinging power lines, truck turning circles, craned septic tanks, convenient fire tanks, the sun, the wind, the trees, and prohibitive slopes…. but sometimes creativity comes easier in the face of limitations than it does in a vacuum of total freedom.