A house that wakes up the moment it snows.
The owners come for two weeks at Christmas, two weeks in February, and a week in March, each time with a different group. The brief was a house that holds twelve people for dinner and feels right when there are only two.
We made the central living room large enough to live in and small enough to feel found. A single sofa runs the length of the wood wall. The kitchen is a long bench with no upper cabinets. The dining table is a single piece of black walnut on an iron base.
Materials look like they came from the mountain. Reclaimed beam, soft plaster, blackened steel, sheepskin where the snow comes in. The bedrooms are small by intention, kept dark and warm, with reading lights that take the place of overhead lights.
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