https://www.tomkuniholmarchitects.com/houses-nature daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1567183524027-6DG741PJ2U5VOS27QOBD/01_crystal+springs.PNG HOUSES IN NATURE - CRYSTAL SPRINGS COTTAGE The plan was to create a modern beach house with inspiration from Japan and the Pacific Northwest. The site is located on the edge of the Puget Sound in Washington State. This "tea house" is a completely re-imagined addition and remodel to a 1930’s cottage. The solution involved the addition of a new master bedroom pavilion perched to catch the view. This new wing and the existing great room with its large glass sliding door enclose a new courtyard for outdoor entertaining. The interiors are composed of clean white walls accented with rustic wood framing and the owners' extensive art collection. Bainbridge Island, Washington - 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1573249868484-LHO4Z2LMHGCGFZJCD2O6/Mazama+Drone+shot.jpg HOUSES IN NATURE - Methow River Homestead Nestled along the river in Mazama, WA, is this get-away for family skiing and summer fun. The design is intended to recall the farms and homesteads in the valley. The plan is designed to be flexible for large or small groups and the structure is raised on posts above the flood plain. Mazama, Washington - 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1573422828161-TZPDJYV1IW7UBA0B7WRN/154.jpg HOUSES IN NATURE - Domaine Margelle Vineyard This home is located on 160-acres in Oregon's Willamette Valley and serves as a private house and wine tasting event location. In order to mesh the design of the home with the wine vineyard and rolling landscape of Oregon, this large house was designed and detailed to recall the traditional French homes found in the Dordogne region of France. It includes yellow limestone from Utah, slate roofs, stucco walls, and decorative ironwork. This home contains four bedrooms and six bathrooms and functions as a comfortable family home as well as a more public locale for wine tastings and gatherings. Willamette Valley, Oregon - 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1573421527772-C7XZM9VL4I7RK9TBPEYO/101a.JPG HOUSES IN NATURE - House at Shelter Bay This solitary house is perched on its wooded site like an eagles nest, and grouted in to a steep rock face above a cove north of Seattle, at La Conner, WA. The lofty location affords it views out to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands. The curved façade reflects the small area of level ground area to build on. It was built as a retirement house and constructed largely by the owner, a skilled wood worker who built the curved stair and used salvaged driftwood log poles or the roof support. La Conner, Washington - 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1575662262054-2TYM6H6XYMD00QK4RDYB/portrait_2b.png HOUSES IN NATURE - Bainbridge Island Beach House This house for an art collecting couple is located on a narrow 50’ wide site that leads to a low bank sandy beach. The two story plan is extended like a French baguette, and then sliced on angles to create a few strategically placed gaps in along the way, creating light-filled courtyard gardens. The length of the house makes for a large amount of gallery-like wall space for a substantial collection of paintings and Northwest glass art. The natural palette is made up of vertical tongue and groove cedar siding, galvanized steel, grey stonework, and a grey metal roof. A large sliding pocket door opens the interior great room out to a large deck, a foreground of shore grass, and the beach beyond. The master suite is set above with a steel balcony looking out to the water. Bainbridge Island, Washington - 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1571184422483-BO8TG2UORUYBGRRTEN4R/Hansonex1.JPG HOUSES IN NATURE - Rich Pass Residence This spacious family house is located in a forested setting on the shores of Puget Sound. Natural materials and a reverence for the site were major design concerns. The design program for this waterfront house for an active family of four was centered around classic northwest themes including access and control of natural light, water and mountain views, and a setting of tall cedars and firs. We set out to create a house that expressed the ethos of the arts and crafts movement, but in a clearly contemporary way, using materials of our time. The design also blends kindred influences from the understated, wood-based modernism of Scandinavia. Privacy was important because neighboring houses are quite close on either side. The plan follows the contours of the site. High quality windows and deep overhangs are a response to the strong southwest windstorms and harsh afternoon sunlight. The owners encouraged a mindful use of materials throughout the space, including recycled fir columns and beams with steel connections, natural woods, wood windows, and hand troweled concrete finish on floors and countertops. Low V.O.C. paints, finishes, and exterior stains were used. Weathered cascade granite and bluestone were used to set off the structure, which is comprised entirely of wood products. Bainbridge Island, Washington - 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/dde24738-4651-47d8-bc74-7eea9502a189/hidden+cove_03a.jpg HOUSES IN NATURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/33ac6319-1bf4-420a-97b0-bc06686d9585/IMG_611601.jpg HOUSES IN NATURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1573241543319-O97W3N9DKLR34U07F93Y/portrait_1.png HOUSES IN NATURE - Hood Canal Retreat This is a modern rustic retreat perched above the Hood Canal near Seattle, and sited to look out at the Olympic Mountain range to the northwest. The design is centered around the idea of a great room with a collage of windows facing out to a deck, terrace, and fire pit to enjoy the view. The metal roof is a simple shed form sweeping upward from the kitchen area to a double height living area with a loft above. Union, Washington - 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1575158173972-Y9XSA1GDQ4PSTIQWDWGX/portrait_1a.png HOUSES IN NATURE - Sooke Harbor Family Retreat A timeless waterfront retreat on the rocky shores of Vancouver Island overlooking the Pacific ocean. The low maintenance exterior of the house features highly crafted stone masonry quarried locally, grey rain-screen siding panels, a green metal roof, and natural finished wood elements. Interiors expand on the clean natural pallet of materials and incorporate clear Douglas fir trim, a green tinted granite and crisp white painted wainscoting. Deep overhangs shelter the house from wind and rain. The gutters collect and direct all rainfall off the roofs to underground cisterns. Vancouver Island, British Columbia - 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/a9dea4da-020a-4e6a-9a91-165df56fcb4a/carlson+Lavender+Lane.jpg HOUSES IN NATURE https://www.tomkuniholmarchitects.com/houses-in-town-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1574880826580-NT4TO4PDHG6QRP6C9Z4N/full_2.png HOUSES IN TOWN - Mid-Century Addition on Phinney Ridge An expansion to a 1950’s brick rambler house in Seattle creates an airy great room with an open kitchen and dining area. This addition was made to open and make room for a more relaxed family living environment. A glassy nanawall door opens up to the sunny south facing backyard. A cozy built in window seat has space below for books. Seattle, Washington - 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1573526387931-K7W4V99U9SRFL5PTFTPL/crows+nest_03a.JPG HOUSES IN TOWN - Crows Nest Cottage In this project we re-imagined the view from an ordinary house located on a sunny waterfront site on a peaceful cove. This new shingled beach cottage lifts the roof off the rambler house to let the view and light in, creating an airy bedroom, and a new "crows nest" above. The project uses traditional coastal materials and large new windows. Kingston, Washington - 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1574877658507-ZD0PFWGRX9SQUEVMWAGT/title%2Bimage.jpg HOUSES IN TOWN - Stone House on Lake Washington This project sits above Lake Washington on a low bank waterfront site at the end of a winding hillside drive. The house faces a sunken auto court at the front and the lake to the southwest, and has a panoramic view out to Mercer Island, Seattle, and the Olympic peaks beyond. From the beginning, the owners’ wanted to give the house a feeling of old world quality with European roots. The tall stone gables, chimneys and terraces recall grand residential architecture of the British Isles and coastal Normandy. At the same time, the house was to built to provide for informal family life and relaxed entertaining, inside and out. At the lakeshore, a large portion of the existing rockery was removed to create a gravel beach cove to allow for Salmon spawning and native plant growth, as well as better access to the water. Bellevue, Washington - 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1639424913385-OSSUHWEOY4T76AKY5E31/image-asset.jpeg HOUSES IN TOWN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1661817236436-KDIXIMV0S2WUDR4SFGK7/Exterior+sunset.jpg HOUSES IN TOWN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41e57a448f8a000164890c/1571176713409-QQT9CXNV1JAO212KGZEA/portrait+%282%29.png HOUSES IN TOWN - Rose Avenue Cottage A little/big house with a lot of panache. The program called for a modestly scaled, light filled modern farmhouse on a wooded acre of land. The priorities were to create an open feeling comfortable house for an active couple that lives big, with all rooms on a single level. The layout features a large great room and a master bedroom wing off to one side. It has the scale and look of a simple grouping of wooden farm buildings with ample room on the site plan for gardening,an extra car or boat in the detached garage. The garage/shop building is placed near the house to enclose a sunny courtyard. 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