This new modern home on the Lake Washington waterfront celebrates the interplay between home, art gallery and garden, while blurring of the distinction between indoors and out.
The house is a home for our client, an artist who enjoys entertaining and gathering with her large extended family. It’s also a place for interacting with an extensive art collection and for enjoying the outdoors from many vantage points: a lakeside garden; an entry courtyard with a bridge over a koi pond; a wide deck off the main living space; a private walled garden within the primary suite; and a rooftop loft that opens to a generous, planted rooftop patio with large, tilting umbrellas, each with a heating unit that extends the season for outdoor living.
There’s an ease and clarity to the house that belies its complex construction, exacting details, intricate blend of materials, and interconnected network of HVAC, lighting, automation, audio, and other systems. It all comes together to create special spaces, such as the light-filled, the two-story gallery; the soaring main livening space, whether fully open or gently partitioned by sliding translucent acrylic panels; or a client favorite: the sitting area poised between the courtyard koi pond and the entry gallery.
The lakefront garden was started six months before we broke ground on the house. By installing hardscaping and plantings first, we accomplished two things. We avoided having to barge in materials or having to reach the lakefront garden through the narrow side yards, and we allowed the landscape to develop while the house was being built.
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