About This Project

Known affectionately as the ‘tree house’, this unique green home was built on a heavily treed lot for a pair of bird lovers with an equal love of art and architecture. To attain views, the tri-level home puts the great room and master suite on the top floor, which gains face-to-face views with Cathedral Rock and is literally in the treetops, putting the owners at handshake level with avian life. The owners being lovers of my wife’s stained glass, the home includes many of her pieces, such as the front door and side windows, kitchen cabinet doors (which match the dining chair upholstery), dining room lamp, windows in the living room and space divider between master bedroom and master bath.

Additionally, the house is built of R-42 SIP panels, uses renewable bamboo flooring and the same highly efficient – SEER 23 – air conditioning system as the Otts Residence. We have been to the house for dinner in the dead of winter (with snow on the ground) — and the heat never came on.

Stained glass by Cate Studio.