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Hill Country House

Welfare, Texas The expression of this residence draws from the locally available limestone. Heavy walls of stone set in the old Spanish Mission manner provide a super insulated enclosure. A series of simple Gable roofs extend over deep porches blocking sun from penetrating the homes’s interior and extending outside living in a place that has […]

Bear Creek Studio

Bozeman, Montana This small modern guest house is designed to work for many uses, adjacent to the main house, but set off to create its own sense of being in the landscape looking toward Bear Creek. 660 SF with a sleeping loft above the bathroom, the guest house can provide sleeping space for 4 people. […]

Yellowstone River House

Park County, Montana   Typical of so many rural farm homes in Montana, this house had many additions over its life-time. An original log cabin was still in use as the main living space, stacked 2×4 walls that looked like butcher block turned on its side made up the auxiliary rooms for pantry and storage […]

Yellowstone River Cabin

Park County, Montana Publications:Mountain Living, October 2008The New Western Home   Two volumes combine with a “dog-trot” style indoor/outdoor connection to maximize the experience of this minimal foot print of this cabin. Setting the cabin above the FEMA flood line on steel piers whose extents were determined by two pre-existing cabin foundations allowed for rare […]