Steamboat Residence
A mountain home and caretaker cottage on five acres above Steamboat Springs, Colorado, cascading down the hillside toward the Flat Tops Wilderness.
- Location
- Steamboat Springs, Colorado
- Type
- Residential, new construction with a caretaker cottage
- Size
- 5 acres
- Materials
- Fieldstone, weathered cedar, tapersawn cedar roof
- Completion
- Ongoing
The family came to us with a five-acre property in Steamboat that had stolen their hearts. They were looking for a homestead, a place that lifts the spirit and feels settled, a simple family home tucked into the hillside with room to roam and explore the land.
The land falls steeply to the southwest, opening long views to the Flat Tops Wilderness, or as the client put it, a view of heaven.
Strict height limits shaped the house from the start. We broke it into four distinct bars in the mountain vernacular, with a modern bridge joining the main home, the garage at one end and a caretaker cottage for guests at the other.
Each bar follows the contour and tucks into the slope, so the buildings feel like stones scattered along the hillside, clad in wood that weathers into the land and stone that grounds them. Staggered slightly from one another, they cascade down the hill, and every room shares that view of heaven. The rooms spill out to the grounds where the kids can roam free, a simple home for authentic living.
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