Exterior photograph taken from the street of a flat roofed home with horizontal wood siding that nestled behind a lightly unkempt coniferous hedge in Seattle.

MADISON

Strikingly clean and simple, this home nestles into an irregular site on the urban edge of one of Seattle’s iconic residential neighborhoods. The design celebrates building craft, natural materials, and organic planning uniting structure and landscape. A unique split level plan utilizes topography and creates a dynamic variety of interior volumes and exterior gardens and courtyards.  A collaborative endeavor with homeowner/designer Chris Chin of Vizit Studio—the design is inspired, in part, by tenets of twentieth century Danish Architecture as well as the concept of hygge, which ascribes a profound attention to human comfort.

Elegant garden path that leads to the main entrance of a home that veers to the right following a concrete wall.
Spacious covered dark wooden terrace that has a horizontal slatted wooden sunscreen, two sliding doors situated on a corner, and a pair of contemporary lounge chairs.
Spacious contemporary kitchen that utilizes a mixture of white oak cabinets and dark gray cabinetry faces paired with white counters to generate a warm and salubrious space.
Upstairs landing graced by warm light that is flanked by a railing height bookcase that leads to a modernist bent plywood lounge chair that resides below a Japanese painting.
Contemporary bathroom that has a white oak wash basin cabinet that floats above dark grey tile work.
Interior photograph of a modern living room and kitchen with dominant themes of subdued grays, natural white oak, concrete, and glass.
Elevated interior loft view peering down an open stairwell that is flanked on one side with a bookcase with the loft itself containing a burnt orange lounge chair with ottoman that is paired with a dark gray couch.
Stunning light gray chaise lounge sofa with its lightly crinkled pillow edges expressing both its comfortability and warmth.
Kitchen island that has four Scandinavian designed stools that looks back toward a stairwell that leads to the loft.
Modern living room that peers out onto the private veranda via two sets of sliding glass doors with a fireplace as the central focal point.
Interior photograph of a modern house in Seattle. Grey sofa and wood bookshelf can be seen in background.
Interior photograph of a modern house with wood floors and dark gray kitchen cabinetry with clerestory windows seen above.
Modern sleek bathroom with stand-alone white bathtub that looks out onto private garden via glass curtain wall with sliding doors.
Exterior view of bedroom showing sliding glass door being open to the interior.
Interior view from primary room into the primary bathroom that peers alongside the glass curtain wall the separates the interior space from the exterior private garden.
Exterior view that peers up from primary space private garden to an elevated secluded seating area that has two with lounge chairs.
Exterior view of a home taken from the landscaped backyard showing blackened horizontal siding and horizontally slatted sunscreen.

Location: Seattle, WA
Contractor: E&H Construction
Landscape Architect: Alchemie
Garden Design: Withey Price
Kitchen: Space Theory
Photography: Andrew Pogue

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