On the ground floor the architect carved out the original southeast and northwest corners of the property to provide both morning and afternoon patios for outdoor dining and enjoying the landscape. There are three different door openings on the main floor, so the main entrance can vary, depending on your preference and how you orient the house on your site. But even with its compact footprint, the house feels spacious because it generously opens to the outdoors from every room. A simple 36’x 36′ square footprint broken into a 4 x 4 foot grid was used to control the overall size and provide a tool for guiding the proportions of the house. In order to meet the budget while constructing a house of high quality, the overriding goal was to minimize square footage. The original site was located on a west–facing slope in an existing clearing of the orchard, and provided views of the Canadian Cascades and the farmlands of the Nooksack river valley in Washington. They requested a simple, elegant, light–filled house with an open floor plan that accommodated three bedrooms, two of which would be used primarily as home offices. The owners of this home approached the architect to build a small house on a gorgeous site in the midst of an old yet still productive apple orchard. Small can be beautiful, as this house clearly demonstrates. This home is a testament to the belief that size and budget are not limiting factors for good design, and that a home can be both satisfying and beautiful as long as it responds to its site, and to the owner’s lifestyle and budget.
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