This project sits above Lake Washington on a low bank waterfront site at the end of a winding hillside drive. The house faces a sunken auto court at the front and the lake to the southwest, and has a panoramic view out to Mercer Island, Seattle, and the Olympic peaks beyond.
From the beginning, the owners’ wanted to give the house a feeling of old world quality with European roots. The tall stone gables, chimneys and terraces recall grand residential architecture of the British Isles and coastal Normandy. At the same time, the house was to built to provide for informal family life and relaxed entertaining, inside and out. At the lakeshore, a large portion of the existing rockery was removed to create a gravel beach cove to allow for Salmon spawning and native plant growth, as well as better access to the water.
Bellevue, Washington - 2016