After years of working together designing various homes, the team of Bellevue interior designer Linda Schoener of Schoener Interiors, the homeowner herself, and Seattle architect Eric Koch of Partners Architectural Design Group, has begun to age like fine wine – with each iteration of the family’s latest home becoming more elegantly understated and livable.

White Space Design Group’s collaborative process led to a design honoring the character of a craftsman-style West Seattle bungalow with a comfortable, yet sophisticated vibe that celebrates the clients’ vision and personality.

Taking cues from Puget Sound’s remarkable landscape, this custom-built sylvan retreat on Burien’s waterfront represents a collaboration between artistic homeowners and an all-star design team. Bold colors, fearless contrasts, and a layout inspired by the land combine to create a luminous space that appears to levitate among the trees.

Inspired by a hillside site overlooking the Cascade Range, Willamette River and Portland’s downtown, Allied Works Architecture created a modern masterpiece whose geometry splays open like five fingers of a hand to bring in light from above and views of the terraced landscape below from three stepback walls of soaring windows.

After razing a 1940s ranch home from this 300-foot-long hillside property that drops precipitously toward views of the ocean, Garret Cord Werner Architects and Interior Designers created a modern, yet intimate family home that nestles into a magnificent, graded landscape replete with koi pond, pool, ancient boulders and Native art.

Contemporary lines meet timeless details. This Northwest remodel combines clean shapes with farmhouse warmth and a touch of modern industrial style to create an open, light-filled nest for a growing family.

A place for everything, everything in its place. This Neil Kelly kitchen infuses a clean, modern aesthetic with thoughtful functional design to make cooking a pleasure and hosting a joy.

With its crisp lines, clean tones, and gallery-like feel, it’s hard to believe this light-filled midcentury pad in Portland, Oregon, was once a dark 1940s fixer-upper. A full facelift from JDL Development and Guggenheim Architecture & Design Studio, including functional updates for a busy life, transformed this home’s sleeping and bathing spaces from merely adequate into a gorgeous contemporary retreat.

Inspired by contemporary galleries, this sleek, minimalist home is a flexible showcase for its owners’ expansive art collection. Clean lines, minimal ornamentation, and elemental materials keep the focus on the pieces, the view, and the pleasure of one another’s company.

For a family with a plum private lot in Lake Oswego, a major addition meant all the benefits of a new home without the move. Architect Dave Giulietti and designer Taryn Emerson worked together to ensure this cottage-style home retained its farmhouse charms, even as it grew.

One Pacific Northwest family’s decision to downsize enabled their son and his blended family to start afresh by razing the parents’ smaller home to design, build and orient their new home more southward toward views of Mt. Hood, lush, rolling hills dotted with grazing horses and sweet sunrises.

To design and build a modern two-story home that nestles into a cliff overlooking the columbia river gorge on the same footprint as a previous 1940s ranch house was a “tall” order that giulietti|schouten architects and don young and associates completed with aplomb.

This house in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood offered a growing young family great bones, a fantastic location, plenty of space…and a funky interior that felt gloomy and drab. Designer Heidi Caillier helped these clients create a home to nurture little ones and grown-ups alike with a crisp, modern bohemian style and durable features that make daily living a pleasure.

Modern updates and elegant high-end touches turned this humble ranch home into a modern palace. Perched on a forested hillside, this home maintains its original classic character and oneness with nature while being extraordinarily contemporary.

What started as a single room makeover by Style Guide Interior Design grew into a wider renovation once the modern design aesthetic, which began from the floor up, started to transform this 1990 home into a dramatic showpiece still suitable for a young family of four.

A busy family of four, plus their canine companions, had a conundrum. They wanted to turn their confined-feeling mid-century house, into a light, modern, scandi-inspired dream home. Enter an Imaginative interior designer and an architect with a vision.

They say love is all you need, and that old adage certainly proved true with this beautiful modern home. A remodel and effective collaboration helped revive the spirit of this northwest contemporary home on Mercer Island. The colorful results are modern – yet warm, fresh, and fun.

From modern fixture choices to stylish custom storage, this small master bathroom makes a big design statement.

Downsizing from a large, sprawling home overlooking the lake, replete with infinity pool, to a down-to-the-studs remodel of a traditional 1950s lake house into a 3200 sq. ft. Northwest Cottage took ingenuity, creativity and collaboration from all involved.

In 2014, two native Oregonians who are now career professionals living in Washington, D.C., began looking for a vacation home in the Pacific Northwest. They tried Bend, the Oregon coast, and even the Willamette River without luck. While viewing a parcel of land on a bluff overlooking Yale Lake, they spotted the perfect lakefront property. A little sleuthing came next.