Heart of the city. Heart of the forest. This sylvan retreat in Portland, Oregon, is close to everything, but feels a world apart. With a clean, contemporary style and warm, inviting spaces, this custom home nurtures a family’s connection to one another, and the outdoors.

Spectacular things happened when these homeowners, armed with a clear vision of the ultra-modern home they wanted to create, teamed with Shannon Ponciano of Ponciano Design and Craig Moody of Northwest Classic Homes for the third time to create a home like no other.

Inspired by early 20th-century national parks buildings, Hoedemaker Pfeiffer set out to create a secluded, yet playful retreat to enhance Their clients’ vacation home on Whidbey Island. taking advantage of Pacific Northwest materials and sensibilities, The Fieldhouse is designed as a place for sport and recreation.

After purchasing this plum piece of real estate overlooking Bainbridge Island’s historic Washington State Ferry Dock, interior designer Tracey Artiss collaborated with architect Devin Johnson of Johnson Squared and Tish Treherne of Bliss Garden Design to design a home and garden with minimalist farmhouse style.

When Six Walls Interior Design teamed up with Taylor Building & Design, LLC, to create an ultra-modern kitchen and bath for The Houghton House, an award-winning contemporary home designed with McCullough Architects that overlooks Lake Washington, the results were not only aesthetically pleasing, but also warm, inviting and highly functional.

This luxurious custom-built home located on Queen Anne Hill pays homage to traditional Georgian style architecture with a modern twist. Designed and constructed by Richard Rogers of R&R Development Company in concert with Seth Hale of MAS Architect, the home’s Fleetwood windows and doors provide unobstructed views from the Cascades to the Olympics.

Charged with seemingly impossible guidelines to build a modern home on prime Mercer Island waterfront property, Brad Sturman of Sturman Architects, Inc., joined homeowners, contractor Gallagher Co., and interior designer Gwenaël Dumont of ID By Gwen, to meet not only the permitting demands, but also create an artful, clean-lined home perfect for the family’s needs.

Award-winning architect Lane Williams of Lane Williams Architects of Seattle teamed with landscape designers Clare Ryan and Martha Shapiro of Shapiro Ryan Design to transform this 1966 Clyde Hill rambler into a modern residence whose formerly intrusive garage now disappears below ground, allowing architecture and new landscape to fit gracefully into the neighborhood.

In 2003, Chelly Wentworth, now owner of C-Change Design, and her husband Phil moved from the Santa Cruz mountains to Portland, where Chelly began working for Neil Kelly as a Design Consultant.

When Ponciano Design teamed with Rebuild LLC to transform this 2006 Forest Heights home from traditional to classic modern for Portland’s 2018 Tour of Remodeled Homes, Ponciano created a very dramatic, polished classic look with plenty of glam.

This couple’s dream to build a very sustainable, yet elegant contemporary hillside home wrapped in rich, warm horizontal cut stone that would also embrace its expansive views of Lake Washington and the Cascades became an award-winning reality when Stuart Silk Architects came on board.

After decades spent dreaming of building a house on his Vancouver property by the Columbia River, Gary Miller and his wife Dell Ann Dyar, overcame complex permitting laws, density requirements, and BNSF Railroad permit, to build a modern home along the wooded river’s edge designed by Carmel architect Erik Dyar of DYAR Architecture.

Respecting and augmenting the original architect’s vision were top priorities for a striking Black Butte Ranch renovation, where natural materials, a stunning site, and classic Northwest language with a modern twist merge to create a family’s perfect legacy vacation home.

After 15 years spent living in a traditional home on a 26-acre farm-like property in Silver Creek Falls, Oregon, this couple found Bend architect Eric Meglasson of Meglasson Architect and Portland interior designer Holly Freres of JHL Design to collaborate on designing an ultra-modern home surrounded by nature on the shores of a beloved pond.

Torn between purchasing a new home and staying in the location they loved, a Portland couple settled on a bright, modern renovation of their midcentury ranch by Richard Brown Architect and Introspecs that retained a sense of comfort and warmth.

A client with a desire for a classic East Coast aesthetic modernized in the Pacific Northwest achieved her vision thanks to a major renovation by Marianne Simon Design and Ripple Design Studio.

Working collaboratively, a visionary client and NB Design group partnered to create this supremely serene escape, completely transforming a ranch-style home nestled in nature into a zen-like retreat for an active family of five.

California dreaming, Northwest soul. This midcentury home on Mercer Island had great bones and an outstanding location, but felt closed-off inside. A thoughtful remodel from Wittman Estes Architecture + Landscape and Treebird Construction mingled the best of California modernism with a distinctly Northwest attention to craft to bring up the curtains and let the light back in.

When award-winning architect Brett Baba of Graham Baba Architects of Seattle teamed with revered “AD 100” Seattle interior designer Terry Hunziker, who has thrice remodeled what began as a humble 1960s lakeside cabin, the home’s simple roots soared to princely status.

By teaming the Garrison Hullinger Interior Design aesthetic with Olson & Jones Construction know-how, a perfect union was formed to modernize the 5,026 sq. ft. two-story penthouse atop the 1929 Envoy Apartment Building – Portland’s tallest high-rise of its day, which still stands like a sentinel overlooking NW 23rd and Burnside.