A year-round mountain home built from the ground up — architecture, floor plan, fenestration, and interior details, all conceived and directed by Wendy for her family, showing the clarity that comes from designing for people you know completely.

The hope was a home that felt native to its mountain setting without sacrificing polish. Ceilings are purposefully high, furniture is generous in scale, and every room is calibrated for a notably tall family who craved space that was truly proportionate to the way they live. 

In new construction, the greatest risk is looking too new. Here, reclaimed wood floors and ceilings, Roman clay and plaster walls, and divided-light windows give the home a settled, historic quality that belies its age. Textured walls ease the intensity of grand, voluminous spaces and mullion windows, versus plate glass, lend a feeling that’s rooted in historic America.

Off the family room, the white oak paneled library is among the home’s most thoughtful rooms. Modeled on French boiserie and enclosed in paned glass, it’s a home office, a homework room, and a meeting space in one. The kids of the house can lay eyes on a parent and the parent has the privacy and space to get things done.