Custom Home
Forest Edge Home
Project type
Custom Home
Our role
Design–build
Size
4,200 sq ft
Completed
2024
Build duration
18 months
Setting
Wooded residential site
Forest Edge Home
Forest Edge Home
Bellevue, WA
The brief
Keep the forest close. Make room for life.
A modern family home shaped around its forest setting, pairing warm natural materials with expansive glass and a calm, highly considered building process.
The challenge
A sloping site, mature trees and limited winter light. The home needed to feel open without losing the privacy and intimacy that made the place special.
Our response
A sequence of timber volumes opens toward the forest. Expansive glass gathers daylight; deep overhangs and stone anchors keep the architecture grounded.
Inside the home · 02
Light, warmth & connection.
Illustrative Forest Edge oak kitchen with limestone island and woodland views
Illustrative Forest Edge oak staircase with dark metal balusters
03 — Quietly resolved details.
Timber, stone & dark metal
A consistent material language
The care is in the connections.
The same restrained palette carries through the house. Timber brings warmth, stone gives the spaces weight and dark metal draws a fine line through the details. Structure, interiors and site work were coordinated from early pricing through completion, so individual decisions could be considered as part of the whole.
Warm timber
Pale stone
Dark metal
The client experience
Northridge delivered an exceptional experience from start to finish. The team was communicative, thoughtful, and the quality of work is outstanding.
Sarah M. — Bellevue, WA
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