This home is featured in the highly acclaimed book, "The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live." Designed as a steep roofed cottage of stucco and wood, with a simple plan that contains the basic activities of daily life within a single great-room. The gabled forms offer opportunities for a open volume over the living room, a tiny play loft at the peak of the roof between the childrens' bedrooms, and a treehouse space shaded by awnings perched above the garage.

The house is penetrated by a trellised corridor which extends through the house to the front and back, to views of the wetland, ponds and woods beyond. The home feels like a treehouse and features a great-room design where you could relax, cook, eat, read, and gather around a hearth.