Photo by James Ray Spahn Location: Aspen, Colorado Cozy Factor: Architect Charles Cunniffe and his project team produced several designs for this 44-acre homesite that’s situated on a hillside with southwest views up Castle Creek Valley toward Hayden Peak. “The clients chose…
Photo by James Ray Spahn Location: St. Helena, California Cozy Factor: In this rustic home's great room, the kitchen, dining and surrounding living areas—all crafted from materials reclaimed from dismantled old buildings—flow together in a smart floorplan. Architect Ira Martin describes…
Photo courtesy The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch Location: Saratoga, Wyoming Cozy Factor: When critters were discovered living in some of the dilapidated cabins on the property that is now The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch, it must have…
Photo courtesy the Ranch at Rock Creek Location: Philipsburg, Montana Cozy Factor: The best part about this cozy room? It can be yours—for a stay, that is. A working-cattle-ranch-turned-luxury-retreat, The Ranch at Rock Creek offers rooms decorated with elegant birch canopy beds,…
Photo by Gibeon Photography Location: Whitefish Lake, Montana Cozy Factor: Interior designer Hunter Dominick worked with the owners of this home to create refreshingly unexpected interiors that juxtapose rustic with refined, masculine with feminine. The home’s predominantly gold-and-copper color palette, inspired by Italy’s…
Photo by Audrey Hall Location: Big Sky, Montana Cozy Factor: Because the owners of this rustic cabin downsized from a 5,000-square-foot home to just 1,800 square feet, their master bedroom needed to provide as much storage as possible. Beneath the bed…
Photo by Daniel Nadelbach Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Cozy Factor: "My home does not reflect the average person's conception of what a Santa Fe home should look like," says architect Paul Davies. "There are no howling coyotes; instead it's a…
Photo by James Ray Spahn Location: Crested Butte, Colorado Cozy Factor: If you choose to build a new house in the town of Crested Butte, Colorado, a National Historic District, you have to play by the Board of Zoning and Architecture…
Photo by Gibeon Photography Location: Big Sky, Montana Cozy factor: Viewed from the west, this grand home’s great room extends outdoors through lift-and-slide window-doors. Massive Douglas fir timbers support the room’s 27-foot-high gabled roof. The covered deck is made habitable year-round by an…
Photo by Audrey Hall Location: Big Sky, Montana Cozy Factor: This interior of this Montana cabin expresses an intimate connection to its forest setting. The kitchen features a wealth of reclaimed and natural materials, including work counters of unfinished local stone,…
Photo by Tim Stone Location: Steamboat Springs, Colorado Cozy Factor: When it came to designing this 5,000-square-foot family home near Steamboat’s resident peak, Mount Werner, the alpine terrain posed its fair share of challenges—chief among them, a steep grade. Joining forces…
Photo by Gibeon Photography Location: The Yellowstone Club, Montana Cozy Factor: This master suite shows off a clever blend of textures, elegance and rusticity, orchestrated by interior designer Lisa Kanning of Colorado-based design firm Worth Interiors. A stacked-sandstone fireplace with hammered…
Photo courtesy Hotel Jerome, an Auberge Resort When the Hotel Jerome first opened its doors in Aspen, Colorado, in 1889, New York City socialites, Chicago beef barons and European aristocrats made the journey west to see the magnificent new hotel, which…
Photo by Audrey Hall Location: Yellowstone Club, Montana Cozy Factor: The design pros at Bozeman-based Haven Interior Design (a design firm on our 2012 list of Top Mountain Interior Designers) are known for creating interiors that reflect the beauty and aesthetic of the West.…
Photo by Audrey Hall Location: Big Sky, Montana Cozy Factor: An exterior emphasizing log columns and beams and stone walls makes this rustic cabin look like it was built beside a natural mountain pond more than a century ago. In fact,…
Photo by Emily Minton Redfield Location: Bachelor Gulch, Colorado Cozy Factor: The owner of this Colorado home spent summers in the Adirondacks at “camps”—a local term for vacation homes—that embraced the natural beauty of New York’s beloved mountains. So when it came…
Photo by Gibeon Photography Location: Big Sky, Montana Cozy Factor: This kitchen may be new, but a creative use of materials gives it that old-cabin-in-the-woods vibe. Standing-dead timbers and reclaimed barn boards form the walls, and the cabinets are crafted from trimmings…
Photo by Audrey Hall Location: Yellowstone Club, Big Sky, Montana Cozy Factor: A design that's at once cozy and sophisticated can be tricky to pull off, but when done well, the results are spectacular. In our 2009 Home of the Year's master…
Photo by Audrey Hall Location: Upper Little Lost River Valley, Idaho Cozy Factor: Seen from a distance, this 700-square-foot cabin on Summit Springs Ranch, a historic 3,785-acre property in Idaho’s Upper Little Lost River Valley, may bring to mind a rustic…
Photo by Audrey Hall; styling by Stephanie Sandston Location: Bozeman, Montana Cozy Factor: This inviting bedroom—occupied by two young girls—is part of a home constructed with stone and 100-year-old, hand-hewn square logs. Each year, from the beginning of December to the…
Photo by D.A. Horchner Location: Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado Cozy Factor: Once used as ranchland, this 40-acre site in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley had accumulated a collection of historic buildings. The original 1887 homestead and four other simple structures, dating up…
Photo by Gibeon Photography Location: Whitefish Lake, Montana Cozy Factor: A 28-foot-tall fireplace is the undisputed star of this great room. "You have to stand in front of it to really get a sense of the scale," says residential designer Lyndon…
Photo by Emily Minton Redfield Location: Genesee, Colorado Cozy Factor: This tiny cottage—built in 1931 on a foundation of old telephone poles and recently remodeled by TKP Architects and Old Greenwich Builders—packs a lot of personality into its 450 square feet. Its owners, Dan…
Photo by Gordon Gregory Location: Paradise Valley, Montana Cozy Factor: “This house is meant to resemble something that was built at the turn of the century,” architect Candace Miller says of her decision to clad its walls with small-scale, 8- to…
