When this striking contemporary home on Canada’s Kootenay Lake was built on a steep slate site, 25 feet from the heavily wooded shoreline, the design team carefully calibrated its impact on its natural surroundings. Architect Jeremy Sturgess, principal of Calgary-based…
Toss all your preconceived notions about prefabricated homes aside and take a fresh look at what cleverly designed homes, like this stunner on Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille, have to offer.With its compact footprint, low environmental impact, rustic details and generous…
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico What We Love About It: Oodles (and oodles) of Southwestern style, from hand-carved doors and details to stitched leather ceilings, tiled floors and 10 cozy fireplaces. Listing Price: $14.7 million If you're looking for a…
Rebuilding a residence destroyed by fire gives a design team the opportunity to reimagine the structure’s relationship with the water
Location: Crawford, ColoradoWhat We Love About It: The sheer awesomeness of a Rock ‘n Roll ranch that looks like a pedigreed European estateListing Price: $7 million ($7,850,000 with furnishings and equipment)This stupendous 243-acre spread near Crawford, Colorado infuses an elegant…
Anyone who builds a house beside a lake wants to take full advantage of the view, but this Northern Idaho home, Chicken Point Cabin, by Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects, packs an incredible amount of “wow” into its small vantage point.Here’s…
We've seen our fair share of spectacular mountain properties, but this one—a private Wild West town and log lodge—just might take the cake. Located at the 19,000-acre Grand River Ranch near the historic ranching community of Kremmling, Colorado, the property comprises…
A classic creation provides the perfect frame for an Aspen couple's contemporary art collection
Location: Aspen, COWhat We Love About It: Its make-no-excuses, over-the-top drama is refreshingly bold, much like the sassy singer herself.Listing Price: $45 MillionWho cares about the winter weather? The best wide-open spaces aren’t always outdoors. And when you have an…
Location: Telluride, Colorado What We Love About It: 298 acres of forested Telluride gorgeousness with a charming rustic main house for the top gun plus a guesthouse for the crew. Listing Price: $59 million Here’s a real estate listing that…
A light palette, plenty of texture and a few eye-catching features (that bookcase!) give this renovated condo modern appeal
A new Telluride home fits seamlessly into its traditional neighborhood, thanks to a design team that deftly handled the unexpected
No, you can’t take Denver Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker home with you, but you can live in his house. Last summer, Decker and his wife, country singer Jessie James, reportedly grew tired of fans stopping in front of their…
Location: Truckee, CAWhat We Love About It: Minimalist-mod with sweeping lines and open and airy interiors. The glass-enclosed office is the ultimate woodland workspace.Listing Price: $4,895,000Even if you've never written a word of poetry, you'll be tempted to pen a…
Location: Park City, UtahWhat We Love About It: Water, water everywhere. If 4.34 private acres with a pond aren’t enough, an indoor river cascades over boulders and splashes right into the living room. There’s even a wee little bridge!Listing Price:…
The Setting: Big Sky, Montana The Ingredients: Homeowners Gregg and Marsha Hill love color, so for the kitchen of their ski-in/ski-out home in Montana’s Yellowstone Club community, interior designer Hunter Dominick chose fire-engine-red cabinets and a black-and-white backsplash of custom tiles.…
The Setting: Not far from Lake Tahoe, CaliforniaThe Ingredients: Homeowners Paul and Becky Bolt had an unusual source of inspiration for the alpine retreat they built on a two-acre site near Lake Tahoe. The couple envisioned a historically accurate cabin…
Big-name designers take over resort residences in the name of cosmopolitan comfort in the high country
Two aesthetic-minded homeowners and a cutting-edge architect collaborate on a residential sculpture in Missoula, Montana
The Setting: Just outside Wolcott, ColoradoThe Ingredients: Matching the rugged beauty of a 1,200-acre private fly-fishing retreat with a cozy kitchen worthy of some hungry outdoor appetites could have been a daunting design challenge. But not for the indomitable mother-daughter interior…
Location: Stanley, IdahoWhat We Love About It: Hidden in the 756,000-acre Sawtooth National Recreation Area, this rustic compound on the Salmon River enjoys utter privacy and quiet.Listing Price: $9.9 millionFor 32 years, legendary singer/songwriter Carole King made this remote 128-acre Idaho…
Location: Crystal Bay, NevadaWhat We Love About It: All sharp angles and sleek lines, this transparent wonder-house looks like a sci-fi fantasy. And 98 feet of lake frontage doesn’t hurt either.Listing Price: $39,750,000Ever want to live like a Bond villain…
This ain’t your daddy’s Elks Lodge. This five-acre Colorado property features 18,000 square feet of opulence.
Location: Park City, UtahWhat We Love About It: The two-story great room with views of the Uinta Mountains and a towering stone fireplace makes us want to curl up and relax.Listing Price: $8.9 millionAppropriately located on the Success Ski Trail,…
