The Grand Entrance: Suncadia Curb Drama
A 13,500-square-foot estate designed from the site up, with a monumental pivot door entry and a full outdoor living program.
A vacation estate of this scale is designed for a specific kind of life: large family gatherings, guests from out of state, weekends that run from Friday night to Sunday lunch. The client’s brief was specific — welcoming without feeling exposed, private in the areas that needed to be private, and fully connected to outdoor living. The building design had to support that life from the floor plan outward.
The Suncadia site gave us the topography and the tree line to work with. Thirteen thousand five hundred square feet requires a circulation strategy most residential projects never need: a clear private-to-public gradient, or a large home feels like a hotel — you can’t find where you belong.
Site-Responsive, From the First Drawing
The pivot door is the first design statement. At monumental scale, a pivot door doesn’t just open a home — it announces the proportions of what’s inside. Designed with a steel frame and custom infill panels, the hardware runs floor-to-ceiling and is operational at single-person effort despite the door’s size.
The floor plan uses a private-to-public gradient that runs from the entry. Public entertaining spaces sit at the front and on the main level. The owner’s suite and family wing are separated by a transition zone. Guests never pass through private areas to reach entertaining zones.
The Work Begins With One Conversation
We hold a limited number of consultations each month and are selective about the projects we take on. If you’re ready to discuss yours, we’d like to hear about it.
The Challenge: Scale Without Hotel Feel
Thirteen thousand five hundred square feet requires a circulation strategy most residential projects never need. Without a clear private-to-public gradient, a large home feels like a hotel — you can’t find where you belong. The private zones had to be genuinely separated from the entertaining and guest zones.
The entry also needed to establish the scale of the home in a way that felt generous rather than imposing. A standard residential entry at this size reads as insufficient — which is where the pivot door decision came from.
“The pivot door has become the project’s signature detail.”
How We Designed It
The outdoor living program was designed as a full extension of the interior. The outdoor bar connects directly to the indoor kitchen. The pool deck has covered seating areas that function in all but the coldest conditions. Consistent material choices — the same stone, the same wood species — run from interior to exterior so the outside reads as part of the same home.
Permit drawings for Kittitas County were completed in-house. The building design and interior design teams coordinated from the beginning of the project — not as a hand-off after the building was already drawn. That coordination is what makes the interior-exterior material consistency possible.
The outdoor bar and pool program have extended the use season by months. The private-to-public gradient works: guests have full access to the home without passing through the family’s space. The estate reads as a complete, site-responsive property.
Frequently Asked
The work in this portfolio is the standard we hold ourselves to on every project — not just the celebrated ones. We take on a limited number of engagements each year, which means the projects we commit to receive our full attention from the first conversation through the final installation. If you're considering a renovation, a new build, or a full redesign, tell us about your home. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit — and what working together would look like.
Your home should stop you. Every time you walk in.
