Manzanita Cove, Bainbridge Island2025
Still Water House
A pavilion held one quiet foot above its own reflection. Charred cedar outside, warm fir within, and a room that ends where the water begins.
The Works
Nineteen houses. Six we still visit in our sleep.
Every commission is different land, different light, and a different family. What repeats is the temperament: dark timber, honest stone, warm glass, and rooms that hold still. A selection, told briefly. All details illustrative.
Winslow Ridge, Bainbridge Island2023
Cedarline Pavilion
One long room under one long roof. A hundred feet of ridge, and not one tree taken that did not have to go.
Port Madison, Bainbridge Island2022
Blackfern Court
A house that turns inward: three blackened wings around a court of still water, ferns, and rain you can watch from every room.
Rolling Bay, Bainbridge Island2024
Madrona Bluff House
Board-formed concrete grips the bluff; glass does the rest. The last light on the Sound is the only artwork the great room needs.
Fletcher Bay, Bainbridge Island2021
Lantern Ridge
Built on a slope everyone else walked away from. Stone steps, a cantilevered corner, and a house that reads as a lantern from the bay.
Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island2020
The Hearth Room
A single-room commission inside a 1974 waterfront house: one basalt chimney, one salvaged fir mantel, and a reason to stay home in November.
One Commission, Told in Full
How Still Water House came to rest
Most portfolios show you finished photographs. We would rather show you the decisions: the brief, the constraints the land imposed, and the craft that answered them. Still Water House is our nineteenth commission and the one we tell in full.
Commissions for 2027
Your land is the twentieth chapter
If you hold a piece of the Northwest that deserves better than a floor plan from a catalog, we should walk it together. Winter is the best season to see land honestly, and it is when our table clears.
Fictional demo. Enquiries are simulated; nothing is sent.