Sited on a hillside in Portland, the Glass Link House was designed for a growing family with a passion for entertaining, nature, and Japanese design.
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The sleek family home highlights an open framework made from a simple, natural palette of wood, steel, stone, and glass. The home was a collaborative effort between the Scott|Edwards Architecture design team and the family a merger of sensitive expressions of the family’s lifestyle. Glass Link dividing the house into three main components and carefully nestling them into the site.
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The “active” wing of the home contains the workout room, cedar sauna, media room, guest bedrooms, wine room with custom walnut wine racks, and a hidden whiskey room. This private room for intimate gatherings which can only be accessed through a secret latch in a cabinet, is one of the many unexpected design elements in the home that arose from collaborative conversations between the design team and client. A 12-foot-tall, board-form concrete wall pulls the surrounding hillside back from the whiskey room, forming a small, sunken private outdoor courtyard.
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The “quiet” wing contains the master suite and kid’s bedroom, which ends in a framed view of the forested backyard. The wings are joined by a glass great room for gathering and entertaining. The center of the home, containing the kitchen, living, and dining area, is enclosed on each side by 48-feet of retractable glass doors, blurring the line between inside and outside. The great room is anchored by a massive fireplace, clad with Himachal Black Quartzite, which flows from entryway in, inviting visitors through space. Scott Edwards Architecture. Discover Opulent Club on Apple News.