Transition Spaces

Chevron-patterned brick tiles define the hallway and wet rooms.

The master bedroom upstairs also features a solid balustrade, with a V-shaped opening that is cleverly used to edit the view and make it more special and focused.

The red masonry wall partially hides the interior from the entryway.

A custom white oak cabinet made by North Summit Studio fits the narrow dimensions of the pass-through television room. “We designed it so that if they ever decided to move, it functions as two credenzas with a series of modular boxes that are dovetailed together and stacked on top of each other. Then you have the one large opening for the television,” says Cuttle. “The thinking was that they could then theoretically very easily repurpose all of that into another residence.”

The entrance to the home is through a timber-clad passageway that leads to a guest annexe, a utility shed, and the main house. Whilst traditional Danish summer houses are often clad in dark timber, this contemporary interpretation of the typology inverts expectation by using a light Canadian cedar cladding—most expressively in this walkway.

The emphasis on wood finishes continues inside, where the skylit atrium bifurcates the house. On the second floor, the primary bedroom and a pair of smaller bedrooms straddle the stairwell.

The living space opens to a bedroom by way of rotating panels—connecting both spaces in a clever way.