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Alma Allen, the artist who previously lived here, designed his custom cabinet pulls and metalwork for the home.

The exterior stone walls were hand-built by the previous owner.

The three-story home was built on a slope, which means the backyard garden is on the second floor. Behind the dark-red gate, to the left, is a set of stairs leading to the main entrance.

Floor Plan of Makers Marsh by Woodull

The sleeping nook consists of a built-in platform bed on a bank of drawers. In here, the ceiling dips down to create a more intimate space.

For Gabriel Ramirez and his partner Sarah Mason Williams, following the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn’t mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. The architects love Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, and they made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn’t a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house “was very crisp and clean,” he says. “This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi.”

A second green roof is planted with sedum and plays host to one of the family’s favorite spots: a hammock. Bentheim suggested adding a trellis overhead to soften and balance the appearance of the facade.

Taking cues from this home's Japanese-influenced slatted screen, Hufft Projects applied a ring of ipe wood around the perimeter of this outdoor fire pit.

The patio outside Wenes's house and gallery.

The ultimate luxury: a hot bath in the clawfoot tub, with the fiberglass door open wide to the woods.

“A critical aspect of the project was the incorporation of natural light and ventilation within a broad footprint,” Simpson says. Conventionally private areas, like bedrooms and bathrooms, are therefore reinterpreted with more openness in mind. For instance, this bathroom’s skylights mirror those found throughout the rest of the property. The bathtub, basins, and showerhead were all purchased at the Australian retailer Reece.

The couple duplicated the platform bed design for another bedroom.

The exterior’s concrete walls pick up on the tones of the rocks that emerge from the surrounding hillside.