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Now, an eight-foot sliding door brings light into the kitchen and enables fluid movement between inside and out. The wider steps can serve as seats during a party, and they make for a graceful transition to the yard.

The home has a small footprint, but elements like a screened, cantilevered porch emphasize a connection with the woods.

The long-leaf-pine roof decking was salvaged from the original home and used on the ceiling in the new playroom.

Texas couple Brittany and Nick Hunt, partners in life and at Hunt Architecture, created an office on the grounds of their Austin home that allows them to run their practice while staying close to their kids.

“We bought the land not knowing what we could build or where. It’s off by itself and pretty isolated,” says Jeff.

The weekend house that architect James Cutler designed for Jeff Albertson and Ben Vogt on a remote stretch of Washington State’s Pacific coast fits unobtrusively into its surroundings. The building pad was small, so Cutler stepped the structure up the slope. Rough-sawn red cedar cladding was chosen for textural contrast and its resistance to rot.