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The house's largest expanse of glass comes at this living-room corner, which a window seat helps make a destination, be it for Zara working with her laptop of the couple's guests.

Instead of commissioning custom casework, as originally planned, the couple saved money by finding vintage furniture, such this corner shelving unit, complemented by a vintage midcentury coffee table.

Though the living room only has large windows on one side, an upper window at left helps create what the clients call double sunrises and sunsets, by creating reflections on the larger windows at right.

Surrounded by forest and accessed via a fairy-tale bridge, the resilient forever home showcases the strength of cross-laminated timber.

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.

Floor Plan of Custom Beach House by Nordic Office of Architecture