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After spending several years in Tokyo, a family revamps an American Foursquare with a fresh floor plan, a glassy extension, and an appreciation of Japanese design.

Floor Plan of Hidden Meadow by Colleen Healey Architecture

Steve Jocz and Jessy Moss make the case that their 1960s home is a forgotten William F. Cody design.

A long low response to the rugged landscape, Doug and Stacey’s house is a linear white exercise in modern entertaining.

A side chair by Norman Cherner with its back overlooking the golf course.

A pair of posters by op-art master Victor Vasarely in the other bedroom.

Architect Maurice McKenzie designed not just the home's symmetrical form but the seating in the living room too.

Warren Platner, though, gets the credit for the Wire series lounge chair for Knoll in the bathroom.

Tucked into one end of the house, a desk by Florence Knoll displays Stacey’s mid-century pottery.

The home's C-shape design allows for unobstructed sight lines, important for the homeowners to keep an eye on their three young children.

Natural light was very important for homeowners, incorporated though plentiful clerestory glass and indoor-outdoor access.

Having bought and restored several quirky properties in Washington over the years, including a five-story tree house and a 100-year-old barracks, architect Jason F. McLennan and his wife, artist Tracy McLennan, bought the camp-like retreat in 2020—even though it had no power or running water at the time and is on a secluded island with no ferry service.

The guest bathroom includes a concrete wall and pale yellow tiles from Daltile.

"I was working as a DJ in an Amsterdam cocktail bar,

Beneath a photograph by Iwan Baan, Christine's books become a part of the gallery wall. Here, she sits in one of their two Arne Jacobsen swan chairs beside a crocheted lamp of her own design. The hanging stove is from Leenders.