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Rakesh holds Poppy, 3, while Benedict, 6, and Noor, 14, play nearby. Ria, 11, and Amanda look down from the balcony. A standing seam metal roof and charred cedar cladding help keep the maintenance low. “At one point the house was supposed to be white, like the previous structure and the main house,” says Maceda. “But in the middle of the process, I said: ‘Why don’t we go black and just match the shingles of the old garage, since this house is a different thing?’ ”

A look at another one of the bedrooms located on the upper level.

“I was trained by modernists, but it’s also really important to me that all the material and everything you touch in a house makes you feel human,” says architect Aya Maceda.

Custom bunk beds in the kids’ room were designed by ALAO and fabricated by Amber Construction & Design. The quilts are from Cold Picnic and the stool is by Alvar Aalto for Artek.

The folding glass door extending the living space with a wood-lined deck is from Marvin.

In the upstairs living area, a NeoWall sofa by Piero Lissoni for Living Divani faces an Ole Wanscher lounge chair and an Anya coffee table from Anthropologie.

Inside the closets are items like the family’s ski equipment, neatly arranged and always at the ready.

Peninsula House floor plan

A deck outside the loft offers another view of the archipelago.

Like the rocks, the trees on the property were left untouched.

“When you come in, you immediately get an understanding of the space, and that leads to a feeling of safety,

At the end of the interior is a small loft; the flue from the downstairs fireplace rises through it.

A pair of Splügen Braü pendants from Flos hang near a kitchen island topped with black Swedish granite. The faucets are from Vola and the appliances are from Siemens.

The house is balanced atop a rocky slope. “Not one millimeter of rock was blasted away,” says Rickard, who deferred to the topography in his design.

Floor plan of Farouki Residence by Farouki Farouki

The exterior is clad in black standing-seam metal siding, while a terrace with a family-size sectional sits on the roof. Even on a small lot, there’s room for a backyard with a trampoline.

For the living room, Caroline chose lounge chairs from Australia’s Barnaby Lane, a coffee table from Sobu, Maiden Home sofas, and a Moroccan rug from Muima.