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“Where we let loose was on the window,” Matt says. “It’s an aluminium window frame, which is bushfire compliant and easy to install, but the way that we detailed it was about hiding the frame so that the eye is drawn into the space.”

The cabin hovers over the site on stilts, giving it a floating effect.

The home is clad in corrugated iron coated with Zincalume. “We chose the cladding so we could curve the metal sheets and create barrel vaulted roofs,” says architect William Samuels. “The finish gives a natural reflection to the surface of the house, picking up on the colors of the surrounding bush and the changing daylight.”

Floor Plan of Ranch Residence by Talbot Mclanahan

The entire home is wrapped in pine tongue-and-groove, which matches the original finish on the ceiling.

Floor Plan of Beaver Creek Cabin by Outside Architecture

The house's south side looks onto the meadow that Jenny and Shawn first fell in love with.

The cabin is nestled into a meadow between a hillside forest to the south and a small aspen grove to the north.

With its large covered porch and glazed walls, the Beaver Creek Cabin frames the forest like a picture.

Add credit Isokari comes with an optional sauna building, but if you don’t need a sauna, this structure can be transformed into two bedrooms with toilets. The Isokari ranges from between 818-square-feet to 1,227-square-feet.

A splash of dark green paint in the sleeping nook introduces an old world drama to the space. The paint color is Billiard Green from Sherwin Williams. The crochet pendant is from World Market, and the brass bull was an eBay find. The couple's dog Waylon lounges in the pull-out dog bed drawer.

In 2018, the current owners commissioned Beebe Skidmore Architects to design a freestanding sauna and meditation room to integrate into the site. They also brought on board Coyote Gardens to create custom stone walkways.

Tucked away in the wooded Nescove Bluff, the three-bedroom abode aligns with a long tradition of Oregon architecture known as northwest regional modernism, made famous by Pietro Belluschi.

“Making the landscape a central piece of the home itself welcomes nature inside and strengthens the sense of well-being through views of nature,” says Marvin. “I think about how the home is positioned on the site, too, and I can tell the homeowners were very intentional about the placement of windows and doors because they wanted to capture as much natural light as possible.”