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The cabin entry leads directly to a cozy living room with a fridge, a small live-edge counter, and a bar sink. Picture-frame windows are strategically placed to frame views of distant mountains.

All the wood used for the front porch siding, decking, and furniture came from trees harvested from the land and milled/cured on the property.

A similar window design has the same effect in the bathroom. The faucet and sink are by Kohler.

Cutler designed the window in the couple’s bedroom to extend below floor level. “It’s almost like you can walk right into the view,” he says. The platform bed is from West Elm.

Contrasting wood finishes are visible throughout the house. The stair wall, for example, is smooth-sawn Douglas fir with a lacquer finish. Above touching height it transitions back to rough-sawn material.

Jeff prepares a meal in the kitchen while Ben sits at the dining table with the couple's son. The table is also from Room & Board, and the chairs are from West Elm.

Of the windows, which were designed to withstand gusts of more than 100 miles per hour, Cutler says, “The big sheets of glass create a phenomenal connection to place.” Ben adds, “Every window has a different view, and each one feels like it’s the view.”

The door opens directly into the main living space, where a Room & Board sofa joins a chair and ottoman from West Elm. The wood-burning stove is from Morsø.

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.

The main entrance is reached via a covered pathway constructed of cross-laminated timber with cedar infill walls. “The idea was to shield the view until you go through the compressive experience of the entry walk,” says architect James Cutler. “Then, beyond the front door, there are two stories of glass looking straight out at the ocean.”

The architect layered a geometric pine screen on top of the glass walls, creating shade and cooler temperatures for the cabins.

Each of the cabins feature a balcony that's shaded by the geometric pine screen.

The interiors of the cabins showcases a concrete ceiling and walls and wood flooring.

A massive glass pivot door access the balcony, where the lush natural surround can be enjoyed.

Floor Plan of 11 Cabins in the Woods by Summary

In the evening, the cabins glow like lanterns that sit on top of stacked stone walls. "We didn't buy a single stone,

Summary turned some of the concrete modules on their sides to create two-story cabins.

Site plan of Morris Island Residence by Monte French Design Studio