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The 2,182 square foot home’s reconfigured plan includes two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. Upstairs, the ensuite bedrooms are near-mirror images of each other—the symmetrical spaces benefit from new south-facing dormer windows overlooking the Dyes Inlet.

The 360° fireplace is the functional and aesthetic centerpiece, serving as the heart of the home where guests can enjoy an early-morning coffee and a late-night chat.

The project, known as the Boulder Bridge House, is just down the hillside from Bruce and Connie's existing house.

The home is a beautiful, glowing jewel on the alpine landscape.

The garden-level living area of the ADU faces perpendicular to the existing house, offering a measure of privacy to the detached building.

Both cabins are elevated on wooden pillars about 260 feet above sea level.

"The main challenge was making a space with a 250-square-foot footprint actually feel large," says Mackay. "The key to its success is high ceilings, eight-foot doors, and oversize windows."

The renovation took nearly a full year, and the family now uses the boat for vacation getaways as far as the Bahamas.

The bright living room incorporates some of their own furniture prototypes with treasured midcentury collectibles. The T-square on the wall came from the estate of Albuquerque architect George Pearl; the hanging textile opposite is by fiber artist Romeo Reyna. The Finn Juhl chair comes from another estate sale, while the lights were made from standard, off-the-shelf parts. Darci and Dale also built the console and coffee table.

"We imagined how six people would use the space and developed the shape accordingly," says Hello Wood cofounder Dávid Ráday. "We took inspiration from the design of space capsules, and the cabin was refined step by step before reaching its final form."

The two-story SOL House features massive glass walls to create a continuous connection with nature and, when viewed from certain angles, makes the building appear invisible to an outside observer.