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A screen porch just off the dining room was added, enhancing the home's indoor-outdoor feel.

The 4,200-square-foot home by Turkel Design balances top-quality natural materials and cutting-edge contemporary design with the ease of construction, expedited timeline, and cost benefits of prefab.

“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.”

Seattle firm Wittman Estes designed this compact cabin floating above a meadow on Whidbey Island.

Built using the prefabricated Blue Sky and IT House systems, the residence comes with a guesthouse, a sparkling lap pool, and 10 wooded acres.

The two structures' gabled roofs can be prominently seen from the street, alongside its all-over black siding.

“From anywhere in the house, you have a sense of the outdoors,” says Melonie, “and yet it’s very private.” Ikegami agrees. “The building was really about the landscape—it can dissolve into the background,” he says. In the master bedroom, Japanese Tansu chests from the couple’s previous home flank a Duxiana bed. The full-height windows and swing door are from Western Window Systems.