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The trip from garage to first floor is through a wood-clad spiral staircase that resembles a giant slatted barrel.

The stairs are comprised of a twisting metal frame and wooden steps.

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"Some people want a manicured garden, but I'm of a different mindset," says Patnaik. She left the grounds untamed and organic. "If we're building in the wild, I want to live in the wild."

The concrete stairwell leads from the ground floor up to the front door and a sliding partition that opens to two more bedrooms and another living space with a kitchenette. The library/study and living room spaces are separated by several stairs to create connected yet separate living spaces.

A sizable oak staircase, with a large landing and storage beneath it, leads to each level of the home.

The cantilevered addition was kept, and another bedroom added to the second floor over the existing house. Parks collaborated with Fort Structures to ensure that the third addition would sync with the rest of the house, replicating the window placement to make them sit between the roof beams, while still meeting current code and insulating the ceiling.

Facundo adds some logs to the standalone fireplace. The microcement niche below it is something he designed “on the fly” during the seven-month construction.

Floor plan of Casa Narra by NODO Arquitectura + Naturaleza

Facundo Ochoa’s beach house is an ode to craft and coastal living with a sprawling deck, DIY details, and lots of room to hang out.

A stained-glass window gifted from April's parents brings light into the primary bathroom. Eric recreated the pattern in the wood floor with scraps of red oak, white oak, walnut and cherry. "That took a lot of time to mimic that [pattern],