Maya and general bedrooms

Beautiful minimal interiors are featured throughout.

A sloping ceiling allows light into one of the children’s bedrooms. The bed is from CedarWorks.

A stairwell leads up to the reconfigured living spaces and principal bedroom on the upper floor.

Architect Bergendy Cooke, who worked for Zaha Hadid and Peter Marino before returning to her home country in 2007, is an admirer of the strong, sculptural architectural forms that appear in Japanese and Spanish architecture. Outside Queenstown, she put her ideas into practice in a home that would be the benchmark for bc+a studio, her own venture. The combination bunk bed and playhouse is a whimsical gesture the architect designed specifically for her two daughters. The spaces are organized in such a way that they can play independently or together.

A guest bedroom, with furniture from Room & Board, overlooks the bridge above the dining courtyard. The home’s landscape architecture is by Ventura, California–based Jack Kiesel. Photo by Coral von Zumwalt.

The ultimate luxury: a hot bath in the clawfoot tub, with the fiberglass door open wide to the woods.

A retractable ladder, and no built-in furniture or cabinetry in the main living area makes a range of layouts and arrangements possible.

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At the opposite end of the studio, Framework Architecture created a partially enclosed sleeping nook that is spacious enough to fit a full-size bed.