Sloping mountainside sites offer opportunities and challenges. The opportunity is to develop walkout day lighted bedrooms or family rooms by locating program areas in desirable lower level space. The overall footprint of the building can be less, saving money and site work. The challenge is to break up vertical walls also creating interest, detail, shadow and highlights. We used generous porches and wide shingled columns flanking the great room to tie this 4500 SF, 5 bedroom, 5 1/2 bath Adirondack Revival house to the magnificent hillside location in Stowe.
It is the owners' intention to retire to this location and as such the main level master suite is designed to accommodate future accessibility needs. In the meantime this suite serves as a guest room and library while the owners enjoy sweeping views of the Green Mountain Range and Worcester Range from their upper level suite.
The home features locally built kitchen cabinetry, bath cabinetry, mudroom built-ins and furniture. The floors are old growth pine and the running trim and interior doors are western fir.
