From the street, the house reads as a composition of intersecting volumes. Planes of anthracite tile in muted, earthen tones lock against crisp white stucco, and the contrast does the work that ornament might do elsewhere. The darker planes give the façade weight; the white stucco gives it edge. It is a restrained front, holding back the view the rest of the house is built around.
Inside, the H-shaped plan divides the home into distinct wings, separating private rooms from service areas, joined by a central double-height volume. That core is the hinge of the house. Circulation passes through it, and the shift in ceiling height as you move from the wings into the open center marks each transition. Lower ceilings give way to volume and light, so the plan reads clearly and lives easily.
The social rooms turn toward the lake. Broad openings along the waterside frame Sky Lake across the open-plan living areas and draw daylight deep into the house. At the center of the entertaining program is the room that gives the house half its name: a climate-controlled wine room walled in floor-to-ceiling glass, the owners’ collection on full display, with an intimate tasting area beside it for evenings with a few close friends.
Outside, the design follows the fall of the land. The entertaining areas descend to the water’s edge in a sequence of tiered terraces, from a covered terrace at the top to the outdoor kitchen and pool below. Each level has its own use and its own relationship to the lake. At the shoreline, a landing zone marks the passage from land to water, working with the natural contours of the site rather than against them.
The architecture never competes with its setting. The palette is limited to dark tile and white stucco, the plan to a single clear idea, and the outdoor spaces to the shape the land already suggested. That discipline lets the lake lead, and it gives a 5,159 sf house on an 11,400 sf lot a sense of space well beyond its footprint.
