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No. 14 Sheds, Studios & Pool Houses · Mountain & Cabin

Timber Guest House with French Doors

Beside a stone lodge, a timber guest house serving as an ADU features French doors opening onto a wood deck beneath string lights, overlooking a green lawn framed by pines.

Design notes

Mountain and cabin design lets the landscape lead. Look for heavy timber and log, stacked stone and boulders, steel and dark stains that recede against the trees, and decks and terraces that reach toward the view. Fire is central — a stone fireplace, a fire pit ringed with Adirondack chairs — and hot tubs earn their place. Planting is pines, aspens, grasses and wildflowers; paving is flagstone and gravel that can take the snow.

What to look for

  • Roof pitch, siding and windows that echo the main house
  • The path, the light by the door and the planting around it
  • Power, insulation and drainage if you will work or sleep in it
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