Even those who adore city life need a place to unwind away from the hustle and bustle. It certainly doesn’t hurt to relax alone with a good book in a backyard reading retreat, or to hang out with friends and family around the fire pit or with a dip in the hot tub. This urban oasis — though small — offers space to satisfy all those needs: the introverted and extroverted.

Before this project came to be, the back door of this Seattle home opened to a maze of overgrown plants – it was hard to even visualize how much space there was hidden under all the vegetation. The homeowners hoped to transform their lot into a unified, beautiful, indoor-outdoor oasis linking their home, yard, and a new backyard shed in a designed experience where every detail would come together to compose the many smaller sub-spaces into an integrated whole.

And, what better way to do that than with a tightly integrated team! From day one, this project not only incorporated all three of our studios – architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture – but also incorporated the close care and collaboration of the homeowners, and the contractor, Proform Construction.