Cushman Design Group has created this incredible contemporary home as the architect’s personal residence, situated on a beautiful property in Hyde Park, Vermont. The house encompasses 2,300 square feet of living space, with an exterior facade of eastern white pine that is complemented by an intricate standing-seam metal roof design. On the interior, the walls are ceilings are sheetrock, while the windows are budget-friendly  Andersen 100 Series.

The long axis of the house faces south on the gently sloping site to bring midwinter daylight and passive solar gain deep into the 16-foot-wide main volume. Just 2.5 acres of the 17.5-acre lot was developed, to minimize disturbance to the site, to preserve many of the long-lived mixed hardwood and softwood trees, including the owners’ favorite, a yellow birch with golden curly bark, and to protect the natural wetlands and stream outflow.

DESIGN DETAILS: ARCHITECTURE Cushman Design Group INTERIOR DESIGN Cushman Design Group GENERAL CONTRACTOR Gregory Construction LANDSCAPE DESIGN Cushman Design Group

Above: View of the unique roofline of this house in Vermont.

What We Love: This Vermont home was designed for an architect and his wife to downsize their life and age in place. The beautiful property allows the owners to spend time outdoors during the warmer months while enjoying light and airy living spaces during the winter months. We love how the floor plan was designed with all of the main living areas, easily accessible on the main level, and the ancillary spaces on the lower level, perfect for the homeowner’s lifestyle needs.

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Inside, the fully accessible main level encompasses the living room, dining room, kitchen, primary bedroom and bath, and a lovely westerly screened porch to soak in the bucolic vistas. To tread lightly on the terrain, the architect designed the screened porch and bedroom to both be constructed on posts over the ledge in the ground. The home also has a sunning deck that maximizes the serene surroundings.

Connected to the main structure is a garage with three bays, including a small studio and a workshop. The dwelling emphasizes intuitive, organic, and highly functional spaces combined with simple stylistic elements and subtle nods of a mid-century modern American home.

Above: The Hearthstone Tula Woodstove brings warmth to this open layout great room.

Above: In this light and airy kitchen, the maple cabinets are by Cookshire Cabinetry.

Above: The dining table was custom-designed by the architect and fabricated out of Baltic birch by Whitaker Hartt Cabinetry.

Above: In the bedroom, the bed is the Blu Dot Hush Upholstered Platform Bed.

Above: The screened porch provides a cozy oasis for indoor-outdoor living. It is framed in locally sourced band-sawn hemlock.

Above: The exterior facade is painted in a versatile dark gray — Amherst Gray HC-167 by Benjamin Moore.

PHOTOGRAPHER Ryan Bent