Carnation Green Home

Additionally, it was important to create a space that was amply large without feeling overwhelming. With three grown children out of the house, it was paramount to create comfortable quarters for their visits with space for everyone to relax throughout the home, while also keeping the spaces right-sized for when the homeowner was alone.

The solution took the original home down to its studs with the goal to build something genuinely worthy of the site without erasing its history. Scaled for this homeowner’s next chapter, the home features three bedrooms and three bathrooms, so no one feels cramped or squeezed in.

Living and dining spaces, along with the primary bedroom, connect directly to a wraparound deck overlooking the water, creating a deep connection to the land and its beauty.

A timber trellis, quartz countertops, dark wood accents, and cool colors reflect the home’s lakeside location and add to the peaceful calm of the space. The home’s materials also reflect the homeowner’s emphasis on sustainability. Reclaimed timber and Olympic Peninsula cedar harvested through regenerative practices bring regional specificity to the project.

Inside, FSC-certified lumber framing, low-carbon concrete, and continuous outboard insulation imbue the very bones of the home with the homeowner’s sustainable ethos. The insulation, along with hemp wood fill in the wall cavities helps to eliminate thermal bridging, and a carefully-sealed envelope provides a level of airtightness genuinely rare in new construction, let alone a remodel.

A multi-zoned heat pump, centralized ERV, and heat pump water heater handle the mechanical side with quiet efficiency.

In a true measure of the design’s success, the homeowner reports the spaces feel like staying in a spa hotel: peaceful and restorative. To celebrate, she hosted the whole crew for a party when the work was done.

This project was honored with a Master Builder Association of King and Snohomish Counties (MBAKS) 2026 Remodeling Excellence Award (REX) for Green Remodel in the Specialty and Innovation category.

The home was also recognized at the Northwest Ecobuilding Guild’s 2025 Slam, celebrated alongside the region’s most exemplary sustainable projects.