The home features a soft palette of creams, grays and whites and an energetic and contemporary decor that incorporates wooden beams and warm furnishings to frame the vista of the outdoors. Built into the side of a hill, you enter on the second floor of the home where windows offer astonishing views of the treetops and foliage beyond.

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A glass and metal door leads into a foyer flooded with sunlight. A modern “Sputnik” light from Henson’s Lighting shines down on a painting by local artist Vanika Terhune. A bright blue basket weave console table and lamps from the space: interiors collection sit beneath the painting.