The HUT

The details that make a home feel like a five-star hotel are never the obvious ones.

Here are three things we love for every modern mountain home we design:

1. The Toto toilet.
It sounds like a detail.
It becomes something you cannot live without.

2. A Lutron system.
The home responds to you, not the other way around.

3. A whole-house water filtration system.
Softer water changes your shower, your skin, and the lifespan of every appliance connected to your plumbing.

Which one is going in your home? Drop it in the comments.

If your retirement home plan doesn't have a walk-in pantry, we need to talk.

Not the dark closet you dreaded cleaning as a kid.

Something completely different.

In the mountain homes we design, the pantry isn't storage — it's a second kitchen.

We call it the dirty kitchen.

It sits right against an exterior wall. Fully functional. Completely out of sight from the main living area.

You cook the mess there. You serve from here.

That means you actually get to enjoy the meal instead of dreading the cleanup.

Here's the lesson:

The shift from a pantry-as-storage to a pantry-as-working-kitchen is one of the smallest changes on a floor plan — and one of the biggest upgrades to how a home actually feels to live in.

The best homes aren't just beautiful. They're designed around how you really live.

If you already have a design in progress, DM me your floor plan, even a photo of a napkin drawing works.