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Tahoe & Mountain Home Designs

Great Tahoe Mountain Lodge - Clcik to Zoom
Great Tahoe Mountain Lodge

This remodeled family home has great flexibility designed in. Using one floor level, it is a comfortable size for just one couple. Using all three floors and the big game room over the semi-detached garage, allows ample space and sound privacy for all four generations of the family. It was a 3,200 ' house built in the 70s with cramped spaces, but now, with 7 bedrooms, each with a bath plus two half baths; 3 living rooms; a playroom for the young children; and a big game room for the teenagers; it encompasses almost 6,000 ' plus a large open roof deck.

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A Mountain Foothills Home - Click to Zoom
A Mountain Foothills Home

This 6,000 sq' home was designed for a young family of 4, with each adult having an separate in-home office. The home contains all the spaces normally needed by a family plus a children's play room with private stairway right up to their bedrooms; an extra large gourmet kitchen open to the two story high family room with exposed timbered roof trusses; a guest (grandparent's suite); a large entry foyer with twin open stairways; dining room for 12 with a butler's pantry and bar; and a two story sitting room & library just off the master bedroom. The floor plan is long so many rooms have windows on both sides. Covered sitting porch in the front welcomes visitors and a large roofed patio in the back is ideal for outdoor living.

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New Mountain Home Design in Lake Tahoe - Click to Zoom
A New Tahoe Style Mountain Home.

This 5,600sq' Tahoe mountain home is designed to provide a generous and impressive environment in which to entertain and house guests. With four guest suites plus the master suite, a spacious and lofty great room with game room and large gourmet kitchen open to it, and a dining room with spectacular lofty ceiling and tri part view window, it will provide owners with all they could ask for in a Tahoe style home. Rustic stone work, exposed timber truss work evident throughout and large featured round top windows bring the Tahoe environment into this mountain home design. The rear side of the house spreads wide from the central, octagonal, 2 1/2 story great room which takes advantage of panoramic mountain and Lake Tahoe views, while the angled plan of the house creates a welcoming courtyard as one approaches the main entry.

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New Mountain Home Design in Lake Tahoe - Click to Zoom

A new version of the "Tahoe Style Mountain Home" design with 4,200sq'., it still has 5 bedroom suites and the lofty Great Room spaces of the original.

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Residential Mountain Home Design - Click to Zoom
Private residence in Tahoe Donner
Truckee, CA

View Virtual Tour of this Tahoe Donner Mountain Home - Completed 2003

Mountain Home Design under construction - Click to Zoom
Construction completed 2003

Designed for a steep upslope site at about 6700 ft elevation, this California mountain home design captures the views of the High Sierra from several of its rooms and its expansive entertainment deck. Rugged climatic and environmental concerns are successfully met in this design. Interior vistas, a rich variety of spaces, multiple floor levels, timbered central great room concept, and 4 bedrooms complete the livability of this 4,000 sq ft. custom home.

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Front Elevation of Mountain Vacation Home - Click to Zoom
Front view

Rear Elevation of Mountain Vacation Home - Click to Zoom
Rear view

New Design for a Mountain Vacation Home
This Design Available for Sale

This home has at its heart a 30 x 22' Great Room with two story ceiling height. The Kitchen / Dining area is open to the Great Room on one side and the full Master suite is off of it to the other side. There are fireplaces in the Great Room and the Master suite. The Great Room opens onto a large covered back porch / outdoor living room through a 12' doorway. The porch is covered by the extended rear gable seen in the rear elevation. Big beautiful, peeled Lodgepole Pine logs are used as the structure in the rear porch, the front entry portico, and in the exposed truss work above the Great Room. There are 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms for children and guests on the second floor. The home has a total of 4,200 square feet of living space indoors and a 530 sq' garage that is integral to the house, and is entered from the side.
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New Mountain Home Design for 30 year old Tahoe home - Click to Zoom
Private Residence at Lake Tahoe

Final planning stage for this Custom Lake Tahoe Mountain Home - Click to Zoom
Proposed remodel design

Shown here is an architectural model for the remodeling of a 30 year old Tahoe Home (see image below). We are planning the addition of the garage with guest suite above as well as the new top floor which will house the large master suite with even greater Lake Tahoe and mountain views. The use of parchment colored stucco, framed with the cut stone and wood trim, gives a fresh look and a hint of the Arts & Crafts style architecture, to this updated home. King-post trusses are exposed at the gables. View this home before remodeling.

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