Summer Camp House

Our ninth endeavor with friend Ned Forrest brightens Rough Rider-inspired cabanas and a communal lodge ringing a pool and bathhouse with Moroccan whites and blues. The owners come up from southern California for visits that feel like vacations, while their Bay Area-based daughters keep bonds strong with weekend swimming and barbecues, winding through oaks and madrones to a knoll that joys in the valley.

A glacial ceiling of live-edge boards in the lodge, sacrificial finish meant to weather off the cabins’ cedar sides and handmade tile in the kitchen show the play of rusticity and refinement that makes time together here elegantly unfussy. Dining and washing collect around a cafeteria table and concrete trough sink, exultantly unprecious. Where meeting is the magic, space is special because it’s shared. We felt that way bringing the place into being, building memories with each other in welcome of all those to come.

4000 square feet
Healdsburg, California
Ned Forrest, Architect