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The home's glassy façade reflects a wondrous surround popu-
lated with ornamental plantings of Japanese maples and flow-
ering trees, along with that phalanx of mature evergreens, and
it is this landscape that influenced a warm, expertly restrained
interior, designed by Charlie Hellstern Interior Design (the studio
also custom-designed most the furnishings in the space). Décor
does not dilute the view. With all that green at its sides, and the
hypnotic blue beyond, the home's material palette is muted, if
not positively marginal, allowing the original vision of a venerated
Northwest name to shine anew. Having been rid of concerning
chemicals in products, materials and finishes, the house, while
not one-note, is decisively of one tenor, beautifully highlighted
by streams of a natural warmth from skylights throughout. In
preserving the house's many visual connections to the land-
scape—including a sizeable outdoor area for dining, gathering,
dreaming—Miller Hull paid tribute to Moldstad's local expression
of Pacific Northwest Modernism, but contemporized it according
to broader social concerns of both the client and the firm.
Doing solared shelter as early as the 1980s, when the whole
thing was still rather sci-fi in most people's minds, Miller Hull—a
partnership between Peace Corps alums David Miller and
Robert Hull—brought the full weight of its strongly regionalist,
environmentally-attuned credentials to bear on Loom House. It
is, therefore, the culmination of decades of regenerative work,
representing the beauty of the built environment at its most
pure—as it must be in the future. millerhull.com
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Miller Hull paid tribute to Moldstad's local
expression of Pacific Northwest Modernism,
but contemporized it according to broader
social concerns of both the client and the firm.
