Explore The 2025 Tour Homes
From extraordinary ultramodern to reborn classic homes, we're showcasing amazing examples of contemporary living in Seattle!
image: E. Cobb Architects Partners
About 48 hours before Tour Day, watch your email for a printable PDF map and info packet, as well as links to a dynamic online map for easy navigation.
Travel at your own pace as you visit the homes in any order you wish between 10 AM and 4 PM on Tour day. Meet the architects and designers, ask questions, and get inspired by these beautiful Bay Area homes!
From extraordinary ultramodern to reborn classic homes, we're showcasing amazing examples of contemporary living in Seattle!
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This 3000 square foot building is designed to accommodate a growing family, with ample access to outdoor living space, the street and yard. Given the view opportunities and light constraints, creating a ‘balanced’ quality of daylight in the interior spaces – without compromising privacy – was imperative. Our clients also wanted to keep an eye toward ‘aging-in-place’, by setting the lower level up to function as a future rental unit.
The building is set close to the road to mitigate the steepness of the site, and to ease access. The street facade is decidedly understated, in part to avoid impeding the uphill neighbors views, as well as to create a counterpoint to the spatially dynamic building envelope and floor plan. A dramatic outdoor deck, partially covered by the upper level roofs, dominates the view side of the great room. West-facing clearstory windows flood the room in afternoon light. An indoor and outdoor stair descend to the lower level suite, which opens to a wide terrace and includes a family room, two bedrooms and a bath. An upper level master suite floats above the main level, framing views and offering a dramatic overlook of the lake basin.
Images: Paul Warchol
This project marks the second remodel that E. Cobb Architects has completed for the 1947 rambler. The first, in 1999, reconfigured the main floor and introduced a partial second story with a roof deck.
In 2025, the renovation extended to the lower level and surrounding landscape, adding a guest suite, office, sauna, and a lower-level terrace. Expansive glass sliders along the south façade fill the new spaces with natural light, creating an open, flexible environment that serves as both a family room and guest suite.
The lower courtyard provides a private outdoor retreat, oriented to capture southern light. Cast-in-place concrete benches, planters, and a water feature shape the courtyard amenities and frame internal views, while a steel-and-concrete stair links to a new sun patio at grade. The upper patio, designed for outdoor dining, overlooks the adjacent Olmstead Pond and its historic Minerva Fountain.
Privacy and screening are achieved through layered elements: an architectural concrete wall and an ipe-and-steel rolling gate.
Images courtesy E. Cobb Architects Partners
Designed to reveal itself slowly as one moves through interior and exterior spaces, the home offers many moments of surprise and delight. One is the Corten steel spiral staircase at the back of the house, which winds down to the backyard, offering both a sculptural quality and an unexpected way to navigate between levels. Throughout, the home embraces contrast, as it is structured yet playful, rooted in natural materials yet punctuated by unexpected moments of color and texture that reveal the homeowners’ personality and love of color. The program includes spaces scaled for daily life, with additional flexibility to accommodate family gatherings. The primary suite is on the lower level along with a gym that opens to the backyard, while the remaining bedrooms and two home offices are on the second level. Most importantly, the home needed to be a place of lasting quality, where the homeowners could age in place without sacrificing livability or design ambition.
Images: David Burns, PBW Architects
Built in 1955, this 1,260-square-foot mid-century modern home in West Seattle was designed by architect Herbert J. Haguewood as a simple hillside box with an open-plan living, dining, and kitchen area and a cantilevered balcony overlooking Elliott Bay, downtown Seattle, and the Cascades. In 2021, new owners hired Ben Trogdon Architects to renovate the house, but its designation as an Environmentally Critical Area by the City of Seattle created challenges for the intended improvements. The renovation sought to respect the original design while modernizing all systems and finishes. Work included structural leveling and foundation stabilization, replacement of windows, doors, and finishes, and installation of new mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems with LED lighting, efficient equipment, and modern fixtures. Interior updates feature glass and porcelain tile, rift-sawn oak cabinetry, and a Japanese soaking tub with steam shower, while exterior work included new decks, plantings, retaining walls, lighting, and privacy screening.
Images: Ian Eland
Located in Seattle’s desirable Queen Anne neighborhood, this contemporary three-level home offers sweeping views of the skyline and iconic Space Needle. The upper level features an open-concept living, dining, and kitchen area with floor-to-ceiling windows that flood the space with natural light. A private rooftop terrace crowns the home, providing a stunning 360-degree outdoor retreat.
The main residence includes private bedrooms on the mid and lower levels, including a luxurious primary suite with a spa-style bath and private balcony. An attached ADU with separate entrance, full kitchen, and laundry offers ideal space for guests, rental income, or multigenerational living.
With clean modern lines, high-end finishes, and sustainable materials, this home blends style and function while embracing the urban Northwest aesthetic. Designed for light, privacy, and flexibility, it’s a rare opportunity to live above the city in one of its most sought-after neighborhoods.
Images: Ivan Bud
Completion in August, 2025 – check back for finished images soon!
Looking for inventive ways to expand their spaces, a Seattle family reached out to Best Practice with a challenge: how can they improve their existing garage, create a flexible hang out space, connect to the large yard, have some overflow guest areas, a new home gym and outdoor play space for their family. The answer is a new DADU, which replaces an existing garage on the alley with a new structure that functions as a garage and retaining wall at the lower level and an open and airy detached dwelling that connects to the large yard.
Renders courtesy Best Practice Architecture
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