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!
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
Come see a comprehensive renovation of an architect-designed 1950’s single story home with a daylight basement. This mid-century modern 2-bedroom hillside residence has panoramic views east of downtown Seattle, the Cascade Mountains, and south Elliot Bay shipyard from the upper-level deck.
Images courtesy Ben Trogdon Architects
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 courtesy Urban Design Group
Originally remodeled 25 years ago for close family friends of E . Cobb Architects principle Eric Cobb, the client’s family transitions necessitated a second remodel several years after the first was complete.
We were engaged at that time to and add a second floor guest suite for visits from the daughter (and grandchild). Project budget was limited, with areas of the original house and site needing to remain as-is for economy.
The basement and yards were left untouched.
In 2023, a new Owner contacted us about improving these areas, bringing light into these underutilized spaces, and creating improved connection to the landscape.
25 years later, through three distinct chapters in life, this finally completed the project!
Renders courtesy E. Cobb Architects Partners
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.
in-progress images courtesy Best Practice Architecture
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