This home sits in a quiet, community-forward Seattle neighborhood—forested landscaping, a nearby church, and a community garden that makes the area feel like a pocket of calm tucked inside the city. Our work began with a simple question: How do we make a basement feel like a destination—not an afterthought?

Rather than fight the reality of lower ceilings and cooler light, we leaned in. Basements are naturally more cave-like, so we designed a space that feels intentionally cocooned: darker, calmer, and softly luminous.

I met the owner of this gorgeous bedroom when he was looking at a house across the street from my own, and it was fate... if I believed in fate... for us to be the best of friends. It didn't take us long to discover that we had children the same ages, similar interests, and similarly goofy personalities with a deep-seeded joy for being completely inappropriate.

When he asked me for a color consultation for the home he ended up in (not across the street), I was more than happy to help! When it evolved into more design, I was ecstatic.