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Winns boats who has also had a lifelong passion for building and designing. Fulmer in turn brought in architect Aris Georges whose deep résumé includes a Master of Architecture degree from Taliesin (the architecture school founded by Frank Lloyd Wright) as well as being named a senior fellow of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. While Georges owns a private practice, OM Studios, he is affiliated with Lindal Homes—thus his connection to Fulmer and Fulmer’s clients. For Georges, the wooded setting of the Morgans’ home presented a new challenge—one that delighted him. “Most of the houses I’ve worked with have long vistas, but that one was special because it was surrounded by beautiful tall trees and so it had a kind of coziness to it,” he says.

The team used virtual 3D modeling for everything from where the sun would hit their home in the winter and summer in order to gauge the depth of overhangs, to what the view from their elevated deck would look like. Fulmer and Georges worked with the Morgans for months to customize the home specifically to the site. “We can’t say enough about working with Rick,” Carol says. “He went above and beyond anyone that we have ever worked with as far as the time that he put in and the expertise that he brings to the project,” Jeff adds.

The Morgans broke ground just before the outbreak of Covid-19 and finished last year. Their new 2,400-square-foot home has the elements of a modern home, indeed—two shed roofs and one flat, a handsome Western redcedar slatted front door that feels almost Asian, beautiful banks of windows and mid-centurymodern–style eave brackets. Architectural Douglas fir beams on the interior warm the clean, open great room. Above all, the home has the transparency to the outdoors that the couple wanted. “You feel like you are in a snow globe, especially in the winter when the snow is falling,” Carol says. Or as Georges describes it: “You come through the woods and suddenly you run into it. When you go inside, the house almost disappears around you because you’re in the woods again. It’s simply lovely.”