A round timber home with a dark standing-seam roof and wraparound porch, set in a mountain clearing surrounded by tall pines under a partly cloudy sky.

Design complete

Blue Mountain Round Home

Blue Mountain Round Home is a two-level, 1,426-square-foot home set among the pines near Weston, Oregon. At 35 feet in diameter, it's one of the larger homes in the portfolio, with a wraparound loft organized around a central stair. A skylit oculus sits at the center of the radial cedar rafter ceiling, bringing daylight down through the double-height living space below.

The architectural design is finished; construction hasn't started.

Project facts

Location: Weston, Oregon
Year: 2026
Diameter: 35 ft
Wall height: 12 ft
Square footage: 1,426 sq ft (962 sq ft ground floor, 464 sq ft loft)
Round-home system: Smiling Woods Yurts

The challenge and the response.

At 35 feet, the design needed to make the larger diameter feel intentional rather than simply bigger — giving the loft a real program of its own (lounge, office, sleeping area) instead of leaving it as leftover space above a taller ground floor.

A wraparound loft organized around a central stair divides the upper level into distinct zones without adding walls, keeping the rafter ceiling and oculus visible from every part of the loft. The double-height living space below stays open and daylit, so the larger footprint reads as generous rather than cavernous.