34 | Oregon Home Boyer and her team explored many options to position the house, finally deciding on an angle that has a peekaboo view of Mt. Hood. Boyer collaborated with Grummel Engineering to design the bridge connecting two of the upstairs spaces, the upstairs hangout space and the bunk room, with a bridge hung by thin steel rods just ¾-inch in diameter. “It’s actually supported by those rods, attached to hefty hidden beams—with all of that weight, we needed the cross collar ties,” Boyer says. Outside, a swimming pool and a cedar soaking tub allow for family and friends to have fun in Oregon’s hot summer season. Inside, Boyer amped up protection from the elements with a tight building envelope, fiberglass windows, and spray-foam insulation, a heat pump water heater and furnace (which also heats the pool in the summer). The two families undertook much of the construction and finishing work themselves, making it a project not unlike a modern barn-raising—an event including an entire community to make it happen. “I feel really lucky every time I go out there,” Boyer says. risaboyer.com
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