McCormick Creek Farms
Ridgefield, WA
This beautiful home on 50 acres of equestrian ranch land is a completely custom Studio Garrison creation. Blending the couple's styles—her preference for refined, elegant design and his passion for the outdoors and rustic interiors—presented a design challenge our team is well equipped to solve while honoring both personalities.
The Vision
The style is contemporary mountain: large in scale, grounded in materiality. Stone anchors the front columns and carries inside to the fireplaces. Custom ironwork above the entry nods to the property's heritage without being literal about it. Every custom home begins with a drawing like this. Everything that follows is making it real.
The Land
McCormick Creek Farm is a multi-generational equestrian property in Ridgefield, Washington: rolling pasture, mature oaks, a pond, and a history worth honoring. When a blended family of seven came to us ready to build, the land itself shaped every decision that followed.
Breaking Ground
This is a full custom home design. We designed the house from scratch. Before a line was drawn, we sat down with the family to understand how they actually live: main-floor living for the parents now, a separate upstairs wing for five kids that could gracefully change as they grow. Once we understood the life, we laid out the floor plan to fit it.
Taking Shape
Working closely with the general contractor and a landscape designer, we treated the arrival sequence as its own design problem. The driveway winds informally through preserved oaks to a roaring water feature and the front door. Around the corner: a five-car garage and a generous mudroom. What we call the mom drop-off door. Because on a working farm, you think about boots.
The consideration of proportion of the individual elements to the whole structure, took time and considerable back-and-forth communication between myself, the contractor and the craftsman.
It’s very satisfying to know that the clients enjoy a moment now and then looking at one of these details, knowing that much time and thought went into it.
- Jon Chenier, Architectural Designer -
The Heart of the Home
The kitchen was always going to be the center of this house. For a family of seven that cooks, gathers, and lives loudly, we opened the plan so the kitchen flows directly into the hearth room, the dining room, the bar, and the wine room. No wasted rooms. No doors that stay closed. The ceiling drops over the kitchen island to create intimacy, then soars in the adjacent living room to create drama. Both feelings belong here.
Two Voices, One Home
The husband wanted mountain vernacular: raw timber, rough-hewn stone, a fireplace that looks like it belongs in a 1920s hunting lodge. The wife wanted elegance: soft textiles, chandeliers, a master suite that felt like a retreat. We did not split the difference. We designed a home where both voices are fully expressed, sometimes in the same room. The cold-rolled steel fireplace surround. The silk grasscloth walls. The reclaimed wood beams paired with a Versailles marble floor. The clients named it themselves: Rustic Glam.
Every Detail, Accounted For
Our scope did not stop at the walls. We sourced and specified every piece of furniture, every light fixture, every accessory, and every work of art. We flew the clients to High Point Market to walk the showrooms and discover pieces that could not be found any other way. The pair of oversized cabinets flanking the main fireplace? Found on that trip. They set the scale of the entire living room.
Nothing in this home was an afterthought.
The Finish
9,200 square feet. Five bedrooms. A 560-bottle wine room. A year-round outdoor living area with built-in heaters, a stone fireplace, and a covered dining table. A water feature engineered to match the scale of the land. A primary bath with heated marble floors. A husband's office designed to face the fireplace from the desk.
And a family who said, at the end of it all, that they wanted to build another house just so they could do it again.
That is the goal. Every time.
