Builder: Aspen Homes
Where the Spokane River meets Lake Coeur d’Alene is a neighborhood modeled after an Idaho state park campground. If you’re looking for tents and outhouses, you won’t find them here. Instead you’ll find a 3,494-square-foot home with all the amenities of the city.
Created by Aspen Homes, the urban, open-concept home was designed for the outdoorsy homeowner who loves to fish and to throw a party.
“After the home was complete, it hosted a huge party that welcomed 200 to 300 people,” Aspen co-owner and designer Zetta Stam says. “The open spaces upstairs and downstairs make it so easy to fi t such a big group of people comfortably.”
In this four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home, food is the most important part of entertaining. Fitted with an indoor herb garden and a locally made live-edge island, this kitchen gives home cooks nature at their fingertips.
Modeled to imitate the appliances of the late 1800’s, the kitchen’s vintage-looking gadgets are anything but. The six-burner oven has a nearly 5-cubic-foot interior, one of the biggest on the market.
“I believe there is so much value in vintage-made appliances,” Stam says. “And, best of all, vintage appliances look fun and retro — which is a look that feels like home.”
Upstairs, partygoers circle around the great room’s floor-to-ceiling tiled fireplace. Downstairs, adults peruse the glass wine cellar while the kids romp around in the barnwood play space. With a hanging deck on the second level and a patio on the bottom floor, an outdoor beverage can be enjoyed from any vantage point.
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When the party ends and hosts are left with the messy aftermath, the indoor walk-in wash station makes clean-up a breeze. A spilled wine fiasco doesn’t have to equal a stained rug, thanks to the enclosed hosing station located inside the home.
“We figured if the homeowner does not have a dog, they are bound to be a fisherman, an entertainer, or have muddy husbands or grand-babies,” Stam says. “There are so many uses for the wash station.”
What makes this home special are the details Stam and her business-partner-husband, Todd Stam, imagined.
Among them are glass garage doors that lead to the outdoor living spaces, magnetized cabinet doors and floor-to-ceiling windows.
Zetta describes the home as natural urban, combining the cozy feel of nature with the edginess of a modern home. In this modern camp home, sleeping bags are out and a wine cellar is in. N
By Rosemary Anderson
Photography By Joel Riner
As Featured In: Home Edition 2019
