SOLD

Offered at $849,900

4 bed · 2 bath · 2094 sq. ft. • .35 acres

1959 Lake Oswego Mid Century daylight ranch, nestled on a sweeping corner lot under old growth fir and maple trees, in the coveted and private Palisades neighborhood. Large windows facing North and West create the perfect light for art and living. Beautifully updated kitchen and main floor bath, lovingly maintained over the years for the respectful tending of mahogany plywood walls, fir ceilings and oak floors. One of three similarly built homes known in the area. 4 bed + Bonus/Office, 2 bath with covered outdoor deck of 340 sq. ft. along with an attached 340 sq. ft. two car garage with storage.

This exceptional four-bedroom house is a stunning example of a two-story daylight ranch built in the Pacific Northwest Modernist tradition. With modest lap siding the exterior conceals an oasis of glass and wood inside. The house is arranged across 2 levels which function symbiotically with the outside spaces.

Over the years, the house has undergone a complete aesthetic renovation (including new skylights and double pane window replacement), introducing a bespoke kitchen with one of a kind cabinetry, newer Rais wood burning stove and updated garage door. Carefully chosen additions of texture serve to lift the original palette without detracting from the strong geometric lines of the plan.

MLS# 21532869

Schools: Elementary: Westridge  |  Middle: Lakeridge  |  High: Lakeridge    (buyer to verify)

Public Spaces

The house is wonderfully unassuming from the street, concealed behind landscaped bamboo screening with only a glimpse of what lies within visible. Entry is up a meandering timber walled path and natural landscape, the first of two elegantly curated outside spaces. The interior plan is simply arranged using a modular wall system on the main level, with a series of equal-sized rooms below, and an easy sense of flow between spaces. 

The main room has the feeling of being large beyond its proportions with views to the covered deck in one direction and through the living room into the native garden in the other. A sense of volume is enhanced by the vaulted ceiling constructed of fir lumber that extends out over the deck, a unique focal point. Huge floor-to-ceiling wood-framed windows connect the inside spaces to the native gardens at two aspects, including in the living room, encouraging a sense of inside-outside that is the hallmark of mid-century design.

Private Spaces

On the main level is one bedroom with vaulted ceilings and custom built shoji screens. A full bath with garden view window, jacuzzi soaking tub and bidet toilet seat create a spa atmosphere. There are three further bedrooms and a bonus room/home office, each with ever-changing outlooks onto the gardens. There are custom elements throughout the house, such as handmade shoji screens that conceal the interior of the closets in two of the bedrooms. The bonus room offers direct access through a door and multiple windows, to the native landscaped garden.

Outdoors & Bonus Spaces

The house is thoughtfully arranged to optimize views and draw landscape connectivity into the inside spaces. The rear yard is North facing and is partially shaded by mature Douglas Firs and maples that throw beautiful glimmers of dappled light and ensures that the home retains a sense of intense privacy. Access from both the kitchen and the dining room to the covered deck with vaulted ceiling comprised of the same fir as the interior draws the experience from interior to exterior magically.

In addition a 340 sq ft two car garage with abundant storage space and room for projects. Ability to join a Lake Oswego easement under the Palisades Park Community Club comes with the home. As a private lake, the option to use this feature is a privilege.

A poem for the home |

put your body in the hands of a sculptor

on the step in, house bones calm over

a while of life moves in open hand

much is ephemeral and light,

setting gaze, the walls grow

open arms of wood laughter

tranquil bone bird built trees

give a space of perspective

you see things connect to you

each tree in the yard is a tree of all yards

it is the land let us think large

echo be of seed ancient pine

vault ceilings store hopes treasure

as we squeeze time from the lord of clocks

as we walk and go, we ask, can I belong

it hangs on our lips and gesture eyes

start where you know you

and from here, embrace into the world

a color palette serious here

these dreams are concrete and store in the vault room

the home resonates breath giving

a place for us to look and try

I laid in the lawn and felt without question

a place to look and hold among robes of build

the suns gift drips time of a place to land calm

a Fernwood mellow dragonfly embrace gentle and stoic,

residual essence of a slow truths place

of how, release and return are sun long reveal

room elk calm

the porch whale wears flowers

petals of a flower tree, small moths,

settling gaze is choosing among

perfumes and almond flowers

to not be able to speak from the heart

is the greatest loss a person can have

come home here and talk

among almond wood

and the spires of your escape

| tom blood