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When it comes to designing a house, constraints help. Whether it’s the budget, dealing with a remodel’s existing conditions, or the building site itself—perhaps flat ground here, or property setbacks there—such parameters become a designer’s guidelines at the start of a project. But for this new build on ten sprawling acres near a national forest in Bend, Oregon, those limits were few and far between. That is, until the architects found one: a “peek-a-boo” view of local mountain, Broken Top.

​This home is all about the river running behind it. Consider a typical summer Saturday afternoon for the family that lives there: “Our favorite thing to do is to have people float the river and then get out at our house,” says the owner. “After that, we go in the hot tub and barbecue.”

Interior Designer Lucy Roland opened Harper House in 2015 and enlisted Allie Stoddard as her creative partner in 2017, both bringing a wealth of education and experience to the task. Roland’s passion for design emerged during her upbringing in Portland and Central Oregon, living in a design savvy environment created by her mother and grandmother. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Portland. After working for 12 years at Maison, a prestigious interior design firm in Portland, Roland launched Harper House in Bend.