Mountain Living

After two decades of Montana vacations, a Midwestern couple was ready to build a legacy home. “They found a secluded 45-acre property on a wooded hillside in Big Sky and started planning,” writes Mountain Living in a feature story on the JLF Architects “Rustic Revisited” home that ended up on the January/February issue’s cover. “Kathy was perusing architects’ websites and found the perfect home on the JLF Architects site,” the story continues. “When she showed it to Scott, he was surprised but not shocked. ‘Hold that thought, I’ll be right back,’ he said—and, after rummaging through some boxes, he returned with a dog-eared copy of a magazine. ‘I could hardly believe it,’ says Kathy. ‘He digs out a magazine he’s saved and shows me the same house—the exact same house.’” That bit of serendipity led to the dream-team project, a design-build collaboration among JLF, Dovetail Construction/Big-D Signature and WRJ Design. In the same issue, JLF Architects again claims its spot on the annual ML Top Mountain Architects list, a roundup of “the impressive firms designing the homes in the pages of this magazine.”