The House · Casa Trigono

01The Story

1970-something:
beams against the sky.

The A-frame is the great American shortcut to joy: take a roof, make it the whole house, point it at the sky. Sometime in the 1970s, somebody did exactly that on a rocky hillside in Highland Lakes — and a neighbor was kind enough to photograph the frame going up, plank by plank.

We found the house fifty years later: great bones, tired everything else. In 2025 we rebuilt it top to bottom — new kitchen, new baths, new systems, new black shingle coat — while keeping the thing that mattered: one enormous wooden triangle and the light that pours through it.

The name? Trigono is Greek for triangle. Casa because it's home.

03The Plans

Three floors,
one triangle.

Main floor: great room, kitchen, bedroom wing and the main bath. Mezzanine: one open bedroom under the peak. Below: the lounge, the bold bath, and doors to the lower deck. 1,850 square feet, every one of them angled.

Rendered floor plan of the main level — Main level

Rendered floor plan of the mezzanine level — Mezzanine

Rendered floor plan of the lower level — Lower level

04Room by Room

Wide A-frame living and dining room with wall of glass

01

The Great Room

Cathedral cedar ceiling, a black brick chimney, and a wall of glass that makes the forest do the decorating. Dinner happens here. So does doing absolutely nothing.

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Sunlit kitchen with island, white counters and wood cabinets

02

The Kitchen

Fully rebuilt in 2025 — island seating, full-size appliances, and a window over the sink with a better view than most televisions.

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Mezzanine bedroom under the A-frame peak with paper lantern

03

The Mezzanine Bedroom

Floating under the peak of the A, open to the rafters, with a railing view down into the great room. Sleeping in the top of the triangle is the whole point.

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