In 2009, our clients came to us with the desire to build their dream home on property they have owned for decades. The owners expressed not only a love for Asian architecture, but a real connection with the outdoors. Their property features gorgeous and unusual plant specimens they have cultivated and bonsai-pruned for nearly twenty-five years. The goal for their new home, then, was to create a quiet backdrop for a magnificent garden and to allow the landscape to bleed into the house interiors. There are specific places where existing, manicured and newly sculpted hillsides are carefully designed to be viewed as paintings from inside the house.