The client, Ruth Hiller, a fine arts painter and corrective exercise specialist, purchased a 1950’s single storey home located in Winter Park, Colorado. Ruth, a single woman, approached Michael P. Johnson Design Studio Ltd. with the challenge to remodel this poorly designed building in a manner within a minimalist design ethic. With little to work with it was suggested that the existing residence be removed and relocated elsewhere.

Working with the existing basement foundation a two storey solution allowed the living, dining, and kitchen to fly above the dense …