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Every room in the house has a view out to the landscape and another up into the trees or the sky. "In some places, you will see a branch or a treetop framed by a skylight, and in other places it’s about looking up at the changing sky," says architect Peter Tolkin. The casual dining and lounge area in the kitchen volume, for example, looks over the hills in the distance.