Love this!

My old house had a great room for living/kitchen/eating, with vaulted ceiling of unfinished cedar and window floor to ceiling, as well as large patio doors on second wall.

It was a wonderful place to raise my kids and to have Christmas parties. Sad, but true, that it was also a "perfect" home for when my spouse had ALS, and did not ever want to leave the house. This isn't really what you think of when designing or buying a home...! but for many months he lived and slept and died in that space, a wonderful indoor-outdoor place to be, and I was so grateful for it! It meant that I could be out doing gardening, and we could still see each other (he became anxious about this), and there was a sense of not being tucked away and hidden.

Sorry... don't mean to be a downer!

Your pics are amazing!

Just wanted to point another real value in living in such a way :)