After 25 years and four house projects together, interior designer had gotten to know one Los Angeles family—and their style—so well that when it came to their recently built home in Colorado, he could practically predict what they wanted. “They’re busy people who trust me,” Joyce says. “Since I’ve done so many of their houses in the past, I know what to do, and when I go in a slightly different direction, they allow me to do it because they know in the end it will be successful.”

According to Joyce, when he started working with the clients, their style leaned traditional. Over the years, it gradually evolved into a more transitional aesthetic. Their newest house, however—a custom build designed by Seattle-based architecture firm —is a squarely modern structure tucked into a forested plot

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