It’s been said that the little things matter most — even when considering a cabin standing proudly beneath the grandeur of 10,000-foot craggy mountain peaks in Big Sky, Montana. The details are where builder Peter Lee focused his attention when he set out to build his family’s ski retreat in Big Sky, and they are what made the difference in the finished cabin. “I finally feel like I got the details just right,” he says. Lee should be expert at the details. His company, Teton Heritage Builders, built the home and has been building custom homes for 12 years in Big Sky and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Although the details may not be what stand out most when one enters Lee’s 5,600-square-foot cabin, they do play a major supporting role. For instance, an unobstructed view of Wilson Peak from the picture window in the great room took respectful collaboration between Lee and architect Eliot Goss working together to make the uninterrupted view possible. “Visually, buildings really compose much like a painting,” Goss says. “Only you’re working with a three-dimensional object within a large space rather than with paint on canvas.”