CHRISTMAS IN APRIL The much-anticipated 2023 Big Sky Journal HOME arrived with all the fanfare – and weight! – of the old Christmas toy catalogs we pored over as kids. A Montana house by JLF Architects is the cover story, designed as a series of connected structures that reflects the contours of the mountains and gives “a built-over-time look,” writes BSJ. The plan creates a “corridor that runs all the way through the house to the great room window” that interior designer Sophia Cok calls “a really powerful element.” Elsewhere in the issue, also by JLF, a Jackson Hole house “In the Shadow of the Tetons” created with design-build partner Big-D Signature receives raves, including for an antique cabin revived as the primary bedroom suite with remnants of 1880s newspapers once used as insulation still stuck to the logs. The “history of it is fascinating,” says the homeowner. “It brings you back in time.”

KITCHEN ENVY Client Jeremiah Young, owner and creative director of Kibler & Kirch, has a star turn in Big Sky Journal HOME, discussing how the pandemic shook up ideas about how we use our kitchens, but also “how we want our kitchens to feel,” the magazine writes in “The Heart and the Hearth.” For Young, that feel comes through materials that gather patina to look better with age. “I want a kitchen with soul,” he says. And the pandemic brought fresh intentions around function: "The prospect of actually cooking day in and day out, means that everything needs to be considered just that much more carefully," he tells BSJ. Word PR client Envi Interior Design Studio’s owner and principal designer Susie Hoffmann talks 2023 design trends in the new BSJ HOME as well. “I think design in Montana is on the leading edge of design nationwide,” she says.

BE THEIR GUEST A cunning Jackson Hole guesthouse by clients WRJ Design is the star of a story in the new May/June issue of Mountain Living. “Rush Jenkins, co-founder of WRJ Design, was charged with packing as much charm as possible into the two-bedroom space,” the magazine writes. While the mini-me cabin follows the natural palette of the client’s main house, Jenkins used layers of texture for a special sense of welcome. “All of our projects are focused on the importance of creating a tactile experience,” he tells ML. “In the mountains we can use mohair, cashmere, wool and fur—fabrics you might not ordinarily use in more metropolitan areas.” WRJ Design also was honored with a feature in the new Big Sky Journal HOME, where “A Yellowstone Story” shares the design tale of an unusual Montana house that the magazine deems both “seriously elegant and irresistibly playful.”