East Fork

East Fork is a family house in Vancouver, Washington, with its own ADU. The clients knew exactly how they wanted to live in it, and AVI's work on the interior was to turn those preferences into one consistent language rather than a series of separately decorated rooms.

The first request was blue, inside and out. It became the organising element of the whole house: strongest in the kitchen, then carried in a controlled way through the primary suite, the closet, the sunroom and the smaller details — a thread through the rooms rather than a theme applied to them.

The entry opens straight into the living room, so the house makes its case in a single view. The stone used on the facade comes inside with you — at the entry and again around the fireplace — which makes the connection between outside and inside literal rather than suggested.

Overhead, the ceiling is treated as part of the room. Custom-profiled beams replace standard ones, and the chandeliers hang directly from them — a finer fixture over the entry, a larger, more expressive one over the living area. Two zones, each with its own hierarchy, held in one composition.

The sunroom sits beside the flex room and opens to the backyard through a full wall of windows. It behaves more like a covered terrace than a room, so it was furnished like one — outdoor pieces, chosen deliberately, so the space can run straight on into the pool area.

The glazed ceiling ruled out conventional overhead lighting, so the light moved to the walls. A run of sconces carries the evening, and greenery with small blue accents keeps the colour story going without raising its volume.

The kitchen is where the brief is clearest. The main cabinetry is blue; the island is deliberately white, which keeps a strong colour from making the room heavy. The hood is rounded, picking up the arches used elsewhere, and chain-hung pendants add one more classic layer.

The island is large, but it stands on open legs, so its scale never reads as mass — and the same leg detail returns in the breakfast nook. Dining and nook frame the kitchen from opposite sides. At the dining table the clients asked for a round top, and a console with a mirror adds storage without breaking the line.

Arches run through the house as a working language rather than ornament. They form the niches on either side of the fireplace, mark the transitions between rooms, shape the hood, open the primary bedroom and divide the primary bath. Where a passage needed to balance the fireplace wall, a large artwork completes the symmetry.

The furniture leans intentionally classic, with the familiarity of a traditional American interior, while the composition around it stays current. That balance is the point: nothing here is period styling, and nothing is new for the sake of it.

Next to the sunroom, the flex room carries the blue into upholstery — a blue sofa, patterned ottomans, a layered rug — and works as the second living room a family house needs when the main one is doing its formal job.

Beyond the main house sits a self-contained ADU with its own living room, kitchen, suite and bath. It is finished in the same language — the same woods, the same restraint, the same blue in small doses — so it reads as part of the house rather than an addition to it.

The primary bedroom continues the language: decorative wood beams, a textured accent wall, tall dressers and an oversized upholstered headboard, with blue returning in the textiles. An arched opening was introduced to correct the geometry of the room. With no fireplace, a quiet corner with a chair, a dresser and an arched mirror takes its place.

In the primary bath an arch divides the room: separate vanities and a custom makeup area on one side, a wood-panelled built-in tub and a separate shower on the other. The shower has two niches sized for razors — a request AVI had not seen before, and exactly the kind of detail that shows a house designed around how people actually live.