Custom mountain homes and outdoor living rooms built in the Flathead Valley for 19 years. Timber, stone, glass, and the big sky.
Before anything gets drawn, Dane walks the ridge with you. Where the sun comes up, where the snow loads, where the elk cross, where the view stops your heart. The house gets built in his head that morning. The next two years are just catching up.
Douglas fir frames cut and joined by our own crews, stone pulled from valley quarries, glass sized to the view corridors we flagged on the first walk. Nothing arrives on a truck that could be made better here.
The rooms people remember are the ones without a ceiling: fire terraces, plunge spas, outdoor kitchens, dining under the string lights while the peaks go pink. We build the outside as carefully as the inside, because in Montana, outside wins.
A few of the houses we are proudest of, from six-bedroom ridgeline lodges to the guest cabin everyone fights over at Thanksgiving.
Six bedrooms above the valley, glass all the way to the ridgeline.
A lake house that lives outside from May to October.
An outdoor room with a fireplace bigger than most kitchens.
The guest cabin your guests will simply never leave.
“People ask what we build first. The answer is nothing. First we sit on the land in camp chairs and watch the light move for an afternoon. The house that comes out of that afternoon fits the ridge like it grew there.
Nineteen years in, my favorite part is still handing over the keys and watching somebody walk straight past the great room to stand on the terrace.”
Fridays at 8:00 AM, year-round, weather willing. About two hours on your land.
Your land, anywhere in the Flathead Valley. We come to you.
Free, and worth the boots. You bring the dream, we bring the coffee and the drone.
Whitefish, Kalispell, Bigfork, Columbia Falls, Lakeside, Somers, and the ridges in between.
No land yet? Come anyway. Dane keeps a mental map of every buildable view in the valley.
Most Westridge builds start around $1.2M plus land, and the full outdoor living packages, terrace, fire, spa, and kitchen, start near $180K. You get honest numbers on the first site walk, not after the design is done.
Design runs four to six months, the build fourteen to twenty-four depending on the site and the snow. Mountain houses are not fast houses. They are worth it.
The Flathead Valley: Whitefish, Kalispell, Bigfork, Columbia Falls, Lakeside. We stay close, so our crews sleep at home and your site never waits on us.
Yes. Terraces, outdoor kitchens, fire courts, spas, and shade structures on an existing home are some of our favorite work. Same crews, same standard.
Your architect or one of our partner studios. Dane leads the site read and the structure either way, so what gets drawn is what the ridge can actually hold.
“Dane walked the land for an hour before he said a word. The house he built belongs to that ridge like it grew out of it.”
“We asked for outdoor living. We got an outdoor life: fire terrace, spa, kitchen, and a roof made of stars.”
“On budget, on schedule, and the crew left the site cleaner than the forest around it. Nobody believes that part.”