Few homes announce themselves like this one. Designed over the years by its owner, landscape architect Richard Hartlage of Land Morphology, this 1920s Craftsman in Seattle is a joyful rejection of the beige-and-gray interiors so common in the Pacific Northwest. The entry glows yellow, the living room is aqua, the kitchen cabinets are salmon pink, and the stairwell is a vivid green.

The color is backed by years of careful work. Before turning to decoration, Hartlage spent about a decade on the fundamentals: rewiring, replumbing, and reinsulating the house. Only then did the fun begin. The exterior is now a deep orange-red, and the front garden is a playful composition of boxwood clipped into a serpent winding through alliums and grasses, with custom metal arbors draped in flowering vines. A small enclosed foyer replaced the old porch, adding just a sliver of space.

Inside, nearly every piece has a story: armchairs covered three times in a Josef Frank print, a vintage coffee table repainted green, cast-glass birds on the foyer wall, a sculptural pair of penguins keeping watch over the dining room, and a primary bedroom wrapped in handmade textured paper and painted mustard yellow. The kitchen was kept rather than replaced, updated with paint, custom steel shelving, and quirky brass hooks as cabinet pulls.

Before I became a photographer, I worked as a landscape architect at Land Morphology, and Richard and his team have been among my biggest supporters ever since. It was a joy to photograph his home.