Deep within 2.35 acres of wooded Orono, a place within the trees awaits — where a sculptural home reveals itself among mature timber and dappled light. This is The Canopy: a rare homesite where architecture and landscape exist in quiet dialogue, and where the experience of living beneath the trees becomes the architecture itself. Lot price: $550,000. A custom designed + built home starts at $1.8M. The all-in land + design + build package price starts at $2.35M.
The Canopy offers something increasingly difficult to find in the western suburbs: genuine privacy on buildable, wooded land in the Orono School District. Gently rolling terrain moves through a mix of mature hardwoods and younger growth, opening into sun-filled clearings that invite a home to settle naturally into the landscape.
Views shift with the seasons — filtered winter light, full summer canopy, the amber glow of autumn — creating a property that feels different every time you walk it. Minutes from Lake Minnetonka, downtown Wayzata, and the Luce Line Trail, The Canopy is secluded without being remote.
The proposed residence is a bold, angular Mountain Modern home — a signature style that draws from the drama of alpine lodges and translates it into something distinctly Minnesotan. The design emerges from the woods rather than clearing them, with deep roof overhangs, expansive glass, and natural material palettes that foreground the tree coverage in every direction.
The home is designed to maximize the wooded privacy of the site while capturing the rolling terrain as a living backdrop. This is not a home placed on a lot. It is a home crafted for this land.
At The Canopy, the idea is simple: build something intentional in a natural setting. Every Sustainable 9 home begins with the land — its contours, its light, its relationship to the sky and the season.
Here, that means designing beneath the canopy rather than above it, letting the architecture honor what already makes this property extraordinary. The result is a home defined by its wooded privacy, its warm materiality, and the rare feeling of retreat just thirty minutes from downtown Minneapolis.
We have a passion for creating modern homes that not only look stunning but are environmentally-friendly to help reduce your home’s carbon footprint.
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