Lot 21 is five acres of meadow at The Keep, in Douglas County, where the ground falls away west toward the foothills and the Front Range behind them. On a clear day the skyline runs from Pikes Peak to Longs Peak.

It is offered with a schematic design by MOD Architecture + Design, drawn for this ground rather than dropped upon it. The plan follows the fall of the land: 3,318 square feet on the main level over a walk-out lower level of 3,112, settled into the slope, the lower one opening at grade to the meadow, the roof carried long and low so it reads beneath the ridgeline rather than against it. Five bedrooms, an office, five and a half baths, an oversized four-car garage, and an elevator serving both levels. Below, a gym with sauna and cold plunge. The home is meant to be found in the landscape rather than seen from across it.

The hardest questions on a site like this — where the home should sit, how it should meet the view, what it should be made of — have already been answered. Everything that follows is included in the price: developing the design, carrying it through The Keep’s design review, permitting it with Douglas County, and building it.

The design is not fixed. A buyer works alongside MOD to modify and further develop the plans, the finishes, and the program, so the finished home answers their own lifestyle goals.

Wall Custom Homes, a preferred builder at The Keep, will build it, and the construction is carried by the purchase price. Three generations and more than four hundred homes into its work across metro Denver, the firm has taken a National Gold Award for Best One-of-a-Kind Custom Home, repeated MAME honours from the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver, and the HBA’s 2023 HAP Award for custom builder.

The name of the home comes from the Rampart Range, the line of foothills it faces. It suits the architecture as well: long, low walls of stone anchoring each end of the plan, on a lane that already speaks of turrets and bartizans.