Jennifer Avellino and her husband, Zachary Levine, are passionate about the outdoors and wanted their 1950s Bethesda home to reflect that passion. So they hired Jim Rill, principal architect with Rill Architects in Bethesda, who, along with architect Linda Gallegos, transformed the dated Cape Cod into a contemporary Craftsman retreat that integrated nature more fully in their lives.

Rill’s design extended the family room into the backyard, converted a mini garage into a scenic screened front porch and reworked the landscaping so it enveloped the house.