This contemporary home with six bedroom suites, a professional grade kitchen, and a creek flowing through its backyard is one of the most graciously designed and decorated in the valley. In the exclusive Shooting Star subdivision, a short distance from the base area of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Cirque View Homestead — so named because a wall of windows in the great room frames the popular Cirque black diamond ski run at JHMR — looks fresh from the pages of Architectural Digest. (Christopher Lee of Jackson-based firm Design Associates Architects designed the home while KAM Designs, a firm with offices in San Francisco, Scottsdale, and Jackson Hole, did the interior design.) Also, a terrace just feet from the creek running through the backyard (a tributary of Fish Creek) has an outdoor sofa, fire pit, hot tub, gas grill, and dining table for 10.

Don’t worry that its curated and well-considered design means Cirque View Homestead isn’t cozy and comfortable. You can’t have great design without a space being easy to live in. And ​“easy” is one of the best words to describe life at Cirque View Homestead. A couple of others? ​“comfortable” and ​“relaxing.”

You’ll pick up on all of these from the moment you walk...