"Sunrise on the ranch is the homeowners’ favorite time of the day. The couple makes it a priority to sit in their favorite chairs in the great room, swiveling them toward the expansive windows and glass sliders that flow across the wall that faces the Crazy Mountains. As a cattle rancher, the husband always considered early morning to be a sacred time. Now that he is retired, he has the opportunity to take in the views tucked inside the couple’s spacious new ranch home, which was designed by 45 Architecture & Interiors and built by Battle Ridge Construction near Livingston, Montana.

By the time they met their architects—principal and owner Jeff Lusin, and director of residential design Tanner Skelton—the couple had already chosen the location where they wanted to build their home on the ranching land that has been in the husband’s family for 62 years. “We often played a game while walking the property: If we ever built a home, where would it be?” the homeowner explains. “We chose a knoll that seemed the most logical place; it was the site of an old salt box where the cows used to graze.”"