This Wisconsin house, including an artist’s studio, is sited in a gently rolling agricultural landscape standing at the edge of an old oak woods overlooking a small valley through which a stream meanders sluggishly. Rounded hills slope up from all sides, some wooded, others with horizons of grass. Lombard comes from a family of puppeteers and the tradition of theater continues in the design of the house. The level change in the living room along the balcony (fly-loft) above provides the rude ingredients for home theater. A third floor look-out is reached by a narrow stair located behind the headboard of the master bed. The studio entered across an exterior deck is used for painting and wood-carving. The red and white board-and-batten exterior siding is typical of local Norwegian barns and the creamy yellow of the clapboards is derived from the area’s famous cheese and butter production.