The Flower House is located on an 11,000 sf, steeply sloping lot that relates to two different landscape contexts. The first is a narrow suburban street of the 1920s in which similarly scaled houses are located on 100-ft-wide lots with a common front yard setback. The second landscape context is the lower Hudson River Valley and the southwestern view which overlooks the river and the Palisades.

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In response to the street context, the house appears as a simple, symmetrical, gable-roofed building, with a clapboard façade and a traditional front porch. In response to the hillside and the Hudson River landscape, the building is asymmetrical, covered in wood shingles, with a stepped plan that allows both south and west exposures in every major room.  On a difficult, steep site, the house and garden read both as a traditional American house — a simple object building on the street — and as a series of interconnected indoor and outdoor rooms derived from the more complicated tradition of Italian villa ideas.