“I got a text message from Matthew that said, ‘House gone,’” recalls the designer John Hulka, who had been tasked with the interiors. Only stray elements were spared: the banister and newel post, which were at the millworker’s for repair; new windows, delayed on a truck. The couple, unmoored, considered pivoting to a modernist-style house or even selling the land, but the prospect of a multiyear setback was too much to bear. “It would have never entered our minds to build some pastiche home,” says Goetz, but reconstruction made sense: “We already had the plans.” To Hulka, the living room’s green George Smith sofa invites the outdoors in.