In one of six separate bedrooms, a striking view of Mount Olympus is framed by wood in what will eventually be a window.

It’s a highlight of the roughly 7,800-square-foot, three-story model home, and one interior designer Bobby Berk hypes up as he leads a tour group up the floating stairs.

There wasn’t snow on the mountain yet during the mid-November tour, and at the time, the model home for Tri Pointe Homes’ new community in Holladay Hills — a massive redevelopment on the site of the state’s first mall — was mostly foundation and framing.

But even then, it was clear the home was designed with natural light and a connection to the outdoors in mind. It should be finished and open to tours by summer.

What will eventually be six luxury homes are part of a collaboration with Berk, who’s best known for his eight seasons starring in Netflix’s “Queer Eye” as part of the reboot’s original Fab Five, including fashion expert and longtime Salt Lake City resident Tan France.

Berk also collaborated on about five dozen townhomes as part of a decade-long partnership with Tri Pointe Homes. Both communities are on the southern end of the former mall property, near East Arbor Lane and the curve into South Memory Lane.

Though the townhomes are similar to hundreds of others popping up along the Wasatch Front in recent years, the luxury homes are unlike anything the market has seen, Berk said.

They will range from 4,600 to 7,700 square feet, depending on whether buyers choose to finish the basement. And while the size isn’t unusual, luxury homes that large aren’t typically in walkable neighborhoods, he said.

“Here, you’re able to get large lots, a luxury product, in a neighborhood where you can walk to the grocery store, you can walk to the gym, you can walk to restaurants,” Berk said. “I don’t think that exists anywhere in Salt Lake right now.”

The homes themselves, not just the neighborhood, are also unique, said Dave Kosco, who owns the California-based architecture firm Bassenian Lagoni that worked on the project.

“When you think about Utah, it’s really defined by its outdoors or active people and adventure, yet most of the homes you see, even at the luxury end, don’t really capture [the] outside,” Kosco said.

These are centered around a courtyard, which will be shuttered off from outside traffic by Cyprus trees and include amenities like a spa, fire pit, raised gardening beds, and a cabana with a cooktop, refrigerator and sink.

Inside, large windows focused on the courtyard let in lots of light, and spaces are designed with ample room, said Jeff Lake, Tri Pointe’s vice president of architecture and design.

“We care that it actually functions properly,” he said.

Berk’s role in the design included making the sometimes overwhelming home-customization process a lot easier.

Homebuyers are often faced with dozens, if not hundreds, of design choices, he said.

But in the Holladay Hills development, buyers can get the “BB-edit,” a set of 10 designs where flooring materials, light fixtures, cabinets and other details match a range of themes — from transitional farmhouse to organic modern to zen sanctuary.

“Everything is pre-selected, so you’re not having to worry about, ‘Does this gray go with this gray?’” Berk said.

All of that will run you a price tag that Tri Pointe hasn’t finalized. Smaller, but similar, homes without the estate feel in Tri Pointe communities in the Phoenix area and in Heber City are priced in the millions.