North Bluff
Projects


Pocket Neighborhoods
Third Street Cottages
Danielson Grove
Conover Commons Cottages
Conover Commons Homes
Greenwood Avenue Cottages
Salish Pond Cottages
Backyard Neighborhood
Umatilla Hill Neighborhood
Woodlands
Spring Valley
Wyer's End

New Residential
Aldermarsh
Buck Mountain
Buck Mountain Bunkhouse
Sprucehouse at Woodlands
Blue Sky
Dungeness
Green Tower
Keystone Prairie
Orcas House
Saratoga
Skaboose and House
Sandy Point House
Chautauqua
Arnn Hill
Gilann Ridge House
Gilann Ridge Cottage
Songbird House
Crab Point Cottage

Residential Renovation
Additions to a Post-War Box
Towerhouse
North Bluff Addition
Poet's Corner
Meydenbauer House

Conference/Retreat Centers
Whidbey Institute:
   
Thomas Berry Hall
   
Pavilion
   
Chinook Farmhouse
   
Iona House
   Woodland Sanctuary
Tahoma Zen Monastery

Mixed Use
Second Street Project

Description

Our client built the original cabin of this island home over a couple of summers between college terms. When he and his wife retired, they wanted to make the cabin more comfortable for full-time living. The old cabin was filled with memories, character and charm, and we recommended against adding onto it directly, as that would require destructing its fragile beauty. We recommended instead creating a new building with a connected outdoor room, acting together as indoor-outdoor suite of rooms.  In this way, their visiting friends and adult children and grandchildren could keep sleep-in vacation hours without disrupting the daily routine of the owners.  The outdoor room has become a well-used space during daytime and evenings, and with the heat from the stone fireplace, through to the shoulder seasons.

Richard Merrill, Kim Hoelting and a crew of craftsmen built the new structures, fitted the old cabin with a new kitchen and bathroom, and gave it’s exterior a cosmetic facelift to blend in with the new structure.