When we saw the construction estimate, we knew we had to change course and small changes weren’t enough. This was the path we took.
Category Archive: House
The Reveal of the House Estimate 📄
After all our design work, this was the day where we saw the estimate for the house we wanted to build. It didn’t go well.
The House Plans 🏡 📏📐
As soon as decided to build, we called John, an architect, to get his help. This is how the design phase started.
Finding The Builder 👷🏻♂️
Finding a builder on Orcas Island can be a challenge. In the end, we made it happen the old fashioned way: by showing up.
Sharing a Brain 🧠
Any big project comes down to relationships. This is especially true for couples who are working together on their own house project. It helps if you share a brain.
Getting the Construction Project Started ✅
In the summer of 2019, the biggest project of our lives commenced. We had everything in place to build a custom home on Orcas Island.
Finishing the Hunter House 🏠
After a year of renovation, the Hunter House finally became more real and we became more and more excited to see, and live in, the final product.
Utter Destruction at the Hunter House ⚒️🪓
Before the demolition of the Hunter House began, we had an idea: what if we got the process started with a demolition party and gave everyone tools of destruction?
The Hunter House Renovation Project in Seattle 👷♂️👷♀️
Renovating the Hunter House in Seattle, a whole-house renovation project in that involved adding a story on the top level and rebuilding most of the main level.
The Yurt-Shaped House on Orcas Island ⛺️🏡
In 2017, we bought a house on Orcas Island that had 15 sides and was circular like a yurt. What it lacked in quality, it made up for in shabby charm.
Dreaming of Orcas Island – As The Salmon Sizzled 🐟⛺️🔥
The post below was sent as an issue of my newsletter, Ready for Rain. In June of 2017, Sachi and I left Seattle for a camping trip and came home with an idea we assumed would blow over. Surely, time and debate would see it whither. Surely. We started the trip with...