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last night i got to stay in this amazing forest house that you see behind me it looks a little bit
like a tree house and it was designed and built by a famous builder here in the pacific northwest
the first house is located on one of the san juan islands and it's only accessible by ferry
which makes staying here all that more enchanting we're going to meet the owner suzanne who lived
in this house for eight years before turning it into a dreamy vacation rental if you like
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hi i'm suzanne and this is the forest house
the builder is sunray kelly he's a famous pacific northwest builder he does these crazy places
i bought the house in 2002 it captured my heart i couldn't let it go i had to
get it there were other things on the market but it had to be this place
i love everything about this house i sit in the tub for hours with the water up to here
i love the quietness of sleeping here it was a wonderful place to live for eight years and then
i decided i wanted to share it with other people people love the uniqueness they want to experience
something different now it's like totally packed there's hardly any days available i have to
mark things off the calendar to get anything done here so
this house is on orcas island you get here by ferry hour and 20 minute ferry very special place
everyone should come to orcas island i'm serious it is amazing here beautiful everywhere you go
i think more people need to build houses like this
that's why i own this house it's a role model for others this is handcrafted and so
i love that because it has heart and soul in it it's got a lot of attention to detail and
the comments from people have been that they just love it you can feel it it oozes out of the walls
let's go inside
so this is the main living room it's really difficult to furnish because it's got 12
sides to it the 12 sides are a sacred amount of sides of course it couldn't be four walls
i have a curved couch for the curved wall every door is handmade
you can open it up and get a little error and then those are burls
the windows i love the windows they're all cathedral shaped windows kind of
hobbit-like people comment on them all the time so i love that part about this house
i installed the bookshelves that was the first thing i did actually i built those because i
had a ton of books and it was totally full so this is my extra stash of books
from this room we'll go into the kitchen tub room and bathroom
we have the laundry room here and then we have the toilet room here
interior doors have unique handles so this is the toilet room
we put this additional spalted alder live edge with a cherry backsplash
i found this metal company that does these really unique metal wear in portland and so i
put that in i put this cool hook in right here we put this on these
latches here very small space everything had to be just right here's the tub room
here this skylight brings more light in original tub we redid the floors
the tub is really deep it used to when i got here the water went out the back they just had a pipe
going to the backyard so since then i've done it the right way put it into the septic one person
fits in there very comfortably two people can fit but it's better one person it's a japanese soaking
tub i've spent hours in that tub meditating you know just zoning out yeah it's been great
then the focus of the light coming down makes it unique it feels so good to be here
we're used to seeing four you know boxes basically and this is all around so people
are curious they want to come see it they want to come stay and experience it
and i've got like five book fulls of really positive experiences so yeah people love it
so this is the kitchen that is off the main room down the hall believe it or not i put the kitchen
in with a friend when i lived here there was just a closet here and after a couple years
i finally put a small kitchen in this alcove right here when we wanted the real kitchen we
had to take the closet out and put all this in this is a curved wall so it makes putting this
kitchen in very difficult all the angles had to be perfect live edge alder i believe copper sink
we got a smaller propane stove fridge everything had to fit perfectly
and then we needed drawer poles one day we had one piece of driftwood that was
together and i said why don't we use that for the drawer pull you know and so we cut it to
size it was the perfect size and we put those on the front of the drawers cherry live edge
shelves i love live edge i just think it brings more feeling and emotion and heart to a place
out here three structures are connected with the deck i love that it feels so much bigger than
just the inside i also wanted bigger rail tops so you could eat out here
actually you could have a bunch of different stools if you wanted to
the tower is over there it's a two-story tower with a balcony it's two bedrooms the pod here
has a bed and then the upstairs has a bed there so this is the newest addition with a cupola
and a living roof once i had the deck built we built the pod on top
so this is the main bedroom six sided
kind of unique trimming of the windows these windows were recycled
we put the biggest windows out that way so we could see the view in here with smaller
windows over here so they have some privacy the french doors so that there's more light coming
in this is the tower this is sort of an office closet
let's head up the stairs and i'll show you the tower bedroom
this was my bedroom when i lived here for about eight years this is a great place to sleep because
you get to see everything love the windows love the big bubble you can see the stars at night
same cathedral windows with the cool latches and then the balcony is out here
you get to observe everything out here it's really a great spot to hang out contemplate
here you can really see what's going on down below i love that view i mean it's amazing
forest house on orcas island enchantment and wonder
is whimsical unique and hobbit-like that's how i would describe it
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