Beach Cottage Chronicles Season 5 Episode 8

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00:00everything was crafted by hand off the land physically building building the

00:14space together makes this property extremely special when you're creating

00:22something or building something no matter how tired wet or cold you are you

00:28could really look back at the end of any single day and be like wow look what look

00:32what we did and it created a huge amount of camaraderie

00:39it's just a just a wonderful place to be

00:45Lillipa Bay here in Washington is the second largest bay on the west coast just

00:50short of San Francisco Bay there's rugged conditions and rugged scenery

00:58between the winds that push trees over to major erosion events that happened on

01:04the cliff edge 120 miles an hour winds is what this house has to be able to

01:09withstand not exactly what you would envision it a beach house life to be

01:14like it's a camp chair beach rather than lounge chair at beach for almost 20

01:21years it's been non-stop adventure really out here

01:27I'm Richard I'm on it and this is our beach cottage the bay house

01:44together we run a company called archiform it's a design build firm so we specialize in vintage and historic buildings

01:57we just fix things up and make them work for the next hundred years

02:03Anna's the designer on this house and she put pen to paper and did all the

02:09designing

02:10so Lillipa Bay is a beautiful isolated piece of the world

02:16at high tide we have 12 acres of land and it seems like at low tide we have

02:22thousands and thousands of acres of land because the tidal flats are so

02:26dramatic we don't have neighbors for a couple miles in that direction and of

02:31course our nearest neighbors to the west is Japan which is a few thousand miles away

02:38when this property came up for sale or when Richard found it it was really really

02:45densely wood it you could barely Richard had what is those things called a

02:49machete a machete getting us through to even get to the coastline we're like

02:55well we have all this wood so let's make use of it so that was the wood that we

03:00used for this place you know we're using our chainsaws were fell on the trees we're

03:06milling the lumber and actually physically building the space from when we bought

03:10the piece of property to the day that we feel like we moved in was a 15 year

03:14period it certainly doesn't take so many years to build a house but it does when

03:19you do it on the weekends or on your free time been like what three years now

03:23mm-hmm since we feel like we moved in the front of the house was inspired by

03:31what's called a feeding barn and in this part of the world of feeding barn they

03:35have these big overhangs so the animals can go up to the barn and get outside of

03:39the weather it protects the core structure from getting too beat up but

03:44Richard and I have found after doing some research is that if you use local

03:47timber that has inherent mildew and weather resistance that just helps it

03:53from rotting it has really been great it has had no real issues a very low

03:57maintenance very low maintenance the wraparound deck was designed so we could

04:02circulate around the place so this way we can access all the doors we designed in

04:07from all parts of the house this door here kind of ends up being our front door

04:13while there's no dedicated front door like you you know come up to somebody's

04:17house and knock on it and it leads into our living room

04:22so when you walk into the house you of course have this effect of a large open

04:27space that's hence the barn like architectural style airy feeling everything

04:33flows there's our dining room table and then the kitchen of course is the center

04:38of the of the entertainment hub we have a little area in front of the

04:43fireplace

04:46the barrel roof is with the wood from the property and it conforms nicely to the

04:52shape of the of the barrel and it just creates a little warmth it brings down

04:57the ceiling it's not just far far away up there from the living room we come

05:03into the puzzle table which is one of the reasons we designed this whole place

05:07because I love to puzzle and I usually take up our dining room table when I was

05:14designing the puzzle table I knew it had to have light coming from all sides

05:18because otherwise have reflections on the puzzle pieces so this is well thought out

05:22and then the window at the end here is inspired by 1930s warehouse windows we decided to have a

05:32window with a door inside of it because I just love the look of it yeah we are very proud of this piece

05:37to the kitchen we go so off the puzzle area in the living room we have the kitchen nothing fancier than

05:45than the basics because that's how we live comes off as a really simple design but what's fabulous is the

05:50main island which is where I'm working most of the time looks out this great big set of doors and you

05:55know right off to the to the bay into the ocean he loves to cook lucky for me yeah we have natural

06:04stone marble what kind of marble is this Carrara marble so the marble top stains but we feel that

06:11adds to patina and character I love modern architecture because of the space and airiness of it but I feel

06:20for my sake it binds me too much to one particular style I even here I was feeling really really hard-pressed

06:27not to become more eclectic so the tying element of this house is the arch it's the white and the natural wood

06:35I think being a little bit eclectic by having things mismatched makes it more comfortable the light fixtures

06:42having them at different heights that just adds to character without being obnoxious about it we hope

06:48so this is our dining area and of course dining table just right off the kitchen this is one of

06:58the pieces of timber that was of course left over from the construction of the building so we we split

07:04the split the log open it up in half and that's called a book match I designed the cracks through

07:10the middle so we could run our cables up when we work at the table like wire management if you will

07:15the light fixtures Anna was trying to find the right light fixture and for years I mean not just a

07:23little bit because for me that was like the feature underneath the ceiling and so I went on eBay and

07:29these are old gothic church chandeliers when you're sitting around the table it really brings the ceiling

07:36level down and creates a little bit more of an intimate space so the floors are rough sawn timber one inch

07:45thick by 12 inches wide and Anna being from Germany she calls it schloss planken castle planks and the

07:52medieval castles yep they would have something like this so unfinished and untreated and we hope their

07:58patina even more over time and become even cooler and then when there's a stain I don't like I use a random

08:04orbit sander and sand it off and right off the dining room it naturally flows right through into the main

08:14suite when we designed it this ended up being the most beach house feeling part of the house because

08:23it's a little bit smaller a little bit cozier it's a lower ceiling and the white walls the space was also

08:30supposed to feel like that if you open the windows and doors up your outside where it's that outdoors is

08:37what matters and it's just it's lovely to wake up to you feel like you're in the middle of paradise

08:43with the doors and windows throughout the house we were able to find stained glass pieces and this one

08:50is especially special because it's an arched door with an arched frame around it that is all glass it's just

09:00out of the ordinary and I just think it's beautiful it doubles as art leads right into the bathroom the

09:07bathroom is relatively small pretty much a shower room if you will by just having a drain on the floor

09:12it's a very small and simple space but it has some element of glam the tile is the same tile we have in

09:22our backsplash in the kitchen and around the fireplace around so we call this space up here the bird's nest

09:39on the second floor the scale of the spaces reduced a little bit because we were now tucked underneath the

09:46roof and we went a little bit more nautical up there Anna and I actually met in Charleston South

09:52Carolina and she was on her family's sailboat from Germany and I was living on a little sailboat in

09:58the marina and so life at sea and being nautical is always a part of our life so those are those are

10:06big ship lights and they were used for signaling devices from one ship to another we have the landing

10:13on top of the stairs that wraps around and becomes the entry into the two bunk rooms we built them

10:19in two different styles Anna designed one and I designed the other but she's got more of a rustic

10:23feel to hers and I definitely went nautical with mine with high polished woodwork after we did this it

10:30wasn't intentional at first we created kind of like a little design competition so we don't tell our

10:34friends or family who designed which one and like oh just go upstairs and pick a room and then we

10:41quietly wait and see who which room they pick and to be honest I think a few people have picked hers more

10:47than mine no matter how small we like the idea of an adventure even if it's something as little as

11:03getting crab out of the bay there's all these days that add up to months or these months that add up to

11:24years each one of those days you can really look back and say wow I built that thing there I created that

11:31we created it together we did enjoy the adventure along the way look at all the fun memories we we

11:39did along the way and the people we met and worked with would I do it again yeah yes but not now no I

11:49need a break no right but definitely a hundred percent yes just a just a wonderful place to be

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