This house was designed and hand-built by Jenny and Michael, who for years had been daydreaming about “maybe building a house one day”. They finally made it happen with the help of some great friends.
Sustainable design is very important to the couple, so the house is constructed and furnished from an eclectic array of reclaimed materials – squirreled away over the years, and now creatively reused and repurposed.
Downstairs is the kitchen, living room with fold-down sleeper and bathroom with tiny clawfoot tub. Upstairs is the loft bedroom with comfortable queen sized bed.
What is a home without a porthole?
The kitchenette stove/refrigerator was sourced from the Hood River History Museum.
Once an old Mexican dresser, now kitchen cabinets.
The kitchen drawers are made from vintage fruit crates.
Open shelving from reclaimed old-growth wood.
The wood-clad windows are salvaged from a horse farm in the Oregon countryside.
The teak hardwood flooring, cedar shake siding, are salvaged from high-end construction jobs.
A burlap coffee bag was turned into a pillow case.
An old propane burner has been converted into a glass coffee table.
The bathroom
The loft bedroom
Lockers from a metal-working shop down the street, now bedroom storage.
The rustic house is available for short-term stay on a limited basis. More details here
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