The petite house on Maury Island finds a unique approach on the basic Northwest cabin.
The Pacific Northwest cabin brings a sure aesthetic to thoughts: perhaps made from logs that hail straight from the encompassing forest, fire-lit interiors constructed to maintain the damp grey at bay. Flannel cushions.
However this Maury Island cabin flouts nearly each conference of the style, with vibrant, classic interiors and nary an evergreen tree in sight. And its views of Puget Sound blow the competitors out of the water.
Nestled away on Maury Island—tied to Vashon in 1913 by a man-made isthmus—the house sits on 62 toes of sandy, low-bank Puget Sound beachfront, revealed in grand trend by a whole wall of home windows.
“So many properties within the space have a view. This one is actually simply bananas,” says actual property agent Sara Peterson, who listed the house alongside her mom and actual property accomplice, Connie Sorensen. Cargo ships move by like so many cormorants, and the mainland looms on the horizon. In any other case, it’s water so far as the attention can see.
The place basic cabins favor cozy interiors, this one feels remarkably ethereal—although the house itself is available in at a tiny 560 sq. toes (about 100 sq. toes smaller than the typical new house in Seattle). The totally open, studio-style flooring plan consists of home windows nearly all over the place they may theoretically be: above and across the kitchen cupboards, so the house seems open to the water simply past it; in a skinny strip alongside the highest of the again wall; and on the highest half of two Dutch doorways, which additional blur the road between indoor and out of doors areas.
A beneficiant swath of counter house continues the development, opening the kitchen as much as the dwelling space with simply sufficient bar seating for 4. A basic midcentury wood-burning hearth completely located to absorb the view makes the house really feel “such as you’re in a ’70s seashore film,” Peterson says. It’s ideally suited for small-scale entertaining, particularly on days when the solar invitations party-goers out to the sizable inexperienced garden and its beachside bonfires.
Continuously used as a summer season house, the cabin’s comparatively rural location on a personal, dead-end street additionally gives tranquility and solitude, regardless of the general public seashore. Level Robinson Lighthouse and Oscar the Chook King—one among Danish artist Thomas Dambo’s big Northwest Trolls, this one recognized for his distinctive crown of birdhouses—beckons vacationers a mile or two additional west. “You’ll be able to’t even see your closest neighbor’s home,” Peterson says.
For all its positives, the house gives little in the best way of creature comforts, with nearly no storage outdoors the kitchen, home equipment that could possibly be generously known as retro, and a toilet that could possibly be less-generously known as “the pinnacle,” boat-style. For a house that will as properly be floating on the Sound, that tradeoff nonetheless seems to be fairly candy.
Itemizing Quick Info
4964 SW Luana Ln, Vashon, WA 98070
Measurement: 560 sq. toes, 0 bedrooms, 1 lavatory
Listing Value: $630,000
Listing Date: 5/31/2024
Itemizing Agent: Connie Sorensen and Sara Peterson, Compass Actual Property
