Eastsound Waterfront: gabled buildings of rusted steel and reclaimed wood

The Lodge

Island: Orcas Island
Year: 2015
Architect: PBW Architects

Five gabled buildings of rusted steel and reclaimed wood, gathered along the water for a family that comes together here.

Featured in Luxe, September/October 2017

The story

Built for three generations who gather here together, this home is really five buildings. A central core holds the kitchen, dining and living rooms, three guest houses are linked to it by indoor corridors, and an outsized barn shelters an outdoor living room.

Geoff Prentiss drew them as a nod to the island’s old barns and sheds. Our crew built it, down to the front door, which we made around a vintage wood panel.

Architect: Geoff Prentiss, PBW Architects
Interiors: Mike Powers Design

Kitchen with a weathered steel island, soapstone counters, metal stools and open shelves of glassware

Weathered barnwood gable with an open outdoor room and a lit steel fireplace beside a madrona tree

Bathroom with white subway tile, a dark oak double vanity with open shelves, a stone countertop and a hexagon mosaic floor

Dining area against a tall reclaimed barnwood wall, with a ring chandelier and a steel balcony overhead

Tall entry with dark vertical paneling, a sputnik chandelier and an oversized reclaimed-wood door opening to a garden of boulders

Rust-red board-and-batten home and a reclaimed barnwood wing with Adirondack chairs on a deck facing the lawn

Great room with a two-story fieldstone fireplace wall, ring chandeliers, a steel library balcony and tall glass doors

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