1 00:00:04,939 --> 00:00:07,353 [music playing] 2 00:00:19,353 --> 00:00:20,836 PAIGE STOCKLEY: When I leave Seattle, 3 00:00:20,939 --> 00:00:22,698 I feel my stress levels just, like, dropping. 4 00:00:25,663 --> 00:00:27,560 And then when I come down the driveway 5 00:00:27,663 --> 00:00:29,560 into the walnut tree and the cherry tree 6 00:00:29,663 --> 00:00:33,284 and I enter this house, I just love that feeling 7 00:00:33,387 --> 00:00:34,249 of just coming here. 8 00:00:43,353 --> 00:00:46,043 This house for me was all about food and cooking 9 00:00:46,146 --> 00:00:47,560 because that's our family. 10 00:00:47,663 --> 00:00:49,422 We're food family. 11 00:00:49,525 --> 00:00:51,215 We spent a lot of time harvesting 12 00:00:51,318 --> 00:00:53,422 oysters and catching crab. 13 00:00:53,525 --> 00:00:55,491 I really was looking for a place that I felt 14 00:00:55,594 --> 00:00:57,180 would bring me closer to them. 15 00:01:00,491 --> 00:01:03,215 It's very restorative to come out here. 16 00:01:31,146 --> 00:01:35,594 These are very fresh, and they're called Pacifics. 17 00:01:36,905 --> 00:01:38,353 That's the kind of oyster it is. 18 00:01:40,215 --> 00:01:41,525 And there's a whole history to that. 19 00:01:46,249 --> 00:01:47,043 Aren't they pretty? 20 00:01:49,663 --> 00:01:53,076 The cove of Holly is in the Pacific Northwest. 21 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:58,974 Holly is really rural, the beautiful forests everywhere 22 00:01:59,076 --> 00:02:01,560 and wildlife everywhere. 23 00:02:03,249 --> 00:02:05,215 The other side is the Olympic mountain range, 24 00:02:05,318 --> 00:02:07,525 and that's all state park over there. 25 00:02:07,629 --> 00:02:11,284 And then right along the shore is Highway 101. 26 00:02:11,387 --> 00:02:13,456 [music playing] 27 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,974 I am a professional cellist, so I play in orchestras and string 28 00:02:17,077 --> 00:02:18,043 quartets. 29 00:02:18,146 --> 00:02:19,525 And I also teach. 30 00:02:19,629 --> 00:02:22,629 Music is a really stressful profession 31 00:02:22,732 --> 00:02:26,077 because you really have to be perfect all the time. 32 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:30,732 So coming out here is a nice break from the stress. 33 00:02:33,456 --> 00:02:36,973 I got married in 2002, and my daughter was born in 2004. 34 00:02:37,077 --> 00:02:39,146 We have, like, the super urban house in Seattle. 35 00:02:39,249 --> 00:02:42,767 We like being in the city, but I was very really adamant 36 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:44,387 about having my daughter have some sort 37 00:02:44,491 --> 00:02:46,594 of country type experience. 38 00:02:46,698 --> 00:02:49,043 I wanted her to have a place where she'd be on the beach 39 00:02:49,146 --> 00:02:52,491 and, like, swimming and building tree forts. 40 00:02:52,594 --> 00:02:54,905 We have a lot of memories here as a family. 41 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:56,732 My grandparents had a cabin Holly, 42 00:02:56,836 --> 00:02:58,491 and I was married at Holly. 43 00:02:58,594 --> 00:03:04,146 And my father really loved being at Holly getting crabs 44 00:03:04,249 --> 00:03:07,008 and oysters, and I wanted to do something that connected 45 00:03:07,111 --> 00:03:10,146 me with my family memories. 46 00:03:10,249 --> 00:03:13,491 So I bought the property in 2009, 47 00:03:13,594 --> 00:03:15,043 and when I came here in the dead of winter, 48 00:03:15,146 --> 00:03:16,767 there was like this riding double wide 49 00:03:16,870 --> 00:03:18,353 and it was like cement everywhere 50 00:03:18,456 --> 00:03:19,836 and there was another-- there was two garages 51 00:03:19,939 --> 00:03:21,353 and they were condemned. 52 00:03:21,456 --> 00:03:23,560 And the septic had burst and not pretty. 53 00:03:23,663 --> 00:03:27,698 And a lot of overgrown weeds and a creek there's a wash out. 54 00:03:27,801 --> 00:03:30,387 But, of course, I knew that the land was amazing 55 00:03:30,491 --> 00:03:32,594 because this 160 feet of waterfront, 56 00:03:32,698 --> 00:03:34,180 so you have this beautiful beach. 57 00:03:35,801 --> 00:03:38,043 We demolished everything a complete clean slate, 58 00:03:38,146 --> 00:03:41,698 so there was no architectural history whatsoever. 59 00:03:43,732 --> 00:03:45,663 And so then how do I find an architect 60 00:03:45,767 --> 00:03:49,629 to build this future beach house that I had no idea 61 00:03:49,732 --> 00:03:51,146 what it was going to look like. 62 00:03:51,249 --> 00:03:53,077 So I started to look at coffee table books, 63 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:55,698 and there was this beautiful house on the cover. 64 00:03:55,801 --> 00:03:58,594 And I looked up the back to see who the architect was, 65 00:03:58,698 --> 00:04:00,353 and it was Andrew Borges. 66 00:04:00,456 --> 00:04:03,077 ANDREW BORGES: Paige called us kind of out of the blue, 67 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:05,732 and so we basically worked with her in the beginning 68 00:04:05,836 --> 00:04:07,525 just to make sure that we could actually 69 00:04:07,629 --> 00:04:10,974 do what she was imagining might be able to happen out here. 70 00:04:11,077 --> 00:04:13,732 So we did a feasibility study, and that sort of 71 00:04:13,836 --> 00:04:17,490 kicked off kind of a design process in earnest. 72 00:04:17,594 --> 00:04:19,317 [music playing] 73 00:04:19,422 --> 00:04:21,180 PAIGE STOCKLEY: You head towards the water 74 00:04:21,284 --> 00:04:25,146 and it's a long kind of skinny driveway with beautiful trees 75 00:04:25,249 --> 00:04:26,043 and cedars. 76 00:04:27,629 --> 00:04:28,974 And to the left is the guest house. 77 00:04:30,698 --> 00:04:31,629 Straight ahead is the house. 78 00:04:33,456 --> 00:04:35,629 To the right is the creek where we have 79 00:04:35,732 --> 00:04:37,698 the tent and the salmon hut. 80 00:04:41,870 --> 00:04:45,043 Enter through the front door and then there's the kitchen right 81 00:04:45,146 --> 00:04:48,008 there and then the dining room and you see all the windows 82 00:04:48,111 --> 00:04:50,146 and the deck facing the water. 83 00:04:50,249 --> 00:04:53,353 ANDREW BORGES: The house is about 1,200 square feet 84 00:04:53,456 --> 00:04:56,215 on the main level, and then the loft is 85 00:04:56,318 --> 00:04:59,215 another 400 square feet or so. 86 00:04:59,318 --> 00:05:02,180 It's a compact little structure. 87 00:05:03,767 --> 00:05:05,491 From the beginning, this house is really 88 00:05:05,594 --> 00:05:09,870 going to be about entertaining and connecting with people, 89 00:05:09,974 --> 00:05:12,698 and we knew because we had a limited footprint 90 00:05:12,801 --> 00:05:15,111 to work within, the spaces weren't 91 00:05:15,215 --> 00:05:16,767 going to be able to be huge. 92 00:05:16,870 --> 00:05:18,146 And so the kitchen really grew out 93 00:05:18,249 --> 00:05:19,939 of this idea of wanting something 94 00:05:20,043 --> 00:05:23,215 that was super compact but super functional. 95 00:05:23,318 --> 00:05:24,732 PAIGE STOCKLEY: Then in the back of the house 96 00:05:24,836 --> 00:05:28,387 are two bedrooms and two bathrooms. 97 00:05:28,491 --> 00:05:31,456 Then you had up the stairs, and at the very top of the stairs 98 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,594 is a little landing with a sitting room. 99 00:05:33,698 --> 00:05:37,422 And then you come into this very high gabled high ceiling room 100 00:05:37,525 --> 00:05:40,387 which we call kind of the sleeping porch and those four 101 00:05:40,491 --> 00:05:42,215 little twin nooks. 102 00:05:42,318 --> 00:05:44,732 My original idea was that my daughter would have her friends 103 00:05:44,836 --> 00:05:46,525 and they'd have, like, places to sleep, 104 00:05:46,629 --> 00:05:48,801 and you have two or three families here. 105 00:05:48,905 --> 00:05:52,008 ANDREW BORGES: Daisy being younger, bringing friends out 106 00:05:52,111 --> 00:05:55,422 to create kind of a sleeping loft where each of the kids 107 00:05:55,525 --> 00:05:58,939 might have their own little sleeping nook. 108 00:05:59,043 --> 00:06:00,422 PAIGE STOCKLEY: Right. Kind of like a train. 109 00:06:00,525 --> 00:06:01,594 ANDREW BORGES: Yeah. 110 00:06:01,698 --> 00:06:03,456 PAIGE STOCKLEY: Yeah. 111 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:04,974 ANDREW BORGES: Yeah, so I think that was sort of my mind, kind 112 00:06:05,077 --> 00:06:07,387 of the genesis of the bunks on either side 113 00:06:07,491 --> 00:06:08,870 of that kind of big hall. PAIGE STOCKLEY: Right. 114 00:06:08,974 --> 00:06:10,111 And the funny thing is the grown-up-- 115 00:06:10,215 --> 00:06:11,939 the grown ups love the bunks. 116 00:06:12,043 --> 00:06:13,422 They all want to sleep on-- ANDREW BORGES: It's too funny. 117 00:06:13,525 --> 00:06:15,180 PAIGE STOCKLEY: They call them the nooks, 118 00:06:15,284 --> 00:06:16,318 but they all wanna sleep there. ANDREW BORGES: The nooks. 119 00:06:16,422 --> 00:06:17,974 PAIGE STOCKLEY: Yeah. 120 00:06:18,077 --> 00:06:19,801 So the house I think is about maybe four bedroom, 121 00:06:19,905 --> 00:06:21,180 but it's more like the upstairs is kind of a big sleeping loft. 122 00:06:22,939 --> 00:06:25,215 And then we also have a guest house because sometimes 123 00:06:25,318 --> 00:06:26,560 someone wants some privacy. 124 00:06:28,353 --> 00:06:32,939 This used to be a garage, and I got rid of that garage. 125 00:06:33,043 --> 00:06:36,043 And so, you know, Andrew designed this beautiful guest 126 00:06:36,146 --> 00:06:38,284 house, which is kind of like a little temple 127 00:06:38,387 --> 00:06:40,491 because it's got a really high ceiling. 128 00:06:40,594 --> 00:06:44,180 And it's kind of a replica of the main house, which I like. 129 00:06:44,284 --> 00:06:46,456 I like the connection. 130 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,525 If I do have a rehearsal, like, with my string quartet, 131 00:06:49,629 --> 00:06:50,767 this works really well. 132 00:06:50,870 --> 00:06:52,939 Just push that out and voila. 133 00:06:55,180 --> 00:06:56,767 What I love about what Andrew did 134 00:06:56,870 --> 00:06:58,249 is it's, like, pretty small, but with the height, 135 00:06:58,353 --> 00:06:59,525 it feels really spacious. 136 00:07:01,456 --> 00:07:03,284 With Andrew and I talking about what the outside of the house 137 00:07:03,387 --> 00:07:06,560 was going to look like, this old Holly schoolhouse, 138 00:07:06,663 --> 00:07:09,801 this 100-year-old schoolhouse just up the road that Holly 139 00:07:09,905 --> 00:07:13,077 children used to go-- attend in 1922, 140 00:07:13,180 --> 00:07:14,939 looks pretty much like this, brown shingled 141 00:07:15,043 --> 00:07:16,594 with, like, white trim. 142 00:07:16,698 --> 00:07:19,387 And I've always loved that building, and my husband 143 00:07:19,491 --> 00:07:21,180 and I were married there. 144 00:07:21,284 --> 00:07:23,767 And there's these wonderful community potlucks 145 00:07:23,870 --> 00:07:25,594 there and Christmas parties. 146 00:07:25,698 --> 00:07:27,629 It's very-- I'm very nostalgic with the Holly schoolhouse. 147 00:07:27,732 --> 00:07:30,008 And so when we were talking about what the outside would 148 00:07:30,111 --> 00:07:31,422 look like, I said let's make it look 149 00:07:31,525 --> 00:07:32,594 like the Holly schoolhouse. 150 00:07:32,698 --> 00:07:34,456 [music playing] 151 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,767 ANDREW BORGES: It's a hybrid of a lot of different influences 152 00:07:37,870 --> 00:07:40,008 and languages, and I was always sort of taken 153 00:07:40,111 --> 00:07:44,043 with kind of the simplicity and rigor of kind 154 00:07:44,146 --> 00:07:45,939 of the Shaker architecture. 155 00:07:46,043 --> 00:07:48,387 A lot of it is, you know, the built ins, and everything 156 00:07:48,491 --> 00:07:50,491 having a place and a place for everything 157 00:07:50,594 --> 00:07:54,111 is kind of a very Shaker idea. 158 00:07:54,215 --> 00:07:58,525 I think the use of the fir as kind of a dominant wood 159 00:07:58,629 --> 00:08:01,905 both on the floor and in the structure I think 160 00:08:02,008 --> 00:08:03,801 was an attempt to tie it into the Northwest 161 00:08:03,905 --> 00:08:07,801 but then the Italian tile, the French fireplace, the, 162 00:08:07,905 --> 00:08:11,801 you know, in sort of detail, I mean, the English tub. 163 00:08:11,905 --> 00:08:14,594 PAIGE STOCKLEY: Quaker French beach house Northwest house. 164 00:08:14,698 --> 00:08:15,491 Cottage. 165 00:08:17,629 --> 00:08:19,732 PAIGE STOCKLEY: The house began to take shape, 166 00:08:19,836 --> 00:08:22,801 and it looked like it was going to be completed pretty soon. 167 00:08:22,905 --> 00:08:25,491 Then the big question of what to put inside the house. 168 00:08:27,318 --> 00:08:30,767 My goal with the house was to pay homage to my childhood, 169 00:08:30,870 --> 00:08:34,629 honor the memory of my dad and my family. 170 00:08:34,731 --> 00:08:37,698 It was in the year 2000, and I was 38 years old. 171 00:08:37,801 --> 00:08:40,456 My parents were in Mexico vacationing, 172 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:42,525 and they were flying home. 173 00:08:42,629 --> 00:08:44,111 There was trouble with the plane, 174 00:08:44,215 --> 00:08:45,905 and the plane just dropped from the sky 175 00:08:46,008 --> 00:08:47,422 and crashed into the ocean. 176 00:08:47,525 --> 00:08:50,732 All 88 people died including my parents. 177 00:08:50,836 --> 00:08:52,422 [music playing] 178 00:08:52,525 --> 00:08:56,215 That was a very sad and devastating time in my life, 179 00:08:56,318 --> 00:08:57,939 and so I decided that, you know, I 180 00:08:58,043 --> 00:09:00,249 wanted to buy a property that would 181 00:09:00,353 --> 00:09:04,870 just bring me back to memories of my parents and my childhood. 182 00:09:04,974 --> 00:09:08,180 MICHELLE BURGESS: Paige's parents were really 183 00:09:08,284 --> 00:09:10,732 just amazing couple, so when Paige told me 184 00:09:10,836 --> 00:09:13,180 about the property and that she wanted to do something special 185 00:09:13,284 --> 00:09:14,870 out here in memory of her parents 186 00:09:14,974 --> 00:09:17,905 and that she'd come out here, that took this project 187 00:09:18,008 --> 00:09:20,043 to a whole different place. 188 00:09:20,146 --> 00:09:21,870 There had been this great photo. 189 00:09:21,974 --> 00:09:25,387 I wanted that photograph to be something other than just, 190 00:09:25,491 --> 00:09:27,077 like, a family photo. 191 00:09:27,180 --> 00:09:28,939 I wanted it to have a different kind of presence, 192 00:09:29,043 --> 00:09:33,077 so I had it mounted behind plaques because plaques on top 193 00:09:33,180 --> 00:09:36,111 would only add to the depth of that video still. 194 00:09:36,215 --> 00:09:37,525 And it's a wonderful-- 195 00:09:37,629 --> 00:09:39,249 PAIGE STOCKLEY: It's kind of blurry. 196 00:09:39,353 --> 00:09:40,180 MICHELLE BURGESS: That's my memorial to your parents. 197 00:09:43,836 --> 00:09:48,284 I wanted nothing to interfere with the view hence the chose 198 00:09:48,387 --> 00:09:51,698 glass, you know, because it also will not sort of impose itself. 199 00:09:51,801 --> 00:09:53,560 You can look past it through it. 200 00:09:53,663 --> 00:09:55,801 And that drove the selection of the piece 201 00:09:55,905 --> 00:09:58,491 that I did over the dining room table. 202 00:09:58,594 --> 00:10:01,525 How to tie the house to its environment. 203 00:10:01,629 --> 00:10:04,077 So the environment came inside the house. 204 00:10:04,180 --> 00:10:05,525 That's what I was hoping for. 205 00:10:07,353 --> 00:10:09,801 This house has one big great room down here, 206 00:10:09,905 --> 00:10:12,353 and, you know, Paige likes to have lots of people out. 207 00:10:12,456 --> 00:10:14,560 We need to be able to get six to eight people 208 00:10:14,663 --> 00:10:16,077 in a pretty small footprint. 209 00:10:16,180 --> 00:10:17,870 And so I said I think the solution's gonna 210 00:10:17,974 --> 00:10:22,387 be two long bench cushion type sofas that can-- you know, 211 00:10:22,491 --> 00:10:24,215 four people can sit on it. 212 00:10:24,318 --> 00:10:26,111 PAIGE STOCKLEY: We hang out here a lot actually at night. 213 00:10:29,663 --> 00:10:31,215 MICHELLE BURGESS: Look at that one. 214 00:10:31,318 --> 00:10:32,284 Eight-- it's a cutie. 215 00:10:34,284 --> 00:10:36,111 And kind of cute small. 216 00:10:36,215 --> 00:10:37,594 Nine-- so you get the winning 10. 217 00:10:37,698 --> 00:10:38,629 This is pretty. It's already opened. 218 00:10:38,732 --> 00:10:39,767 Look at that one. 219 00:10:39,870 --> 00:10:41,387 Take it for yourself. 220 00:10:41,491 --> 00:10:42,767 That would be good-- look good on your mantel. 221 00:10:42,870 --> 00:10:43,974 - My mantel. - Once you dry it-- 222 00:10:44,077 --> 00:10:45,594 How about my other stuff-- 223 00:10:45,698 --> 00:10:46,698 Just dry it so it doesn't stink up your house. 224 00:10:46,801 --> 00:10:47,698 - Yeah. - You know. 225 00:10:47,801 --> 00:10:49,249 [music playing] 226 00:10:49,353 --> 00:10:50,663 PAIGE STOCKLEY: This is a called Hood Canal, 227 00:10:50,767 --> 00:10:52,318 and it's well known for its oysters. 228 00:10:52,422 --> 00:10:56,077 These Hood Canal oysters are exported everywhere. 229 00:10:56,180 --> 00:10:58,180 Oysters are a big part of my family 230 00:10:58,284 --> 00:11:00,801 because we used to, you know, go oyster hunting with my dad, 231 00:11:00,905 --> 00:11:03,767 but coming to this house, the people that knew the area, 232 00:11:03,870 --> 00:11:06,560 they said this beach has, like, more oysters than any place 233 00:11:06,663 --> 00:11:08,387 at Holly. 234 00:11:08,491 --> 00:11:11,249 It's like there's literally thousands, thousands of oysters 235 00:11:11,353 --> 00:11:12,836 just literally for the taking. 236 00:11:12,939 --> 00:11:14,077 You, just, like, grab it and put in your bucket, 237 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:15,215 so there's no oyster hunting. 238 00:11:15,318 --> 00:11:16,870 You just gather. 239 00:11:16,974 --> 00:11:20,111 And so, you know, when we come here, that's, like, 240 00:11:20,215 --> 00:11:22,491 the highlight is oyster party. 241 00:11:22,594 --> 00:11:26,146 [chatter] 242 00:11:26,249 --> 00:11:28,456 [non-english] 243 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,491 Yeah, it's fun when you've done, like, the-- 244 00:11:30,594 --> 00:11:31,491 The hunting? 245 00:11:31,594 --> 00:11:33,353 The hunting. 246 00:11:33,456 --> 00:11:34,870 Even though I didn't grow up in this property or in this house, 247 00:11:34,974 --> 00:11:36,870 but I feel really close to both my parents 248 00:11:36,974 --> 00:11:39,560 when I come here in the beginning especially looking 249 00:11:39,663 --> 00:11:42,284 for something to connect me to what 250 00:11:42,387 --> 00:11:45,284 I had lost because, you know, I had childhood memories here. 251 00:11:45,387 --> 00:11:46,939 I appreciate you all. 252 00:11:48,870 --> 00:11:51,939 But then I have to say since then it's evolved in 253 00:11:52,043 --> 00:11:55,077 not as a memory house but as a sort of a living place 254 00:11:55,180 --> 00:11:56,422 where I've met new friends. 255 00:11:56,525 --> 00:11:58,111 I've had these great neighbors. 256 00:11:58,215 --> 00:11:59,939 My friends who are into food and wine 257 00:12:00,043 --> 00:12:04,180 love to come here and cook and enjoy the view and sip wine. 258 00:12:04,284 --> 00:12:06,732 It's turned into something more present in my life, 259 00:12:06,836 --> 00:12:09,836 and it ended up kind of moving into my future. 260 00:12:09,939 --> 00:12:12,974 [music playing]