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INTRODUCTION
SHORTCOMINGS & CORRECTIONS
THE CHANGES
DESIGNER &
CONTRACTOR
FINALLY...
FLOORPLANS
SOURCES
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A CHILDHOOD HOME:
You can go home again, but you might want to remodel before you do.
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| View from water... new |
From her breakfast table, Jayne Michaelson
orients a visitor to her backyard view. "Maybe the eagles will be out this morning," she says. "They
fish off that tree over there." Beyond the gnarled shorefront fir – where a bald eagle alights as if on cue
– stretch the waters of Puget Sound. In the distance rise the steep green shores of Vashon Island and, across a
narrow strait, Point Defiance, the park district of Tacoma, Washington.
It's a view one could get used to, and Jayne has had plenty of time to do that. She grew up an only child in this
house, living here until she went off to college. When Jayne's father died two years ago, her mother moved to a
nearby apartment and sold the house to Jayne and her husband, Gene. Such arrangements are common in this part of
the world, where community ties strain against a tide of rising property values.
"In Gig Harbor now," says Jayne, "this kind
of view and property, you inherit."
View from water... existing
The Project: Gut and remodel a 1960 ranch-style house: add a breakfast
area and second floor with master bedroom suite, enclose carport, and finish basement.
Architect: Bret Drager, Drager Architects...Now Drager Gould Architects, Tacoma, WA.
General Contractor: Gary
Howe, Gary
Howe Construction, Gig Harbor, WA.
Size: Before: 2,040 square feet; After: 3,130 square feet
Cost: $250,000 |
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