Barn kitchen and dining room under green-painted rafters, with walnut cabinets, dark tiled walls and a window seat by tall windows.

Skagit Barn

Skagit Barn. Skagit Valley, WA.
Completed 2023.

Location: Skagit Valley, WA
Program: 2 bed / 1 bath, 1,640 sq ft plus studio
Site: 6 acres, working farm
Completed: November 2023
Scope: Architecture, build oversight

Kitchen corner with oxblood tiled walls, a brass range hood and walnut drawers, an oak island holding strawberries and a flowering branch. — The brief
A working farm that needed another bedroom, a proper bathroom, and somewhere to put visiting family without giving up the shop.

Bathroom with an oxblood double trough sink on an oak vanity, tall brass-framed mirrors and terrazzo floor under an ochre ceiling.

Mixed herd of cattle, a longhorn cow at the front, grazing a green pasture on a misty morning.

Bed against an upholstered wall-length headboard and oak panelling, a mushroom lamp on the floating oak nightstand.

Hillside meadow of yellow balsamroot and purple lupine, with forested hills and distant mountains beyond. — The site
Six acres of flat ground under a big sky, with a barn from 1936 that the county would not let anyone take down.

Sage-green panelled entry hall with a glazed front door standing open, a walnut chest of drawers and a patterned runner.

Red gambrel-roofed barn and outbuildings behind white fences, a snow-capped volcano rising over the trees behind. — The outcome
An addition that borrows the barn's roof pitch and stops short of touching it. Corrugated steel weathering to the same grey, and a glazed link that keeps the two apart.

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