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our next sneak peek comes to us from jessica lynch of slow shirts who made a SERIOUS splash with her before & after industrial fireplace. turns out the rest of her home is pretty fabulous as well. i’m definitely loving the richness of the color choices combined with the natural wood. click here for more great images! [thanks so much, jessica!] -anne

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Escaped Wolf screen print by Phil Elverum, Old drive in Theatre photo by Flint Jamison. Vintage arrows from HelloVictory. [click here for more on the fireplace].

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This is a close up of one of our new stools we have been collaborating on with local woodworkers and blacksmith here on Guemes island. We screen print the color layer, laser on top our illustration, then hand ink the engravings in different colors. This is our ship in a bottle design.

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This bathroom took me and about seven other people over two years to finally finish.

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Large 1980 aerial photograph of Valdez shipping terminal in Alaska, found at our local kiwanis thrift store. Black iron eagle from some ones garage.

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[right: Starting from the bottom, Muffler diptych painting by Bliss, the target-drop screen print by Aesthetic apparatus, small teal square painting by Aaron Power, laser mountain painting by Deth P. Sun, and at top, screen print of red seiner boat by slow loris .]

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We get about 50% of our electricity and hot water from the sun.

This house is drop dead gorgeous without being a “showpace”. It seems to be a real labor of love, a true home. To me, it is brilliant in every sense of the word.
Would you share the names and sources of your colors?

The house is actually not huge – the exterior makes it look gigantic because of the solar panels and garage/studio space that takes up half the building. It is more-or-less a one floor dwelling, and the space is used amazingly well.

Jessica has a great eye for color, texture and placement. I am in awe.

Hi!

Paint colors are Jaquard (olive green ) and Steamer (the blue/gray) from Divine paint. In the bedrooms are Windham gray from pratt and Lambert.

The prints in the bathroom are actually paintings by MAtthew Feld, aka driftwould. Love his work, and have collected a few pieces over the years.

Exterior materials are barn metal siding and painted wood.

I can’t remember the bathroom color! Sorry Stacey. If i track it down i’ll let you know.

The car is a ‘71 Honda AN600. It makes a mini cooper look like an elephant. It’s my island ride. I live on Guemes Island population 600 or so. It’s only 7.92 miles around the perimeter, we have one gas pump at Andersons General store and a lot of interesting people on this rock. Worth a visit, we give studio tours too. There’s more pics of our studio workspace in the “click here” option above.

And thanks everyone for the nice comments!

Is that exterior PURPLE??? I LOVE it! I wonder what my HOA would say if all of a sudden there was a beautiful purple home in the midst of our sea of beige stucco…

PS – The wide-plank honey wood floors are gorgeous.

I love how everything is so unique, yet works so well together in the space. The new STOOLS are amazing! How long have they been available for? Do you make them to order? Where do you get your inspiration from? AMAZING! Thanks for sharing!

Sorry Caroline, no purple. The exterior is two shades of Gray and it’s a red metal roof. One day while riding in the ferry passenger cabin, right at the time I had to come up with my house colors, i looked around at the walls that were a two tone gray, with a red boxed fire extinguisher hanging and decided to use the same for my house.

Oh wow, your house is lovely. It fits so well with it’s surroundings, without overtaking the natural beauty around it! I definitely think it’s neat to see someone “local” on D*S for once (close enough to Vancouver Island, that is, to count as being local for me).

Does the last photo face inland? I felt curious about how small the windows appear and the glorious sunlight in your photos.

Hi Jeanne, yes stools are for sale! See the link in the beginning of this posting. And Sydney, yes that side of the house faces inland, the ocean sides’ windows are definitely slightly larger.

D*S posted the rest of the photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71112133@N00/sets/72157618599632502/

I stayed at this beautiful and quirky abode for about a week and never felt more comfortable, visually stimulated, nor humbled by the beauty of the nature the home sits in and around than here. Every detail in this home was handpicked by Jessica and it was an absolute treat to be able to spend time there. Much love.

CK- i think those pillows were from ikea, it was a few years ago, so i may be wrong.

Ab- the Danish table i found on ebay also a few years ago, & got it send to me cheap too via greyhound! It has 2 leaves for big parties. The chairs were my grandmothers that she bought at an estate sale in Pennsylvania quite sometime ago.

StacyZ- Yes dust bunnies, dog fur bunnies, I got ‘em all. It’s a never-ending battle around here.

MAtthew Feld has made it out of the loo as well, and into the kitchen. Don’t worry Kara, i’ve got a lot of his pieces to go around!

N. Bassett- the toilets are made by Toto, and are dual flush. I bought three at once from a discount warehouse and got them for half of what they retail. I think they regularly go for around $250. a piece. Worth looking around at discount home stores. I did this for just about everything in my house and saved a lot of money! A lot of searching, but very worth it.

Hi Laura, the apple holder is just a little wooden canoe type object i found at a garage sale.. Funny thing is, it was in a fire and the side against the wall is burnt, but i didn’t care and snagged it up for .25 cents anyway :)

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