Just adjacent to the house is Whitlock's small shed which houses many of the tools that he used to build the home.
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A perpendicular walkway leads right to the garage and laundry areas.
A garage full of cupboards can’t contain Orpilla’s toolkit.
The “tiny but mighty” structure—as Grizzle describes it—packs a wealth of uses into a compact footprint.
Schaer replaced the garage’s crumbling wooden posts with an earthquake-resistant steel frame. He also excavated beneath the building, establishing a basement level for a workshop, storage, laundry, and water heater. The earth removed in the process was shoveled into concrete “boxes” in the yard. These form a raised terrace from which you can see the Olympic mountains.
The exterior mixes pale gray wood on the vertical volume, and fiber cement and black brick on the horiztonal volume. The three trees in the front yard were maintained during the renovation process.
To reference the original structure and to offer privacy, Grizzle left two of the shingled walls standing. The building, accessed by a cedar deck, opens to its surroundings via a sliding glass wall by Fleetwood and a bifold steel-and-glass garage door from Wilson Doors.