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Melissa G. Dalton

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Wind-Swept Retreat

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By Melissa G. Dalton, Sean Airhart
| Portrait Magazine
Joe Herrin has designed a lot of homes in the San Juan Islands. As a principal of the Seattle-based firm, Heliotrope Architects, there’s been twenty-six to be exact, with eighteen of those houses built. Herrin even has an Orcas Island cabin of his own, and can frequently be seen cycling or boating out there on the weekends. Still, as familiar as he is with the terrain on and off the water, this particular stretch of coastline near False Bay stood out—literally.
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Cottage by the Bay

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By Melissa G. Dalton, Andrew Giammarco
| Portrait Magazine
The road to Jennifer Muller’s cottage outside of Port Townsend, Washington winds through the dense Pacific Northwest woods, before emerging into an open meadow on a bluff above Discovery Bay. Tucked along the edge of the grass against the tree line, the profile of the home’s gabled roof and stone chimney looks, for a moment, as though it came from the pages of a children’s fable.
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Mountain Gathering Place

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By Melissa G. Dalton, Kara Mercer
| Portrait Magazine
From the outside, this Tumble Creek home looks a little different from its neighbors. For starters, it doesn’t have a traditional grassy front yard. Instead, it takes on a U-shape, with three wings that wrap a courtyard dotted with several mature trees. Head up the path to the front door, and there’s a glass hallway bridge to the right, suspended over a dry creek bed. It’s a moment of pause built into the architecture.
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