Hello from Sunset Home & Design,
Katherine McBride, an interior designer at Artisans Group, has been drawn to A-frame homes since she was a little kid. She grew up in Western Pennsylvania near a Bavarian-themed ski resort with A-frame cabins dotted all over the wooded mountains. And on the weekends, she’d travel to a cabin in a remote area of the Allegheny Mountains—that was where a lot of her fondest childhood memories with her family were created.
Both of these core memories, plus her becoming a parent in a time when technology is ever-present, instilled in Katherine a desire to give her own children experiences similar to the ones she had growing up. But, she says, life had other ideas.
After going through a divorce amidst the COVID lockdown, Katherine purchased a lot on Harstine Island, a remote area of Mason County in Washington (about an hour from Olympia), and began to sketch out her dream weekend cabin, which was an A-frame, of course.
She worked with her team at Artisans Group (including architect and principal, Tessa Bradley) and Pete Chramiec of Bicycle Home Building, to bring her vision to life. The result is a cozy and easygoing, yet stylish space that blends Scandinavian and Pacific Northwest styles—and is the perfect place for her to make new memories with her children. See it for yourself here.
Live well,
