Guemes Island Home

Guemes Island Home Our Guemes Island home, located in the San Juan Islands. We started working on it right after getting married 15 years ago. Much of it we did ourselves.

Learn more about our home's story in the about section. Currently it is also up for sale, learn more.

Free water! Well, our home has a private well we paid a lot up front for it to be drilled, pad poured, and a high qualit...
07/19/2019

Free water!

Well, our home has a private well we paid a lot up front for it to be drilled, pad poured, and a high quality system to be installed. To save on costs we built the well house ourselves.

Though the filter system was expensive, we're happy we bought a quality system that has great water. Plus in the storage tank we've always got an additional 500 gallons of fresh water in case the power goes out after a storm. In sum, all is well.

07/19/2019

Our private well is in a small well house that we matched design to the main house. Around the corner we added an extra day room where there's space for a separate office.

07/19/2019

Here's a view of a fog bank rolling down the Guemes Channel yesterday. There's a tiny fery boat somewhere out there.

A storage shed when you live on an acreage is very useful. Here's a picture of one we have onsite. It gives us a little ...
07/19/2019

A storage shed when you live on an acreage is very useful. Here's a picture of one we have onsite. It gives us a little under 60 sq ft of extra space. Very useful we've found.

Crabbing season is open. Yay!Crabbing is great right off of Guemes Island. We go down to the public beaches and tideland...
07/18/2019

Crabbing season is open. Yay!

Crabbing is great right off of Guemes Island. We go down to the public beaches and tidelands. Paddle out. Drop the traps. Wait. Catch. Eat and eat and eat and eat. 😋

07/18/2019

Just over the hill take a peek at the woods in this 360º interactive video. Look up, lot's of fir and cedar trees. Enjoy.

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Anacortes, WA
98221

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(360) 202-7373

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Guemes Island Home

15 years ago when we were just married we started this project.

Recently married we spent 3 years living on various islands in the San Juans. We tried to figure out how to live here and buy a home. In the end we decided the least expensive path was buy land and build a not fancy home. So we did.

We spent a few years hunting around for land. We wanted land and privacy and never considered water front or water views as it was just too darn expensive and the land too small. Thus, we looked for a bit of land, that was dry, and had a few neighbors with good wells. The land we bought was perfect, high (dry), center island (good water) and covered in 80’ cedar and spruce.

Our friend, Cara Piscitello, just graduated from architecture school a few years before. We asked her to design the house for us. We worked with Cara for about a year in designing the home.