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Ripple Effect

“It was our job to hold on to the spirit of these buildings. They worked so well with the site and the views, so the project was really about exercising restraint.”
BRIAN COURT, ARCHITECT

Todd Vogel and Karen Hust hosted a meeting with the renovation team at their new home. Located on a lush lot on Bainbridge Island, off the Washington coast, the property was designed by architect Harold Moldstad as two buildings—a 2,000-squarefoot house built in 1968 and a smaller guesthouse added later. With an enormous, partially shaded deck stretched between them, the buildings frame a postcard view of the Seattle skyline across

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