We showcase a unique home each week, but only one can win the top prize! Readers picked this waterside retreat as their favorite of 2017.
Leave it to a celebrity architect to live in a home that was just voted our 2017 House of the Year.
Each week, we take you inside a unique space — from a shipping container converted into a tiny home to a magical treehouse that happened by accident. And at the end of each quarter, we ask you to vote on your favorite.
Tens of thousands of you weighed in throughout the year, voting this wooded, waterside home your favorite of those featured on Porchlight. Even with its August debut, it quickly earned nearly 2,500 votes.
When we first wrote about the five-story home among the treetops, it belonged to Jason McLennan, a designer and environmentalist based on Bainbridge Island, just outside Seattle, WA.
You loved McLennan’s 3-bedroom, 4-bathroom sanctuary with reclaimed wood, accents from a salvaged ship, and lush, green surroundings.
The house was built in 1978 by another architect, William Isley, who salvaged four immense wooden posts to anchor the living space. The builders rescued other touches from an old ship, in a nod to the local maritime industry.
A 12-foot-long antique leaded glass window anchors the kitchen, while adjacent doors open up to a patio that offers views of Puget Sound.
Every floor of the five-story home has vistas of passing ships. It’s part treehouse, part ship, some might say.
The home stands in stark contrast to last year’s winning home, a 16,000-square-foot palace with a private ski bridge in Big Sky, MT. That 6-bedroom, 9-bathroom home boasted a full gym and movie theater.
This year’s stunner sold over the summer for $875,000. Read more about the home in our original post here.
Photos by Erik Hecht. Set decoration provided by Lily Karsten. Plants provided by Bainbridge Botanicals.
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The guides on House of the Year A Treehouse Tower With Water Views was really amazing!
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This home is amazing.whats the price?
Lindsay Cohen, please credit the architect of the house. It’s Bill Isley.
Thank you.
I agree house is amazing!
Look at the 605 Port Republic street Beaufort SC. 29902
Coastal Historic Cottage with unique features. Architects keep asking if they could make plans from our house. the foot print of our home feels like 2200 sq ft. And it is only 1350 sq ft very deceiving but charming and fun!
If you like to share you may!
Thanks, Jack
I live in Arizona and the outdated home you chose to represent the state reflects NONE of the culture or influence of the region. 80% of all construction is southwestern in material or style. The days of the snowbird housing is over and I hope you recognize this change and the progress of a diverse state.
Jealous much??
why do we feature million dollar homes with greedy owners….bet 1,000 homeless could be sheltered with this selfish dwelling–if it was sold and put to good use….the greedy always win it seems
title needs to be modified, seems misleading without the water views
I believe that this home would be better shown if you had posted at least one image of the water-view from the home.
I bought this home on Bainbridge Island in 2000 from Architect Bill Isley and his wife Minnie…it was like living in a piece of art…I sold it on my own website … Buygolly.com…I have old history if you should choose
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