Seattle architect Andrew Finch designs for home and for work
IT PAYS to walk the dog.
"We'd been eyeing this street for a long time, and I happened upon this lot moments after the sign went into the ground," says Andrew Finch, recalling days of yore when the market was hot and the competition hotter, 2007.
"It was a dog-walk discovery."
Although Finch and his wife, Carol dePelecyn, bought the land at the pinnacle of price, they are clever and professionally trained in the art of homebuilding and design; he is an architect/contractor and the Finch in Finch Design & Production; she is a lighting designer/artist and the dePelecyn in dePelecyn Studio.
And so, a morning spent over tea and sin, in the form of Bakery Nouveau croissants, includes conversation like so: "One third of your budget goes into the ground on critical slope."
Finch says this, standing in their warm and contemporary kitchen/living room, because we are high in the air on the western edge of West Seattle. If an eagle were perched on any of the treetops we would know of it. This a mere few steps past the koi pond at the street-side front door. DePelecyn calls it the Sky House.