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Charlotte’s Gazebo
G azebo at Charlotte Disher’s house peeks over trees at
a sandy, driftwood-covered beach on the Pacific Ocean. On the next
page are more photos of this structure.
JAN JANZEN
Bower at Botanical Gardens
Details of gazebo
on previous page
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Thérèse’s House
Jan’s Cabin
In contrast to Thérèse’s
sparkling, feminine light-filled cozy
nest (opposite page), is Jan’s rustic
guys’ place, with rough floor planks,
work benches, sleeping loft up Japanese boardwalk philosophy:
Pathways should never go straight.
sculptured stairs, and his search-
and-rescue pack by the door. A great
place to sit by the cheery fire on a
cold night. It was built “ . . . of 90% onto the logs, onto four other logs Gift Shop
salvaged material.”
“As I was finishing it, nailing the
and then onto the repositioned
original logs, a distance of 70 feet in Tofino
last shake on the roof, a surveyor onto his own property. “None
came along.” Bad news: the building of the windows even broke.” His
was completely on his neighbors’ next-door neighbors watched the
land. What else to do but move it? whole process. He says they must
He jacked up the building, slid four have figured that if he could move
logs underneath, put axle grease a building that far and have it hold
on them, and with a come-along, together, it must be structurally
a 5-wheel block-and-tackle, and 1” sound, and they asked Jan to build a
steel cable, skidded the building up house for them (see pp. 138–39).
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This little
cabin was
built almost
entirely from
a cedar tree
that had
been lying
nearby.
Margaret’s Cabin
This little cabin was built almost entirely from a cedar tree that
had been lying nearby. Framing, flooring, shakes. Maybe that’s what makes the Stairs to loft
building so harmonious.
Jan had told me this and, as I was climbing
around inside and out shooting photos, I had
a vision of the tree, a solid chunk of wood, cut
up, rearranged, and expanded to make this
cozy space. (It was a cold, wet day and the fire
burning inside made it warm and homey.)