Family Retreat Nestled Into the Forest Landscape And Overlooking The Hood Canal

A series of family cabins hidden in the forest and overlooking Washington’s Hood Canal, the Hood Cliff Retreat is located on a site atop a bluff on a wooded site on the western shore of Hood Canal in the Pacific Northwest. Built on the site in 1962, the original dark and opaque cedar cabin left the owners feeling cut off from nature, and they asked for an indoor-outdoor retreat that would allow them to be closer to the land and also house an expanded program of three additional bedrooms and sleeping quarters for their extended family. The project has three elements: 1) The repurposed 20’x20’ footprint of the original cabin, 2) the cabin addition, and 3) a new bunkhouse and bathroom to the north. The clients include owner, Pat Troth, who had a career in hydrology and forestry and had a deep love for trees, soils, and the richness of the natural world. Her husband, John Troth, is a wildlife photographer who travels internationally to capture images of birds and other animals in their native