A beach-style Hampton home with gray shingle siding and bright white trim, with gabled roofs and a caretaker’s cottage nearby, stands silhouetted against the sky. A true American classic!

The gray shingles, which herald from the Olympic Mountains, demi-lune windows, circular windows, a pillared portico with an arched front door of warm wood and glass.

The rippled glass teases with a blurry peek of the entry hall. A gentle push on the bronze knob allows its solid weight to swing open to a most unexpected sight – and experience.

Windy Bluff sits high above the south Puget Sound, bumped out a bit into Vaughn Bay which grants wide-open views of Herron, Harstene, Stretch and Treasure Island as well as the Olympic Mountains.

The path to Windy Bluff winds through a private gate and ends in a circular parking area as large as a cul-de-sac. A short walk meanders through a berm – or is that an east-coast sand dune – filled with a variety of windblown Mexican feather grass, fescue, blood grass, penstemons, and shrubby nandinas.

The house in the Diane Keaton movie “Something’s Got to Give” caught the imagination and helped fine-tune the master architects (a.k.a. Melanie) ideas.

EXTERIOR LANSDCAPING:

The expert landscape designer’s dedicated hand shows in more than the sculpting of the site. The architecture designed Low Impact Sustainable landscape uses fourteen thousand plants, river rock running along the edges of the concrete and windswept madronas while maintaining the world-class view.

Curiosity builds to a dramatic level before the first glance of the home appears. And then. There it is!