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MARCH 2016
SPRING HOME & GARDEN
COZY CUSTOM COTTAGE
Couple takes chance on ‘enchanting’ home, finds hand-crafted dream in Admiral’s Cove
rnewberry@whidbeynewsgroup.com
Photos by Ron Newberry
The morning sun illuminates the side of the rustic, cedar-shingled guest room that rests atop a large garage and shop that is partially hidden by trees and shrubs. Above that is a ‘lookout’ that offers a peek of the Puget Sound.
ever setting foot inside. It wasn’t a call from the wild in the wee hours of the night that persuaded the couple to make the bold move. Rather, it was a call from their daughter, Annie Wilson, at midnight.
then couldn’t wait to tell her parents about what she saw. Suzy Palmer, then living in During many visits to Whidbey Barrington Hills, Ill., got the call at Island, Nate and Suzy Palmer midnight Central time. always found something enchant“She called us that night and ing about the secluded house said, ‘It’s your house. It talks about across the street. who you are,’” Palmer They would come to said. the island to vacation with Five years later, family and they would Suzy and Nate Palmer all stay at a spacious remain tickled with Admiral’s Cove vacation their decision. home owned by their The whole intent daughter’s best friend. was for the retired The house overlooked couple to move closer a partially hidden, cottageto their daughter style home across the and son-in-law Dan street that blended in with Wilson, the former its natural surroundings. Seattle Mariners The home held special catcher, and their four charm to the Palmers’ children. grandchildren because it Little did the was inviting to bunnies Palmers know that Nate and Suzy Palmer find all of the spaces and ‘nooks and that would hop along its lawn in the mornings, and crannies’ of their home to be delightful. Their grandkids agree. what they couldn’t see from across the street to the owls that would all those years was hoot from its trees at night. Wilson, who lives in Seattle, had even more entrancing once they Five years ago, Nate and Suzy learned that the alluring home on got a better look on the inside and Palmer took a leap of faith and Perry Drive had come on the marbought the Coupeville home before ket. She scheduled a tour inside, SEE DREAM, PAGE 3 By RON NEWBERRY
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