07/31/2026
from Portrait Magazine | PNW of our Keystone Cottage project:
COTTAGE BY THE BAY / The road to Jennifer Muller’s cottage outside of Port Townsend, Washington winds through the dense Pacific Northwest woods, before emerging into an open meadow on a bluff above Discovery Bay.
Tucked along the edge of the grass against the tree line, the profile of the home’s gabled roof and stone chimney looks, for a moment, as though it came from the pages of a children’s fable. For Jennifer, who grew up in Seattle and spent her summers in a cabin in the San Juan Islands, evoking that familiar comfort was what started the project.
“I wanted to have a place long-term, where I could go back to my roots,” says Jennifer.
She spontaneously found the twenty-acre property in 2020. “I didn’t know Port Townsend all that well, but there was good coffee and a bakery,” she says. “I thought, ‘If I can have a town with good coffee and baked goods, and a wonderful piece of property, I’m not sure what else I need.’”
https://www.portraitmagazine.com/68-welcome-home
Architect / DeForest Architects PLLC
Interior Design / NB Design Group
Contractor / Lockhart|Suver
Floors / Montello Design LLC; eurocrafthardwoodfloorsllc
Photo / Andrew Giammarco Photography
Story / M Dalton
