WILD GOOSE FARMHOUSE
Wild Goose Farmhouse is Jessica’s home that she shares with her husband, architect Yianni Doulis, and their two kids. It is a five-acre property on Sauvie Island, an agriculturally zoned island on the Columbia River, just outside of Portland. The family initially fixed up, and then lived for four years, in the 540 square foot tiny house on the property (see Tiny House).
Yianni and Jessica partnered on the design and determined that the right house for the place was a simple, classic American farmhouse. They did, however, have another (slightly more wacky) narrative that informed design decisions too. They chose to give the house a guiding anthropomorphic personality. In their words: We decided she was an elderly spinster aunt. Uptight. Very thin. Always dressed in high-necked, starched, long linen dresses. A little forbidding. This aunt dies and you are going through her affairs. You find a collection of beautiful silk lingerie and bundles of letters from a Moroccan lover. We never named her, but she’s the spirit of Wild Goose Farmhouse.
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