This turn of the century farmhouse on Bainbridge Island is perfectly set on a gracious flat site facing Mount Rainier with well-worn stone steps to a pebbled beach. The young family bought the somewhat tired house because of its inherent charms, and in spite of its quirks. It immediately strikes one as the quintessential beach house; a laughing pack of kids slamming the screen doors, sandy feet noisily bounding across the big porch down to the beach, is it’s daily life. In spite of its charms, the house had gone through a series of bad remodels and additions over the years, including a time when the road was moved from the waterside of the house to the uphill side of the house. The hodgepodge nature of the numerous additions and the road change had compromised the best the house clearly still had to give. When the family decided to make it more than a weekend summer home it became clear that there were several areas of the house needing serious upgrading. Shown in pictures here is the entirely new kitchen, moved from a small dark corner of the house by the road, to the heart of the home on the waterside. This first phase of an ambitious multiphase master-plan starts the dreams of rejuvenation; the creation of a true heirloom home that had lost its way. The owners have stated on numerous occasions, while they do appreciate the modern amenities the renovations will afford them, they do not expect, or want, an entirely "new" house at the completion of the work. This is a house for them to really use…worn, but not worn out. A home in which it is distinctly difficult to determine what is old and what is new.