Set ’twixt forest and sea

Amazing view: This is what the Boones wake up to each morning in the master bedroom that opens to the beach and the forest. - MCT photos

An exhaustive questionnaire by their architects before a stroke of work was done delivered the perfect house to this couple.

He wanted a contemporary home in the forest. She wanted a traditional home on the water. They owned a substantial piece of Orcas Island, off the coast of Washington State, along its northern beaches that could swing either way.