Living room with medium-toned wood and blue tile floors, taupe beige arm chair with ottoman, glass coffee table filled with glass orbs, rusted copper fireplace, and balcony overlooking ocean bay in home in Camp Everhappy on San Juan Islands, Washington, restored by Jason F. McLennan.

The Tide Turns for a Trio of Prefab Pod Houses in the San Juan Islands

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Designed by a Boeing engineer named Hugh Pape in the late 1970s, the pods were prefabricated using aeronautical engineering techniques and airlifted by helicopter onto Pape’s property, where they were finished with modular panels and joined into a single retreat. "He built it like an aircraft,