1 00:00:01,523 --> 00:00:03,264 [music playing] 2 00:00:08,225 --> 00:00:11,185 KELLY MILFORD: It's just always peaceful and quiet. 3 00:00:11,315 --> 00:00:13,926 Even on a weekend, if you're down over on this section 4 00:00:14,057 --> 00:00:15,754 of beach, it could be just us. 5 00:00:17,495 --> 00:00:20,629 You can let your mind open up and get away 6 00:00:20,759 --> 00:00:22,718 from the realities of life. 7 00:00:25,938 --> 00:00:27,201 TY MILFORD: Everything that we do 8 00:00:27,331 --> 00:00:29,246 here is just a little bit more exploration 9 00:00:29,377 --> 00:00:30,595 and discovery-based. 10 00:00:33,163 --> 00:00:35,122 I didn't want to create something 11 00:00:35,252 --> 00:00:37,559 that felt like a home, just in another place. 12 00:00:37,689 --> 00:00:39,604 I wanted something that felt a little bit more 13 00:00:39,735 --> 00:00:41,954 like a summer camp for us. 14 00:00:42,085 --> 00:00:45,393 This house kind of is that for our family. 15 00:00:45,523 --> 00:00:48,265 [music playing] 16 00:00:48,396 --> 00:00:50,354 KELLY MILFORD: Once you're here, you just 17 00:00:50,485 --> 00:00:53,879 can relax and fill your days and nights with lots of adventures. 18 00:01:01,104 --> 00:01:03,063 TY MILFORD: The home is located in Cape 19 00:01:03,193 --> 00:01:05,239 Meares on Tillamook Bay. 20 00:01:06,936 --> 00:01:10,548 It's considered the north coast of Oregon. 21 00:01:10,679 --> 00:01:15,771 We have a sandspit, the bay, the ocean, a freshwater lake. 22 00:01:15,901 --> 00:01:20,341 So it's a very rugged coastline, and a lot of the Oregon coast 23 00:01:20,471 --> 00:01:21,515 is like that. 24 00:01:34,354 --> 00:01:36,139 Sometimes, in the mornings, I'll sneak 25 00:01:36,270 --> 00:01:39,316 out before everybody wakes up and get 26 00:01:39,447 --> 00:01:40,926 out for a walk on the beach. 27 00:01:43,929 --> 00:01:47,324 It's always great to take a camera 28 00:01:47,455 --> 00:01:50,197 with me because I never really know what I'm going to find. 29 00:01:54,636 --> 00:01:57,378 Every tide, there's something different to see, 30 00:01:57,508 --> 00:02:01,164 and it just never feels the same every time 31 00:02:01,295 --> 00:02:02,818 that you're out here. 32 00:02:02,948 --> 00:02:04,341 [music playing] 33 00:02:04,472 --> 00:02:06,648 For a good part of our 20s, Kelly and I 34 00:02:06,778 --> 00:02:10,739 worked as mountain guides and outdoor educators, 35 00:02:10,869 --> 00:02:13,437 and we spent a lot of nights sleeping in tents 36 00:02:13,568 --> 00:02:15,135 and sleeping on the ground. 37 00:02:15,265 --> 00:02:18,834 And I always loved that feeling of going out 38 00:02:18,964 --> 00:02:21,271 to somewhere that was kind of grand 39 00:02:21,402 --> 00:02:24,666 and then coming back to regular life. 40 00:02:24,796 --> 00:02:26,537 It just always feels like a little bit of an adventure 41 00:02:26,668 --> 00:02:27,408 to be out there. 42 00:02:28,974 --> 00:02:30,933 KELLY MILFORD: I think for us, it's 43 00:02:31,063 --> 00:02:37,896 the rusticness, the playfulness, and the incredible environment 44 00:02:38,027 --> 00:02:40,203 that we're lucky to spend time in. 45 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:43,250 TY MILFORD: This home is approximately 46 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:45,295 1,200 square feet. 47 00:02:45,426 --> 00:02:50,648 It's a very small, open, tall box. 48 00:02:52,954 --> 00:02:54,696 TY MILFORD: When you walk in, there's kind of an entry, 49 00:02:54,826 --> 00:02:57,786 staging, mudroom area, as well as a bathroom 50 00:02:57,916 --> 00:02:59,048 and then the bunk room. 51 00:03:01,137 --> 00:03:05,620 You come up a set of stairs to the living area and dining 52 00:03:05,750 --> 00:03:09,493 and kitchen, and then one more set of stairs 53 00:03:09,624 --> 00:03:11,495 to what is kind of a loft setup. 54 00:03:15,891 --> 00:03:17,022 KELLY MILFORD: We live in Portland, Oregon, 55 00:03:17,153 --> 00:03:19,982 and we came for spring break. 56 00:03:20,112 --> 00:03:21,462 And we weren't necessarily looking 57 00:03:21,591 --> 00:03:22,898 to buy a beach house at all. 58 00:03:23,028 --> 00:03:25,857 But all of it was so beautiful. 59 00:03:25,988 --> 00:03:28,817 We walked through here and saw that this house was for sale. 60 00:03:28,947 --> 00:03:31,385 And we were, like, looking at the house, 61 00:03:31,515 --> 00:03:33,909 going, that house looks kind of cool. 62 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:36,172 That's got some potential. 63 00:03:36,303 --> 00:03:37,652 One thing led to another. 64 00:03:37,781 --> 00:03:40,394 We ended up putting an offer on the house 65 00:03:40,524 --> 00:03:44,311 and then spent a lot of time loving it and changing 66 00:03:44,441 --> 00:03:46,182 it to be what it is today. 67 00:03:46,313 --> 00:03:49,098 [music playing] 68 00:03:50,926 --> 00:03:52,971 TY MILFORD: We're about two blocks from the beach. 69 00:03:53,102 --> 00:03:54,668 It's nice to come back from the beach 70 00:03:54,799 --> 00:03:57,237 and have a spot to wash off, and so we 71 00:03:57,367 --> 00:03:59,500 added that outdoor shower. 72 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:02,503 It's just as simple as you can possibly make something 73 00:04:02,633 --> 00:04:05,070 with just the copper pipe that's kind of patinaed 74 00:04:05,201 --> 00:04:06,115 and turned blue. 75 00:04:08,639 --> 00:04:11,381 We wanted to keep it as native as possible. 76 00:04:11,512 --> 00:04:15,603 So we have shore pines and sword ferns. 77 00:04:15,733 --> 00:04:18,214 This is kind of a native marsh grass. 78 00:04:22,087 --> 00:04:24,699 KELLY MILFORD: You come in on the bottom floor, which 79 00:04:24,829 --> 00:04:28,964 is slate and durable, so it's good for mud and wet 80 00:04:29,094 --> 00:04:30,444 and all of the elements. 81 00:04:33,577 --> 00:04:36,493 TY MILFORD: We have an old wooden boat upstairs 82 00:04:36,624 --> 00:04:39,409 that sometimes we'll take to the lake and paddle, 83 00:04:39,540 --> 00:04:42,717 and so I needed to make this removable. 84 00:04:42,847 --> 00:04:46,503 So all of these anchor points are clips where I can kind of 85 00:04:46,634 --> 00:04:48,897 pull this whole little rope system down, 86 00:04:49,027 --> 00:04:50,986 and we can get that boat down the stairs 87 00:04:51,116 --> 00:04:52,248 and out through the door. 88 00:04:55,556 --> 00:04:58,558 One of the things that Kelly loves about this space 89 00:04:58,689 --> 00:05:03,215 was kind of how open the floor plan of it is. 90 00:05:03,346 --> 00:05:06,567 [music playing] 91 00:05:08,525 --> 00:05:10,092 KELLY MILFORD: We needed a new kitchen. 92 00:05:10,222 --> 00:05:12,616 The kitchen was one little tiny counter, and that was it. 93 00:05:15,097 --> 00:05:16,533 And we needed more sitting space. 94 00:05:19,623 --> 00:05:23,235 This whole bench-seating area didn't exist. 95 00:05:23,366 --> 00:05:27,196 We built this when we purchased the home. 96 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:30,199 It just creates more spaces for people to be. 97 00:05:32,723 --> 00:05:35,639 I love things that have lived a previous life 98 00:05:35,770 --> 00:05:38,381 and get to survive on in different ways. 99 00:05:38,512 --> 00:05:40,992 And so this was a bowling lane. 100 00:05:41,123 --> 00:05:42,951 It's yellow pine. 101 00:05:43,081 --> 00:05:45,649 It would have been somewhere further down the lane 102 00:05:45,780 --> 00:05:49,044 because it's a little softer type of wood. 103 00:05:49,174 --> 00:05:51,481 A lot of the wood that we used to build 104 00:05:51,612 --> 00:05:54,223 the furniture is all reclaimed wood from 105 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:56,486 hundred-plus-year-old homes. 106 00:05:56,617 --> 00:05:58,140 It feels like it could have been scavenged 107 00:05:58,270 --> 00:05:59,402 or something like that. 108 00:06:04,581 --> 00:06:07,149 This is a spot that we hang out a lot. 109 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,675 It's connected to the main living space here. 110 00:06:11,806 --> 00:06:15,287 It's a great place to come out and just listen to the ocean 111 00:06:15,418 --> 00:06:18,900 and sit in the hammock or relax in the chairs, 112 00:06:19,030 --> 00:06:22,207 just basically get a nice view of all the stuff 113 00:06:22,338 --> 00:06:23,644 that's going on outside here. 114 00:06:26,821 --> 00:06:29,737 Our favorite spot is the loft upstairs. 115 00:06:29,867 --> 00:06:32,609 [music playing] 116 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:35,656 You take a spiral staircase up, and then we built 117 00:06:35,786 --> 00:06:38,528 a bird's-eye view where the bed takes 118 00:06:38,659 --> 00:06:40,182 up the entire window space. 119 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:43,881 It's magic up there. 120 00:06:46,667 --> 00:06:50,671 TY MILFORD: This is where we sleep up here, 121 00:06:50,801 --> 00:06:55,676 and it's kind of just this really great 180-degree view 122 00:06:55,806 --> 00:06:57,765 of the coastline. 123 00:06:57,895 --> 00:07:01,072 It's a great place to wake up in the morning and see the ocean. 124 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:05,599 One of the features that we built in 125 00:07:05,729 --> 00:07:10,212 was this cargo net that sits up above the living area. 126 00:07:10,342 --> 00:07:12,736 We needed a way to get access to it. 127 00:07:12,867 --> 00:07:16,218 So I took one of the panels in the railing 128 00:07:16,348 --> 00:07:20,657 here and just made it so that it was operable. 129 00:07:20,788 --> 00:07:23,704 So it has a little latch on the backside, 130 00:07:23,834 --> 00:07:26,968 and then it just opens like this so that you can kind of 131 00:07:27,098 --> 00:07:28,622 scamper out there onto the net. 132 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:31,712 It's a little bit more fun. 133 00:07:31,842 --> 00:07:33,801 It's a little bit more playful. 134 00:07:33,931 --> 00:07:37,326 I wanted to create some of those feelings here for our kids 135 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:39,284 where it was just a little bit different, 136 00:07:39,415 --> 00:07:40,590 a little bit more unique. 137 00:07:43,593 --> 00:07:45,159 This is what we call the bunk room. 138 00:07:47,292 --> 00:07:49,904 When we purchased the home, Adam and Malia, 139 00:07:50,034 --> 00:07:52,950 a hundred percent refused to sleep in here 140 00:07:53,081 --> 00:07:55,082 before we did any work to it, and they would 141 00:07:55,213 --> 00:07:56,737 sleep on the floor upstairs. 142 00:07:56,867 --> 00:07:59,653 And so I knew it was my project to figure 143 00:07:59,783 --> 00:08:02,612 out a way to make a space that they 144 00:08:02,743 --> 00:08:05,136 were going to want to be in. 145 00:08:05,267 --> 00:08:08,444 And some days I think it worked too well because it can be 146 00:08:08,575 --> 00:08:11,186 really hard to get them to get out of here 147 00:08:11,316 --> 00:08:14,232 and go out, go do things like go for walks on the beach 148 00:08:14,363 --> 00:08:18,280 or whatever because they just love nesting in this space. 149 00:08:18,410 --> 00:08:20,195 [water sloshing] 150 00:08:22,284 --> 00:08:23,154 Let me get your bone. 151 00:08:23,285 --> 00:08:25,940 [music playing] 152 00:08:27,158 --> 00:08:27,594 Ready? 153 00:08:33,424 --> 00:08:34,514 Nora, over here. Over here. 154 00:08:34,644 --> 00:08:35,602 [whistles] 155 00:08:38,169 --> 00:08:39,519 TY MILFORD: Our life in Portland, you know, it's 156 00:08:39,649 --> 00:08:40,780 sort of governed by the clock. 157 00:08:42,739 --> 00:08:45,002 You have to be at school at a certain time, 158 00:08:45,133 --> 00:08:46,526 at work at a certain time. 159 00:08:46,656 --> 00:08:50,094 And when we come out here, we just 160 00:08:50,225 --> 00:08:52,706 get to have a little bit of a simpler life 161 00:08:52,836 --> 00:08:57,580 where we're governed a little more by just the daylight 162 00:08:57,711 --> 00:08:59,756 and where we want to be when. 163 00:09:07,198 --> 00:09:09,549 KELLY MILFORD: It's always just a peaceful place 164 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,725 to explore and clear your head. 165 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,167 Not as something so special about having 166 00:09:19,297 --> 00:09:22,039 a beach cottage that you don't get anywhere else. 167 00:09:22,170 --> 00:09:24,912 [music playing]