I actually don't mind all the stuffed animals, but the animal pelt on the couch kind of surprised me because I wondered whether that was a pet lying on the couch.

That said, I like the style, it's just too dark for my taste. I would've wanted everything to be very bright as to mimic the openness of the forest.

The pelt on the couch is a bit much, I also thought it was the family dog. I just don't understand why people would want dead things in their living space.

the dead "animal" draped across the couch ruins the whole thing..would be a very cool place without that...try burying the poor thing in your yard instead.

Not a fan; too dark and gloomy for me, especially with all the taxidermy. To each their own I guess.

What really bothered me the most was the fact that the entire home is sooo dark.

Nice dead thing on your couch. Really kinda gross.

too dark for the northwest weather.

Love it. Looks like the PERFECT place to me to spend a bunch of rainy days.

This is the biggest house I've seen featured here...some beautiful stuff, but 6000 square feet? Isn't there a McMansion Therapy site where this could be featured? I need ideas for my 1900 sq ft home (and putting 3 of it inside a giant house like this isn't one of them!).

@CathyNapCastle - I don't know. People point out all the time that this blog is Apartment Therapy, emphasis on the "apartment" but a lot of good design would be skipped if all the site focused on was apartments. 6,000 sq. ft. might be a lot more than is usually profiled, but I don't see how the decor is any less significant. I don't see how the size of a house or apartment means you can't get any ideas.

Quite an apartment.

This post would have benefited enormously from more higher quality photography. I think that's why it is looking so dark. Granted, PDX is gloomy, but the photography is just making it worse. This place is probably pretty amazing...if we could just see it more clearly.

I want to go to there!

Not more higher. Just higher. Mortifying.

My favorite thing about this house is the amazing views! I think the decor really lets them stand out, and the darker, muted colors make the house look cozy even though it's huge.

It's not at all my style for my own house, but it reminds me of a ski lodge. I'd love to stay there as a guest!

I hate the dead animals but I love the house and the setting.

if you don't have anything nice to say...shut up. props to mimi for having a unique style. i dig it. i think this was a good pick for a house tour. its different and unique. i also love when people are in the pix of their home. keep up the good work AT and mimi!

Wow, very earthy and warm! It's hard to get a sense of the space being so large, though, from these photographs. This is one of those times I wish I could see a floor plan!

I think some of the darkness of the photos is because of the Pacific Northwest weather outside, and some of them looked grainy as well - perhaps not taken with the best camera?

I love the moody feel of the space, and the combination of warmth and openness. I don’t think it is dark at all.

I once heard an architect lecture on a theory of male versus female space preferences. His idea was that women prefer enclosed, protected spaces, which he characterized as womb-like. Men on the other hand, demand open space and vistas – which reflect the male desire to protect and reign over one’s environment. I’m not sure I would agree with the male/female dichotomy, but I do see these as distinct spatial preferences. I think this house combines both, and I like that. But it is also definitely a masculine space.

Arroyo, my bf is all about caves. No single, simple "mancave." No, he's a total caveman who needs all his spaces to be dark, cozy caverns. He can't stand wide-open spaces, high ceilings, airy and light decor. But he does like a view.

I enjoy the typical range of airy and light spaces we see here. But I do love it when AT posts the darker, moodier spaces as well.

I am loving the dark moody feel of this place, could do without the taxidermy. The Northwest is notorious with people pushing Full Spectrum Lighting, if you can emabrace the moody look of the Northwest it can be amazing.

The pelt on the back of the sofa in photo number 1 looks like a de-boned goldendoodle.

Excuse me while I go hug my dog.

I love the architecture, but I agree with everyone else. For a lodge-style home, I can handle the poor dead deer on the wall, but the dead animal on the couch is just disgusting. I would have nightmares in that living room.

i don't mind that the place is dark. i don't even mind the dead animal. what i do mind are these picture!
you just can't really get a sense of the layout of the place. too many vinette pictures! yes, their stuff is great, but i want to see the damn rooms more as a whole.

Holy freaking smokes! When you break up with your boyfriend, I want to move in. I will help pay for the heating cost and lighting. You are hot and so is you home! I love it!

I hardly got a sense of this immense lodge from the limited photos of mainly montage moments of tabletops.

Dem bones! Dem bones! Dem house bones! And the decor really lends a deep sense of the geography, in my view. Oh, and speaking of views...swoon...

interesting art over the fireplace

Yes, it's nice, but I also don't care for the trend toward larger homes lately. 6000 sq. ft is really pretty far afield from "apartment therapy."

Funny, it didn't seem that dark to me, maybe because of all the windows. If I lived there, I'd probably throw some more brick red around to keep the energy up, but you already get lots of color from those lovely trees.

Just a gorgeous house (once you bury all the carcasses).

Things I love about this place:
1. ALL of the outdoor spaces!
2. The built-in custom looking couches

Things I don't get:
1. The decomposing cat on that fantastic couch (along with all the many other dead things)
2. The hanging sea urchins (in picture 10)

I'm not one of those people who gets sniffy about non-apartments featuring on Apartment Therapy. As Pi said, good ideas are inspirational, even if they are in mansions.

That said... SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP! 6000 square feet? I have a four bedroom, two bathroom house that's less than a quarter of the size of this place! And my house isn't cramped by any stretch of the imagination.

But I can forgive Mimi her extravagance, since she's freaked out our delicate resident puppy-huggers. Maybe she can advise me on how best to display the caribou pelt I picked up at a garage sale last weekend?

Yes, the photos are too dark and there are two many vignettes, but the many awesomenesses include:

- the abstract stag wallpaper
- the gel (?) firepit
- the brickwork-style transom windows, and the echo of this pattern in the frame of the poolhouse
- a MCM house that's been allowed to keep its patina (and big clumps of moss on the roof) rather than being renovated into blazing newness.
- the use of natural materials: cane, wood, skin, stone and raw cloth.

This house a graveyard for dead animals. Almost every room has some poor stuffed animal or skin on display. Really creepy.

Yes, definitely get rid of the dead animals. The rest was gorgeous.

This space has such a great mix of organic elements and warmth. The kind of space that would allow you to disconnect from all the 24/7 chaos from work. So to speak. Gorgeous.

mjs7640 , you made me laugh and cry.

I can't help but think this house would make a great place to film a horror movie.

Different but too dark for my European taste.

@ Blandwagon I thought the wallpaper was a Rorschach test pattern.

My heart is still beating wildly! Having grown up in the PNW, I love all the "dark". Beautiful home, beautiful bookcases, dining room, chalkboard wall, love, love it all!

Practically speaking, 6000 sf is way too much, but this isn't some new build McMansion. She's taken an older, great house and is loving and taking care of it - good for her.

Mimi has a rockin' pad! Great house. Great furnishings. Not everything is my taste, but then Mimi probably wouldn't love everything in my house either.

A lovely home, a gorgeous setting...well done Mimi!

Yes. Yes. Well done.
The owner's taste and style authentically ooze from every vantage point. It looks perfectly like a place in the forest and the views are like pictures framed on the walls. The house seems effortlessly cozy and warm and fantastically interesting with surprises in furniture, textures and accessories. Everything collected looks like it holds meaning for the homeowner.
Nothing about this place looks like it was mass produced. Nothing looks like it was put there because she saw it in a magazine. AT readers take note: this is what true style looks like (and it could have been done in a smaller space).

Just wonderful. Bravo.

ew!

Biggest Challenge "managing temperature and lightbulbs"

And that's the problem with giant old houses, isn't it? Hopefully there was as much attention paid to increasing energy efficiency as there was to interior design.

Great stuff and an interesting space!

I agree with Spicy Basil.

Too many dead things.

PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL LODGE. I loved everything I saw. I know I would feel comfy and cozy in that house. I also really like the outdoor lounge space.

i wonder if all these taxidermy haters are vegan. just as a 'duh', guys -- taxidermied animals are done so AFTER death, not killed for the specific purpose... obviously it's not going to be everyone's taste, but condemning it under the guise of it being somehow immoral? nope.

The house has wonderful bones. I also like some of the furniture. Agree with most commenters, though, that the taxidermy and the darkness are really depressing. I couldn't live that way. But to each their own!

I love the feeling of this home, taxidermy and all! I love the indoor fire-pit, and also that the home remains an arts & craft vibe to it even though so much of the decor is modern.

@ jenawithonen

Nope, not a vegan. Not even a vegetarian. I just think that dead animals are tacky as a decor theme - kind of in the same vein that I think word art is tacky. Morality really has nothing to do with it.

The best thing about this house is the divide in opinion it has created. Brilliant! That is great design.

I love when homes have themes (represented here by both the darker materials and the almost solemn presence of animals in each room). That being said, this home reminds me of my recent visit to the Museum of Natural History. :)

I like this a lot; the dark, cozy, sheltered feeling is very pleasing. And the view! Those windows! ::sigh::

I love all the warm wood and sectioned windows. That dead thing on the couch is pretty weird, though. And I love dead stuff! I bet that pool is a total pain here in rainy Oregon, but it looks lovely.

please include layout of home in the house tour, it really helps when visualizing the home. great job!

It doesn't seem to dark to me, it seems rich. All of the golds and ambers make it seem warm and cozy.

@ CathyNapCastle I could fit almost 3 of my houses into your 1900sf house. So it's kind of like your the medium sized pot calling the big kettle black.

Actually jenawithonen who said "just as a 'duh', guys -- taxidermied animals are done so AFTER death, not killed for the specific purpose" that's exactly what taxidermy is for. Duh! To kill an animal, then showcase it like a barbarian to show other humans how superior you are to animals.

Beautiful home! I love that it manages to be both cozy and spacious. Really loved: the bedroom, the bar, and the fire pit.

I, too, was put off by the taxidermy (nope, not a vegan, a meat-eating Midwesterner here) but if Mimi loves it, fine. It is her space, not mine, and I do think it's very generous of her to share it with us.

I have to say something about the photos, though. They're really not very good and I think they do an injustice to the space. How about some flash? Or off-camera lighting? Or faster glass? Or perhaps all of the above. The quality of the photos bothers me much more than the stuffed animals ever could.

Dark but cozy. The dead animal on the couch needs to go ASAP. UGH! Over all, pretty good lodge feel. I could take a few naps there;)

I was at this house several years ago! It is an awesome house with great bones! The decor has changed alot but I think it is much cozier now than when I visited. The house has huge windows so the darker decor gives it a very cozy look! Love this home!

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6000 sf of tacky.

I really enjoyed this house. The photos appear somewhat dark - but not a scary dark. It's a very cozy and homey space. It feels like a comfortable family home.

Since I'm a veggie - i don't dig all the dead animal parts scattered about. Other than that, pretty unique space.

I am not a vegan but I just don't understand the beauty? or pleasure? there is in dead animals.

The dead animals are AWFUL! "Why?", Is my question... It ruins the house (and I like it other than all the taxidermy)...

I think maybe Mimi just needs to find a new taxidermist. The deflated bobcat on the couch and the scraggly deer on the walls are examples of poor taxidermy skills.

On another note, I love the stag wallpaper, and the house is gorgeous.

I agree with Photogirl723 - the space does look lovely, but we can't really tell since the photos are all either too dark or too myopic. So! many! vignettes! There are only about four photos in the whole slideshow that show a whole room!

I love it. I want to live there.

phlora, your comment made me laugh out loud… and I agree 100 percent!

BTW @Blandwagon, I too, thought the wallpaper was the results of a Rorschach test. I had to go back and take another look. Okay, Rorschach Stags.

In contrast to many other viewers, I found the light in this HT very beautiful. Mimi, thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing most stylish and beautiful home. Architecture, furnishings and everything else harmonize in the loveliest way. This is a home that I would love to visit.

Gorgeous house!

That said it feels a but out of range for apartment therapy. I read this blog because I enjoy seeing what people do on a budget or DIY. This 6000 sq foot home furnished with custom furniture, bronze doors and granite countertops - while beautiful, is definitely not a DIY or budget project.