Hood Canal beach house is all about family | Fall Home Design

Originally published October 17, 2014 at 12:03 PM | Page modified October 17, 2014 at 12:16 PM

YOU REALLY have to go to Holly to get there.

It is unincorporated and way out of the way; the place where the road ends, hunkered down beachside behind brambles along Hood Canal in the southwestern corner of Kitsap County. Even Wikipedia will tell you that Holly is known for its isolation.

But thats also what makes it so very special.

Its inspiring for me to be at Holly, says Paige Stockley. Its important for me to be at Holly.

Paige looked at a weedy, soggy beachside lot whose only features were a choked-near-to-death creek and a Breaking Bad-type double-wide. Her sister saw the place and called it grisly.

Paige saw home.

This is real, she says. This is not about making a fire by flipping a switch.

Paige and Holly. Quite the pair. Forces of nature, the both of them. Theyve been friends all of Paiges life. Her grandfather had a place across the cove. Her mom and dad, Peggy and Tom Stockley, brought Paige and her sister to Holly since they were babies.

The girls parents, though, are gone now two of 88 people killed Jan. 31, 2000, when Alaska Flight 261 crashed off California on the way back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. (Tom Stockley was the wine writer and assistant editor of this magazine.) But when Paige is here, they are with her.

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Hood Canal beach house is all about family | Fall Home Design