When Kristie Wolfe first saw the ship-shaped home—half of it slipping into the lake—she knew anyone else would knock it down, but she couldn’t let that happen.
source.image: Kirsten Dirksen
Someone had built this fantastical house in the 1960s, seemingly just for fun, long before social media turned whimsical builds into viral sensations (like Kristie’s hobbit home, potato hotel, and fire lookouts).
Five years ago, she began her rescue mission, hauling lumber from the water, shoring up the structure, and bringing the shipwreck back to life. Each floor steps down the hillside, creating voids underneath—spaces Kristie has turned into hidden rooms, unexpected corners that make the house feel like something out of a storybook.
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Now, the transformation is full of hidden magic: a secret subterranean room, concealed beneath furniture and a once-crumbling storage shed reborn as an ornate Captain’s Quarters straight out of Beauty and the Beast.
