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Valdes Island Lighthouse Cabin
Valdes is an island located across the Georgia Strait
from Vancouver, BC. Members of the Willms family
bought a small cabin on Noel Bay in 2005. They added
a lighthouse-style timber frame addition to the small
existing cabin. A friend of the family, Dai Ona, of
Daizen Joinery acquired standing-dead fir timbers
and milled them on a computerized machine. The timbers
were shipped on a small barge and the frame was raised
in a single weekend. Dai supervised a workforce of
family and friends through the process. Copious amounts
of beer and frequent meals were all that was needed
to fuel the enthusiastic crew.