For decades, the Bay Area has been a hotbed for counterculture, especially when it comes to art and design. For designer and builder Nick Maimone, that history of DIY craft and making, along with a stunning coastal setting near the Russian River, made renovating this 1960s home something of a dream project. Having studied sculpture and worked in the museum world before moving into carpentry and the building trades, Nick has an affinity for projects with an artistic bent. So, when he was approached by a client who wanted to reimagine a 1967 cabin in Goat Rock State Park with an approach grounded in history and craft, Nick was ecstatic. “There was something he saw in my approach with my company, sunrise_homestead, that resonated with him,” Nick recalls. That “something,” it turns out, was Nick’s ability to converge art, craft, and the natural world in his projects. Nick set out to create a place that embraces its setting, both in terms of the region’s design legacy and its stunning local...