Sue Deagle spent more than a year scouring neighborhoods nestled in a forest on the outskirts of Was

Sue Deagle spent more than a year scouring neighborhoods nestled in a forest on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., before buying a 2-acre property in Great Falls, Va., in January 2019. It had a small A-frame house for $900,000 on a steep hill that backs up to a tributary stream of the Potomac River called Difficult Run. ⁠⁠An apt metaphor, she thought at the time. ⁠⁠She then hired an architect, Robert Young, of New York-based Robert Young Architects to design her a house with lots of glass that made her feel like she was living in the trees.⁠⁠Finished in August 2021, the 5,200-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bathroom house cost $2.8 million and took two years to design and build. The goal was to make the house feel like it was part of the forest. But the real goal of the project was to help Ms. Deagle start a new life with her two children after a tragedy.⁠⁠On a Monday night in November 2016, she found her 50-year-old husband, Mike Deagle, lying unresponsive upstairs in their home. He was fit, ate well and had just had a physical exam that showed no sign of cardiovascular disease. The couple and their two children, who were 13 and 11 at the time, had recently moved into a 7,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home in McLean, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. When she got to the hospital that night, she was told he died of a heart attack. ⁠⁠“It broke my world view,” says Ms. Deagle, 54, who is now the chief growth officer at a defense contractor that operates military bases and maintains aircraft around the world. ⁠⁠Ms. Deagle took six weeks off from work to rebuild. She spent a lot of time in nature at Great Falls Park, across the Potomac in Virginia, just walking and sitting among the trees in the forest. ⁠⁠Then she decided to literally rebuild.⁠⁠Read more from the link in bio.⁠⁠📸: for
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