Nordic Hill Manor History
Nordic Hill Manor was a vision by our family to build a generational dream home for creating memories and sharing it with the public.
Our heritage is Northern European, with my father’s mother coming from Oslo, Norway. I was adopted by my father from Austria at age 11. I married my wife KJ whose family is from Sweden, thus the Norwegian, Swedish and Austrian cities room names. The pictures in the bar, great room and bedrooms are from my wife and I travels to Norway, Sweden and Austria.
My father had a wanderlust of international travel and had been around the world several times. My career in international supply chain and logistics has afforded me to have traveled the world as well with amassed trips to over 60 countries to date.
My father was an avid snow skier, mountain climber, hiker and had a degree in Cinematography from USC. He has produced a number of documentary films from the Northwest about Seattle City Light Ross Lake Dam, Mount Rainier, Quileute Native Americans and Pacific Crest Trail. He ran a movie theater in Berlin, Germany during World War 2 while stationed there. His love of making movies has always inspired him to have a home theater to show and watch movies.
Over the years, we had taken thousands of pictures of architectural styles and designs of homes we have seen in our travels to Europe. In 2004 we hired an architect to draw up designs/features we wanted in Nordic Hill Manor based on those pictures from our travels. My father was 77 years old as we started the construction in 2004 and we fulfilled our vision of finishing the dream home in 2008.
Many of the furnishings came from overseas such as the lights in the Great Room, entry way, dining room and Theater are from Austria; the coffee table from Italy; pewter silverware in the drawers from Norway; toilet flush buttons from Germany. We managed Nordic Hill initially under a different name as a Bed and Breakfast, which we had stayed in on many of our travels to Europe. We hosted it as such until my fathers passing which was in June of 2016.
My wife and I then began converting and marketing it as a vacation rental with a personal feel, touch of Nordic Hospitality and being well stocked for our guests.
Tusen Takk for allowing us to create memories for you and your families and friends.