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    Shipshape and Refreshed: A Considered Renovation of an 1898 Cabin on Maury Island

    This week we’re combing through the Remodelista archives for some of our all-time favorite summer stories. Here’s one: Maury Island, in Washington’s Puget Sound, is small. You’ve likely never heard of it before, but you may have heard of its larger neighbor, Vashon Island, to which it’s connected via an isthmus built by local homeowners in 1913. (Before then, the two islands were linked only during low tide.) Both are accessible only by ferry, the inconvenience of which has kept commercial growth at bay—and that’s how its residents like it, including designer Tim Pfeiffer (of Seattle-based architecture and interiors firm…