What’s with the bathroom layout?

Are you curious why our bathrooms are laid out the way they are? At first glance, it makes no sense. One bay of doors faces the side of another building, there are a total of 19 doors, and one whole building looks… well, backwards. What’s going on here?

To understand, you have to look beyond the buildings themselves and zoom out to the bigger picture—our parcel of land. Like roughly 30% of Waldport, our property sits in a FEMA floodplain. And FEMA has very strict building restrictions in flood zones.

We knew we wanted bathrooms and a camp store as part of our resort, but there were only two finite spaces within our floodplain where we could build an inhabitable structure at ground level without triggering FEMA’s full list of requirements. Anywhere else, and we’d have to meet the same rigorous floodplain codes that our neighboring townhome development had to—meaning no living space on the main floor and everything raised at least four feet above the base flood elevation.

That could have meant building the entire resort on stilts or creating awkwardly disconnected structures scattered around the property—neither of which made sense for our vision.

So, we worked with what we had. We took those limited buildable spaces and crammed all our bathrooms and our camp store into three awkward parallelograms on a map. The result? A layout that, to the naked eye, might look odd—but in reality, it’s a carefully engineered solution to a tricky set of constraints.

It’s just one more example of how every inch of Treasure Bay has been shaped by equal parts creativity, problem-solving, and the occasional head-scratching compromise