Walter Lakeberg was a low-profile forestry executive in the 1950s and ’60s. The only time he made the paper was when he got married and a tree fell on his house in a windstorm.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A home that's truly one-of-a-kind is the result of one man’s determination to win a bet. His friends laughed when Edward Merced said he could build the most colorful home in ...