Dave's Killer Spread: See the Cofounder's $11Mil Home with Indoor Old Growth Trees

Trees outside your home? Normal, especially in Oregon. Trees inside your home? That’s next-level forestry.
Old-growth indoor tree simulacra are just one of many head-turning features of this $11.5 million Lake Oswego home, currently owned by Shobi Dahl, co-founder of Dave’s Killer Bread. As one Twitter account put it, “I didn’t know they lived like this in Oregon.” We did.

Let’s get straight to the extravagance of the 19,444 sq foot residence that sits on 2.9 acres on the banks of the Willamette River on SW Fielding Road. The 9 bedroom, 11 bathroom home has a billiard parlor, a crow’s nest reading room, a pool house with an indoor BBQ area, a whiskey library, a deepwater dock and boat lift, and a ballroom that "easily converts into a screening room."

The rooms, landscaping, and walkways vacillate in their design inspirations from Versailles to British castle to Italian villa to Lake Oswego McMansion.



Then, of course, there’s the main floor bedroom with the half-dozen imitation old-growth trees. The bi-level room is equipped with a suspension bridge, wet bar, tree house sleeping area, and forest wallpaper. While the room is described as a “young person’s dream,” we’re pretty sure many adults would appreciate the arbor vibes. This house asks the pivotal question: Why have a home in the forest when you can have a forest in your home?

The property has an equally eye-popping litigation history. Its former owner, the developer Robert Pollock of Buena Vista Custom Homes, was indicted of bank fraud in 2014 in a case involving the residence, and later that year was released from custody “so long as he complies with a list of conditions. Chief among them is that he stay away from witnesses who fear he may do them harm," reported the Oregonian. He pled guilty in 2015. The home is listed by Justin Harnish of Harnish Properties.
