Painter's Palette

Dick Morash and his wife, Brad, could not have been happier in their new waterfront home on Chappaquiddick, the tiny island off Martha’s Vineyard. They marveled at how well it accommodated their three grown children and five grandchildren when everyone joined them for the summer. That is, until the cat got out. As Dick recalls, he was tromping through overgrown bushes and weeds on their neighbor’s thickly wooded lot looking for the family pet when he looked up and saw the view. A panorama lay at his feet—nearly 360 degrees of waterfront on this particular point. Cat in hand, Dick trudged back to the house and told Brad they had built their dream home in the wrong spot.

Brad, exhausted by building and designing the house they were in, could barely entertain the idea of tackling another, but Dick, still full of persuasion even after their forty-three years of marriage, convinced her it would be a move to a place they would never want to leave.

ARCHITECTURE
Patrick Ahearn, Ahearn-Schopfer and Associates
INTERIOR DESIGN
Jon Hattaway and Martin Potter, MJ Berries Design
PRODUCED BY
Stacy Kunstel