A brand-new Martha’s Vineyard home marries past and present so successfully, no one would guess it hasn’t been welcoming its occupants for generations.
Everybody involved held a singular vision: a house that would look like it had sheltered generations. So seemingly filled with history would be this new Martha’s Vineyard home, no passersby would guess its tender youth.
A contemporary home stands out—literally—on its Cape Cod site, taking every advantage of the beauty that surrounds it while treading gently on the fragile land beneath.
A resourceful and imaginative designer reworks a fully furnished Nantucket house, creating a retreat custom-made for the three generations who spend happy summers there together.
In keeping with the centuries-old Nantucket custom of house-naming, the new owners of this Shingle-style home on the island’s north shore made that decision before they’d even pocketed the key to the front door. Their house would be called Two Sisters, in honor of their two daughters, each of whom has two daughters of her own.
A couple puts their trust in their designer, who responds by giving their gracious nineteenth-century home an interior as fresh as the Nantucket sea air outside its windows.
With its three-level silhouette and pretty stained-glass windows, this hundred-year-old house resembles its Cambridge, Massachusetts, counterparts, at least on the outside. The interior, however, is unabashedly twenty-first century. The owners spied the potential on their first visit. “We were living in New York City, but were thinking about how nice a house with a yard would be. We saw the place on a beautiful fall day and that was it,” recalls the wife.
A wise couple and their creative architect opt to save a tiny old Cape, which now forms the charming heart of a gracious Shingle-style home overlooking Nantucket Sound.
When two designers are given carte blanche, the result is a suburban Boston residence that gives their clients—a professional baseball player and his wife—a warm welcome to New England.
Far from being stark, pure-white walls make a dramatic Canvas for the daring use of color and a stellar art collection in a Boston condominium.
The prospective buyer was understandably wary when he went to see yet another property for sale, after years of searching for that perfect sweet spot in Maine that had to be near deep water. For starters, he couldn’t see the forest (or the potential home site hidden within) for the trees. “I met the seller by the side of the main road—there was no access to the property—and we made our way through the densest woods for a long time,” he remembers. “We walked and walked and then suddenly I saw the blue of the cove, and Sheep Island, then the view across the cove.
