Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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44 SUMMER 2020 vignettes nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Patrick Ahearn restores a house overlooking the sea in Osterville. Above, Gil Schafer wins for his design reminiscent of a bank barn in Camden, Maine. suggest. This is notably on view in the kitchen. "The goal was to show some restraint and maintain the understated appearance that is hinted at on the outside," Churchill explains. Rigorous attention to proportion and style resulted in a tailored build that, while referencing its historic forerunners, is more suitable for a modern-day family. RESIDENTIAL (NEW CONSTRUCTION) UNDER 5,000 SF G.P. Schafer Architect for "Summer Cottage in Coastal Maine" Located in Camden, Maine, this 3,300-square-foot cottage is reminiscent of a bank barn, given the way it tucks into the terraced hillside site. Additional buildings include a 650-square-foot meditation studio and an 800-square-foot garage/bicycle shed. All are organized around a center courtyard, where a granite trough serves as a reflecting pool. The arrangement is meant to recall a small farm compound that might have served the original turn-of-the-century estate. "The property was recently subdivided," explains Gil Schafer of G.P. Schafer Architect, "and this lower lot that our clients purchased has a sloping topography that rises up from the street. Given there were houses on either side, we thought it important to shelter the experience of their site from the adjacent suburban context." To create privacy, the architect focused views inward toward the courtyard, thus drawing attention away from the nearby street. The cottage proper houses the main living spaces, which include a show-stopping entry gallery, a timber-framed great room, a lower- level guest suite, a mudroom, and laundry/storage spaces; the kitchen and master suite are on the upper level. "This split-level design allows the cottage to take optimum advantage of the site and allowed room for garden spaces on each level," Schafer notes. Though evocative of a New England farm, a Japanese influence is detectable; it is seen in the form of a granite fountain set along the steps leading to the upper lawn terrace, as well as the painted screen on view in the entry vestibule. Choice materials and fine craftsmanship are on display inside and out, making for a rich tapestry of honorable details. RESIDENTIAL (RESTORATION, RENOVATION, OR ADDITION) Patrick Ahearn Architect for "Nantucket Sound Overlook" This 1888 Shingle-style waterfront home by Boston architect Horace Frazer is part of Cape Cod's early development. The house had undergone a number of iterations, so the team began its resurrection by removing all of the add-ons not endemic to the original structure. Its renovation entailed lifting the massive 6,300-square-foot building and lowering PHOTOGRAPHS BY, TOP TO BOTOTM, ERIC PIASECKI, MICHAEL J. LEE