Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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64 The interiors by Amy Manor of Red Bank Design Center are kept neutral, allowing the architectural elements of the house and the water views to become the statement. Dioli and Ragusa take advantage of the views through the new second story addition. "The whole property developed as a collaboration," says Dioli, who was assisted by his colleague, the architect Steve Scapicchio. The house, in transitional, modernized Shingle style, is set on a rocky ledge with a profile that ap- pears to nestle into its dramatic surroundings. The emotional force of the house is in its comforting lines and construction that values weight, proportion, and alignment, all of it knitted together with Ragusa's finely detailed workmanship. As Dioli says, "When you look at a house, the seam- lessness is all in the details." It was the team's good fortune that Dioli was the architect of the original house, built almost 30 years ago as a single story for one-level living. Dioli and Ragusa, who works on projects in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, have known each other for decades and both cite excellent communication with the homeowners, who also added some smart touches. The new owners, with three active, sports-minded