Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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79 addition that takes advantage of the scenery with- out changing the structure's footprint. The home's ocean-exposed sides are clad in durable, weatherproof copper that began to patina to a subtler dark brown within a week; meanwhile, the two sides facing the street and the neighbors are slightly more traditional, with pitched roofs and a cedar-slat rain-screen facade. "That's a modern version of a very traditional New England facade strategy, where you have a different material facing the street than on the other sides of the house," Ruhl says. "I wanted to make the street facade special and warm it up with wood instead of all metal, since that side really doesn't feel the winter storms." The home also has a 30-panel solar array that, in its first two years, has generated 12,000 kilowatts of power per year. The landscaping, meanwhile, involved a conservation commission-approved shift: turning Raising the home so high allowed for transforming the ground floor from a functionless space into a 1,000-square- foot porch with a cedar-clad ceiling, a 16-foot wood and steel dining table, and a foyer-enclosed stairway and elevator.