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Curved House Design with Extensive Interior Woodwork

The neighborhood of this house is characterized by rolling topography on wooded peninsulas separated by salt water bays and coves. The house’s design adopts this land and promotes dramatic water and woods views. The exterior is curved and stone terraces and planters follow this curve and mediate between the house and the landscape. Architectural and...

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Home design

House with Compact Plan, Efficient Use of Volume and Simple Inexpensive Interior Finishes

This house is located on the Stage Island, a small hilly peninsula surrounded by Stage Harbor and its marshland. Budgetary limitations led to a compact plan and efficient use of volume. To keep it affordable, simple inexpensive interior finishes were also used. The living spaces are mostly square in plan with a relatively low ceilings....

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Country home designs

Compact House with Efficient Floor Plan – House on Port Fortune

This house is designed to be compact in both its planning and in its massing. An efficient floor plan with a nearly square footprint, and a simple shape that is wrapped with shingles and topped with gambrel roofs, led to an object-like form. The site is very tight. A house of this size was allowed...

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19th-Century Cottage Renovated In American Shingle-Style House

Renovating a summer19th-century cottage on Cape Cod into a permanent home was quite a task for Polhemus Savery DaSilva architects. The house was enlarged to provide space for a large family and all their ceramic, works of art, antique collections and so on. Georgian architecture influenced the new front facade – and the concept of...

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