South Coast Guest House

Description Renovation of a turn of the 20th century Shingle Style cottage with a newly added guest “tower” Site Facing a harbor on the South Coast of Massachusetts Design Our task was to reverse unsympathetic renovations and augment the old-world…

We seamlessly transformed a beloved summer house built by our client’s grandparents in the 1920’s for year-round living. The house was slightly reorganized, gutted and insulated, but all the wood trim, doors, windows, and hardware were restored and reused.

Coast Cottage captures the spirit of old summer houses on the Maine coast, at the same time rugged but refined, understated but well-appointed.

This compound of new buildings adopts a vernacular rural style, reinforcing the culture of the place by using simple barn forms. The composition is unified by painting all the buildings the traditional ferrous oxide red.