Sea View House

A 9,800-square-foot waterfront residence on Cape Cod, completed in 2023. At eight bedrooms across two stories, the house was designed to absorb large extended family during the season - a working coastal home at scale, not a vacation house pretending to be one.

The exterior is straightforward New England: white cedar shingles weathering to grey, crisp white trim, gabled rooflines, and dormer windows pulled into the upper floor to keep the second-story massing in proportion to the first. The architectural moves are deliberately quiet at this size. A more ornate facade on a 9,800 SF house starts to read as a hotel; the restraint here keeps the building grounded as a residence.

The wraparound porch is the principal exterior room. White columns carry it the full length of the elevation facing the water, giving the house a continuous covered outdoor space sized for the bedroom count inside. Glazing across the main floor is generous - large windows on the water side, smaller and more rhythmic openings on the approach.

The site is landscaped to read as part of the architectural composition rather than a frame around it: clipped hedges defining the foundation line, planted beds against the porch base, lawn carrying out to the water. The intent was a house that looks settled into the property rather than placed on it.