The clients asked architects Margaret Menter and Patrick Byrne for a house that felt at home in the Pacific Northwest while recalling classic beach houses of Cape Cod and Long Island.
The resulting design offers both “prospect” and “refuge” (as the architects put it), orienting outward toward the ocean with a sweeping front deck and expansive views across a meadow and pond, while forming a sheltered courtyard-like lawn to the rear in conjunction with a detached garage and a studio/guest house.
The exterior features a standing seam metal roof, a chimney of local fieldstone, and hand-split cedar shingles. The interior features painted, shiplap wood walls, engineered oak wide-plank floors, and custom concrete kitchen countertops.
