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5 Classic New England Cottages with Modern Twists
December 23, 2015
See five daring updates on a famous Northeastern typology.
On an island 20 miles off the coast of Maine, a writer built a green getaway with the help of his daughter.
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Originally appeared in A Tiny Cabin is This Writer's Off the Grid Getaway
Sheets of unframed glass fill the spaces between this Connecticut cottage's operable windows and the sloping eave of the roof, giving the house, as architect Alan Organschi puts it, “the feel of coming apart at the seams—of surfaces unhinged.”
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Originally appeared in Striking Angular Cottage in Connecticut
An artist by trade, and gardener by passion, Allison Paschke commissioned Providence-based architecture firm 3SIXØ to build a modest cottage that would allow her to reconnect with nature. She landscaped the home’s lush gardens herself.
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Originally appeared in This New England Cottage is a One-Room Wonder
Seeking to breath fresh life into the Connecticut home they'd inhabited for over thirty years, Suzanne and Brooks Kelley turned to two New Haven architects who "started blowing it open and filling it with large areas of glass." Huge sheets of unframed glass allow the structure to open up on a view of a hilltop meadow that gives way to the sound below.
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Originally appeared in Striking Angular Cottage in Connecticut
Native New Yorkers, the Merola family have long held a tradition of spending summers in Rhode Island. When they learned the costs of renovating their existing cottage would significantly outweigh the benefits, they instead opted to build new. The result—a distinctively modernist box structure clad in milled slats of charred, brushed, and oiled cypress—sits nestled within the marshy landscape of Quonochontaug Pond.
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Originally appeared in An Idyllic Rhode Island Summer Cottage Is the Perfect Escape for a New York Family
On an island 20 miles off the coast of Maine, a writer built a green getaway with the help of his daughter.
Photo by Eirik Johnson.
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