This warm and inviting coastal-style house was designed and built by Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders, located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The design of this residence makes an expansive 6,205 square-foot house in a historically important location endearing through the use of scale shifts. Windows, columns, shingle coursing, weathervane, trim details, and more are all robust—large in size, but not necessarily large in relation to the overall.

These exist alongside accent elements like seemingly small windows squeezed between others or into small rooftop dormers. Adding to its friendly nature, the balanced asymmetry of the street-facing façade allows for a classical composition without overwhelming formality. The front porch mitigates its horizontal stretch with a column bay repeat diagram.

DESIGN DETAILS: ARCHITECT + BUILDER Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders INTERIOR DESIGN SLC Interiors LANDSCAPE DESIGN CBA Landscape Architects

The off-center front entry tower is counterbalanced by a second-floor window and rooftop dormer that sit, non-classically, above the solid mass of the column between the two bays to its right. Overall proportions invoke a hunkered-down stockiness, and the house takes on a balance between the historic and the contemporary.

What We Love: This shingle-style home Cape Cod house offers beautifully designed living spaces that are cozy and relaxing. Walls are painted in a crisp white to reflect the light that floods in through expansive walls of windows. Living spaces harmoniously flow from one to the next and we love how the architects devised a variety of coffered ceiling concepts to create boundaries between the rooms without having to construct walls — keeping everything light and airy. From indoors to out, we think the architects did a wonderful job of creating a warm and welcoming home.

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Inside the main house, is a combination of open-plan flow and traditionally enclosed rooms. The high first-floor ceilings allow for transom windows to further enhance the brightly sunlit spaces. Ceiling details and complex shapes add character and definition to the first and second floors. A large arch-topped window opens up a grand playroom to the backyard.

Above: The family features a floor-to-ceiling cut-slate fireplace with a horizontal ashlar pattern, providing a beautiful focal point to this space.

Above: In the playroom, arch-topped windows bring in an abundance of natural light. The ceiling is clad in reclaimed oak barn siding.

Above: The owner’s bedroom suite is situated at the front of the house, boasting magnificent views over the harbor, outer beach, and ocean.

Above: A sitting space set up for two is in the tower above the front entry. Its projecting bay implies attention outward and widens the view to the sides. It is a magical place to contemplate the world and one’s place in it.

At the back, facing a large flat yard and woods beyond, an alternate, less formal, architecture takes hold. Here wings cascade out and forward in a shingle-style fashion. The homeowner requested that every room have at least some ocean view. By stepping the rooms at the back of the house to the sides, they each receive a view beyond the main mass of the house in front of them.

Even the living room and bedroom in the 734 square-foot guest apartment above the freestanding garage have views due to a slight tilt in plan. A fully enclosed screened-in porch, a three-sided courtyard, and a wide-open backyard and pool allow for different types of outdoor living.

PHOTOGRAPHER Brian Vanden Brink, Nat Rea