To soften the scale of this grand, but appropriately proportioned, new-build home in an affluent, established suburb of Boston, its overall mass was carefully broken into several distinct pieces. The idea was to make the house look and feel like it had been added onto over time to accommodate a growing family.
The resulting English countryside–style design has a wonderfully rambling appearance, which draws the eye toward and around its various wings. New England architecture of the 1930s inspired the building as well, with such local materials as variegated siding, timber beams, and fieldstone recalling houses built in the area during that time.
Years after construction, a new family purchased the property and engaged us to tweak the home to meet their exact needs, expanding and specializing the program below-grade for their active family and reconfiguring interior spaces to be exactly what they desired. The resulting interior renovation allows the home to live for modern day, providing the family everything they wanted within a preexisting timeless structure.
