Alterations to a farmhouse, accessory structures and land on the last two acres of a 1911 dairy farmstead located along an ancient trail.
French and English landscape principles and techniques were combined to bind the place together.
The front porch was re-configured and fashioned as an open loggia resembling a stage, with exits both left and right. The exit, ‘stage left’, doubles as the main entrance.
Liner Notes(marginalia): Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea, 1951, oil on canvas:
Remembering Snagglepuss: “Exit: Stage Left"(He may have lifted/heisted this from Shakespeare)
Entrance canopies were developed to recall a bi-planes wings and struts. It has a double simultaneous reading as a broken T-square.
Eleven windows and several doors were added. At night, with all the lights on the place glows like a lantern.
Completed in 2004 for the most part as improvements continue to this day.