Four designers discuss the best materials for creating that wonderful complement to Vineyard living – along with ideas for building your own.
Anne McCarthy Strauss
After creating a neighborhood home on Lagoon Pond, new Vineyard homeowners found the Island lifestyle enveloped both them and their children.
Linda Black
What happens when big dreams meet conservation commission realities.
Jim Miller
A West Tisbury couple rebounds and rebuilds after fire destroys their retirement home.
Anne McCarthy Strauss
Four different settings show this architectural interface between the wide, grubby world and the civility of the home.
Shelley Christiansen
A couple heading toward retirement nestles into a renovated home on the Lagoon in Oak Bluffs.
Susan Catling
A small two-bedroom in Edgartown features a half-bath inspired by all things Ernest Hemingway – especially the famed author’s fishing boat.
Jim Miller
A new building on Anna Edey’s West Tisbury farm sounds more like a spa with its pool and sauna, but she calls it a lab for sustainable design as it integrates many of her environmentally friendly innovations, including solar panels for heat, hot water, and electricity – and chickens for eggs, meat, and heat.
Richard C. Skidmore