Home, Garden & Design

2016 BRICC Awards • Pastiche of Cape Cod, Inc., Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

2016 BRICC Awards • Pastiche of Cape Cod, Inc.

By Cape Cod Life Publications | January 11, 2017

Two-time award winner for Excellence in Interior Design Anyone familiar with Irina MacPhee, owner of Pastiche of Cape Cod, and her unique powers of transformation, knows that she is a…

2016 BRICC Awards • Lewis & Weldon Custom Kitchens, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

2016 BRICC Awards • Lewis & Weldon Custom Kitchens

By Cape Cod Life Publications | January 11, 2017

Three-time award winner for Excellence in Remodeling As in years past, Chuck Hart of Lewis & Weldon Custom Kitchens needed assistance carrying BRICC awards home after the 2016 ceremony. The…

2016 BRICC Awards • E.J. Jaxtimer Builder, Inc., Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

2016 BRICC Awards • E.J. Jaxtimer Builder, Inc.

By Cape Cod Life Publications | January 11, 2017

E.J. Jaxtimer Builder, Inc. of Hyannis offers custom building, landscape, millwork and property management services on Cape Cod. Now entering its 40th year in business, the company places emphasis on…

2016 BRICC Awards • Doreve Nicholaeff, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

2016 BRICC Awards • Doreve Nicholaeff

By Cape Cod Life Publications | January 11, 2017

Three-time award winner Pleasant Bay • Excellence in New Construction Utilizing a background canvas of four waterfront acres on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by Pleasant Bay, Doreve Nicholaeff,…

From Reverie to Reality, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Rustic remodel in Brewster

By Lilly Lowe | January 11, 2017

McPhee Associates redesigned this Brewster home with client’s dreams in mind Down a long, winding driveway in Brewster, secluded from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, lies the spectacular…

Avalon of Osterville, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

‘Seaview Secret Garden’ is Osterville’s Avalon

By Chris White | January 11, 2017

A memorial garden provides a tranquil, hidden retreat filled with splendor. Just up the coast from Hyannis Port’s “Cape Cod Camelot,” a family has created a secret garden that would seem…

Tides of Change, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Tides of Change

By Haley Cote | January 11, 2017

A historic home on the Chatham waterfront gets a much-needed makeover. Merriam-Webster may not define the term as such, but a riptide is, in effect, an unforeseen tidal force that…

West Egg Meets East Bay, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Osterville Captain’s Compound

By Chris White | January 11, 2017

Architect Patrick Ahearn reimagines Captain’s Compound as a Gatsby-esque Cape Cod cottage Jay Gatsby has grown in stature from a tragic character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic book, The Great…

Fibonacci in Falmouth, Annual 2017 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Building Business: Hutker Architects’ new Falmouth office

By Julie Craven Wagner | January 11, 2017

In the first installment of our Building Business series, we take a look at the design inspirations—both architectural and mathematical—behind the new home of Hutker Architects The experience of entering…

Homes of the Modern House Trust, Annual 2017 Cape Cod HOME | capecodlife.com

Homes of the Modern House Trust

By Ellen Albanese | January 11, 2017

The mid-century modern homes of the Outer Cape, including those designed by architect Charlie Zehnder, are both imaginative and iconic Bauhaus (adj): Early 20th-century modernist design influence found in architecture,…

Celebrating Cape Cod HOME’s 20th anniversary (1996-2016), Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Celebrating Cape Cod HOME’s 20th anniversary (1996-2016)

By Haley Cote | November 14, 2016

In 2016 we are revisiting some of the homes featured in Cape Cod HOME’s first issue in 1996.  During the 1990s, “going green” was considered cutting edge. Looking back 20…

Building a legacy, one step at a time, Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Building a legacy, one step at a time

By Ashley Owen | November 14, 2016

West Barnstable woodworker has crafted a niche making custom stairways and bannisters When was the last time you really thought about a stairway you were descending, the feel of the…

Appetizing evenings are on the menu, Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Appetizing Evenings are on the Menu

By Lilly Lowe | November 14, 2016

Wellfleet Preservation Hall’s “Food on Film” series combines the big screen with great-tasting cuisine Though the weather outside will likely be chilly, the screen will be heating up at Wellfleet…

A House with History , Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

A House with History

By Laurel Kornhiser | November 14, 2016

Storied Captain Elijah Cobb House begins a new chapter as the Brewster Historical Society’s home and museum Like novels, houses have chapters. The story of the Captain Elijah Cobb House…

A Place to Call Home, Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

A Place to Call Home

By Chris White | November 14, 2016

A renovated family house in Osterville now offers space for multiple generations Each spring, David Herrlinger meets his neighbors to trim the 160 cedar trees that dapple the floodplain between…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

By Haley Cote | November 14, 2016

Cape & Islands designers create holiday splendor with their inspired Christmas tree designs Think of your fondest, most heartwarming holiday memories—surely many of those moments took place around the Christmas…

Create your own family cookbook, Winter 2016 Cape Cod Home | capecodlife.com

Create your own family cookbook

By Haley Cote | November 14, 2016

“Behind every recipe you love is a story you want to share.” With that philosophy in mind, longtime friends Bill Rice and Chip Lowell formed the Great Family Cookbook Project,…

Would you like to live with this view?, November/December Cape Cod Life | capecodlife.com

Would you like to live with this view?

By Matthew J. Gill | October 11, 2016

New Cataumet condos to offer one-of-a-kind views of Red Brook Harbor and Buzzards Bay Are you in the market for a brand new home? Are you looking for something with…