Annual Home 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders If a home is not beautiful, it’s not sustainable, says John DaSilva, AIA, architect and design principal for Cape Cod’s Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders (PSD). And by beautiful, DaSilva means timeless. “To be truly …

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders When Chris Childs joined Patriot Builders in 2003—he is now a partner in the company and the firm’s principal designer—what drew him to the company was not only their reputation for quality work, but also how well the company�…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders With over 42 years of success as an architect, Patrick Ahearn knows the importance of understanding a client’s needs. But for Ahearn—a member of the New England Design Hall of Fame—being successful also means going beyond a cl…

Interior Designs Opening in Provincetown in the spring of 2008, Shor Home Furnishings & Interior Design weathered a significant storm early in its existence. Herbert Acevedo, who owns the business with Kevin Miller, says the partners were extremely fortunate that they ha…

Interior Designs It may be November on Cape Cod, but for David Shinn, owner of VU Design, the interior design business is never off-season. Shinn, whose Hyannis firm and retail showroom provides high-end interior design services and furnishings to clients on the Cape and Isl…

Interior Designs Marsha Malone and the staff at Brewster’s Nautique Cape Cod have provided homeowners with quintessential, coastal interior design and home furnishing services for more than a decade. Nautique’s designs can be found in seaside homes on Cape Cod, and in th…

Interior Designs Sometimes losing a job can be the beginning of something wonderful. That certainly was the case for Beth Williams, owner of Elizabeth Williams Interior Design in West Harwich. “It was 1990 and I was laid off from my job as an interior designer…

Interior Designs Opened in 2011, Audrey’s Interiors on Main Street in the center of Harwich is the long-held dream of owner Audrey Greenway. When her position as an event planner in the corporate world was eliminated during the recession of 2008, she decided to take&hellip…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders Integrity has been the cornerstone of McPhee Associates for nearly 45 years. To second-generation company President, Rob McPhee, the home building company’s clients deserve only the best treatment, every step of the way. “Client…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders As a student at Boston College, Mark Bogosian’s wheels were already turning about molding his family’s home construction business into an authentic design/build firm. Why this was—and still is —so important to the relatively…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders Finding a cohesive balance and providing symmetry for each client is the central mission of LDa Architecture & Interiors, according to the firm’s co-founding partner, Douglas Dick. “Our goal is to bring those unique forces t…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders  From the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where he loved building in his backyard as a child, to designing beautiful homes on the waterfront of Cape Cod today, design and construction have always been at the forefront of architect John…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders Build once, well” is the philosophy that guides architect Mark Hutker in his life’s work, and it is a philosophy exemplified in one of his favorite projects. Duin Huis, a home nested into a sand dune on the Atlantic…

Home Furnishings Opening in 2003, Paine’s Patio is a natural descendent of the famous Boston-based Paine’s Furniture, which started in 1835. Doug Shearer says that growing up, the last thing he wanted to do was go into the family business, but he soon discovered it&helli…

Home Furnishings Walk in to Casabella Interiors on historic Route 6A in East Sandwich and you are immediately surrounded by beautiful vignette spaces, full to the brim with fine furnishings and decorative treasures from around the world, shelves of luscious high-end fabrics,…

Home Furnishings Retirement can often spawn new careers, which was the case for Chris Ellis and his wife, Cheryl. “I had given her an earring-making kit when she retired and we soon discovered she had talent,” says Chris Ellis, owner of Cape Cod’s, The American…

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders E.J. Jaxtimer’s passion for building homes is so strong that he dropped out of high school in the 10th grade to pursue work in the construction industry on Cape Cod. Now 38 years into his creation of a very…