Early Summer 2016

Imagination Captured

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Writer: Kate Bavelock / Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink 

Imagination Captured

Early Summer 2016

Cape Cod Home  /  Early Summer 2016 / ,

Writer: Kate Bavelock / Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink 

Sunny disposition

Imagination Captured , Cape Cod HOME | capecodlife.com

Photograph by Brian Vanden Brink

The second major element of the house’s design involved meticulous attention to how natural daylight plays on the site. The house is oriented to the southern exposure so that light pours through the home from front to back. The kitchen is open to the living area to capture that good southern light but also opens to the east and west for daylong sun. “In the dining room the morning sun is beautiful,” the homeowner says. “After breakfast we like to sit there and do puzzles because everything is so much clearer, the colors are brighter, it is such a happy place to be.”

Unexpected touches, such as small side windows on the dormers, enhance the cottage charm, but also extend the length of time the rooms get sun. “These windows expand the time the room gets direct light, make the rooms feel bigger and brighter, plus reduce glare,” DaSilva explains. “Light from one direction can feel harsh. Mixed light from the west, east and south provides warmer, gentler light all day.”

Kate Bavelock

Kate Bavelock is passionately committed to the local food movement and grows most of her own produce, fruit, herbs and keeps hens for eggs. Formerly the executive director of the Sandwich Chamber of Commerce, Kate is looking forward to seeing what the next chapter of her life will hold and exploring all kinds of interesting options. She loves gardening, cooking, and boating with her husband in Cape Cod Bay. In 2016 Kate wrote a fascinating article for Cape Cod HOME about local furniture builders and woodworkers who discussed their furniture restoration suggestions and services.