Cheshire Architects' clients came to them because they had built two charred cabins. Clients seek an escape from city life, a place to linger and live.

The owners had camped and picnicked on the building platform for all their summers before. They worshipped a close relationship with the lawn, the vines below it, the gulf and its islands. This was the natural resting place for the new home.Here, exposed through the ridge-lines edge, shelter was essential. Permanence in an otherwise shifting landscape.  

The home reaches out of the western lawn with its serpentine-like stone wall. The bedroom wing, land facing, ensconced in stone, its ceiling low and its apertures tight. The shadows are soft here.  The north facing glass pavilion offers the counter. Exposed and light-full.