Archive Dive: 6 Favorite Shingled Beach Houses

Photo by Sandy Agrafiotis, courtesy of Bruce Norelius Studio

It’s a staple of the New England coastline: the cedar-shingle-clad house. Here are 10 of our favorites from members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory; some modern, some stained, some weathered by sand and sea air.

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An owner turned her once-dilapidated sunroom in Waban, Massachusetts, into her home office and entered it into the Best Amateur-Designed Office Space contest in Remodelista’s 2014 Considered Design Awards.

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Portland, Maine–based Whitten Architects designed an expansion to a 1915 shingled cottage on Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

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A seaside shingled house on Whidbey Island, Washington, by Heliotrope Architects in Seattle.

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A new house for a multigenerational family in Warren, Connecticut, designed by New York architect Deborah Berke.

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Wanting a weekend place outside the city, a NYC couple renovated a one-room A-frame cottage on Fire Island that had been built in 1945 from a Gimbel’s prefab kit.

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Whitten Architects designed a camplike house in Scarborough, Maine, for a young NYC family.

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A Montauk, New York, summer home by Bates Masi Architects perched on 1.6 acres overlooks the water.

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