If you don’t choose to head up to the second floor, there are
plenty of options to explore. Wherever you choose to venture,
you don’t just walk through the house. You circulate, according
to DaSilva. Running in a circle around a homes solid core can
be fun for the kids, but the interior traffic patterns are also
developed for adults. Instead of going straight into the family
room, you can turn right, walk past the stairs, dodge the coat
closet, pass the stairway to the basement and the doorway to
the den, and slip through the jog of a hallway—with its rounded
walls, a device invented by the great English house architect of a
century ago, Edwin Lutyens—to get to the kitchen.
You might meet people who have come through one of the
side entrances at the garage or side porch, then through the
mudroom to the kitchen. You all might retreat to the dining
room or family room, while one gets drinks in the butler’s
pantry, situated in a spot where it has access and lines of sights
to a number of rooms.
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(Above) The house from the back looks strikingly different from what
it looks like in the front. (Left) Heavy overhangs pull the house down to
the ground as well as provide shade, even for a large bay window.
(Opposite) The kitchen island and table are elegantly simple and the
chairs surrounding them are even more so.
AT HOME ON CAPE C 52 OD • FALL/WINTER 2018