New Home, Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA

Cape Associates built this new home on Pleasant Bay in Orleans with AD Architects. The house climbs a grassy slope, with several gabled wings, a rounded turret corner, cedar shake roofs and white-painted siding and trim.

Wraparound porches define the house. A front porch has white columns, railings with warm wood caps, a bench swing and green Adirondack chairs, and another section has a brick fireplace with outdoor seating.

A curving asphalt drive leads up to the house, and mature oaks shade the lawn. Brick chimneys and dormers add to the roofline, and a separate outbuilding with a teal door sits among the trees.

The house is carefully scaled, so the several wings read as a cluster of smaller forms. White trim, cedar roofs and long porches suit the Cape tradition, and lantern-style sconces and railings with natural wood caps add detail at the doors.