Asked by former clients to conceive of a vacation home for their family on Catawba Island in Lake Erie, Grape Studios responded to the client’s love of New England architecture and envisioned a seaside home in the Shingle style.
Grape Studios and the architecture team used natural colors and informal compositions to achieve the rustic style of the home. By covering a large amount of the exterior with masonry and roughhewn shingle siding stained a single color, the design and architecture team created a uniform, unembellished surface without fuss or fanfare. Mono-toned and unornamented, the homes celebrates the honesty of form and the purity of line. High gables, rustic informality and wide, shady porches take in views of the Perry Monument and encourage lazy afternoons in rocking chairs with the client’s pets.