The guest house is sited on the highest point of the property which is also the highest point on the interior of Morris Island. The driveway rises gently toward the house giving it a strong object like appearance. The flat, open, back yard also makes the house feel like an object sitting on a plane and the compact footprint and regular shape highlight this quality. A carriage house that is a reduced-size version of the guest house sits across the parking area and front yard creating a loosely-defined courtyard space.

The traditional one and one half story full-Cape appearance of the front yields on the back to a vertical upward stretch that allows three floors of living space. The top two have ocean views. A balcony occurs off of a second floor study and on top of a bowed bay window. A small and fanciful third floor porch is held up on whimsical brackets and is crowned with an evocative screen-wall, shaped as if about to take flight. The owner’s love the image this presents and they have reproduced it as a logo for the property. This shape is also incised into the front door surround, along with vaguely classical flutes and florettes – subtle decorative additions to the simple rectilinear shape.

Like the screen wall and door surround, the interiors are detailed largely with flat, playful shapes that give a robustly friendly feeling to the place. The generously sized living spaces are open to one another and set-up to accommodate casual summer living for large groups of friends and family.