STURDY BUT SERENE • Eastern grace meets Yankee fortitude in two Arts and Crafts–
inspired bathrooms on the Massachusetts coast
bath written by kathleen atkins • photography by eric roth
fter 12 years of living in a modest
cottage with chockablock additions,
the owners of this idyllic property
overlooking a rocky seaside cliff on
Massachusetts’s Cape Ann decided to
start from scratch.
The homeowners, a married couple
with adult children and grandchildren,
knew they did not want to move away from the property they
loved so much. Instead, they enlisted Carpenter & MacNeille
Architects and Builders Inc. of Essex, Massachusetts, to turn
their teardown into their dream home. Top on their list: mas-
ter and guest bathrooms that exuded tranquillity.
the mahogany bathtub
is the focal point of this
tranquil master bathroom
on Cape Ann in
Massachusetts. Beadboard wainscoting
painted in Benjamin
Moore’s “Silver Marlin”
references the ocean.
architecture + construction: carpenter & macneille
architects and builders
