Architectural designer Tim Tice had lived in Bethany Beach, Delaware, his whole life, but he and his wife had never quite found their dream home. Recently, they decided to search for a lot that overlooked the water and build from the ground up. They bought land along the Salt Pond, an inland, estuarine body of water located about three-quarters of a mile from the beach. The lot had challenges, including bringing water and sewer services to the site. Tice was also careful to place the home the proper distance from nearby wetlands and to make sure they were protected during the construction process.
As for the house, the couple wanted a home where their children would grow up, but they were also thinking about how it would function for them once the kids flew the nest. As someone born and raised in the area, Tice wanted the design to nod to his favorite “old-school” Bethany Beach cottages while also having a more modern and minimalist design.
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Who lives here: This is the vacation home of a couple with three adult children
Location: Near Woodstock, Vermont
Size: 5,290 square feet (491 square meters); five bedrooms, six bathrooms
Designers: Ann Shriver Sargent (interior design), David Sargent (architectural design), Sargent Design
Timber frame: Bensonwood
Builder: Housewright Construction
The original home on the more than 100-acre property is a cape-style farmhouse built in 1823. Its longtime owners — whose primary residence is in Massachusetts — hired David and Ann Shriver Sargent, the husband-and-wife team behind interior and architectural design firm Sargent Design, to build a guesthouse when the farmhouse started to feel too small for their growing family and friends.
The farmhouse is situated close to the road, at the bottom of a hill. To accommodate the property’s slope while staying true to the local architecture, the Sargents proposed modeling the guest quarters on a traditional timber-framed banked barn — a style of barn that’s built into a hillside, with “ground-level” entrances on two separate floors. The couple gave a thumbs up, then largely handed over the reins.
This mudroom entrance is next to the garage on the lowest level, which is essentially a walkout basement. Ann Sargent, who handled all of the interior design, placed antique rugs atop the heated slate floor and plenty of hooks on the wall to catch jackets as visitors come in from the cold. All of the home’s exterior doors, including this one, are made of reclaimed chestnut and have custom strap hinges and doorknob escutcheon (back) plates made by Vermont Country Iron.
Scroll to the bottom to see the floor plans for all three levels.
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