"Great architecture, like our house, is kind and reassuring to its surroundings and it's inhabitants. Unobtrusively, it just belongs there, just as it is."
                                                                                                                                                                                                  -Frank Middleton

Sited to optimize views and breezes, the home is located in a rural wooded area overlooking Leadenwah Creek on Wadamalaw Island and lies amidst the live oaks and flora of a coastal barrier island.
The antique heart pine floors were reclaimed from a dilapidated barn in Seneca, South Carolina barn, and the paint used on the interior of the home was specified to be low VOC to reduce toxic emissions.
Finely detailed beams and columns, stained coffered ceilings, and even a shallow barrel vault at the main entry elegantly define the spaces, yet create casualness intrinsic to the house and its location.
The main living areas lead onto comfortable porches made of Ipe decking. This home is located near Charleston, South Carolina.
The main living areas – Kitchen, Dining and Living Room – are linearly oriented to take full advantage of the views and breezes. The volume created by this arrangement of spaces provided a wonderful opportunity to define the individual spaces with ceiling detail.
Gable-end roofs and exposed rafter tails add to the rustic elegance of the exterior design.
The screened porch, designed to be curvilinear to mirror the bend in the river has a dramatic vaulted ceiling. The tension ties for the rounded porch are stainless steel, and evoke images of sailboat rigging on the owner’s 44-foot sloop moored at the dock just steps away from the porch.
Wide porches and significant overhangs offer shade for the south-facing living areas.
Sited to optimize views and breezes, the home is located in a rural wooded area overlooking Leadenwah Creek on Wadamalaw Island and lies amidst the live oaks and flora of a coastal barrier island.
The antique heart pine floors were reclaimed from a dilapidated barn in Seneca, South Carolina barn, and the paint used on the interior of the home was specified to be low VOC to reduce toxic emissions.
Finely detailed beams and columns, stained coffered ceilings, and even a shallow barrel vault at the main entry elegantly define the spaces, yet create casualness intrinsic to the house and its location.
The main living areas lead onto comfortable porches made of Ipe decking. This home is located near Charleston, South Carolina.
The main living areas – Kitchen, Dining and Living Room – are linearly oriented to take full advantage of the views and breezes. The volume created by this arrangement of spaces provided a wonderful opportunity to define the individual spaces with ceiling detail.
Gable-end roofs and exposed rafter tails add to the rustic elegance of the exterior design.
The screened porch, designed to be curvilinear to mirror the bend in the river has a dramatic vaulted ceiling. The tension ties for the rounded porch are stainless steel, and evoke images of sailboat rigging on the owner’s 44-foot sloop moored at the dock just steps away from the porch.
Wide porches and significant overhangs offer shade for the south-facing living areas.

Through the use of traditional materials, forms and orientation, this elegant one-story home rests in peaceful union with its setting and enhances the character of the landscape as medium. The home produces a marvelous temperament and monumentalizes historic country living of the old South outside of Charleston, South Carolina.