The cabin has a simple plan and a gable roof with shed projections. It’s clad in board-and-batten siding. The first floor of the cabin is used as the home office. Thus the interplay of old and new was critical to the design of the cabin, because to function as a workspace it had to be equipped with high-end, high-tech features to facilitate Zoom meetings and in-person conferences. For example, the ceiling above timber trusses is butternut custom-milled as acoustical planking.
“The overscaled windows,” says architect Roger Seifter, “are a modern conceit to maximize views and daylight, while the room lighting and concealed shading devices can be modulated for virtual meetings.”
Pocket doors lead to a screen porch overlooking the pond adjacent to the property. Within “eyeshot” of the cabin, a small, rubble-stone…
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Old House Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, New Old House 2025