A true New England Cape Cod home follows rules you can read from the street. Drive down any lane in Dennis and you can name the old Capes before you read a mailbox. Steep roof. A chimney coming straight up through the middle. A front door centered between equal windows. Cedar shingles gone silver-gray from…
A Cape Cod home earns its keep on the Fourth of July, when it has to hold the whole family at once. That’s Sesuit Harbor, right here in Dennis — a couple minutes from our office. Most days it’s just boats and gulls. On the Fourth, the flag goes up a little higher and the…
The designer vs architect question trips up almost every Cape Cod homeowner planning a custom build. When you start planning a custom home, addition, or major renovation on Cape Cod, you’ll quickly run into a question that’s not always explained well: do you need an architect, or is a designer enough? The terms get used…
Cedar shingle siding maintenance on Cape Cod is less about hard work and more about timing. Drive any stretch of 6A and you’ll see them: weathered cedar shingles silvered to that particular Cape gray that no paint job can fake. They’ve been the default siding here for a reason. Done right, cedar shingle siding maintenance…
We’ve been a Dennis, MA custom home builder and remodeler since 1974 — a village-by-village look at building here, from Dennis Village to Dennis Port, from the local team that calls it home.
A Cape Cod kitchen remodel cost can swing by six figures, and most of that gap is decisions, not luck. Most people start a kitchen remodel with a number in their head and no idea where it came from. Then they get a quote that’s double it, and the project stalls before it starts. The…
A working framework for home addition cost on Cape Cod — what national cost guides miss, the regional factors that move the price (labor, permitting, conservation, Title 5, flood zone), addition types and their cost drivers, and the hidden costs most homeowners forget.
What a blower door test is, how Massachusetts energy codes use it for new construction, what ACH50 means, and why air-tightness matters more on the coast.
A Cape Cod summer home maintenance checklist from a builder: salt air, cedar shingles, patios, drainage, storm prep, energy checks, and fall project planning.
