The Boston Globe
Sandy and Randy Motland's traditional Cape home on Martha's Vineyard is the quintessential island getaway. On a 30-foot grassy bluff overlooking the Vineyard Sound in Aquinnah, it's hard to imagine living anywhere else, which is why they decided to add a guesthouse; they wanted their family with them. The only problem was that they liked it so much that they sort of moved in. (They stay there when the main house is rented.)
It all started seven years ago, when a neighbor sold a plot of land to the Motlands. With five children between them, the Motlands, who live in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the off -season, suspected that a brood of grandkids was on the horizon, and they hoped that building a separate space for family would encourage them to visit more often. They wanted a house that could be easily shared by their grown children and their families. Mark Hutker, an architect in Falmouth, worked with the couple on the concept. "The sociology of the house drove the design," he says. "We started with the idea that there would be two distinct bedroom wings, as far apart as they could be, in order to provide privacy and autonomy for two different family groupings.".....
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