In places like the Florida Keys, house design is taking a back seat to the property’s location on the water, and whether it has a private boat dock, a sea wall or a lift
Jim Falla, dockside, on his 18-foot skiff on Arey’s Pond in Orleans, Mass. The 100-foot dock was a selling point because it has room for all three of his family’s boats.Joanne Falla decided she needed to go bigger: a bigger house and a bigger boat.
Her home in Harwich on Cape Cod, Mass., wasn’t big enough for her close-knit family—a father, two sisters, a brother-in-law, a nephew and a dog—to gather. Since the start of the lockdown, the 51-year-old Boston-based tech executive was living and working in the 1789 building that was her father’s law office for 30 years.
She wanted a home in the area that she could share with her 80-year-old father, Jim, and with the entire family for vacations and weekends. She also wanted to expand the family fleet, which at the time was a single 11-foot craft, powered by motor and oars, that her father built in the early 1960s. It couldn’t hold the whole clan safely. So when she and her father saw a used 16-foot cat boat at Arey’s Pond Boat Yard in nearby Orleans, he snapped it up.
Joanne found her new home at the boat yard, too. One day, while checking out the inventory, she spotted a house on the opposite shore. It had everything a Cape Cod house should: weathered shingles, blue shutters and water views—and it was on a hill, high enough to protect it from storms.
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