Little Peek, a small home fifteen miles from Maine?s midcoast on the island of Vinalhaven, is both an escape and a refuge from urban life. Designed by Maria Berman and Brad Horn of the architecture and design office Berman Horn Studio, the house is used year round both as a vacation home and for work.

Description
Perched atop a rocky outcropping overlooking one of the island?s many ocean coves, the project is named for its unique siting, which offers only glimpses of the house as one climbs a meandering footpath from the water. The house is a contemporary reinterpretation of the New England connected farmhouse. Organized as a long bar that faces the water to the west, the Camden Hills to the north and untouched berry bushes and fern meadows to the east, it includes a main house, a small guest house, and a custom designed fully screened porch that links the two. This porch, which creates a shared exterior room and frames views to the ocean and landscape, extends the profile of the roofline to tie the two houses together. The screen porch system was especially designed by the architects for this setting to take advantage of the beauty of Maine’s evenings, perfect for long conversations with family and friends, late dinners and stargazing, but within a protective screened enclosure. The screens are removed seasonally, leaving only the slender metal frame in the winter. The exterior of the house is clad in silvery cedar shingles that were locally crafted...