The South Mountain design team got together to create something “sweet but not saccharin, whimsical but classy, unusual but graceful, and soulful but not unapproachable,” or so says the mission statement of this shed/work shack. The fact that the building has a mission statement shows the thought that went into it. Perched on water’s edge, the wave of the windows (framed with wood from old beer tanks) fits a seafaring motif. Blueberry branches adorn the door as a handle and serve as hooks inside. The self-sustaining shed’s light is powered by a solar panel set in the roof. If the playwright/ owner needs a little inspiration, she can look up and scan past discarded Vineyard Gazette printing plates recycled as roofing tiles.
Builder/designer: South Mountain Co., Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink.
