Shake it up!

During August our family spent a week at a vacation home in Browns Flat, New Brunswick on the St. John’s River.  With the exception of the uncooperative weather, and a little bit of SUV engine trouble, it was a fun week.  We played board games, card games, did a puzzle or two.  We ate some delicious meals and drank a couple, or more, bottles of wine.  There was canoeing, kayaking, fishing and swimming.  Hubby bought me a new lens for my Canon DLSR camera, so there was quite a bit of picture taking too – over the 7 days I took in the vicinity of 800 pictures (which I will share in another post)!  And the icing on the cake, was a lot of time spent with our grandson who was the star of the week.

With the rainy weather we spent quite a bit of time travelling the roads.  As we drove along highway 102 following  the scenic shoreline of the St. John River one thing struck me – how much I LOVED the use of cedar shake shingles on so many of the local homes.  The look seemed fitting for the area, so nautical, so weathered and so wonderfully “coastal”.   So, since its a little dangerous to drive and use a camera, when I got home I hit the world wide web to find homes with cedar shake shingles.  And I found A LOT of examples, in A LOT of styles … traditional, contemporary, natural, stained, painted … have a look at these:

Little House on Cape Cod

Traditional exterior design by Seattle architect David Vandervort Architects

Traditional spaces design by Chicago architect COOK ARCHITECTURAL Design Studio

Modern exterior design by Seattle architect Lauren and Kyle Zerbey

Traditional exterior design by Burlington architect Smith & Vansant Architects PC

Modern exterior design by New York architect Dufner Heighes Inc

Eclectic exterior design by Boston architect Helios Design Group

Traditional exterior design by Los Angeles architect HartmanBaldwin Design/Build

Traditional exterior design by DC Metro general contractor Winn Design & Remodeling

Traditional entry design by Boston architect ZeroEnergy Design

Contemporary entry design by Boston architect LDa Architecture & Interiors

Exterior design by New York architect SchappacherWhite Ltd.

All images courtesy of www.houzz.com.

I’m having a hard time picking a favourite.  How about you???