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This Cape Cod house is typical of the traditional Cape Cod style homes in the South Dennis area. You can see the heavy trim detail around the front entry door and the half-round transom window above the front door. On most Cape Cod style houses the front door is centered on the front wall with 2 windows on each side. A Cape half-house will only have two windows and a door on the front. This one could be considered a 5/4 Cape.
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Absolutely awesome execution of Cape Cod design.I have always,and will always love this style of home. Congrats!
Posted by Jack Donelan from Battle Lake,MN on 06/27 at 01:21 PMI just wanted to thank you for my piece of mind. I love this pic of a trad Cape in Dennis, on the Cape.
I am from Mass, my husband is from Va. I say that trad Capes do not have dormers. He states that if they don’t have dormers, they are not Capes. He should know because he worked onthem. I have argued for years, and have finally quit. I knew being from Mass tht i couldn’t NOT know a Cape. Esp. since I grew up in a 3/4 Cape. No dormers. Also, on a trad.Cape, isnt the roof peak taller than the way the house looks in the front?
I say its not a Cape if the roof is smaller than the house.
Thanks for your help.Posted by Lisa from on 08/27 at 10:58 PMYou’re both right,Capes can go with or without dormers.I prefer without for design simplicity.
I also agree with roof height being greater than lower level wall height,but I was always told that you had to be able to stand up in the upper level.I’d almost demand that the roof pitch be 12/12 or greater for snow purposes,the original requirement and reason for cape design.
Posted by Jack Donelan from Battle Lake, MN on 08/29 at 10:44 AMHi, I have a wood carved box with a duck signed by a Jack Donelan from Battle LAke. Would that be you or would you know who carved it. It has Bull Can and dated 04-21-08. thanks!
Posted by John from CT on 08/30 at 07:36 PMJack- Thank you for writing back, the roofs were also made this way for hurricane purposes, so they wouldn’t easily be ripped off. That’s why the eaves went down low to the top of the door. You sound like an architect.—L.
Posted by Lisa from Staunton,Va. on 08/30 at 09:33 PMWow: That’d be me !Where did you buy it ? I’m a decorative bird carver since the early eighties. If I’m not mistaken I carved your piece for Coots Unlimited,a Conservation group in Ashby ,MN last spring. I carve something for them every spring, for their silent auction. I think I called it a “Lodge Box” if I’m not mistaken. I kept a photo (file) for my records, and if you wish I’ll put your name, address, phone in my customer file should you care to forward it. I’m kinda curious as to what you had to bid to get it it, brazen question,huh? Wow,SMALL WORLD !
Posted by Jack Donelan from Battle Lake, MN on 08/31 at 06:10 PMHi again: I’m not an architect,although I’ve designed every home I’ve ever lived in.Just really liked the challenge,I guess !
Thanks for the “cape” info, my all-time favorite house design,since taking a home design course at Univ.of Omaha back in the 60’s.
I’m also totally wired over the “Dune Shacks” that are kinda sprinkled along the northeast coast, wherever folks thought they could get away with it. I guess it’s the tiny, necessity, based planning behind them, plus the serenity, sound of the waves, relaxability of them. Am TOTALLY envious. Just plug “dune shacks"into google “images” and enjoy !
Oh,while you’re in “images” check out “lobster shacks” there’s one in Maine I know you’ll approve of, it’s got a lot of buoys leaning on the left end as you view it. I’ve made a few miniature buoys, like the old ones, as necklace pendants, just for fun, used a couple for pull chains on lights and curtain string pullers. Oh, my last stair rail is an old oar I found in Canada, left it just as I found it and nobody has failed to comment on it yet !Most of them think I’m too cheap to buy a real one,they’re right !
Posted by Jack Donelan from Battle Lake, MN on 08/31 at 06:12 PMHi Jack, small World indeed! You called it a Bull Box. I bought it at an estate sale here in Connecticut early this spring. I think I paid $10.00. I buy and sell items on ebay and was in the process of posting it and trying to find info. My brazen question is what do they “normally” go for? All The Best, John
Posted by John from CT on 09/02 at 08:05 PMI live in a cape and have shakes on the front. They have weathered unevenly and most are gray but not that color of gray. Are the shakes on this house naturally weathered or is that a stain? I’d really like to have my house look like this picture.
Posted by Edward from New Hampshire on 10/27 at 01:42 AMHi; I’m no pro on weathering and/or staining,but if I were to guess:I’d say that the house in this photo has been stained as weathering would show verying shades wherever the sun does/doesn’t get to the shingles.This home is so uniformily colored,I’d bet stain vs natural sun weathering.The home is covered with shingles(saw cut wood) vs “Shakes” which are generally considered “Hand split”.If I had “shakes” on a home that have weathered naturally,I don’t think I personally would ever stain them.I guess the final call would be determined by the style of home and the formality you wish to attain.The rougher,the more informal (shakes).
Posted by Jack Donelan from on 10/27 at 05:58 PMno date on these. still posting.
@ edward: iirc, white cedar shakes naturally weather to gray and red cedar shakes weather to brown. yes, either can be stained, but it sounds like your replacement shakes are red cedar…or original in a mix and never stained.
can anyone comment on gabled capes, please? looking to purchase a steeply gabled home (12/12) and it’s listed as a cape. here in new bedford soooo many people have covered some beautiful homes with vinyl siding. i’ll have to win the lottery to replace that!
tia!
Posted by KAREN from new bedford on 04/19 at 02:26 PM
