The MacKenzie Brothers, builders of the 2010 HGTV Green Home, bring an island feel to a cottage in The Pinehills.

Minglewood Homes recreates a beachfront home that respects its spectacular location.

Kurzhaus Designs expands and remodels a century-old East Orleans cottage and, at the homeowners' request, keeps it looking like the beloved antique it is.

As soon as the Harvard-educated couple saw the pond-side one-acre estate just a short walk from Nantucket Sound, they knew they had found their own perfect piece of the Cape. The only problem was the existing house had been left to disrepair for too long and could not be salvaged.

An active family turns to M. Duffany Builders to construct a house that suits their needs in North Falmouth.

A Mashpee getaway on Monomoscoy Island was built for weekday solace and weekend play.

When a pair of long-time Norwell homeowner's craved change and more space in their familys home they looked no further than the creative team at Roomscapes Luxury Design Center. Having worked with the high-end luxury design center years before, the clients knew exactly what they wanted: a view of the river from every room of the house.

Jim and Regina Shakin knew their new home in Chatham would not always be strictly a seasonal residence. Eventually, in their retirement years, it would serve as their year-round home. So their mandate was clear when they decided to build on a spectacular lot overlooking Stage Harbor: Give us a home that is functional as a permanent residence but retains the summer charm of a vacation retreat.

Buildable lots on Green Pond Harbor are impossible to come by. Quiet and tranquil, the small East Falmouth harbor is a throwback to a simpler era. So when an idyllic, highly coveted harbor-front parcel came up for sale, the current owners jumped at the opportunity to purchase it and turn it into a recreation-themed 'pool house' for their multi-generational family.

Katherine Frost spent the summers of her childhood in the seaside cottage colony of Quonochontaug in Charlestown, R.I. Every August her family, aunts and uncles, would convene there, creating memories to last a lifetime. So it wasn't surprising when Katherine and her husband purchased a home there. But while the location was ideal, the antiquated cottage wasn't.