{"id":3281,"date":"2025-02-20T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/?page_id=3281"},"modified":"2025-02-26T21:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:46:56","slug":"ocracoke-island-cottage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/portfolio\/north-carolina-projects\/ocracoke-island-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocracoke Island Cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Front-Elevation.jpg\" alt=\"View of the front elevation of the house\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Front of House Viewed from Middle Road<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Front-Porch-2.jpg\" alt=\"The front porch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Front Porch looking North<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Howard Family goes back generations on Ocracoke Island,\u00a0 so when I was approached by a Howard descendant to design a vacation cottage\/getaway for their family on a vacant lot that they owned on Middle Road in Ocracoke Village,\u00a0 I was eager for the opportunity to work on a quaint part of the Outer Banks that I hadn&#8217;t previously. The overarching goal they expressed to me was to maintain the relatively simple vernacular Ocracoke Island Cottage scale and &#8220;look&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although they presented me with drawings they had found that were similar to what they had in mind, we ended up flipping the stairs and Kitchen area on the floor plan, and adding a screened porch on the rear off of the Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screened-Porch-1.jpg\" alt=\"Looking through french doors as the Front Porch with Fan, table and chairs\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screened Porch Viewed from Kitchen<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The site was fairly restrictive, in that there was a wetland area to the\u00a0 rear, and an above ground\u00a0 septic tank in the front that couldn&#8217;t be moved, plus a base flood elevation that had to be respected. The Owners also did not want to fully elevate the structure on pilings, again to maintain the scale (many traditional Ocracoke Cottages were built barely above the grade), and minimize the number of steps required. (When Ocracoke Island experienced major flooding during Hurricane Dorian in 2019, the water level rose to just below the first floor framing, but did not flood the house.)<\/p>\n<p>The Owner&#8217;s program called for an open Living\/Kitchen\u00a0 area, and a Master Bedroom and Bath on the first\u00a0 floor, with an open loft type Bunkroom and full bath on the upper level. The interior walls are all paneled with painted ship lap siding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/First-Floor-Living-Area-looking-NE.jpg\" alt=\"First Floor Living Area Looking Northeast\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Living Area View from Kitchen<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kitchen-Looking-West.jpg\" alt=\"The Kitchen looking West\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kitchen Looking SW<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Second-Floor-Bedroom-looking-SW.jpg\" alt=\"The Second Floor Bunkroom looking southwest\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second Floor &#8220;Bunkroom&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Front of House Viewed from Middle Road \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Front Porch looking North The Howard Family goes back generations on Ocracoke Island,\u00a0 so when I was approached by a Howard descendant to design a vacation cottage\/getaway for their family on a vacant lot that they owned on Middle Road in Ocracoke Village,\u00a0 I was eager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3281\/revisions\/3344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyleesarchitect.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}