This 1929 house, originally designed by Frank J. Forster, is handcrafted, irregular, and as romantically idiosyncratic as a replication of French provincial architecture could hope to be. Our clients loved the house for all of its strange turrets and hand-hewn timbers; they wished to retain its character while expanding its program to accommodate the modern needs of their family. With our measured additions, we were careful to establish a visual continuity that drew together the new and old sections of the house, while simultaneously redefining the house’s relationship to its now constrained site. We flanked our addition with a series of low walls that would spatially articulate the grounds in a number of new ways, creating a series of intimate garden “rooms” that more elegantly transition the house into the landscape beyond.