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His linear designs begin at the top and work
their way down to the ground level.
“Our idea is for it … to look like three cottages
that are connected together,” Harris says.
The crofters — small outbuildings that typi-cally
house a garage and an upper-level apartment
— take their name from Old World tenants who
farmed a small plot of land, known as a croft.
The architectural idiom is popular on Bald Head
Island as an intimate space for accommodating
overflow guests.
Anchoring the home campus is a circular
driveway and two crofters. One is attached to the
parent house by an open arcade. The other, by
way of a loggia, links the crofter to a tiled hot tub
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