Sited on a high bluff, the house is buffered on the west by an envelope of old growth live oaks and Little Creek’s oyster middens, and on the east by a walled lap pool amid a tropical landscape designed by Heather Burkett and planted by Tony Parker. Due south, large plate glass windows frame views of a pri-vate dock on the Intracoastal Waterway in the foreground and on the horizon is the Figure Eight Island swing bridge that Johnston crossed thousands of times in his decades-long career of designing summer homes on one of North Carolina’s most remote barrier island beaches. “On Figure Eight, I would rent a crane and take a tape measure and have it lift me to floor level and video a pan-orama 52 WBM april 2014 at each level so I knew exactly what was blocked in terms of view,” Johnston explains. “I always placed glass not for how it looked but for what it did in terms of what it would do for the view.”
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