Little Compton waterfront remodel
Larry Lindner Newport Home magazine When a couple decided to buy a summer home for themselves and their three young children, the wife assumed they would purchase something in a resort town on the coast of Maine. So she wasn’t prepared when her husband showed her a photograph of a faded shingle-style house in Little Compton, Rhode Island. “It looked very bleak,” she says. “You just saw the rocks jutting up near the shoreline. It seemed like a more forbidding environment than I imagined for a beach house.” But when they finally visited the house in person one gray November day, “...